2026-02-10
Investors went from “bearish about Google” to “sure I'll buy a 100-year bond” https://www.ft.com/...
Bloomberg
Alphabet raised $20B in its biggest ever US dollar bond sale, more than the $15B initially expected, after drawing more than $100B of orders
Here's all we knowErin Woo /The Information:Alphabet Reportedly Set for $20 Billion US Bond SaleEstefano Gomez /Crypto Briefing:Alphabet draws $100B+ demand for $15B bond sale to f...
Investors went from “bearish about Google” to “sure I'll buy a 100-year bond” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Alphabet plans to sell a rare 100-year sterling bond, as Big Tech companies borrow more to fund their capex growth; IBM sold a 100-year bond in 1996
Deal comes as Google parent steps up AI borrowing rush with $15bn sale of dollar bonds — Alphabet has lined up banks to sell …
2025-11-02
Amazing conversation - especially enjoyed @satyanadella's story of the board room debate on the original investment in 2019. The best corporate venture investment of all time - and it was putting a billion dollars into a non-profit!
@bg2pod
Q&A with Sam Altman and Satya Nadella about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, OpenAI's restructuring and $100B revenue target for 2027, $3T AI buildout, more
BG2. All things AI w @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥@bg2pod @altcap — (00:00) Intro (02:28) Microsoft's Investment in OpenAI (03:19) The Nonprofit Structure and Its ...
2025-02-04
I met Dick Kramlich a couple of times while at Stanford - he was a founding father of venture capital, running the biggest fund at the time, and yet he always found time for would-be founders and jumped at the opportunity to get students hooked on startups. RIP, Dick Kramlich.
Business Insider
Dick Kramlich, who co-founded NEA in 1977, died on February 1 at age 89; he was an early investor in Apple and led investments in Juniper Networks and others
Ben Bergman / Business Insider :
2024-07-15
If Google buys Wiz for $23 bn as reported by the WSJ, is it: - Google's largest acquisition, because $23 billion? - or only 0.1% of Google's market cap and really not that big of a deal? All a matter of perspective. Hard to internalize just how big big tech actually is now.
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23B; Wiz raised $1B at a $12B valuation in May 2024
Deal would be tech giant's largest acquisition ever.
2024-03-22
“So I called Steve and Alexis and said that we liked them, just not their idea, so we'd fund them if they'd work on something else. They were on the train home to Virginia at that point. They got off at the next station and got on the next train north, and by the end of the day...
Bloomberg
Reddit closed up 48%, at $50.44/share, in its NYSE debut, valuing the company at ~$9.5B on a fully diluted basis, just shy of its $10B valuation in August 2021
even for y'all. Rat King / @mikeisaac : apparently Reddit's IPO included the first bell-ringing carried out by a “non-human entity” — in this case, the alien Snoo [image] Trevor Sc...
“So I called Steve and Alexis and said that we liked them, just not their idea, so we'd fund them if they'd work on something else. They were on the train home to Virginia at that point. They got off at the next station and got on the next train north, and by the end of the day...
Y Combinator
Reflecting on Reddit's history: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian pitching a food app, wanting to use snoo.com, and seeing traffic explode after Reddit launched
2023-06-26
Great profile and a well-deserved spotlight for what @christinacaci has built with @TrustVanta. Happy customers since 2018! https://www.forbes.com/...
Forbes
A profile of Christina Cacioppo, the co-founder and CEO of data security compliance startup Vanta, which has an ~$80M ARR, a $1.6B valuation, and raised $203M
Phoebe Liu / Forbes :
2022-08-08
Never got a chance to meet Tom Alberg or see him speak, but growing up in Seattle, building startups and raising venture were synonymous with Tom and the firm he started, Madrona, with which almost all Seattle startups still intersect somehow. What a legacy. RIP. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Tom Alberg, an early Amazon investor and Madrona Venture Group co-founder, who was a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy, dies at 82
2022-01-10
Great read about the differences between rhetoric and practice in web3. Decentralization sounds intriguing but specialization of labor is a powerful thing, and technology bends towards centralization, even in web3 itself. Don't build things you can already buy. https://twitter.com/...
r/ethereum on Reddit
Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”
I've been thinking about Matt Mullenweg's response to Brian Armstrong's response … Rick Webb / Webb Chatham Report : Good morning. Hello. How are you? #562 Cooper Midroni / Future ...
2020-01-27
1/ Really enjoyed this presentation and post by @astrange on the coming wave of innovation in fintech. If you're interested in this space, this is a good one to spend a Sunday morning watching and reading. https://a16z.com/...
Andreessen Horowitz
Fintech startups tackling every layer of banking stack, from core tech to KYC/AML, enable startups and companies like Apple to start adding financial services
This is an abbreviated version of a presentation I gave live at the a16z Summit in November 2019. You can watch a video version on YouTube.