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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walk

That is to say, I DMed her on Twitter in 2016, impressed by the work she was doing but without a preexisting relationship. As a leader of teams within larger organizations, I was able to build phenomenal teams in terms of both delivery and culture. My teams always had a recognizable identity and subculture.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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Egyptian investment app Thndr nabs $20M from Tiger Global, Prosus Ventures and others

TechCrunch

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. The first investment that 75% of our users have done was with less than $500.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. There’s a culture in Silicon Valley that moves fast and breaks things, right? Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation. A very, very smart guy, a very thoughtful guy.

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