The hottest Tech Companies Substack posts right now

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How Tech Companies like Google and Facebook raised money when they started

Technology Made Simple • 39 implied HN points • 09 Apr 22
💼 Business Tech Companies Funding Investors
  1. Equity Financing: Tech companies often use equity financing to raise initial capital by selling ownership of the business to investors. This allows for flexibility and growth opportunities, but founders may have to listen to investors and risk losing control.
  2. Debt Financing: Another option for raising money is through debt financing, where companies take loans instead of selling ownership. This can lead to slower initial growth but ultimately makes the founder the sole owner of the company once the debt is paid off.
  3. Financial Structures: Understanding basic financial structures in tech is crucial for career success. Variants like non-voting stocks and LLCs can help mitigate risks while maximizing profit potential.

Chuyện bây giờ mới kể: Made in Vietnam

Thái | Hacker | Kỹ sư tin tặc • 179 implied HN points • 27 Jun 19
🕹 Technology Open Source Operating Systems Software Development Tech Companies Cybersecurity
  1. The open source culture in technology allows people to share and use creative accomplishments, contributing to the backbone of the Internet.
  2. Vietnam has programmers involved in important open-source projects, providing a valuable way to learn, share, connect, and introduce themselves to the world.
  3. Despite the popularity of Linux worldwide, schools, companies, and government agencies in Vietnam still predominantly use Windows, showing a one-way flow of technology from the world into Vietnam.

Big Tech or not?

Madhur’s Writings • 28 implied HN points • 15 Apr 23
💼 Business Tech Companies Career Choices
  1. Big Tech offers good mentorship and more upfront money, but might result in slower growth and comfort-zone stagnation.
  2. Mid-stage companies provide opportunities for growth and financial upside, but are relatively unstable.
  3. Early-stage companies offer exponential learning, innovation opportunities, but have less upfront money and mentorship, and require longer working hours.
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Welcome to the season of socialized nostalgia

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends • 59 implied HN points • 04 Dec 20
🎭️ Culture Nostalgia Tech Companies Social media Online Communities Internet culture
  1. 2020 has been different, leading tech companies to change approaches to the usual holiday season nostalgia content.
  2. Revisiting past memories through social media platforms during the pandemic-induced trauma can feel unsettling and jarring.
  3. YouTube's decision to skip its annual year-end rewind reflects a shift in how we remember and commemorate this unique year.

The Week in Repair: April 10-16

Fight to Repair • 19 implied HN points • 19 Apr 22
🕹 Technology Hardware Repair Tech Companies
  1. Apple's shift to subscription hardware could impact right to repair laws, changing technology accessibility and future hardware ownership.
  2. India aims to become the repair capital of the world, utilizing its engineering talent to extend product life and promote sustainability.
  3. Big tech companies like Samsung, Google, and Apple are making strides in allowing consumers and repair shops to access official parts for easier device repairs, supporting the right to repair movement.

6/5/22: The Changing Influencer Economy in China & Meituan Update

Tech Buzz China Insider • 19 implied HN points • 06 Jun 22
🕹 Technology E-commerce Livestreaming Digital marketing Tech Companies
  1. Tech platforms in China like Douyin and Kuaishou are facing shifts in influencer economy with Douyin showing growth and focus on integrating ecommerce into its platform.
  2. Meituan, a major player in food delivery, is navigating challenges due to COVID and aiming for ambitious goals like 100 million daily food delivery orders, emulating Amazon's operational model for efficiency.
  3. There's a trend of strategic cost-cutting at Meituan, freezing hiring and mimicking Amazon's business review processes and executive work culture.

Pulling on Threads

Tippets by Taps • 12 implied HN points • 09 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Social media Innovation Tech Companies Digital Content App Development
  1. Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter shook up the social media landscape with Meta's introduction of Threads as a direct competitor.
  2. Threads, with its early traction and positive vibe, shows potential to challenge Twitter's dominance.
  3. Despite initial incomplete features, Threads seems to offer a clean and engaging user experience, posing a threat to Twitter in the social media space.

The Basic Economics of AGI, and Why Open Source will Lose

e/alpha • 2 HN points • 13 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Open Source Market Dynamics AGI Tech Companies
  1. Task-engaged AIs will dominate value creation as they are directly connected to tasks and results, leading to transformative impacts.
  2. The AI value chain will be driven by proprietary data in the long term, with winners initially based on access to compute and R&D talent.
  3. AGI is expected to be monopolistic, commercial, open-access, and affordable, leveling differences and nullifying capital inequality.

