03/15/2021: Weekly Newsletter
We’ve heard so much lately about SPACs, that this is an interesting chart from the WSJ about how shorting some of these SPACs has increased of late
Money & Crypto
Shorting of SPACs grows
Stripe valued at $95B w/ $600m raise
How Greensill fell to insolvency - a fascinating overview from the WSJ
Bitcoin passes $60k
NFTs in the art and auction world. Don’t know what NFTs are? Here’s another good explainer
Trying to change legislation in Germany to make it harder for patent trolls
Combining Twitter & Square?
Apps around financial education and how to invest
China’s budget and growth forecasts
Tech & Science
Earlier this week Google had a doodle commerating Dr. Wu Lien-teh’s birthday, who invented a surgical mask in the early 1900s that is “widely considered the precursor to the N95 maks.”
♫ A fascinating interview with Walter Isaacson (author of Steve Jobs and other biographies) on how the COVID vaccine works and how CRISPR works/was discovered
Etc.
♫ I didn’t watch the Grammy’s, but this was a great summary of what happened, including Beyonce breaking the record for most awarded woman at the Grammy’s and other highlights like Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s performance and Brandi Carlile’s salute to John Prine
Yo Yo Ma plays for people waiting to get vaccine at local clinic
Drew Brees retiring
Cross-country skier Jessie Diggins
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