Quote To Start The Day: [S]tock declines of 30-40% are overdone, and growth names should begin to re-inflate. True, interest rates will likely rise over time. However, they still hover near record lows, and borrowers of all shapes and sizes can afford to pay more.
Source: Adam Johnson
One Big. Read More.
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Fred Wilson is a VC and the cofounder of Union Square Ventures, one of Twitter s earliest investors. He stepped down from
Twitter s board in 2011 but remains a shareholder in the company.
In a recent post on his blog AVC, Wilson says although it s wonderful Donald Trump can no longer spread lies, hate, and awfulness on Twitter, the President s ban a slippery slope.
It s high time the US forces the big centralized apps and mobile app stores to open up and the longer we wait, the worse this will get.
I heard the news last week that Twitter had permanently banned Trump and thought oh my.
The Week’s Big 5
1. Policy and placemaking go direct. Policymakers, funders and other stakeholders are putting cash and control in the hands of U.S. residents to address the interlocking challenges of COVID-19, inequality and racial justice.
The Week’s Agent of Impact
Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital. Venture capitalists love to invest in disruption. Arlan Hamilton is disrupting venture capital. She created Backstage Capital in 2015 with a conviction that backing “underestimated” founders could unlock overlooked value. Initially dismissed by the VC world, she convinced investors like Slack’s
Stewart Butterfield and
Mark Andreesen to sign on to her fledgling fund. The West Hollywood-based venture firm has built a portfolio of more than 175 startups, including tech ecosystem
SilviaTerra raises $4 4 million to build a carbon marketplace from forestlands impactalpha.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from impactalpha.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Zack Parisa and Max Nova, the co-founders of carbon offsets firm SilviaTerra, have spent the last decade working on a way to democratize access to income-generating carbon offsets.
As forestry credits grow into a big, booming business thanks to multibillion-dollar commitments from some of the world’s biggest companies to decarbonize their businesses, the types of technology the two founders have dedicated 10 years of their lives to making. construction will only become more valuable.
That’s why their company, already a profitable venture, raised $ 4.4 million in external funds led by Union Square Ventures and Version One Ventures, as well as the founder of Salesforce and the driving force behind the One Trillion Trees initiative, Marc Benioff.