Hola a todos. Gracias por darme la bienvenida a tu bandeja de entrada una vez más.
Recibí algunas respuestas impresionantes al boletín #DeleteLinkedIn la semana pasada, unas pocas docenas de correos electrónicos (algunos de ellos enojados) y muchos tweets. Espero poder conversar con algunos de ustedes pronto. En ese sentido, actualmente estoy en China para un evento TechCrunch que tendremos en Shenzhen y me tomaré un tiempo fuera de línea para viajar un poco, así que no llegaré a tus bandejas de entrada las próximas dos semanas. Week in Review regresará a sus bandejas de entrada el fin de semana después del Día de Acción de Gracias, por lo que tendrá que saborear este boletín hasta entonces.
Si está leyendo esto en el sitio de TechCrunch, puede obtenerlo en su bandeja de entrada aquí y seguir mis tweets aquí.
La gran historia
Si ha habido un tema colectivo en algunas de las críticas tecnológicas de los últimos dos años, ha sido una visión en evolución hacia la responsabilidad de la plataforma.
Las plataformas de redes sociales se han ganado la mayor parte de esta discusión hasta la fecha. Esto se debe en gran parte al panorama político y las quejas con liberales y conservadores sobre cómo maneja el sitio la vigilancia de contenido. La visión libertaria prevaleciente de que las plataformas tecnológicas no eran responsables de lo que fue habilitado por sus plataformas ha quedado fuera de moda.
Lo que sigue sorprendiéndome es la poca responsabilidad o expectativas que todavía parecen existir para las plataformas de mercado. El discurso es una parte crucial de Internet, pero también lo es comprar y vender, y me sorprende cuán grande han podido ser algunas startups sin ofrecer algunas protecciones básicas para los compradores.
A través de algunas grandes investigaciones del Wall Street Journal, hemos visto cuán rápido y suelto ha estado jugando Amazon con vendedores de terceros que obtienen el reinado gratis en el sitio. Ha habido innumerables historias de estafadores que se infiltran en sitios como Airbnb y eBay y operan en áreas grises que les permiten estafar a los compradores. La semana pasada, un periodista de Vice hizo una profunda inmersión en una estafa de la que fue víctima en la plataforma de Airbnb.
Esta semana, Airbnb anunció que para el próximo año se comprometen a verificar todos sus listados, algo que parece estar un poco retrasado. Aparentemente, detrás de las propiedades que se reservaban en su plataforma, se encontraba la última casilla para verificar antes de conducir hasta el aro de IPO.
Más de nuestra historia:
Las propiedades de Airbnb pronto serán verificadas para la precisión de las fotos, direcciones, detalles de la lista, limpieza, seguridad y comodidades básicas para el hogar, según un correo electrónico enviado por el cofundador y director ejecutivo de Airbnb, Brian Chesky, el miércoles.
Airbnb es solo otra startup altamente valorada que ha estado tratando de llevar el pasado de menor resistencia a un valor futuro descomunal. Verificar las propiedades es un tema difícil de preparar. Los vendedores ciertamente no son los únicos estafadores en Airbnb, y los compradores que abusan de este nuevo sistema son una garantía. Pero mantener a ambas partes en algún tipo de equilibrio de satisfacción es la tarea desordenada y dada por Dios de Airbnb.
Airbnb ha generado más quejas debido a las malas experiencias de los clientes, pero es solo un presagio de lo que viene después. 2020 siendo un año de elecciones presidenciales en los EE. UU. Significa que el público aún podría estar demasiado ocupado criticando a Zuckerberg para dar a los mercados su debida vigilancia en el corto plazo, pero la campana está sonando para estos mercados y sería prudente para ellos Presta atención a la escritura en la pared.
Aquí hay algunas noticias importantes de grandes compañías, con enlaces verdes a todo el dulce contexto agregado:
La infiltración de Arabia Saudita en Twitter Una de las historias más alocadas de esta semana fue cómo, según los informes, Arabia Saudita levantó información confidencial de contacto de Twitter a través de los empleados de la compañía que pagaron. Hay muchas cosas en esta saga y aunque Twitter parece haber hecho la mayoría de las cosas bien, es un escenario de pesadilla.
T-Mobile y Sprint se enganchan El matrimonio de telecomunicaciones de dos de los cuatro principales operadores de los Estados Unidos eliminó su último obstáculo importante cuando la FCC le dio su bendición al acuerdo. Todavía hay algunos obstáculos legales residuales para que los dos terminen de buena fe, pero este acuerdo está hecho.
Adobe cumple una promesa Las promesas de la computación en tableta siempre han sido un poco ambiciosas en términos de tiempo, pero Photoshop finalmente está llegando al iPad y con eso, se ha cumplido un elemento de la lista de deseos de una década.
GAFA Gaffes
¿Cómo se equivocaron las principales empresas tecnológicas esta semana? Esto claramente necesita su propia sección, en orden de maldad:
California no está contenta con Zuckerberg: (California acusa a Facebook de ignorar las citaciones en la investigación estatal de Cambridge Analytica)
La junta de Google está investigando algunas irregularidades ejecutivas: (La junta de Alphabet está investigando a los ejecutivos sobre las denuncias de acoso sexual y otras conductas indebidas)
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Es difícil creer que ya es esa época del año, pero acabamos de anunciar la agenda de Disrupt Berlin y tenemos algunas estrellas que se dirigen al escenario. Estaré allí este año, conseguiré algunos boletos y ven a decir ¡hola!
Regístrese para obtener más boletines en su bandeja de entrada (incluido este) aquí.
EN VIVO: Estamos viviendo con Chris Cox ex director de producto, Facebook, de nuestra cumbre # WIRED25 en conversación con la escritora senior de WIRED Lauren Goode.
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En cuanto a lo que lo llevó específicamente a irse, Cox explicó que "no era algo en lo que sintiera que quería pasar otros 13 años en las redes sociales". Mark y yo vimos las cosas un poco diferente. . . yopensarnosotrossontodavíainvestigando u00a0comounindustria,cómohacertúequilibrar protectorelintimidaddela genteinformaciónycontinuo u00a0amantenerpersonasseguro ", dijo Cox.
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Sobre si avanzar hacia el cifrado fue parte de eso, dijo que cree que el cifrado es "excelente: y que" ofrece una enorme cantidad de protección ", pero señaló" iCiertamente hace que algunas de esas cosas sean más complicadas ”en el equilibrio de privacidad versus seguridad. Complementó los esfuerzos de Facebook para construir formas de atrapar a los malos actores, incluso si están protegidos por cifrado. Eso incluye iniciativas de alfabetización digital en Brasil e India antes de las elecciones, y ofrecer sistemas de reenvío para enviar información cuestionable a los verificadores de hechos. "Creo que hay ventajas y desventajas con estos sistemas y no soy una persona de línea dura en ninguno de ellos", dijo Cox, y señaló que lo que Facebook está construyendo es "resonante con lo que la gente quiere".
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Se le preguntó a Cox sobre el gran debate sobre si Facebook debería permitir la publicidad política. “Creemos que la publicidad política puede ser buena y útil. A menudo favorece y se presenta frente a los titulares ". Sin embargo, al verificar los hechos, dijo:" Soy un gran admirador ", a pesar de que Facebook no está aplicando eso a los anuncios políticos. Él notó que "yopensarelempresadeberíainvestigaryesinvestigandomicrofocalización . . Si haycientosdevariantessiendocorrerdeelcreativoentonces u00a0susdifícilaobtenertubrazosalrededorque essiendodijo ". También abogó por un mayor contexto en la interfaz de usuario que distingue los anuncios políticos. u00a0
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Chris Cox habla en Wired25
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Próximos proyectos de Cox
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Desde que dejó Facebook, Cox se ha unido al consejo asesor de un grupo llamado Acrónimo, que está ayudando a construir la pila de tecnología de campaña y mensajería para candidatos progresivos. "Estaesunzonadóndemipercepcióneseseelprogresistastenerestadodetrásen el capacidadadesarrollaryutilizarcomounaequipo infraestructuraeseayudatútenerunabuenovotantearchivo, cómo desarrollarmensajería u00a0sólobásicopolíticaen2019. "
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Lauren Goode, de Wired, le preguntó si se estaba alineando con los progresistas, adoptando una postura política, y si podía hacerlo mientras estaba en Facebook. "Absolutamenteno ”, respondió Cox. "Ypor quéeseseyopensarcuandotu eresenunamuy u00a0mayorpapelaunaplataforma, tienes el deber de ser mucho más neutral en tu política ".
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Luego salió con una declaración audaz habilitada por su independencia. “Creo que Trump no debería ser nuestro presidente. La otra cosa que me importa mucho en este momento es el cambio climático y él no nos va a ayudar allí ".
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Eso llevó a Cox a discutir que también ha estado trabajando para asesorar a la startup de San Francisco Planet Labs, que utiliza imágenes satelitales para rastrear el cambio climático. "losvisiónestabaaconstruirestaspequeña, acerca dezapatocaja-Tallasatélites consolarpanelpanelalasytenerunaflotadeellosenespacio,cualesreal-horaimagenelTierra."
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Con esos datos, Cox explicó que puede rastrear incendios forestales, deforestación, centrales eléctricas de carbón, gas metano y más. Luego, "Túpuedecomienzoacontribuirateniendounasaludsistema,dóndetú son básicamenteimagenelTierracadahora,yentoncestu erescreandoalgunospúblicodatosconjuntoconherramientaseseenchufedentrodecisiónfabricantes,bancos,seguroempresas,formuladores de políticas, inversores, periodistas, estudiantes ... "
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Cuando se le preguntó sobre la responsabilidad de las grandes tecnologías para abordar el cambio climático, Cox dijo "yopensaraelmuymenossushaciendounacompromisoasiendocarbono-negativa ".
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El acrónimo y el trabajo de Planet Labs se entrelazan, ya que Cox cree que los datos climáticos demuestran la necesidad de alguien nuevo en la Oficina Oval. Si bien Cox no lo discutió en el escenario, Wired lo incluyó como parte del Grupo Shasta, que es el vehículo de Cox para contribuir a estos proyectos. Aún así, no está listo para lanzar una compañía propia en toda política y clima. "Estoytodavíaentoncesjoven u00a0aestacampoeseyonotenersuficienteconfianzaenmipropiomentalmodelodeelmundo."
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Cox concluyó que al aprovechar a los empleados de las grandes empresas y al hacer que los líderes de los equipos presten más atención al cambio climático, "yohacerpensartecnologíapuedeplomo ". u00a0
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Los discursos motivacionales de Chris Cox estuvieron en el centro de la orientación de los nuevos empleados de Facebook. Pero después de 14 años en la red social, el director de producto se fue en marzo en medio de una sacudida ejecutiva y el nuevo plan de Facebook para priorizar la privacidad al encriptar sus aplicaciones de mensajería. No se revelaron detalles sobre sus próximos proyectos. Ahora (…)
Josh Constine es un periodista de tecnología que se especializa en el análisis profundo de productos sociales. Actualmente es Editor-At-Large para TechCrunch y está disponible para participar en conferencias.
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Anteriormente, Constine fue el escritor principal de Inside Facebook a través de su adquisición por parte de WebMediaBrands, cubriendo todo sobre la red social.
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Constine se graduó de la Universidad de Stanford en 2009 con una maestría en cibersociología, examinando la influencia de la tecnología en la interacción social. Investigó el impacto de los controles de privacidad en la socialización de los niños, los ciclos de popularidad de memes y lo que influye en la tasa de clics de enlaces publicados en Twitter.
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Constine también recibió un título de Bachiller en Artes con honores de la Universidad de Stanford en 2007, con especialización en Psicología Social y Procesos Interpersonales.
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Josh Constine es un orador público experimentado y ha moderado más de 120 entrevistas en el escenario en 15 países con líderes como el CEO de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, el denunciante Edward Snowden (a través de una videoconferencia en el escenario) y el senador estadounidense Cory Booker. Está disponible para moderar paneles y chats junto al fuego, pronunciar notas clave y juzgar las competencias de hackathon y pitch.
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Constine ha sido citado por The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The Atlantic, BBC World Magazine, Slate y más, y ha aparecido en televisión en Good Morning, America, The Today Show, China Central Television y Fox News. Constine está clasificada como la periodista tecnológica # 1 más citada en el prestigioso agregador de noticias Techmeme.
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(Divulgaciones: Josh Constine le aconsejó temporalmente a una amiga de la universidad que compartiera ubicación social con el nombre en código 'Signal' que tenía su sede en San Francisco antes de disolverse en 2015. Esta función de asesoría fue aprobada por los editores de AOL y TechCrunch y ha concluido. El novio de Constine, Andee Gardiner cofundador de la fundadora de empresas fundadoras Founders Embassy. El primo de Constine, Darren Lachtman, es el fundador de la startup de publicidad influyente Niche que fue adquirida por Twitter, y desde entonces se fue y fundó el estudio de contenido para adolescentes Brat. Constine no escribe sobre la Embajada de Fundadores o Brat. Constine tiene personal conocidos derivados de la vivienda universitaria alrededor del año 2007 con los fundadores de Skybox Imaging (ahora Terra Bella), Hustle, Snapchat y Robinhood, pero no mantiene estrechos lazos sociales con ellos ni influye en su escritura. Constine ocasionalmente participa en conferencias pagas. pero solo aquellos financiados por compañías que no cubre. Constine posee una pequeña posición en Ethereum y Las criptomonedas de Bitcoin, no negocian a diario, y divulga sus posiciones directamente en artículos, según corresponda. Constine no realiza consultorías, inversiones de ángeles ni comercio de acciones públicas más allá de las inversiones de acciones públicas por parte de la herencia de sus padres que él no tiene ningún papel en la gestión o asesoramiento).
Josh Constine es un periodista de tecnología que se especializa en el análisis profundo de productos sociales. Actualmente es Editor-At-Large para TechCrunch y está disponible para participar en conferencias.
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Anteriormente, Constine fue el escritor principal de Inside Facebook a través de su adquisición por parte de WebMediaBrands, cubriendo todo sobre la red social.
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Constine se graduó de la Universidad de Stanford en 2009 con una maestría en cibersociología, examinando la influencia de la tecnología en la interacción social. Investigó el impacto de los controles de privacidad en la socialización de los niños, los ciclos de popularidad de memes y lo que influye en la tasa de clics de enlaces publicados en Twitter.
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Constine también recibió un título de Bachiller en Artes con honores de la Universidad de Stanford en 2007, con especialización en Psicología Social y Procesos Interpersonales.
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Josh Constine es un orador público experimentado y ha moderado más de 120 entrevistas en el escenario en 15 países con líderes como el CEO de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, el denunciante Edward Snowden (a través de una videoconferencia en el escenario) y el senador estadounidense Cory Booker. Está disponible para moderar paneles y chats junto al fuego, pronunciar notas clave y juzgar las competencias de hackathon y pitch.
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Constine ha sido citado por The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The Atlantic, BBC World Magazine, Slate y más, y ha aparecido en televisión en Good Morning, America, The Today Show, China Central Television y Fox News. Constine está clasificada como la periodista tecnológica # 1 más citada en el prestigioso agregador de noticias Techmeme.
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(Divulgaciones: Josh Constine le aconsejó temporalmente a una amiga de la universidad que compartiera ubicación social con el nombre en código 'Signal' que tenía su sede en San Francisco antes de disolverse en 2015. Esta función de asesoría fue aprobada por los editores de AOL y TechCrunch y ha concluido. El novio de Constine, Andee Gardiner cofundador de la fundadora de empresas fundadoras Founders Embassy. El primo de Constine, Darren Lachtman, es el fundador de la startup de publicidad influyente Niche que fue adquirida por Twitter, y desde entonces se fue y fundó el estudio de contenido para adolescentes Brat. Constine no escribe sobre la Embajada de Fundadores o Brat. Constine tiene personal conocidos derivados de la vivienda universitaria alrededor del año 2007 con los fundadores de Skybox Imaging (ahora Terra Bella), Hustle, Snapchat y Robinhood, pero no mantiene estrechos lazos sociales con ellos ni influye en su escritura. Constine ocasionalmente participa en conferencias pagas. pero solo aquellos financiados por compañías que no cubre. Constine posee una pequeña posición en Ethereum y Las criptomonedas de Bitcoin, no negocian a diario, y divulga sus posiciones directamente en artículos, según corresponda. Constine no realiza consultorías, inversiones de ángeles ni comercio de acciones públicas más allá de las inversiones de acciones públicas por parte de la herencia de sus padres que él no tiene ningún papel en la gestión o asesoramiento).
Las autoridades federales han informado sobre una posible causa de la misteriosa enfermedad que afecta a los usuarios de vape: el acetato de vitamina E, un químico encontrado en algunos productos de vapeo que se ha demostrado que permanece en los pulmones mucho tiempo después. El hallazgo ha sido llamado un "avance", pero está lejos de ser la última palabra sobre la situación.
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Lamentablemente, la condición ya se ha cobrado la vida de al menos 39 personas, y se han reportado colectivamente más de 2,000 casos de todos los estados excepto Alaska. At present the only advice offered has been to stop vaping altogether.
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En una teleconferencia de medios, los jefes de la investigación de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades explicaron la base para señalar con el dedo el acetato de vitamina E. La sustancia fue citada como un posible problema desde el principio, pero solo las pruebas recientes la han establecido como un sospechoso de buena fe, explicó el equipo.
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Las muestras tomadas de los pulmones de 29 víctimas de la afección se enviaron desde 10 estados diferentes, y se encontró acetato de vitamina E en todas ellas. “These findings provide direct evidence of vitamin E acetate as the primary site of injury within the lungs,” said Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC .
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Aunque estuvo de acuerdo en que esta evidencia es un "avance", señaló que actualmente es simplemente un correlative finding u2014 more research is required to establish causalidad, a saber, el mecanismo de daño, aunque se ha realizado otro trabajo en esa área.
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"Investigaciones anteriores no relacionadas con los CDC sugieren que cuando se inhala el acetato de vitamina E, puede interferir con la función pulmonar normal", dijo.
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"Es importante tener en cuenta que estos hallazgos no descartan otros posibles compuestos o ingredientes que pueden estar causando estas lesiones pulmonares", continuó. "Puede haber más de una causa del brote".
Igualmente importantes son las estadísticas relacionadas con las fuentes de las sustancias en cuestión. Como se mencionó anteriormente en la investigación, una gran proporción de las personas que padecen esta afección usaban productos de THC, y específicamente los adquiridos a través de canales no regulados como los vendedores ambulantes.
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Es posible que se haya agregado el acetato de vitamina E con el propósito de cortar esencialmente el producto, mencionó Schuchat en respuesta a una pregunta en la llamada.
