this move will provide us with endless fun, especially if and when Ant gets listed. Alibaba wins approval to restructure Ant Financial relationship

‪given recent news of Alibaba acquiring a third of Ant Financial, one of the reasons given being to facilitate an Ant IPO, what are the chances the public markets will perform the same antiseptic services they performed on WeWork? ‬ #fintech #China #Alibaba #AntFinancial #WeWork #IPO

‪the lose/lose banking paradigm (based on current tech, level of service, feature/functionality):‬ ‪the more one interacts with one’s bank the more aggravated. the less directly one interacts with one’s bank the less one remembers it.‬ #fintech #banking #digitization #banks …see more

the market for antique coins is filed by ultra low interest rates. (vintage bitcoins will he worth a lot in the future.)

Every week I publish the weekly newsletter RelayNode ( https://relaynode.io /). Our goal is to connect the worlds crypto ecosystems and each week we curate a list of the best technical events & interesting content for the SF Bay Area. Co-curated w/ Jeremy Batchelder To see a sample of this weeks articles we featured: https://lnkd.in/g-PUyKE To sign up: https://relaynode.io / #bitcoin #blockchain #cryptocurrency …see more

Must-watch interview with Erik Brynjolfsson on the impact of technology on our economy in the Second Machine Age. The Bounty - the immense wealth being created - and the Spread - the gains being concentrated among a tiny proportion of people - are both unprecedented. We need to adapt. …see more

"The answer or part of the answer [to poverty] is pretty clear everybody should be guaranteed a decent basic income." - John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the great economists of the 20th century.

Mentors who provide a good dose of reality without leaving the bitter aftertaste of discouragement are among the most invaluable resources a startup founder will ever have.

I am so excited to introduce Hautepreneurs new series of one day luxury retreats and business intensives designed specifically for women business owners. @ Jessica Eaves Mathews  and I will be hosting a Red Haute Business Mastery™ retreat in San Diego on March 17th (with additional dates already scheduled for London, April 21st, and NYC, April 29th). Get more info and sign up here: www.redhautebusinessmastery.com …see more

Well. According to Onalytica , it seems I talk about GovTech ... a LOT. Interesting data analytics on #GovTech Influencers:

If you are a Structural Engineer and want an opportunity to lead a technical department and to make a real impact in a profitable, forward-thinking business please contact me. South Yorkshire location. #structuralengineer #engineeringjobs

Sam Horn has great, doable advice on how not to drop the presentation ball when you close things out. #fbf

I'm guilty of more than one of these. But I agree with Liz Ryan, better to let others heap these sorts of descriptors on your head. Too many are cliched, and the others may lead people to believe you've got a big head, when you're really just trying to get the business! …see more

Check out this thought provoking article by my good friend Emmanuel Brown ! Maybe we haven't been dealing with #DonaldTrump correctly...

Lovely piece from Sheryl Sandberg on authenticity, the power of data in disproving bias against white people and the value of perspective and long-term dreaming big.

There is something strange going on. In 2008 the global financial system collapsed, it stopped dead -- we didn't know if it could be restarted. Prices on goods and assets plummeted everywhere, instantly. In the recession of 2020 prices haven't budged. They seem frozen in time. Despite an economy in lockdown for a second month and 25 million unemployed — and there is no effect on prices? This reflects a widespread belief that unlike in 2008, the system is strong enough to handle an unprecedented disruption to the global economy. Yet we are more vulnerable to the derivatives markets today than in we were in 2008 when values imploded. Derivatives markets are far larger today and continue to be poorly regulated. A collapse in valuation and prices can cascade through an entire economy. It's a mistaken belief that the underlying system is healthy -- there is another shoe to drop and maybe a penny, too. There's a massive reassessment ahead -- a new valuation for nearly every aspect of human endeavor. The future has been accelerated. …see more

How should journalists report on COVID-19 when their older news stories inevitably transform into misinformation? The numbers they quote, the results of medical studies, their medical advice about face masks — becomes a mass media of misinformation that overwhelms people's searches and news streams. News content could carry live links for reporting data within stories, so that even long archived news stories would display the latest numbers within the story. News sites should remove stories that cannot be fixed with live data links. Google News normally downgrades news stories older than three months. Three weeks, maybe less, is likely a safer cut-off date for news before it turns bad. It's interesting that trusted media sources have not yet figured out how to deal with misinformation from their older stories. #onlinemedia #reporters #journalism #covid19 …see more

The days of being able to merely add the word "blockchain" to your company name, with no track record of actually using blockchain, are numbered.

This discussion from Benedict Evans  and Steven Sinofsky  on the recent CES show and the future of connected home devices and more is worth a listen.

California burger chain In-N-Out Burger has been doing a fair amount of international pop-ups. Which might be exciting save for the reason they are doing them - trademark protection (not international expansion, sorry).