Things I read last week… (WB 7 Nov 2022)

layoffs

“Many founders seem to believe that the worst case future fundraise is a down round or structured round. In reality, the true worst case is that you are unable to raise money ever again.”

– Elad Gil on Why every layoff is 10-15%.

Yitang Zhang claims to have solved the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture.

AVC on NFT creator royalties.

Ian Lev’s (technical director at UK National Cyber Security Centre) departing post.

Battery Ventures on the state of cloud software companies. [PDF]

AWS on High Performance Transaction Systems. [PDF]

The industrialisation of biotech.

Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19.