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We recap Apple's event, including the MacBook Pros, M1 Pro and M1 Max, third-gen AirPods, the Apple Music Voice Plan, and the HomePod mini.Hosts: Emil Protalinski (@epro), Brian McCullough (@brianmcc), and Steve Moser (@SteveMoser)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Facebook's apparent pivot to privacy, Snap losing creators as its payouts decrease, the seemingly endless battle against racist abuse online, and lots, lots more. Follow along with this week's newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/geekout/issues/gen-z-says-we-re-using-this-emoji-wrong-715061See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Some of the headlines from Big Tech News this week: Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Google Tensor, YouTube Premium Lite, Windows 11, Windows 365, Apple's controversial photo scanning, and plenty in between. Subscribe to the BTN newsletter here.Hosts: Emil Protalinski (@epro) Kyle Wiggers (@Kyle_L_Wiggers)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

All things metaverse! Why is it on everybody's lips at the moment? When will it arrive? Is it already (kinda) here? With @janineyorio from Republic.co.Hosts:@chrismessina@brianmccSubscribe to the Techmeme Ride Home daily tech news podcast hereSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Plus, the Hyper fund from Product Hunt, Automattic's acquisition game, and Twitter tests downvotes?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Boost VC has been backing blockchains since before anyone called the industry crypto: it was just bitcoin then. An early stage investor that also ran an incubator, Brayton Williams takes us back to the days when they decided to back 100 bitcoin startups. They met that goal by 2018, though they expanded their thinking into all of crypto. Today they also invest in amazing people and potentially trillion dollar future markets. The idea is: make science fiction a reality. BACKGROUND: https://www.coindesk.com/boost-vc-just-fulfilled-a-crypto-funding-pledge-4-years-in-the-makingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ash Egan has been investing in crypto for about 6 years, inspired in particular by the Ethereum whitepaper. He's been part of rounds with firms like Chainalysis, BlockFi and Circle, was prescient on decentralized finance and saw early the potential for other smart contract blockchains, a narrative that's still playing out. We discuss venture investing in crypto as well as some of his greatest hits so far. Some background: https://www.coindesk.com/ash-egan-accomplice-vc-acrylic-ventures-55mSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: RIP fleets, Facebook's problem with admitting it has a problem, tackling abuse of sportspeople on social media and lots more. Follow along with this week's newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/geekout/issues/please-don-t-do-this-twitter-685922Hosts:Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bloomberg's @Lucas_Shaw comes on to explain the math of that Black Widow stream release story from Monday. Then @alexeheath from the Verge explains the death of Fleets, the creator thirst at Facebook and then we all get into the questioning the real value/process of Twitter verification.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mark Nadal is building the GUN Database, a vision of the web where the internet only has the data users give it for as long as applications really need it. He's a pioneer in a decentralized internet but is vocally not a blockchain guy. He describes a vision for the internet in which everyone gains and it isn't about getting rich or focusing on financializing everything. Debate ensues.Some background links:https://hackernoon.com/twitter-bluesky-a-decentralized-protocol-proposal-hi193337https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular.im/981b258141aa0b197804127cd2f7d298757bad20https://www.coindesk.com/sign-on-web-not-websiteshttps://www.dropbox.com/s/elcarpqbh888oy0/The%20Decentralized%20Web.mp3?dl=0See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Julia Rosenberg is a co-founder of the Orca Protocol, a platform that will enable entrepreneurs in crypto's very non-hierarchical, democracy-first organizations to have some structure and accountability but still stay true to the spirit of of the space. We talk about decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and how they might be ready to sort more responsibility into buckets of expertise without losing their tie to the whole community.