Oh ffs, why do I even look into these things? I think I’m being harsh and then it’s always worse than I thought:

FairPhone has taken venture capital.

fairphone.com/wp-content/uploa…

They’ve been invested in by, among others, Invest-NL (currently three exits, all IPOs¹) and Quadia (also three exits, all acquisitions²).

I would just like it if for once – fucking once – it wasn’t just about making money.

*sigh*

¹ crunchbase.com/organization/in…
² crunchbase.com/organization/qu…

#VentureCapital #VC #FairPhone

Invest-NL - Investments, Portfolio & Company Exits

Invest-NL is a investment company.

^Crunchbase

A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so.

The report itself is 60 pages long, so this is a long one.

newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/an…

#crypto #cryptocurrency #VentureCapital #AndreessenHorowitz

Andreessen Horowitz's State of Crypto report: Narrative over numbers

Venture capital firm and crypto pusher Andreessen Horowitz wants you to keep buying crypto, and is not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince you to do so.

^{Molly White}

If you don’t know what I mean when I say “surveillance capitalism” or “people farming”, here’s a quick overview I did for the BBC a little while ago:

bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveil…

(Where we differ with Shoshana, who coined the former term, is that she sees it as a corruption of capitalism, whereas I see it as the natural evolution of capitalism in the digital network age.)

#surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #VentureCapital #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #corporatocracy

'Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia' - BBC Ideas

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^{www.bbc.co.uk}