Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock last week, the third largest in Microsoft’s history behind Skype ($8.5B) and LinkedIn ($26.2B). Microsoft paid 30x GitHub’s annual revenue, nearly 5x what they paid for LinkedIn back in 2016. Read more
For most people, an Uber is a Lyft and a Lyft is an Uber. Uber’s roots are in the black-car business, while Lyft’s predecessor, Zimride, was a carpooling app. Yet over the last six… Read more
In 2005 Evan Williams founded a podcast platform called Odeo. Unable to compete with Apple’s iTunes store, Odeo only went on to raise a Series A. However, Williams’ side project, Twitter, went on to become, well, Twitter. Read more
During Aptrinsic’s recent Mastering Product Adoption and Growth event, industry-renowned product leaders shared their insights into driving product growth. Read more
The most comprehensive case that has ever been made for why nearly everyone should become a polymath in a modern knowledge economy. The warning against being a generalist has persisted for hundreds of years in dozens of languages. Read more
In the last 48 hours, a Google Engineer released a hailstorm of outdated and twisted psychological and biological myths to mask his personal prejudice against women, and less overtly, against minorities as well. I want to suggest a counter-manifesto. Read more
Mentoring startups can be a hit and miss affair. Both for the mentor and the founder. Mentors want to be useful and can find it difficult to find the best startups that can benefit from their expertise. Read more
Although some colleges may offer a major program in business or entrepreneurship, there isn’t exactly a major in venture capital or angel investment. Read more
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look Want to freak yourself out? I’m going to show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it. Read more
Rosenberg, a senior writer for Jewish-focused news-and-culture website Tablet Magazine, had become a leading target of anti-Semitic Twitter users during his reporting on the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Read more