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.