This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move?
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Matt Ray finds a snake…?The Battle of GameStopVCClubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion ValuationHow Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startupBitcoin Follow upGraham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it. Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “Central bank digital currencyBitcoin | Acquired PodcastEarningsIBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business acceleratesRelevant to your interests
https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?)Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | Amazon Web ServicesVagrant First CommitGoogle threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news lawOtter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real timeTucows closes its once-popular software download siteAdvice on LambdaEnd-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer businessGoogle employees have formed another union, this one internationalTwitter acquiring newsletter publishing company RevueDiscord looks to grow beyond its gaming rootsRaspberry PiRaspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip – TechCrunchI bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 - James DawsonHow a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web ServicesFour security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNetNonsense
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