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Why the narrow path for junior creatives into the ad industry is impacting diversity The advertising industry has found itself on a pedestal as roles for entry-level creatives appear few and far between, creating a backlog of talent trying to find their way in. Agencies have fallen back on hiring through knowing someone, that knows someone; and the influence of having AWARD School on a resume is narrowing the field of potential talent to be recruited. What this equates to then is a question of diversity in the industry. Mumbrella's Zoe Wilkinson shares the experiences of junior creatives try...

Dispute between Elastic and AWS highlights ongoing battle over open source business model February 4, 2021 at 4:30 pm (GeekWire File Photo) Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Daniel Li, partner at Madrona Venture Group, which first appeared in his weekly newsletter The DL. Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. Now OSS has gone full circle. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Quick ...

Published Jan. 28, 2021Updated Jan. 30, 2021 A day after GameStop shares rose 135 percent — a wild upswing spurred by an online army of investors on a mission to challenge the dominance of Wall Street — Robinhood, the stock-trading app at the center of it all, clamped down. Almost immediately, GameStop’s shares plunged, falling 75 percent in 90 minutes. The limits on trading by Robinhood and other online brokerages, put in place as fears of market instability grew more widespread, set off a furious outcry among small investors. They claimed that the very apps that had democratized tradi...

Jan 29, 2021 A day after shares of U.S. retailer GameStop rose 135% — a wild upswing spurred by an online army of investors on a mission to challenge the dominance of Wall Street — Robinhood, the stock-trading app at the center of it all, clamped down. Almost immediately, GameStop’s shares plunged, falling 75% in 90 minutes. The limits on trading by Robinhood and other online brokerages, put in place as fears of market instability grew more widespread, set off a furious outcry among small investors. They claimed that the very apps that had democratized trading — Robinhood in ...

Hope Cochran and Daniel Li, Madrona Venture Group Does it ever get any easier to bet on a gaming content play? What do you look for? Hope Cochran: I feel like there are a couple different sectors in gaming. There’s the actual studios that are developing games and they have several approaches. Are they developing a brand new game, are they reimagining a game from 25 years ago and reskinning it, which is a big trend right now, or are they taking IP that is really trendy right now and trying to create a game around it? There are different ways to predict which ones of those might make it, but ...