Archive: Alibaba

Data Is Eating the World

By Vin Narayanan on March 23, 2022

For more than 10 years, “software is eating the world” has been an article of faith among startup investors. Marc Andreessen — co-founder of both Netscape and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) — wrote these famous words in a blog post in August 2011. And his thesis was pretty simple. My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic…
Libra is a threat to banks. But it actually boosts the outlook for bitcoin.

News Fix: Lyft Launches Its IPO, Trades Higher

By Allison Brickell on March 30, 2019

This week, Lyft launched its much-anticipated IPO, Uber bought one of its rivals and New Jersey worked by its own schedule.