Pump.fun raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens, which sold out in 12 minutes; it offered 12.5% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B
But Something Doesn't Add Up Monika Ghosh / CryptoSlate : Memecoin platform PumpFun concludes one of the fastest ICOs, raising $600M in 12 minutes Anthony Patrick / crypto.news : DIY memecoin platform...
Twitter reiterates its false or spam account average estimate, saying it performed an internal review and found they represented “fewer than 5%” of MAUs in Q2
and another one in Mykonos Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Twitter Results Suffer from Musk Uncertainty Ben Munster / Decrypt : Twitter Cancels Q2 Earnings Call, Citing Elon Musk's ‘Pending Acquisition’ Tw...
Sources: Clubhouse is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business at about $4B, following its reported valuation of ~$1B in January
quadruple what it was allegedly worth just three months ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : Perhaps now this scrappy, penurious startup can afford an android engineer. https:/...
ClassEDU, maker of a video-conferencing product for schools called Class for Zoom, raises $16M seed from Santi Subotovsky, a Zoom board member, and others
Zoom was never created to be a consumer product. Nonetheless, the video-conferencing company's accessibility made it the answer … Tweets: @nmasc_ , @nmasc_ , and @yoda Tweets: Natasha Mascarenhas / @...
Google says G Suite now has over 6M paying businesses, up from 5M in February 2019
I got my wife to start watching True Blood on HBO. Annalise Knudson / Staten Island Advance : NYC schools can no longer use Zoom for remote learning Paayal Zaveri / Business Insider : Google's G Suite...
Oxford VR, a spinout from Oxford University's Department of Psychiatry that wants to use VR simulations to treat mental health problems, raises £10M Series A
Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu : Tweets: @yoda Tweets: Drew Olanoff / @yoda : What company is going to solve the mental problems they cause https://twitter.com/...
Focusing heavily on the suburbs and boosted by SoftBank investment DoorDash transformed itself from a struggling startup to the biggest food delivery app in US
There aren't many jobs in Davidson, North Carolina, that offer the flexibility and decent pay that Alfonso Auz was looking for. Tweets: @yoda , @business , @nongaap , and @modestproposal1 Tweets: Drew...
A look at Earnin, an app to access money before payday with a suggested ~10% “tip”; critics say it effectively acts as a payday lender but avoids regulations
Cyrus Farivar / NBC News : Tweets: @yoda , @oneunderscore__ , and @nbcnews Tweets: Drew Olanoff / @yoda : These companies absolutely disgusting and prey on the weakest of moments for people. Just awf...
Yahoo, Google, Facebook, and Dropbox eased up on “acquihires” in 2015
CB Insights : Tweets: @drew and @joshconstine . Thanks: @asanwal Tweets: Drew Olanoff / @drew : well i mean. there's literally nothing left to buy. http://twitter.com/... Josh Constine / @joshconstin...
Etsy reports Q3 revenue of $66.17M and a loss of $0.06 per share, meeting expectations; stock slips more than 7% after hours
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch :