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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Someone asked me yesterday whether or not I would ever consider living anywhere else. For years, family was the main consideration for me concerning location. My family is based in New York. My mom had a long chronic illness before she died and my grandmother lived past 100. Being here for my family was priority one. Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed fo

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it turns into a newsletter (soon!), sign up here. It’s been really tough concentrating during the latter part of this week due to global events so forgive me if my tone is less upbeat than normal.

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Derek Sivers

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

When you make a database-backed app, you have some functions that need to run multiple database queries. For example, to move money from one account to another, you have to insert a negative amount into account #1, and a positive amount into account #2. Usually you do in your main code: your JavaScript, Python, Ruby, or whatever. But what if some future code bypasses your crucial “business logic” functions?

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The Russian TikTok video has it all: a cat, puppies and a pulsing background beat. It’s cute, watchable and hardly seems the stuff of state propaganda. In 2014, Russia flooded the internet with fake accounts pushing disinformation about its takeover of Crimea. Eight years later, experts say Russia is mounting a far more sophisticated effort as it invades Ukraine.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of the most vibrant areas of crypto. DAOs are groups of people with the right to vote to change how a crypto company operates. DAOs pop up for many different reasons: to form a social club that requires a token to join, to buy a copy of the Constitution , to manage open source software. Almost any group of people can organize a DAO to pursue a shared purpose.

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