Can learning pods scale, or are they widening edtech’s digital divide?
Lucia, a six-year old, hides from Zoom calls and has rejected every edtech tool from Seesaw to Khan Academy. She will spend all of first grade in quarantine. Her mother, …
The story behind Rent the Runway’s first check
When Rent the Runway co-founders Jennifer Fleiss and Jennifer Hyman got their first term sheet, it had an exploding clause in it: If they didn’t sign the offer in 24 …
Go public now while software valuations make no sense
BigCommerce and the big WTF of today’s market prices Alex Wilhelm 8 hours Software valuations are bonkers, which means it’s a great time to go public. Asana, Monday.com, Wrike and …
Funding in an uncertain market: using venture debt to bridge the gap
Will Hutchins Contributor Will Hutchins is a managing director at Espresso Capital, a leading provider of innovative growth financing and venture debt solutions. While a handful of tech companies like …
Software stocks set new records despite earnings, pandemic
The run that SaaS and cloud stocks valuations have been on continues Alex Wilhelm 8 hours You might have missed it, but amidst the current political-M&A-pandemic-election-disinformation news cycle we find …
Decrypted: How a teenager hacked Twitter, Garmin’s ransomware aftermath
A 17-year-old Florida teenager is accused of perpetrating one of the year’s biggest and most high-profile hacks: Twitter. A federal 30-count indictment filed in Tampa said Graham Ivan Clark used …
More thoughts on growing podcasts
Julian Shapiro Contributor Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, a growth marketing team that trains startups in advanced growth, helps hire senior growth marketers and finds vetted growth agencies. …
Is the 2020 SPAC boom an echo of the 2017 ICO craze?
I wanted to write an essay about Microsoft and TikTok today, because I was effectively a full-time reporter covering the software giant when it hired Satya Nadella in 2014. But, …
Reminder: Annual Extra Crunch members can save 20% on Disrupt passes
Calling all Extra Crunch annual and two-year members! Did you know that as a part of your membership plan, you can get a 20% discount on a Disrupt 2020 pass? …
The essential revenue software stack
Tim Porter Contributor Tim Porter is a managing director at Madrona Venture Group and invests in the areas of intelligent applications and SaaS, cloud native software, ML and data analytics …