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"Eso puede hacerse con el propósito ilícito, o con fines de lucro, de diluir los materiales, hacer que se vea bien y tal vez no tener que usar tanto THC u otros ingredientes activos", dijo.
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Other potentially dangerous chemicals have been identified in vape products when heated and aerosolized, including many that even the creators might not have predicted.
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Conocer a un posible culpable no llega al corazón del problema, que sería que este químico (tal vez entre otros) ya se ha acumulado durante meses o años en los pulmones de los usuarios frecuentes de vape. El tratamiento es una línea paralela de investigación, pero conocer al menos una sustancia responsable debería ser útil.
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El consejo anterior de los CDC sigue vigente, señalaron los funcionarios: aconsejan evitar el vapeo por completo, ya que actualmente hay muy pocos controles sobre qué ingredientes están permitidos en los productos de vapeo, y qué debe declararse en el empaque, o si esas declaraciones están en de cualquier manera precisa.
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Every startup is a story and every startup’s success depends — on some level — on how well they can either tell that story or get that story told.
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To learn more about the next wave of consumer startup investment outside Silicon Valley, Iu2019m speaking to leading B2C-focused investors in various hubs about the trends they’re excited about right now.u00a0
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David Tisch, Founding Partner at BoxGroup
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Beth Ferreira, Partner at Firstmark Capital
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Consumer health and banking startups were recurring areas of interest, and there’s a sense that apps and product brands which provide a deeper sense of community are an untapped opportunity.
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Rebecca Kaden, Partner at Union Square Ventures
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At USV, we are focused on opportunities that broaden access by leveraging technology to increase value and decrease cost in big buckets of consumer spend. In doing so, we are looking for ways to make products and services previously available to a select segment available to many more. In particular, we have been investing in areas of consumer health where the delivery mechanism not only makes the care more convenient but also more affordable and higher quality; products and platforms in financial services that change the traditional underlying model to drive financial health for a mass customer; and opportunities that create new access to education both for kids and lifelong learners.u00a0
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Within each of these segments, I’ve been very interested in how new communities are forming inside products–users that come for a specific offering are forming allegiance and increasing engagement by interacting with other users. I think that is a trend we will only see accelerate.
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David Tisch, Founding Partner at BoxGroup
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People are bored on their phones, not of their phones. I am most excited to meet founders working on consumer apps that bring happiness and fun to a mass consumer audience, as I continue to believe we are in the early days of mobile and the app store is not dead.
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These apps may look like a game, they may be a game, or they may be a new feed, but TikTok, Twitch, HQ, Yolo and other Snap app kit apps, Tinder and others have shown consumers want new apps, the barrier for adoption and retention isu00a0 just very high. All apps and games have a half-life, creating something with a very long one is really hard, but the demand is sitting on the phone scrolling thorough feeds, waiting for some new fun. We are excited about apps that allow people to interact with others in different ways, in new worlds, using new hardware, or new interfaces.
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With the rise of the sober curious movement, we invested in Kin Euphorics, offering consumers a sexy option to an alcoholic drink, creating a social experience around a non-alcoholic beverage that doesnu2019t exist in the market today. With beer sales decreasing five years in a row, brands like Heineken are offering alcohol-free alternatives catering to this growing audience.
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Craig Shapiro, Partner at Collaborative Fund
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Consumer health and banking startups were recurring areas of interest, and there’s a sense that apps and product brands which provide a deeper sense of community are an untapped opportunity.
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Rebecca Kaden, Partner at Union Square Ventures
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At USV, we are focused on opportunities that broaden access by leveraging technology to increase value and decrease cost in big buckets of consumer spend. In doing so, we are looking for ways to make products and services previously available to a select segment available to many more. In particular, we have been investing in areas of consumer health where the delivery mechanism not only makes the care more convenient but also more affordable and higher quality; products and platforms in financial services that change the traditional underlying model to drive financial health for a mass customer; and opportunities that create new access to education both for kids and lifelong learners.u00a0
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Within each of these segments, I’ve been very interested in how new communities are forming inside products–users that come for a specific offering are forming allegiance and increasing engagement by interacting with other users. I think that is a trend we will only see accelerate.
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David Tisch, Founding Partner at BoxGroup
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People are bored on their phones, not of their phones. I am most excited to meet founders working on consumer apps that bring happiness and fun to a mass consumer audience, as I continue to believe we are in the early days of mobile and the app store is not dead.
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These apps may look like a game, they may be a game, or they may be a new feed, but TikTok, Twitch, HQ, Yolo and other Snap app kit apps, Tinder and others have shown consumers want new apps, the barrier for adoption and retention isu00a0 just very high. All apps and games have a half-life, creating something with a very long one is really hard, but the demand is sitting on the phone scrolling thorough feeds, waiting for some new fun. We are excited about apps that allow people to interact with others in different ways, in new worlds, using new hardware, or new interfaces.
