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Fri. 05/10 - The Uber IPO
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Uber’s big IPO had some issues, smartphone shipments are at a 5 year low, do you need an app for unsubscribing to things and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Sponsors:
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Links:
Uber Jackpot: Inside One of the Greatest Startup Investments of All Time (WSJ)
Americans Have So Many Subscriptions They Need Apps to Track and Cancel Them (Bloomberg)
Blue Origin: Bezos company aims to take people to moon by 2024 (The Guardian)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How Much Is an Idea Worth? In Uber’s Case, $3.7 Billion (Bloomberg)
The VC Who Engineered the 2017 Uber CEO Coup Just Got Very Rich (Bloomberg)
The dangers of in-game data collection (Polygon)
How Unions Are Pushing Back Against the Rise of Workplace Technology (Fortune)
Three years in, Google’s hardware honcho is just getting started (FastCompany)