That Was The Week

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  • A Tale of Two Platforms

    Meta lost 25% of its value in 24 hours. Twitter moved to close the deal with Elon Musk as its stock neared $54. Both founders have a vision. Whose will win? Discuss…

    Content from @elonmusk, @finkd, @noahpinion, @stratechery, @seedcamp, @ttunguz


    Contents

    Editorial

    A Tale of Two Platforms

    • Meta
    • Twitter

      • Essays of the Week

      • 9 Predictions for Data in 2023
      • Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta
      • Generative AI Startups Attract Business Customers, Investor Funding
      • Chips and China
      • The end of the system of the world - by Noah Smith
      • The Rise of Real-Time Collaborative Tech : Seedcamp

        • News of the Week

        • Mobileye stock rises 40% in its return to a public market in chaos
        • Stability AI CEO, After Ruffling Feathers of Researchers, Discussed $1 Billion in New Financing
        • Andreessen Horowitz’s Flagship Crypto Fund Takes A Beating — Report
        • Tech unicorn start-ups valued at $1 billion now rare in Silicon Valley

          • Startup of the Week

          • Snowflake

            • Tweet of the Week

            • Elon Musk
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            • The End of Apps and the Rise of the Machines

              The rise of data, and the increasing scope for AI to mine it for useful outputs, leads some to predict the end of apps. Can we dream of just asking for what we want, and getting it? Lots to chew on this week. Enjoy.


              Contents

              Editorial

              The End of Apps? - A Discussion

              Essays of the Week

              • The AT Protocol - The Bluesky Team
              • AI 2022: The Explosion - The Coatue Venture Team
              • AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value - Elad Gil
              • An AI Might Have Written This -  Fadeke Adegbuyi
              • Alien Truth - Paul Graham
              • Will the Metaverse replace PCs?
              • Accel 2022 Euroscape: Reset
              • Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap → Task - Lenny Rachitsky
              • Dylan Field (Figma) - at TechCrunch Disrupt

                • News of the Week

                • Meet The New Unicorns Minted In September 2022 - Gené Teare
                • Around Acquired by Miro Labs
                • Stanford Wants a Bigger Piece of Silicon Valley’s Top VC Funds: Endowment Chief
                • Silicon Valley is starting to cave to European regulators
                • Meta Must Sell Giphy, U.K. Competition Authority Orders in Final Decision

                  • Startup of the Week

                  • Minerva Lithium

                    • Tweet of the Week

                    • Hunter Walk
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                      30 min
                    • Take a Walk on the Wild Side

                      Twitter needs new leadership, and Elon Musk is the best chance of getting it. This week he renewed his bid to buy Twitter at the original price. But is he really going to pull the trigger? Or is it a ruse to blame bankers? Also @danrose999, @rabois, @Mazzeo @alex @elonmusk


                      Contents

                      Take a Walk on the Wild Side

                      • ‘Elon Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share’
                      • Elon Musk's lawyers ask the judge to call off the Twitter trial
                      • Judge halts Elon Musk-Twitter litigation to allow time to finance $44bn takeover
                      • Everything we know about Elon Musk’s messy new Twitter offer
                      • Elon Musk’s Half-Baked Robot Is a Clunky First Step

                        • Essays of the Week

                        • The art and science of picking winning teams
                        • The unicorn funding slump is worse than you thought
                        • Tiger Partner John Curtius is Leaving to Launch His Own Fund
                        • Coatue General Partner Matt Mazzeo Departs to Launch Fund
                        • The US venture capital slowdown doesn't look that bad

                          • News of the Week

                          • EU votes to force all phones to use the same charger by 2024
                          • From seed to series E, companies cut staff after raising millions

                            • Startup of the Week

                            • Substack

                              • Tweet of the Week

                              • Dan Rose
                              • Keith Rabois
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                                32 min
                              • Khan't Touch That - Regulation on the Rocks

                                When Lina Khan came into office. She was championed as a friend of the people facing up to Big Tech. Today her reputation is in tatters. We predicted she was not well prepared for success, and we were right. Also, great content from @a16z @openai, @conniechan, @elonmusk @stevecase, @floodgatefund and @annimaniac