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With the rise of the sober curious movement, we invested in Kin Euphorics, offering consumers a sexy option to an alcoholic drink, creating a social experience around a non-alcoholic beverage that doesnu2019t exist in the market today. With beer sales decreasing five years in a row, brands like Heineken are offering alcohol-free alternatives catering to this growing audience.
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Recently reelected, Indonesian President Joko Widodou00a0announceda desire to move the nation’s capital from Jakarta to the East Kalimantan region, citing environmental concerns, the most exigent of these being the fact that Jakarta is literally sinking due to the uncontrolled extraction of groundwater. Widodo said he wished to separate Indonesiau2019s government from its business and economic hub in Jakarta.
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However, what would a move from Jakarta do to Indonesiau2019s burgeoning startup economy?
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Shifting administrative governmental hubs
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According to Widodo, studies have determined that the best site for the proposed new capital is between North Penajam Paser and Kutai Kertanegara, both located in East Kalimantan. The basis of this selection is due to studies highlighting the regionu2019s relative protection from natural disasters, especially when compared to other regions. This would definitely be a benefit for the governmental heart of Indonesia, ensuring continuous administrative functions in a disaster-prone region. Other governments have separated administrative centers from their economic hubs with varying degrees of success, with some examples being Brazilu2019s creation of Brasu00edlia, as well as Koreau2019s projected move from Seoul to Sejong.
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What is most interesting to note from prior examples is that these newer branched-out cities are non-surprisingly, heavily government-centric. In Brasu00edlia, roles tied to the government make up nearly 40% of all jobs, while in Sejong, a lack of facilities like public transit and commercial mall space cause many to commute into Sejong for government work, instead of permanently settling in the area. Given the semi-undeveloped nature of East Kalimantan, these anecdotes are quite troubling if the government is actually moving to North Penajam Paser or Kutai Kertanegara.
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These facts raise the question of economic impacts of such governmental moves. In fact, one may even opine that while these moves do allow for governmental growth, ultimately, they may hurt the country economically due to a divestment between both government and economic hubs. In this specific instance, it is most important to analyze the impact of such a move on Indonesiau2019s startup economy, as the nation is one the worldu2019s leaders in startup growth.
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Indonesiau2019s startup economy
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Indonesia has emerged as a startup hub within Southeast Asia in recent years, with its population of over 260 million marking it as the worldu2019s fourth-most populous country. Additionally, Indonesiau2019s mobile-first population has enabled the full embrace of the internet era, with 95% of all internet users in Indonesia connected to the web via a mobile device.
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Similarly, startup growth has boomed in the island archipelago, with several Indonesian-based unicorns disrupting local, regional, and global economies. Softbank-backed ecommerce giant Tokopedia is currently in talksu00a0for a pre-IPO funding round, while emerging super-app Gojek controls significant portions of the ride-sharing industry in Asia, simultaneously expanding intou00a0separate industriesu00a0to include digital payments, food delivery, and evenu00a0video-streaming. Additionally, online travel portal Traveloka (in which Expedia has a minority stake) has recentlyu00a0entered the financial services space, furthering its impact within Asia. These specific examples of high-growth startups demonstrate a population hungry for innovation, further driving the developing startup economy.
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The crowded landscape of programs teaching non-technical people to become software developers has been a proving ground for a new model of education financing: income share agreements (ISAs). With an ISA, students avoid paying tuition upfront or taking out private loans, instead paying a percentage of their income for a time after graduation after they’re earning a minimum income.
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The model aligns education providers with students’ career outcomes, and one startup is staking a claim to be the leader in the space; Kenzie Academy, a year-long program with a physical campus in Indianapolis u2014 and a student body that’s 66 percent online u2014 announced a partnership with Community Investment Management (CIM) earlier this week that provides $100 million in debt to cover the operating costs associated with students who defer payment through ISAs.
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Kenzie co-founder and CEO Chok Ooi says that core to Kenzie’s mission is the goal that its graduates “can stay in the heartland and attract more jobs so that someone coming out of the Midwest no longer has to move to Silicon Valley or New York to have a successful career in tech.” This $100 million is one of the largest commitments yet to financing ISAs and Kenzie is using it to recruit a more diverse population of students who may not be able to afford tuition or qualify for student loans otherwise.
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I interviewed Ooi to understand how Kenzie differentiates itself from competitors, how it has iterated its model to improve retention and job placement and how he expects the ISA market to evolve over the next couple years. Here’s the transcript of our conversation, edited for length and clarity:
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Eric Peckham: The landscape of software developer training programs is crowded. Where did you see an opportunity to do something different, and how do you position Kenzie relative to others in the market?
