Saved by sari
Stripe: The Internet's Most Undervalued Company
With early investments in social media companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare and Zynga, Fred Wilson has become one of the world's most watched angel investors. And one of the opportunities he is watching most attentively is the emerging industry of digital money.
Michael Green • In Gold We Trust? The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty (Kindle Single)
One-click checkout startup Fast is reportedly in talks to raise a new round with a valuation as high as $1 billion. Here's the pitch deck it used to bag $20 million from investors like fintech giant Stripe.
Shannen Baloghbusinessinsider.comArmed with a $15.3 million Series A financing by Andreessen Horowitz and plenty of pre-financing traction, Substack has the potential to leverage one of two opportunities. The likely path forward is an organic approach to local media entreprenuers scaling their own region-based media operations, likely competing with other entrepreneur-journalists ... See more
PM • Member Brief: Substack and Local News
In 2005, sixteen-year-old Patrick Collison (Patrick is the cofounder of Stripe) did what many high school nerds do and participated in the Young Scientist Of The Year competition. As a young teen, he leveraged it to build his app "Isaac" (his entry to the competition). Isaac is what we would call today a chatbot….in 2005, chatbots weren't a thing….... See more