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Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 6:30 a.m.

This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move?

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• Matt Ray finds a snake\u2026?
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• The Battle of GameStop
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• VC\n\n
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  • Clubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion Valuation
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  • How Atlanta\u2019s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup
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• Bitcoin Follow up\n\n
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  • Graham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it.
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  • Nathan from Slack says: \u201cThe problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. \u201c
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  • Central bank digital currency
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  • Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast
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• Earnings\n\n
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  • IBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020
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  • Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n

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• https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?)
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• Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | Amazon Web Services
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• Vagrant First Commit
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• Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news law
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• Otter.ai\u2019s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time
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• Tucows closes its once-popular software download site
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• Advice on Lambda
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• End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business
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• Google employees have formed another union, this one international
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• Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue
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• Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots
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• Raspberry Pi\n\n
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  • Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip \u2013 TechCrunch
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  • I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 - James Dawson
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• How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services
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• Four security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNet
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• Costco Prices
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• California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (originally from a 2016 Quora answer).
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• Tom Morello impressed with this Guitarist
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• US Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW Sportscar
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\n\nListener Recommend Jobs\n\n

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• Dan wants you to work at Gymshark as a Platform Reliability Engineer in the U.K.
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• Michael Neale wants to work at CloudBees as a Senior Ops Engineer in U.S. East or EMEA
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• Prash wants to work at CDK as a Software Architect in the U.K.
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
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• SpringOne.io
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\n\nSDT news & hype\n\n

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• Join us in Slack.
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• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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• Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Cot\xe9\u2019s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Matt: Earth at Night in Colour\n\n
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  • Transferwise
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• Brandon: Wyze Outdoor Cam
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• Cot\xe9: Money. micro.blog
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