Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter!
Max Levchin
(Entrepreneur (PayPal, Slide, HVF, Affirm, Glow), investor (Yelp, etc), coder, cyclist, coffee snob. My views are my own.)
I am delighted to announce that Qi Lu is joining YC to launch and run YC China. I have been trying to recruit Qi for many years—he is one of the most impressive technologists I know. Our mission at YC is to enable more innovation than any…
The New York Times
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Erin Griffith
– Aug 14, 9:52 AM
In late April, when Mike Massaro set out to get $40 million to $75 million in funding for his payments start-up, Flywire, he contacted a small group of investors he already knew. But word quickly got around, and other investors flooded his inbox…
In the late 1990s, two graduate students named in Stanford's computer science department set out to organize the world's information. Shortly thereafter, a visiting scholar named Mario Schlosser arrived on campus, set on figuring out how trust…
The New York Times
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Nicholas Confessore
– Aug 14, 2:00 AM
CreditPhoto illustration by Delcan & Co. The way Alastair Mactaggart usually tells the story of his awakening — the way he told it even before he became the most improbable, and perhaps the most important, privacy activist in America…
In cybersecurity circles, this has been the year of Spectre and Meltdown, not only because the chip vulnerabilities—first publicly disclosed in January —were so widespread that they're still being cleaned up, but because they've given…