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Chok Ooi: My co-founder came from Galvanize, so we observed firsthand the proliferation of tech and coding boot camps. These are typically short-term, three-to-five month programs and they tend to do well serving people with college degrees. I would say that they are disrupting the masters’ program space. We saw a major gap in programs that serve a much larger demographic of people who are much earlier in their development. People who never went to college, or did a little bit of college and dropped out, or just never had a professional work experience. A three-month training is insufficient to get them to a point where they could land a technical job and be successful.
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We saw an opportunity to bring high-quality tech education to the American heartland that is 12 months in length. For about two-thirds of our students, this is their first post-secondary credential training.
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We are giving them not just the technical skills, but elements from a traditional four-year college as well, like critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills.
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Compared to those other bootcamps or training programs, is Kenzie targeting different job outcomes for its graduates?
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We did a survey of our students that asked them to name the top five tech companies they desired to work for. None of the Silicon Valley companies made the list other than Salesforce. Indianapolis is the second largest Salesforce office outside of San Francisco. The rest of the companies our students named were companies like DMI and Zylo that people in Silicon Valley don’t hear about but are doing very well in the Midwest. Their friends work there. They’re a fabric of the community. If we really want to create job opportunities for the rest of America, we cannot adopt the Silicon Valley mindset.
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Kenzie Academy co-founder and CEO Chok Ooi.
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So how do you evaluate technical aptitude and critical thinking in the admissions process? What’s that process look like, and how has it evolved over the last couple of years? What have you learned in order to make that more effective?
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Prior to founding Kenzie, I started a company nine years ago called AglityIO. The model for AgilityIO was similar to companies like Andela. We were trying to solve the talent crunch in the Bay Area by recruiting and training people with the raw talent in Vietnam. Today, that company works with Google, Uber, NerdWallet, Meetup.com and 150 other tech companies. So Iu2019ve experience in developing processes to identify raw talent in this context.
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As people are doing the online assessments, we collect data points of how long it takes for them to solve the problem, what their different decision points are and things like that. Then as they get enrolled in Kenzie, we continue to collect attendance data, grades, and then placement data and use that to look at success and failure cases. We constantly refine our assessment.
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Microsoft Research is a globally distributed playground for people interested in solving fundamental science problems.
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These projects often focus on machine learning and artificial intelligence, and since Microsoft is on a mission to infuse all of its products with more AI smarts, it’s no surprise that it’s also seeking ways to integrate Microsoft Research’s innovations into the rest of the company.
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Across the board, the company is trying to find ways to become more innovative, especially around its work in AI, and it’s putting processes in place to do so. Microsoft is unusually open about this process, too, and actually made it somewhat of a focus this week at Ignite, a yearly conference that typically focuses more on technical IT management topics.
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At Ignite,u00a0Microsoft will for the first time present these projects externally at a dedicated keynote. That feels similar to what Google used to do with its ATAP group at its I/O events and is obviously meant to showcase the cutting-edge innovation that happens inside of Microsoft (outside of making Excel smarter).
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To manage its AI innovation efforts, Microsoft created the Microsoft AI group led by VP Mitra Azizirad, who’s tasked with establishing thought leadership in this space internally and externally, and helping the company itself innovate faster (Microsoft’s AI for Good projects also fall under this group’s purview). I sat down with Azizirad to get a better idea of what her team is doing and how she approaches getting companies to innovate around AI and bring research projects out of the lab.
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“We began to put together a narrative for the company of what it really means to be in an AI-driven world and what we look at from a differentiated perspective,” Azizirad said. “What we’ve done in this area is something that has resonated and landed well. And now we’re including AI, but we’re expanding beyond it to other paradigm shifts like human-machine interaction, future of computing and digital responsibility, as more than just a set of principles and practices but an area of innovation in and of itself.”
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Currently, Microsoft is doing a very good job at talking and thinking about horizon one opportunities, as well as horizon three projects that are still years out, she said. “Horizon two, we need to get better at, and that’s what we’re doing.”
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It’s worth stressing that Microsoft AI, which launched about two years ago, marks the first time there’s a business, marketing and product management team associated with Microsoft Research, so the team does get a lot of insights into upcoming technologies. Just in the last couple of years, Microsoft has published more than 6,000 research papers on AI, some of which clearly have a future in the company’s products.
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Securing a green card can feel overwhelming for people in Silicon Valley who were born in India and China. But with the right help and guidance from a skilled immigration attorney, the process can be simpler, smoother and more successful.
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Limits written into existing immigration laws on both the number of green cards issued each year, as well as the number of green cards available based on country of origin, leave some waiting half a century or more for a green card, with people from India and China facing the longest wait times for employment-based green cards.
