A world without Caesars: How the atproto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people
The first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol — which powers Bluesky — was held in Seattle.
Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate
When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired the company, and that equity converted into Stripe shares, enough to let Kinvi leave his job, bootstrap a side project, […]
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‘No Better Name’: Napster Acquired for $200 Million to ‘Disrupt’ the Metaverse
Napster was once a file-sharing service that allowed users to download songs for free.
Discord made its streaming overlay a lot more user-friendly
Discord announced on Tuesday that it rebuilt its Overlay feature from the ground up. The new Overlay makes streaming games on Discord more user-friendly on the streamer’s end. In its legacy form, streamers could toggle the Overlay display to use Discord while playing games, but this would bring up the entire Discord client in the […]
What’s the Best Way to Start a Business? The Answer Isn’t Creating a Flashy Product — It’s This
Avoid the costly pitfalls of overbuilding products too soon and better understand your customers by focusing on your service, not your product.
How Handling Teen Tantrums Made Me a Better Boss — and Less Stressed Out at Work
Here’s how to take a potential work conflict and turn it into something all of you can work together to solve.
Once a target of Musk’s ire, Gen Z creator Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress
When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on X to celebrate her misfortune. “Karma is real,” Musk said. But as Abughazaleh said in a video on Monday announcing her campaign for Congress, she’s not afraid of […]
Outreach founder Manny Medina has a new startup that helps AI agents get paid
Medina’s new startup, called Paid, helps agentic startups profitably charge for their bots.
Learn From Rupert Murdoch’s Errors — Create a Succession Plan Today to Protect Your Company’s Legacy
Business owners can learn from the Murdoch family’s disputes and power struggles and discover how effective succession planning could have prevented these issues.
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Plural’s platform allows enterprises to manage their Kubernetes clusters in one place
When Sam Weaver was vice president of product management at Unqork, he realized that the company needed a better way to manage its sprawling network of Kubernetes clusters — which are groups of computing nodes. When Unqork couldn’t find anything off the shelf, it assembled a 15-person team to build a Kubernetes management product. Despite […]