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Trump's lawsuit: all heat and no light?, trouble a the top of Facebook, the seemingly endless uses of Tiktok... and a lot more. Follow along with this week's newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/geekout/issues/this-twitter-feature-could-save-your-job-678199Hosts:Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A live (and lively!) AMA with Chris Messina and @chddaniel for r/SaaS — a deep dive on community development, how to nail your launch on Product Hunt, and a teaser about Chris's new role at Republic. Recorded live on Twitter Spaces on June 16, 2021.Check out the AMA here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Samson Mow is the CEO of Pixelmatic, a company making Infinite Fleet, a game aiming at the triple-A market of online video games, where players run a fleet of ships battling an alien horde. It also happens to be a blockchain game, where the in game currency will also be playable out of game. To accomplish this, Pixelmatic uses the Liquid Network, which was built by Blockstream (where Mow serves as Chief Strategy Officer) and runs on top of the Bitcoin protocol. Taped live on Twitter Spaces on June 29, 2021.Hosts:Brady Dale (@BradyDale)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology newsletter comes on to try to help us work out what happened with that Facebook Antitrust case blowup. Also, what does this mean for regulating other companies.Hosts:@chrismessina@brianmccSubscribe to the Techmeme Ride Home daily tech news podcast hereSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Windows 11 requirements and removed features, Amazon destroying unsold items and unregretted attrition, Google CEO Sundar Pichai passing on a Shopify acquisition, FLoC's delay, and plenty in between.Hosts: Emil Protalinski (@epro)Owen Williams (@ow)Kyle Wiggers (@Kyle_L_Wiggers)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are entities that run on blockchains, make decisions collectively and probably never meet face to face. It's like corporations run over Discord, or as if Facebook Groups had money to spend. Priyanka Desai and Aaron Wright have started several for-profit DAOs that invest in companies and digital art via their startup OpenLaw and Illia Polosukhin, a co-founder of a blockchain called NEAR, is creating a sort of congress of DAOs in his ecosystem. Hosts:Brady Dale (@BradyDale)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We have two special guests this week! The first is Sonal Chokshi, Editor in Chief of a16z and showrunner of a16z podcasts. We'll be getting her perspective on the launch of FUTURE, which we discussed last week.​Second, as the major social platforms (save for YouTube!) have launched their social audio offerings, we'll get the latest updates and analysis from Kaya Yurieff of The Information who recently published “The Week Social Audio Went Mainstream”Hosts:@chrismessina@brianmccSubscribe to the Techmeme Ride Home daily tech news podcast hereSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is one person's scam another person's legitimate enterprise. This is a hard question once you get into examples in regular life, but crypto makes it much more complicated. We discuss these questions with two people who have been in the space a long time: Lana Swartz is a scholar of media studies at the University of Virginia who is known for writing about money as a social network. Her studies of money have led her to be interested in scams and what it means to scam. If scam studies become a topic at universities, she will be its progenitor. Patrick Murck is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Law Center and also the chief legal officer at Transparent Systems. Murck also served at the Bitcoin Foundation early on.Hosts:Brady Dale (@BradyDale)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Oculus ads, new Facebook AI tools, Amazon shuns Google, Amazon cuts its Appstore tax, Windows 11, Satya Nadella's promotion, and plenty in between.Hosts:Emil Protalinski (@epro)Jordan Novet (@jordannovet)Subscribe to the Big Tech News newsletter here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Twitter looks to help the abused take control, Facebook puts ads in VR, should scraping LinkedIn profiles be allowed... and a lot more. Follow along with this week's newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/geekout/issues/the-secrets-of-a-social-media-manager-revealed-650861Hosts:Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Solana is a super-fast blockchain that is getting early interest from a lot of investors, and, our guests tell us, a lot of interest from folks in traditional finance as well. Chris McCann of Race Capital, an early investor; Bartosz Lipinsky of the developer team at Solana and decentralized finance early entrepreneur Dylan Macalinao who's building a decentralized exchange on Solana, Saber, all come on to make their case for why the new layer one blockchain is the place for the future of finance.Hosts:Brady Dale (@BradyDale)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is the longest and widest ranging Space we've ever done. From a16z's media play and why VC's market themselves to Stripe as the hottest startup in the land and the very idea of payment tech.Hosts:@chrismessina@brianmccSubscribe to the Techmeme Ride Home daily tech news podcast hereSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they dissect the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Instagram pays crreators, Biden gives TikTok a fresh headache, Facebook works on a strange smartwatch... and a lot more. Follow along with this week's newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/geekout/issues/you-don-t-need-this-weird-new-feature-643357Hosts:Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lily Liu was a co-founder of Earn.com, a startup that paid people for access to their time in