What is a Tech Company?

Equal Ventures • 19 implied HN points • 13 Sep 21
🕹 Technology Venture Capital Software Tech Companies
  1. Companies are starting to leverage their technological advantages instead of just selling them, expanding investment opportunities beyond traditional software companies.
  2. Some disruptors in industries like insurance are struggling with unsustainable financials, emphasizing the need for a solid business model and competitive advantage.
  3. Investors need to focus on digital leverage and creating a sustainable competitive advantage when evaluating potential tech companies to invest in.

AI is Revolutionizing Search but Also Bringing a Major Problem

Jeff’s Substack • 1 HN point • 29 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Search Engines Content Generation Tech Companies AI Applications
  1. Artificial intelligence is changing the way we search for information by providing direct answers instead of links, decreasing reliance on traditional search methods.
  2. AI-generated content is abundant online but varies in quality, affecting the usefulness of search results and potentially disrupting the balance between publishers, tech giants, and advertisers.
  3. The rise of AI tools like GPT-4 and platforms like Reddit faces challenges and changes traditional online interactions and communities, leading to shifts in websites and businesses.

Big Tech Digest #13: How Uber Serves Over 40 Million RPS Using a Cache, Overview of Discord Streaming, Meta loves Python, Designing Microservices Using Saga Patterns At Walmart, and more!

Big Tech Digest • 4 implied HN points • 12 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Data Management Programming Software Engineering Tech Companies
  1. Uber developed Docstore, a distributed database, and created CacheFront to handle over 40 million reads per second, using techniques like Redis sharding and adaptive timeouts.
  2. Walmart discusses using Database Per Service pattern and Saga pattern in microservices design for efficient data querying and handling complex transactions.
  3. Discord's blog explains the technology behind their Go Live streaming feature, addressing bandwidth constraints and using WebRTC for different scenarios.

The Zomato IPO: A Bet on Big Markets and Platforms!

Musings on Markets • 19 implied HN points • 22 Jul 21
💼 Business Market Analysis Investment Finance Tech Companies Food Delivery
  1. Zomato is a food delivery service in India that aims to grow as more people eat out and order food online. Investors are hopeful about its future, even though the company currently has low revenues and is experiencing losses.
  2. The Indian food delivery market is still small compared to countries like China and the U.S., mainly due to lower incomes and different dining habits. As incomes rise and digital access improves, this market could expand significantly.
  3. Zomato's success will depend on its ability to compete with other companies and adapt to changing market conditions. It may face challenges from competitors like Swiggy and Amazon Food as consumer preferences evolve.

Breaking down Databricks $500 Million Funding Raise

Machine Economy Press • 3 implied HN points • 19 Sep 23
💼 Business Funding Tech Companies Investments Startups IPO
  1. Databricks raised over $500 million with a valuation of $43 billion in a Series I funding round.
  2. Nvidia is backing multiple AI startups with significant investments, including Databricks, showcasing its commitment to the future of AI.
  3. Databricks, a mature and profitable startup founded in 2013, is likely to go public in 2024 or 2025, competing with Snowflake in the enterprise AI space.

The Greek AI Ecosystem

The Greek Analyst • 1 HN point • 31 Oct 23
🕹 Technology AI Startup Investment Entrepreneurship Tech Companies
  1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an important topic globally, with Greece playing a significant role in the AI landscape.
  2. Despite its small size, Greece has a strong AI ecosystem with academics, researchers, and startups making notable contributions.
  3. Greece's AI industry is thriving, with a growing number of Greek-founded startups raising substantial funding and the country showing improvements in its economic and investment grade status.

Leaked video claims tech companies staffing up with ex-cops and becoming increasingly responsive to wiretap demands

All-Source Intelligence Fusion • 3 HN points • 23 May 23
🕹 Technology Surveillance Data Privacy Tech Companies Security
  1. Tech companies are hiring ex-cops and are more responsive to wiretap demands
  2. PenLink representative Scott Tuma revealed details of cooperation between tech companies and law enforcement
  3. Police are obtaining data from tech companies like Google and Snapchat for surveillance purposes

Will Yahoo! return to its portal roots?

