Our Web3 Future
By Keith Teare • Issue #296 • View online
Web3 is becoming a more familiar label for innovative technologies. But what is it? This week Maggie Hsu from Andreessen Horowitz gets the lead position for her article covering what makes Web3 marketing different.
Contents
- Our Web3 Future
- SPACs in Freefall
- Facebook — Out in the Cold
- This Week in Venture
- Fintech Boom
- Startup of the Week
- Tweet of the Week
Editorial
Tech stocks have somewhat rebounded this week so it has been possible to forget how much value has disappeared from the public markets. And while there are some interesting developments in the venture capital space (Tiger Global’s new $11bn sidecar fund, a great profile of Roelof Botha and Blackrock predicting 1000 energy sector unicorns) other things caught my attention.
Jessica Lessin’s wonderful writing covering the Facebook, Google, Apple universe was one. MG Siegler’s piece is a nice complement. Foundry Group terminating its two SPACs is another. The SPAC world has really ceased to be a viable path to a public offering for most companies. Forbes, with $200m from Binance newly banked, seems an unlikely candidate for…
