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Future Proofing the Food Supply with Plenty
DEEP DIVE Future Proofing the Food Supply with Plenty Masa Son, Bezos, and a Billion in Venture Dollars Plenty is a vertical farming company that’s raised a billion dollars. Not valued at a billion dollars like a run-of-the-mill unicorn, Plenty has raised $941 million. I know raising a billion dollars isn’t terribly uncommon for late stage companies.…
Read MoreWhat’s Up With Early Stage Investing, From Angellist
THIS WEEK IN NEWS What’s Up With Early Stage Investing, From Angellist Last week I came across a great report from Angellist and Silicon Valley Bank on “The State of Early Stage Venture & Startups,” which featured a ton of interesting data. Here are some notes I took on what I thought was compelling: Markup rate…
Read MoreThe Underbanked Triangle
Why banks say no and why fintech companies lobby them to say yes.
Read MoreThe Marketing Millenials- 05/05/2022
SWIPE FILE Throughout my marketing career, I’ve kept a Swipe File (inspiration file) of my favorite marketing ideas: tweets, thoughts, articles, podcasts, ads, TikToks and memes. Every week I’ll be sharing 3 of my favorites from my archives + what I’m adding to my swipe this week. 1. Be Audience Focused. Not Competitor Focused. Insight from: Katelyn Bourgoin (Follow…
Read MoreSustainability valley
John Doerr, who made his fortune as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, has given $1.1B to Stanford University to establish a new climate and sustainability school. In talking about his philanthropic giving, Doerr said he believes “studying climate change will become the new computer science.” Doerr’s gift is one of the largest ever to a higher…
Read MoreHere Are 3 Things Happening In Cannabis This Week
I’ll just get right on into it with my hot take, y’all. 🔥 I don’t believe we have time to focus on anything besides making more cannabis businesses profitable. And I don’t think there’s any way to dress that up and make it sound any better. How can we even be an industry, if we can’t be…
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