hip hop

No. 255 – Thursday Reads

Apr 30, 2020

Notes

bauxite, China, Education, finance, gaming, Ghana, hedge funds, hip hop, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, startups

Pittsburgh-Based Niche Secures $35M For School Search Platform After 100% ARR Growth In 2019 – niche is a platform that allows parents to search for schools ranging from kindergarten all the way up to college. what concerns me about this platform is just where we’re headed more broadly in education. A tool like this is…
No. 244: Timbaland and Swizz Beatz Should Build a Platform

Apr 18, 2020

Entrepreneurship

360 deals, angela benton, culture, hip hop, music, rap, ryan leslie, steve stoute, swizz beatz, timbaland, verzuz

The Verzuz battles Timbaland and Swizz Beatz have been organizing on Instagram have been a fresh breath of musical air the past several weeks. They’ve really done something special for the culture. While so many music greats are getting their flowers, I can’t help but remember that these battles are adding to Zuckerberg’s net worth.…