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The Good News, Bad News, Week
By Keith Teare • Issue #312 • View online
34 new unicorns in May and three new decacorns. It’s the best time in 5 years to be a VC? But Tiger is down 52%, 15–20,000 tech workers have been laid off and Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Facebook. It’s a good news, bad news, week.
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34 new Unicorns
Salesforce growth accelerating
Startup valuations are “highly attractive”
Money flows to private equity
It’s the best time to be a VC
Chipotle accepts crypto as payment
US insurers like crypto as an investment
FTX is growing
Binance is investing
Securitize tokenizes $500m fund
SEC wants ESG claims to be backed up
Tiger down 52% year to date
15,000 tech layoffs in May
Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta
Supreme Court sides against Texas on censorship
Young Rich Anti-Capitalists
