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Episode 290: Make your own slides


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This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house.

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  • VC
    • Stripe is now valued at $95 billion
    • Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market
    • Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch
    • Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done
    • Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing
    • Work Life
      • This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout
      • Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon
      • Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?
      • Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard
      • Relevant to your interests
        • Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’
        • Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon
        • Google’s plan to disrupt higher education
        • Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions
        • Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML
        • Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration
        • Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices
        • China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules
        • Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program
        • Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs
        • Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise
        • CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation
        • Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage
        • Boosting developer success on Google Play
        • IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions
        • AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type
        • Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021
        • Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch
        • Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users
        • Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong
        • Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google
        • Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers
        • Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
        • IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services
        • Nonsense
          • Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year
          • Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more
          • Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla
          • IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns
          • So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5?
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              • SDT news & hype
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                • Recommendations
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                  • Coté: Patagonia Torrentshell Pants. (Repeat?)
                  • Brandon: What you do is who you are by Ben Horowitz, Companies & Culture a16z Podcast
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