Episode 283: There are no chicken tenders in calendaring

This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move?

Rundown

• Matt Ray finds a snake…?
• The Battle of GameStop
• VC
  • Clubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion Valuation
  • How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup
• Bitcoin Follow up
  • Graham 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 currency
  • Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast
• Earnings
  • IBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020
  • Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates

Relevant 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 Services
• Vagrant First Commit
• Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news law
• Otter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time
• Tucows closes its once-popular software download site
• Advice on Lambda
• End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business
• Google employees have formed another union, this one international
• Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue
• Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots
• Raspberry Pi
  • Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip – TechCrunch
  • I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 - James Dawson
• How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services
• Four security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNet

Nonsense

• Costco Prices
• California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (originally from a 2016 Quora answer).
• Tom Morello impressed with this Guitarist
• US Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW Sportscar

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Recommendations

• Matt: Earth at Night in Colour
  • Transferwise
• Brandon: Wyze Outdoor Cam
• Coté: Money. micro.blog

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