bitcoin, when it was acquired by Coinbase. Her career has spanned the U.S. and China and that global perspective sold her on Bitcoin in its early days. She's an angel investor with a unique perspective on Bitcoin's place in the world and where value accrues in crypto. We discuss the news of El Salvador making Bitcoin legal tender, how that fits into her larger Bitcoin and crypto thesis and close on her work bringing personal protective equipment to people who needed it with Operation: Masks.Hosts:Brady Dale (@BradyDale)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Talking about WWDC, why Chris and I both kinda didn't get what we want. And then, one of the co-founders of Fanhouse, @jasminericegirl comes on to discuss the larger creator battle with Apple's 30% take.Hosts:@chrismessina@brianmccSubscribe to the Techmeme Ride Home daily tech news podcast hereSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Emil Protalinski and John Koetsier discuss some of the headlines from the BTN newsletter. This week: Windows 11 is coming, Bing's tank man error, Google's diversity fail, Android 12 privacy changes, Amazon Sidewalk's rollout, thoughts ahead of WWDC, and plenty in between.Hosts:Emil Protalinski (@epro)John Koetsier (@johnkoetsier)Subscribe to the Big Tech News newsletter here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they dissect the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Twitter Blue is a work in progress, Facebook could give politicians less of an easy ride, what does TikTok want with Americans' biometric data... and plenty more besides. Follow along with this week's newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/geekout/issues/pray-for-me-634985Hosts:Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lumi is a crypto twitter denizen who came into the industry in 2019 from the medical field. He started teaching himself markets by playing with fake trades on stock market simulation apps (paper trading) and then finally got into crypto during the bear market. We discussed his viewpoint of crypto markets as a game and how it has been transformational for him and why he believes it is still extremely early.Hosts:Brady Dale (@BradyDale)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Talking about Facebook's F8, the (relative) lack of news at developer conferences lately, the coming (already here?) messaging wars. Then @EricHolthaus talks about his @tomorrow project at Twitter and @mep discusses Twitter's project roadmap.Hosts:@chrismessina@brianmccSubscribe to the Techmeme Ride Home daily tech news podcast hereSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bitcoin was created as a peer-to-peer payment system, but these days people mostly hold it as an investment. Flexa was founded to make a consumer-to-merchant payment system so that crypto holders could splurge sometimes when the numbers are green (and also to enable a different kind of economy). Listen to Flexa co-founder Tyler Spalding talk about the work they've done to make payments work alongside one of his early investors, Lasse Clausen, of the venture fund 1kx.Hosts:Brady Dale (@BradyDale)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Going deeper on the news covered this week on the Techmeme Ride Home podcast. This week, @loudmouthjulia talks us through Amazon buying MGM and all things streaming wars and @lorakolodny walks us through Tesla dropping radar.Hosts:@chrismessina@brianmccSubscribe to the Techmeme Ride Home daily tech news podcast hereSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Emil Protalinski and Ken Yeung discuss some of the headlines from the BTN newsletter. This week: Amazon acquires MGM, Jeff Bezos reveals Andy Jassy's CEO start date, DC sues Amazon on antitrust grounds, AmaZen, Facebook sues India, and disinformation.Hosts: Emil Protalinski (@epro) Ken Yeung (@thekenyeung)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they dissect the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Poparazzi hype (and data concerns), the sky clears around Twitter Blue, Likes become optional on Instagram... and plenty more besides.Hosts:Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In crypto, investors with deep pockets, so-called whales, move the market. Whale watching has proved to be a strong strategy for many crypto traders who prefer the open markets of decentralized exchanges like Uniswap, SushiSwap and Binance Smart Chain. The CEO of Uniwhales describes how his company has built a community of traders around making information rapidly available about the biggest trades on the leading decentralized exchanges. Aaron also describes the loose cooperative that has formed around the Uniwhales token, the membership card for their system.Hosts:Brady Dale (@BradyDale)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they dissect the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Twitter verification opens up, Snap is quietly one of the most interesting social companies, and what Parler's return to the App Store says about how we can experience the same social space in different ways depending on where we're standing. Oh, and lots more.Hosts:Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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