03/29/2021: Weekly Newsletter
Given we’ve all gotten a lot of use out of our streaming subscriptions over the past year, I found this graphic from Visual Capitalist about streaming subscriptions pretty interesting. Netflix maintains the most subscribers, Disney had impressive growth in its first year, and Spotify has “more than double the subscribers of the next audio streamer”.
Money & Crypto
A comparison of streaming sites: most subscribers, biggest growth, etc.
♫ Questions about NFTs, what they are, and how they’re used? This podcast episode w/ Jesse Walden on Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Invest Like the Best was a great explainer on them
Robinhood and SoFi looking at how to bring early IPOs to users
Crunchfish, Swedish FinTech, figuring out how to make digital payments work even if
UK man fined by CFTC for fraudlently taking bitcoin
Bloomberg Opinion piece on “How to be smart on taxes on bitcoin”
IPO: Oscar Health, WeWork to go public via SPAC, UiPath
Fundraise: Squarespace $300M, Invstr, Republic $36M, Avanti $37M
Tech & Science
Taking pictures of black holes
Apple to roll out updates to do more to prevent ad targeting on iPhones
Etc.
“I’m a short afternoon walk and you’re putting too much pressure on me”
♫ Unspooled covers Promising Young Woman, a great movie I highly recommend!
♫ Podcast about Lady Bird Johnson on Fresh Air
Two great reads: Widowish by Melissa Gould and Finding Layla by Meg Elison
♫ Recommendations for streaming
Disclaimer: All opinions are my own. The content on this site and on the podcast does not constitute financial, legal, accounting, tax, or investment advice.