                                Content
                                Regulators on the Rocks
                                --Lina Khan’s ambitious FTC is facing ‘extremely difficult choices
                                --A Call to the SEC to treat Crypto Assets is if Clients Matter
                                Essays of the Week
                                --Why Google is pushing for open media formats
                                --There’s New Proof Crispr can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies
                                --The Best Managers Are Leaders — and Vice Versa
                                --What China Can Teach Us About the Future of TikTok and Video Search
                                --Introducing Whisper
                                --Dall-E 2 users to be allowed to upload faces for the first time
                                --Funding When Capital Isn’t Cheap
                                --Debt Pitches Are in Vogue, but Not All Tech Startups Are Biting
                                News of the Week
                                --Musk’s Legal Team Will Be Allowed to Use Zatko Payout as Part of Case Against Twitter Deal
                                --New Report Underlines the Increasing Reliance on Social Platforms for News Content, Including TikTok
                                --Meta Announces Facebook Reels API to Enable Reels Sharing via Third Party Apps
                                --Semafor Interview: Facebook could lift Trump’s suspension in January, Nick Clegg says
                                --Steve Case | Rise of the Rest | McKinsey Author Talks
                                Startup of the Week
                                --Looking at 320 pitch decks here’s what science tells us works best
                                Tweet of the Week
                                --Floodgate Fund and Anna Miura Ko


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                              • Is TikTok Hatred Racist?

                                Contents from this week’s newsletter

                                This week a whistleblower demonstrated how poor Twitter’s internal data controls are, mirroring previous proof that TikTok is similarly challenged. And politicians focused on TikTok

                                Contents

                                Is TikTok Hatred Racist?

                                • Is TikTok’s Time Running Out?
                                • Meta Can Thank TikTok for its quiet day in Congress

                                  • Essays of the Week

                                  • Twitter Whistleblower Testifies (video)
                                  • OpenAI - Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman in conversation - Podcast and Transcript
                                  • What you Learn from Hypergrowth - 3 years at Hopin
                                  • Big Tech Revenue and Profits Breakdown

                                    • News of the Week

                                    • Twillio Lays off 11%
                                    • The Post Crash VC Market - Mark Suster
                                    • A Bull Case for Fintech
                                    • VC fundraising and the New Normal
                                    • VC Secondary Bargain Hunters
                                    • Northzone closes $1bn fund
                                    • Venture Healthtech funding falls 42%
                                    • A16Z is now a Landlord

                                      • Startup of the Week

                                      • Figma

                                        • Tweet of the Week

                                        • Fred Destin
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                                          49 min
                                        • The Queen

                                          Her full title reads

                                          Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

                                          She is no more. And much of what she stood for is also in decline

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                                          33 min
                                        • China Rising

                                          A lot to digest this week. China’s global economic leadership in sustainable tech, @garrytan has a new role heading Y Combinator, @OM exposes Apple’s AI weakness, @VitalikButerin has a new book, @Cloudflare defends the freedom to publish, @ttunguz thinks about web3 apps and @SamirKaji tweets about what makes a good VC.

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                                          36 min
                                        • Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

                                          Silicon Valley is struggling to adjust to the post-2021 correction. Some signals are way up, like Snowflakes revenues and stock price. Others are down, like funding rounds. Venture Capital is always a few steps behind on both the downside and the up. But today is sunny, and so is the near future. Andrew Keen and I discuss this week’s newsletter.

                                          Here are the links from this week

                                          Contents

                                          Snowflakes Stellar Quarter

                                          Essays of the Week

                                          • Worldcoin founder starts an AI Venture business
                                          • Netflix is not a Tech Company - Benedict Evans
                                          • Apple Car - Software and Money - Jean Louis Gassée
                                          • Fundraising in 2022 - Tomasz Tunguz
                                          • Paramount gets UEFA Champions League Streams till 2030
                                          • Why Youtube made its own Video Chip
                                          • Investments in Nuclear Fission and Fusion - Crunchbase

                                            • Elon Musk and Adam Neumann

                                            • Musk Welcomes a Whistleblower
                                            • Elon Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey
                                            • Everything you need to know about the Twitter whistleblower complaint
                                            • Can a Zebra Change its Stripes?
                                            • The Anti-Adam Neumann - TechCrunch

                                              • Startup of the Week

                                              • Thomvest

                                                • Tweet of the Week

                                                • Jason Lemkin of SaaStr
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                                                  33 min
                                                • Mad or Bad? What are they Thinking?

                                                  $350m for the man who lost most of $20 billion. The world has not gone mad. Read why Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) did it. Plus @ReidHoffman on AI, Josh Nicholson on Science and AI, @BrianSolis on Web3 marketing@Alexoppenheimer on valuing companies, and much more

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                                                  32 min
                                                • How Unicorns Are Born

                                                  This week @bhorowitz of A16Z and David Weiden of @KhoslaVentures talk about culture as a catalyst for a healthy company. @SamirKaji talks about the importance of emerging seed investors, and @HunterWalk discusses the importance of angels with operating experience to a CEO. @Om Malik and @BGurley talk about survival techniques during downturns. How Unicorns are Born? That is the common theme.

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