Brandon Gorrell

Run of Show Meta lays off 8,000 staff, Goldman Sachs to lead SpaceX IPO, James Murdoch buys half of Vox Media Happy Wednesday. We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏. The current thing in tech and business is the mixed reaction to Google’s announcements on the first day of its annual developer conference I/O.

There’s a class of movie that has at its center the basic idea of “character who has everything on the outside, but has just figured out that s/he has nothing on the inside.” Arguably one of the lessons of these kinds of movies is something like “Money doesn’t buy happiness,” but somehow, some films seem to glamorize both the affluence and the emptiness that may come along with such a lifestyle. Other films, however, don’t go for this at all.

Stripe‚Äôs Acquisition of Bridge is a Stroke of Genius controlled by banks, b2b payments account for $120 trillion yearly ‚ÄĒ compared to stripe‚Äôs $1 trillion ‚ÄĒ with the banks extracting fees every step of the way. what if stripe had a way to disrupt this?