Katie Cotton, working alongside Steve Jobs from 1997 to 2011, made Apple into the iconic, beloved brand we know today. Here's how.
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Tesla was worth around $25b (similar to Twitter today) when Musk said it could be worth as much as Apple. Now he says Twitter can be worth as much as BofA.
Brex Travel disrupts incumbents like Amex & Concur with easy expenses and self-serve travel booking. Will big orgs buy in, or just startups?
Big AI like GPT-4 poses a threat to humanity & society, will take jobs, and flood world with misinformation, per this open letter from Big Tech execs

A potential TikTok ban is a stark reminder to all creators that you must own at least 1 or 2 platforms you post on so they can never be taken from you.
NFX surveyed 870 startup founders on banking, VC mood, and hiring trends. Here are the results.
Lots of tech leaders mock colleges as ‘woke madrassas’ & call student-loan forgiveness moral hazard. But when their money’s at risk, they're all for privatizing profits and socializing losses.
Senators like Josh Hawley & Marco Rubio support banning TikTok, and Biden talks tough on it, but what would it accomplish, really, except political risk?
OpenAI's new ChatGPT free for basic use (with these caveats), and here's the latest on developer API pricing for GPT-4.
Zuckerberg announces 10k layoffs to employees in post. Introduces ‘Year of Efficiency’ with ‘Flatter is Faster’ and ‘Leaner is Better’ strategies. Here’s the full post (if you have an hour).
Read Meta commerce & fintech lead Stephane Kasriel tweets 'winding down collectibles (NFTs) for now to focus on other ways to support creators' like FB messaging and IG Reels monetization
Tim Mayopoulos, the former Fannie Mae chief who's now CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, wants deposits back. Here's the letter he wrote.
iPhone & Twitter were babies when WAMU failed, making SVB the first social media bank run ever
The rapidity of the [SVB] crisis and social media has taught us that tech is obsoleting the current regulatory structure, which was built in the 1930s.
FDIC named Mayopoulos to oversee a newly created SVB bridge bank operating under a board appointed by the FDIC to assume deposits and certain liabilities of the failed bank.
Will there be a First Republic bank run after Silicon Valley bank run? Here are some strengths and weaknesses of First Republic.

