(2:45) Wagner Group rebellion
(23:15) SCOTUS strikes down Affirmative Action
(51:03) Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B, Inflection raises $1.3B
(1:09:35) IRL shuts down after faking 95% of users, Byju’s seeks to raise emergency $1B as founder control in jeopardy
(1:26:38) Science Corner: Understanding the NANOGrav findings
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Referenced in the show:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-western-assessment/index.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-wagner-russia-treason-coup-b2363430.html
https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia
https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings
“Я Русский” “I am Russian” ❤️. Another song by #Shaman, with English subtitles https://t.co/gLqGbXanhl pic.twitter.com/LLnkGxjKdK
— Matreshka 🌺 🇷🇺🇰🇿🇨🇦 (@MatreshkaRF) June 26, 2023
https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/la-vie-en-rose-why-kremlin-blacklisted-levada-center
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/world/africa/central-african-republic-wagner-africa-syria.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-rejects-affirmative-action-at-colleges-says-schools-cant-consider-race-in-admission.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard
How insane did Harvard's affirmative action policies get?
An African American student in the 40th percentile of their academic index is more likely to get it than an Asian student in the 100th percentile.
Black students in the 50th percentile are more likely to get in that… pic.twitter.com/9vvBuQXA24
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 29, 2023
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-percent-white-students-are-legacy-athletes-n1060361
https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-strikes-1-3-billion-deal-for-generative-ai-startup-mosaicml-fdcefc06
https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-accelerate-search-in-the-data-cloud-through-generative-ai
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/06/29/inflection-ai-raises-1-billion-for-chatbot-pi
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/social-app-irl-which-raised-200-million-shuts-down-after-ceo-misconduct-probe
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-backed-messaging-app-irl-says-it-has-20-million-users-some-employees-have-doubts-about-that
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-27/byju-s-seeks-to-raise-1-billion-to-sidestep-shareholder-revolt
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/prosus-byjus-markdown
VC is a tough biz
some # s
Pitchbook has VC return data on 800 firms
of the 800 firms, 100 have generated a 3x+ DPI fund
of the 100, 20 firms generated 3x+ DPI on 2 separate funds
12.5% of firms returned at least one 3x fund
2.5% of firms returned at least two 3x funds
— Shai Goldman (@shaig) June 27, 2023
https://www.ft.com/content/b8a4214f-7f64-4d3a-97c4-4731f2effb0d
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) June 29, 2023
https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/my-conversation-with-robert-f-kennedy
https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-enormous-gravity-hum-moves-through-the-universe-20230628
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/116
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