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Nothing Phone (1)
Here comes Nothing (love puns, who doesnt!?)
I like the look of this phone. My ‘daily driver’ to borrow tech influencer parlance is an iPhone 13 Pro Max and my second phone is a Samsung Galaxy S22+. But I’m going to pickup the Nothing phone, because I like the design, and I like what it represents as I discussed above.
We dont know what’s coming after the smartphone, but we need original ideas like the Nothing team have done with their phone to make the leap to whatever’s post-smartphone. Hope they make it.
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Instagram and Tech M&AOne of my favorite commentators on tech Ben Evans is back with another great piece on Tech M&A, specifically, on Instagram. I think this is a topic that is really important right now in the downmarket, when many of the startups and even recent IPO’s are up against the wall. Meanwhile, the FAANG’s of the world are sitting on piles of cash..
Instagram at 13 people and at a acquisition price of $1 billion was shocking yet fascinating at the time, indeed Sarah Frier has done the best job of telling the backstory. Ofcourse that price today is table stakes for the typical unicorn M&A deal.
Ben unpacks it super well.
Chris EvansFinally, Chris Evans of Marvel superhero fame provided the perfect perspective to nearly everyone outside the tech bubble with his latest Instagram post. It turns out not everyone needs the latest and greatest..
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