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In this fiscal year, which ended on October 31, 226,000 family-sponsored green cards and 141,918 employment-based green cards were available. And the per-country cap, which is the maximum number of green cards available to individuals born in a particular country, was 25,754.u00a0
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los EB-1A green card for extraordinary ability does not require an employer sponsor or even a job offer, which means itu2019s one of the few self-petition green cards. To demonstrate eligibility,u00a0you must be able to show you have extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics and that you and your work have received national or international acclaim.u00a0
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Individuals who apply for the EB-1A do not need to obtain labor certification (as required of employers). That means the process is simpler and can be much faster than typical employment-based green cards. Also, an individual applicant may have more flexibility to change jobs than if an employer applied on their behalf.
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Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inbox yet again.
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I got some awesome responses to the #DeleteLinkedIn newsletter last week, a few dozen emails (some of them angry) and plenty of tweets. Looking forward to chatting with some of you soon. On that note, Iu2019m currently in China for a TechCrunch event that weu2019re having in Shenzhen and will be taking some time offline to travel a bit so I wonu2019t be arriving in your inboxes the next two weeks. Week in Review will be back in your inboxes the weekend after Thanksgiving so youu2019ll have to savor this newsletter until then.
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The big story
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If there’s been a collective theme to some of the tech backlash of the past couple years, it’s been an evolving vision towards platform responsibility.
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Social media platforms have earned the lion’s share of this discussion to date. This has largely been due to the political landscape and gripes with both liberals and conservatives for how the site handles content policing. The prevailing libertarian view that tech platforms weren’t responsible for what was enabled by their platforms has fallen out of vogue.
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What continues to surprise me is how little accountability or expectations there still seems to be for marketplace platforms. Speech is a crucial part of the internet, but so is buying and selling and it shocks me how big some startups have been able to get without delivering some basic buyer protections.
Through some great investigations from the Wall Street Journal, we’ve seen how fast and loose Amazon has been playing with third-party sellers getting free reign on the site. There have been countless stories of scammers infiltrating sites like Airbnb and eBay and operating in grey areas that allow them to rip off buyers. Last week, a reporter at Vice delivered a scathing deep dive into a scam she fell victim to on Airbnb’s platform.
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This week, Airbnb announced that by next year they are pledging to verify all of their listings, something that seems more than a little overdue. Standing behind the properties being booked on their platform was seemingly the last box to check before driving to the IPO hoop.
Airbnbu00a0u00a0properties will soon be verified for accuracy of photos, addresses, listing details, cleanliness, safety and basic home amenities, according to au00a0company-wide emailu00a0sent by Airbnb co-founder and chief executive officer Brian Chesky on Wednesday.
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Airbnb is just another highly valued startup that has been trying to take the past of least resistance to outsized future value. Verifying properties is a difficult issue to brace. Sellers are certainly not the only scammers on Airbnb, and buyers abusing this new system is a guarantee. But keeping both sides in some sort of satisfaction equilibrium is Airbnb’s messy, god-given task.
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Airbnb has garnered more grumblings than most due to bad customer experiences, but it’s just a harbinger of what comes next. 2020 being a presidential election year in the U.S. means that the public might still be too busy with lambasting Zuckerberg to give marketplaces their due watchful eye in the near term, but the bell is tolling for these marketplaces and it’d be wise for them to pay attention to the writing on the wall.
Here are a few big news items from big companies, with green links to all the sweet, sweet added context:
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Twitter’s Saudi Arabian infiltration nOne of the wilder stories this week was how Saudi Arabia reportedly lifted sensitive contact info from Twitter via employees at the company that they paid off. There’s a lot in this saga and while Twitter seems to have done most things right, it is a pretty nightmarish scenario.
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T-Mobile and Sprint get hitched norteThe telecom marriage of two of the United States top four carriers cleared its last major hurdle as the FCC gave the deal its blessing. There’s still some residual legal hurdles for the two to wrap up in good faith, but this deal is done.
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Adobe makes good on a promise nThe promises of tablet computing have always been a little ambitious in terms of timing, but Photoshop is finally arriving on the iPad and with that, one decade-long wish list item has been realized.
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GAFA Gaffes
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How did the top tech companies screw up this week? This clearly needs its own section, in order of badness:
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Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inbox yet again. I got some awesome responses to the #DeleteLinkedIn newsletter last week, a few dozen emails (some of them angry) and plenty of tweets. Looking forward to chatting with some of you soon. On that note, Iu2019m currently in China for a TechCrunch event (…)
Lucas Matney is a reporter at TechCrunch and has been covering emerging technologies and startups since 2015. He lives in San Francisco and can be reached via email at [email protected]
Lucas Matney is a reporter at TechCrunch and has been covering emerging technologies and startups since 2015. He lives in San Francisco and can be reached via email at [email protected]
FILE – In this April 19, 2016 file photo, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky speaks during an announcement in San Francisco. Airbnb on Thursday, Sept. 8 apologized for its slow response to accusations of racism and outlined new policies to combat the problem, including reducing the prominence of photos in the booking process. “We have been slow to address these problems, and for this I am sorry,” said Chesky in a message published on the vacation rental website’s blog. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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