Mon. 06/02 – How DoorDash Has Quietly Been Killing It

The famous stock market player Bernard Baruch once said, paraphrasing: Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four. The main purpose of the market is to make fools of as many people as possible. Today, stories of this lesson being learned by both major VC firms and Elon Musk. Oh, and how North Korean hackers infiltrate companies. Sponsors: OurCrowd.com/ride Cybersecurityinside.com/RIDE Links: Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals (The Guradian) Here’s how North Korean operatives are trying to infiltrate US crypto firms (CNN) Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Go Bargain Hunting for Beaten-Down Tech Stocks (The Information) Elon’s Out (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) Tweet Storm #1 Tweet Storm #2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Jul 202222min

Part 2 of the eBay story from the Internet History podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Jul 202241min

Apple has a new lockdown mode to triage a whole range of cyberattacks. Also, Mark Gurman has some details on that new, expected, “rugged” Apple Watch. Twitter is testing co-tweets. More details on the new version of Meta’s VR headset. And the weekend longreads suggestions. I’ll explain. Sponsors: StitchFix.com/ride for $20 off Work Check podcast Links: Apple Announces New Lockdown Mode on iOS 16 With 'Extreme' Level of Security (MacRumors) Apple Plans Extreme Sports Watch With Larger Screen, Metal Case (Bloomberg) Heads of FBI, MI5 Issue Joint Warning on Chinese Spying (WSJ) Reddit is launching a new NFT avatar marketplace (TechCrunch) Twitter starts testing new CoTweets feature that lets two accounts co-author a tweet (The Verge) Meta Plans to Call New Virtual Reality Headset the ‘Quest Pro’ (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Keeping Phones Running in Wartime Pushes Kyivstar to the Limit (Bloomberg) The Metaverse in 2040 (Pew Research Center) Not Just a Tennis Podcast, but Rather ‘The’ Tennis Podcast (NYTimes) Inside a Superfan's Secret Friendship With Eddie Van Halen (Rolling Stone) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Jul 202216min

Will regulators wreck the great gaming consolidation? Can the US bully it’s way to blocking China’s chip development? Are Dilithium crystals the key to saving crypto from quantum computing? And why the crypto crash has been a footnote for Wall Street. At least, so far. Sponsors: AthleticGreens.com/ride Links: Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision takeover faces competition probe in the UK (CNBC) US Wants Dutch Supplier to Stop Selling Chipmaking Gear to China (Bloomberg) NIST unveils four algorithms that will underpin new ‘quantum-proof’ cryptography standards (SC Media) Amazon takes a Prime step back into restaurant delivery in the US with big Grubhub investment and partnership (TechCrunch) Voyager Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Amid Crypto Credit Crisis (CoinDesk) Crypto Mining Giant Dumped Most of Its Bitcoin Holdings in June (Bloomberg) How Wall Street Escaped the Crypto Meltdown (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Jul 202217min

The Crypto Crash goes ever onward. Klarna is going on a realty tv show called, Now That’s what I Call A Haircut! The hackers have come for the Chinese surveillance state. The World Cup is going to have the robots call offsides. And Steve Jobs is getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sponsors: StoryBlok.com/ridehome KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Crypto platform Vauld suspends withdrawls, trading and deposits amid financial challenges. (TechCrunch) Number Three (Entrepreneurs Handbook) Meta to Shut Down Novi Service in September in Crypto Winter (Bloomberg) Klarna in Talks to Raise Fresh Cash at Slashed $6.5 Billion Valuation (WSJ) Hackers Claim Theft of Police Info in China’s Largest Data Leak (Bloomberg) AI-powered technology will be used to speed up VAR offside calls at World Cup (The Guardian) Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer) President Biden to award Steve Jobs with posthumous Medal of Freedom (9to5Mac) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Jul 202218min

From my original Internet History Podcast, the first of my two episodes outlining the story of eBay, in-depth, as I make the strong case that it was maybe the most important and overlooked startup of the Web 1.0 era. Part 2 of this story coming on Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Jul 202243min

Time for some deep analysis of the podcast industry. Is Spotify gonna take over all of audio? Is the blockchain useful for podcasting? What is the great Michael Mignano doing next, after leaving Spotify and Anchor? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Jul 20221h 27min

While I'm away briefly for vacation, here's a talk I gave at Google in December 2018 around the time my book came out. Just a condensed dose of my entire thesis of the technology industry's history from 1994-2006. Nothing much new if you've read my book, but if you want the cliff's notes version, here it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Jul 20221h 1min