Joshua Gans' Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 14 May 13
🕹 Technology Tech Companies Internet Advertising Consumer behavior Competition
  1. Yahoo! may be returning to its portal roots, wanting to be the daily go-to for users across devices.
  2. Yahoo! is focusing on a portal strategy that includes information aggregation to solve users' information overload problems.
  3. Other big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Google have their own strategies, but Yahoo!'s focus on a daily routine user base and advertising is unique.

An elegy for the Internet

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends • 0 implied HN points • 02 Jun 16
🕹 Technology Social media Streaming Gaming Internet culture Tech Companies
  1. New media platforms like Facebook Live are still finding their footing and may evolve to offer better content in the future.
  2. Twitter struggles not only with a problematic product but also with company issues, leaving its future uncertain under current leadership.
  3. Tumblr's Liftblr community sheds light on a subculture of teen shoplifters who see their activities as a form of anti-capitalist activism.

D-Students: Microsoft, Apple Get Failing Grades on France’s Repair Index. (For Now.)

Fight to Repair • 0 implied HN points • 24 Mar 21
🕹 Technology Repairability Tech Companies Environmental Impact Consumer behavior
  1. France introduced a Repairability Index to rate products based on repair-ability, giving failing grades to Apple and Microsoft products.
  2. The scoring system considers factors like documentation availability, ease of disassembly, spare parts availability, and pricing of spare parts.
  3. The French Repairability Index has prompted companies to rethink product design and serviceability, setting a precedent for promoting repair-friendly products.

Meme machine

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends • 0 implied HN points • 08 May 15
🕹 Technology Social media Tech Companies Internet culture Innovation Digital Communication
  1. Fighting online propaganda with memes at the State Department is a strategy to combat ISIS social media influence.
  2. Google's innovative project this year focuses on creating unconventional office spaces that break traditional design norms.
  3. There are compelling arguments for quitting Twitter, reflecting on the platform's negative impact on daily life.

🥟 Chao-Down #247 DeepMind spinoff aims to halve drug discovery times with Big Pharma partnerships, Chinese companies repurpose Nvidia gaming chips for AI, OpenAI officially launches the GPT Store

Chaos Theory • 0 implied HN points • 11 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Gaming Innovation Research Tech Companies
  1. DeepMind spinoff aims to halve drug discovery times with Big Pharma partnerships
  2. Chinese companies are using Nvidia gaming chips for AI applications
  3. OpenAI officially launches the GPT Store for AI models

The New Frontier in Power Redistribution

thezakelfassiexperiment • 0 implied HN points • 15 Jun 23
🕹 Technology AI Social media Tech Companies Future of work AI Models
  1. Historically, power shifts with technological changes, now AI is the game changer favoring established companies with resources.
  2. Social media platforms are evolving to focus on smaller, intimate communities through group messaging and content sharing.
  3. Future work landscape may value companies based on proprietary AI models rather than traditional metrics like employees or revenue.

LLM of the day: LLAMA 2

Age of AI • 0 implied HN points • 20 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Artificial Intelligence Data science Open Source Tech Companies Machine Learning
  1. Facebook's LLAMA 2 is an updated LLM comparable to GPT 3.5 and now available for commercial use for up to 700 million users.
  2. LLAMA 2 is not as advanced as GPT 4, but its availability for commercial use is attracting many companies to use it.
  3. There may not be a clear process for external contributions to improving LLAMA 2, but Facebook's decision to open-source it could be for goodwill or competitive reasons.

Fight to Repair Daily: Monday, September 5, 2022

Fight to Repair • 0 implied HN points • 05 Sep 22
🕹 Technology Repair Tech Companies Legislation Event Ownership
  1. EU regulators propose extending smartphone lifespans by offering spare parts for up to 5 years to reduce environmental impact.
  2. Right to Repair has become a prominent issue in Quebec's election, with a focus on independent repair shops gaining access to vehicle data.
  3. When purchasing tech products, you may own the physical components but not the software, allowing companies to control repair options and enforce restrictions.

Checklist et chaos dans l'aéronautique et la tech

Mind Fooled • 0 implied HN points • 04 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Tech Companies Complexity
  1. In complicated environments like aviation, precise and efficient communication is crucial for executing known tasks.
  2. In complex environments where misunderstandings don't have immediate major consequences, communication allowing for friction is beneficial for defining tasks to be done.
  3. The distinction between precise and friction-based communication explains why a person may follow strict protocols in aviation but engage in more improvised exchanges during creative work meetings.