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Published: March 19, 2021, 6:30 a.m.

This week we discuss tech\u2019s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts\u2019 Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house.

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• VC\n\n
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  • Stripe is now valued at $95 billion
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  • Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market
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  • Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding \u2013 TechCrunch
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  • Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done
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  • Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing
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• Work Life\n\n
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  • This Can\u2019t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout
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  • Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon
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  • Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?
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  • Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n

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• Netflix cracking down on password sharing: \u2018You need your own account to keep watching\u2019
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• Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon
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• Google\u2019s plan to disrupt higher education
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• Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions
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• Gartner\u2019s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites \u2018glut of innovation\u2019 in data science and ML
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• Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration
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• Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices
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• China\u2019s tech giants test way around Apple\u2019s new privacy rules
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• Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program
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• Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs
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• Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn\u2019t More Secure Than On-Premise
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• CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation
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• Microsoft Apologizes \u2018Deeply\u2019 For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage
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• Boosting developer success on Google Play
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• IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions
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• AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type
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• Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021
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• Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation \u2013 TechCrunch
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• Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users
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• Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong
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• Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google
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• Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers
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• Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
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• IAM Access Analyzer Update \u2013 Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year
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• Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more
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• Elon Musk crowns himself \u2018Technoking\u2019 of Tesla
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• IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns
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• So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5?
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
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• Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
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• VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
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• Cloud Native Rust Day
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\n\nSDT news & hype\n\n

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• Join us in Slack.
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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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• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Matt*:* 1917 & Thin Red Line
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• Cot\xe9: Patagonia Torrentshell Pants. (Repeat?)
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• Brandon: What you do is who you are by Ben Horowitz, Companies & Culture a16z Podcast
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