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Fri. 05/10 - The Uber IPO
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Uber’s big IPO had some issues, smartphone shipments are at a 5 year low, do you need an app for unsubscribing to things and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Uber Jackpot: Inside One of the Greatest Startup Investments of All Time (WSJ)
- Americans Have So Many Subscriptions They Need Apps to Track and Cancel Them (Bloomberg)
- Blue Origin: Bezos company aims to take people to moon by 2024 (The Guardian)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Much Is an Idea Worth? In Uber’s Case, $3.7 Billion (Bloomberg)
- The VC Who Engineered the 2017 Uber CEO Coup Just Got Very Rich (Bloomberg)
- The dangers of in-game data collection (Polygon)
- How Unions Are Pushing Back Against the Rise of Workplace Technology (Fortune)
- Three years in, Google’s hardware honcho is just getting started (FastCompany)
519 episodes
M4A•Episode home
Manage episode 233089355 series 2101572
Content provided by Techmeme.com. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Techmeme.com or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Uber’s big IPO had some issues, smartphone shipments are at a 5 year low, do you need an app for unsubscribing to things and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Sponsors:
Links:
- Uber Jackpot: Inside One of the Greatest Startup Investments of All Time (WSJ)
- Americans Have So Many Subscriptions They Need Apps to Track and Cancel Them (Bloomberg)
- Blue Origin: Bezos company aims to take people to moon by 2024 (The Guardian)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Much Is an Idea Worth? In Uber’s Case, $3.7 Billion (Bloomberg)
- The VC Who Engineered the 2017 Uber CEO Coup Just Got Very Rich (Bloomberg)
- The dangers of in-game data collection (Polygon)
- How Unions Are Pushing Back Against the Rise of Workplace Technology (Fortune)
- Three years in, Google’s hardware honcho is just getting started (FastCompany)
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