Monday, April 18, 2022

News: April 18

Elon Musk: Twitter's new 'wild card' . .



Coinbase Ventures has already invested $150 million in home-grown Indian technology companies in the crypto and web3 space, and is constantly identifying new opportunities to help Indian founders scale. Coinbase’s Indian tech hub was launched last year and already has over 300 full time employees across India’s state and regions. We are excited to tap into the dynamic Indian software talent to build out our products and will continue to invest heavily in our India hub. We have ambitious plans for India and seek to hire over 1,000 people in our India hub this year alone. ...... India is a magical place, and I believe crypto has a big future here. .

Coinbase Voices: How crypto changed my life Being new to FinTech, I immersed myself in books and local meetups to learn everything I could. One day in mid-2017, I read a chapter on blockchain, which detailed the technology’s lofty aspirations of becoming more impactful than the internet itself. ....... .

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For FedEx Founder Fred Smith, the Sky Is Still the Limit He reflects on logistics, economics and lessons from building ‘the largest transportation system ever put on the planet.’



Jack Dorsey rips Twitter board over ‘dysfunction’ in Elon Musk battle Dorsey criticized the board in response to a post in which a user quipped that the company’s “early beginning” was “mired in plots and coups” among its founding executives. ..... “It’s consistently been the dysfunction of the company,” Dorsey said. ...........

“Good boards don’t create good companies, but a bad board will kill a company every time.”

......... Musk owns approximately 9% of Twitter shares, while Dorsey owns just over 2.2% ....... It’s unclear how Musk will proceed if Twitter rejects his offer, though he said last week that he has a “plan B” in mind – which may include a tender offer directly to shareholders.


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