“Since the danger of living in wretchedness is greater than the danger of dying soon, he is a fool who refuses to stake a little time and win a hazard of great gain.”
Seneca the Younger (a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and satirist)
Impressive Lyft!
It’s perhaps a good day to say that there are some things in the world that sometimes just Lyft off and defy gravity, for no good nor sound reason at all!
Lyft, the winner in the ridehailing race to the public markets, has debuted on the NASDAQ in the year’s biggest listing so far. The company has priced its shares at $72 apiece, valuing its IPO at roughly $20.6 billion—a significant jump from the $15.1 billion valuation it reached in its latest funding round last year.
The company’s latest S-1 filing notes that Lyft’s co-founders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, will hold all of the company’s class B shares, which carry 20x the regular voting power. With nearly 49% of Lyft’s voting shares between the two, Green and Zimmer could reportedly hold respective stakes in the company worth $569 million and $393 million with a top-end pricing.
Junk Food VC
Funny enough, we looked at Dynamic Yield in the past and now it was swallowed by McDonald’s…
SUPERSIZE ME: McDonald’s will spend more than $300 million to buy Dynamic Yield, an Israel-based decision-logic company. McDonald’s plans to use the new technology so that its restaurants can personalize their drive-thru menu boards appropriately. For instance, the menu would display certain items depending on factors such as the weather…
More coffee on cold days and McFlurries on hot days.
| Dynamic Yield has raised more than $83 million in venture funding from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Viola Growth, Naver Corporation, Vertex Ventures, and Innovation Endeavors. According to the deal terms, Dynamic Yield will continue to operate as a standalone company. |
| This is McDonald’s largest acquisition in 20 years, and it’s the latest in a series of deliberate technology-focused moves for the company. In January, the fast-food chain announced a new “growth plan” that emphasized convenience and personalization through digital efforts like its mobile app and kiosks that allow customers to skip the front counter entirely. |
| “With this acquisition, we’re expanding both our ability to increase the role technology and data will play in our future and the speed with which we’ll be able to implement our vision of creating more personalised experiences for our customers,” McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook said in a statement. |
ANTSreadthis in a cool newsletter – Fortune TERM SHEET
Game Plan
10 Steps To Become A Millionaire In 5 Years (Or Less)
There are titles that are created precisely to catch one’s attention.
This one worked on me.
Not that I long avidly to become a Millionaire but I do fancy having my independence to do what I like, when I want to, without having to rely that much on everyone else… 🙂
So, if that equates to being a Millionaire, why not? At least, I think I’ll enjoy the ride of trying to become one, even if I just reach halfway… I would suspect that the process is fun and fulfilling already… to be worth a swing at it!
1. Create A Wealth Vision
2. Develop A 90-Day System For Measuring Progress-Future-Pacing
3. Develop A Daily Routine To Live In A Flow-Peak State
4. Design Your Environment For Clarity, Recovery, And Creativity
5. Focus On Results, Not “Habits” or “Process”
6. Identify Ideal Mentors/Partners
7. Become A Brilliant Listener And Observer
8. Focus On “Who” Instead Of “How”
9. Continually Update Your Values-Definition Of Success
10. Don’t Wait Too Long When You Know It’s Time To Change
Beta Future
A great post from an inspiring builder studio that I had the privilege to visit some years back. before co-founding Bright Pixel.
John Borthwick, betaworks founder and CEO, just shared recent a post that I am still processing… I’ve read and re-read it a couple of times now… It’s truly worthwhile…
Next things we are thinking about at betaworks
A distributed layer of trust
ML and human machine collaboration
Next gen mobile and compute
New cities
New ways of living and working
New generation, new tribes = new brands
Synthetic media
Participatory media, gaming, and live
Mad world
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it’s a very very
Mad world, mad world
Children waiting for the day, they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher, tell me what’s my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it’s a very very
Mad world, mad world
Enlarge your world
Things 2 read
Every year this happens to me… I get excited with lists of book recommendations and then… I only manage to read one or two.
Here goes another nice list to (not) read
This one in particular is from a venture capital guru – Vinod Khosla
Big bets
SoftBank scares me…
It’s Venture Capital in CAPSLOCK!
Huge fund
Big bets
Singularity themed investment focus
Scary business
Reset
My personal blog went recently caput…
There’s a lesson somewhere in this…
Never trust people with your servers. I was digitally erased. I created precisely my blog to keep a digital record keeping of things that I liked, things I wanted to share, things I wanted to state, things to digital store like a memory box.
Well, that went well…
Back to square one. Let’s hope this time everything will go well.
Ants.pt, re-born!
New year, new life!
I am using archive.org to fetch my old posts… what a nightmare!