Fully Vested

Lake in the Rake

Episode Summary

This week after quickly discussing the issues Graham has with the iOS 13 keyboard we explore Graham’s visit to Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal and then discuss SoftBank’s recent updates about it plans for a turnaround at WeWork and their plans to raise SoftBank Vision Fund II.

Episode Notes

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Congratulations to Crunchbase on it's $30MM Series C

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• $30M Series C: Looking Forward to the Future at Crunchbase (Jager McConnell CEO of Crunchbase)

Google's Acquisition of Fitbit

• Section starts at 7m30s
• Google to acquire Fitbit, valuing the smartwatch maker at about $2.1 billion(Lauren Feiner for CNBC)
• Google is acquiring Fitbit for $2.1 billion (Brian Heater for TechCrunch)
• Apple Dominates Global Smartwatch Sales (Felix Richter for Statista)
• W3 Stand for Apple Watch ($12.99 from Elago)

Leafly Potentially Signals Issues with Cannabis Industry

• Section starts at 36m50s
• Leafly.com
• Leafly Crunchbase Profile
• Cannabis Review Site Leafly Takes On Debt Following Company-Wide Hiring Freeze (Jason D. Rowley for Crunchbase News)

About The Co-Hosts

• Jason D. Rowley is a data journalist for Crunchbase News, volunteers with the Python Software Foundation as an organizer of Startup Row at PyCon US, and sends occasional newsletters from Rowley.Report.
• Graham C. Peck is a Venture Partner with Cultivation Capital and additionally helps companies build technology development teams in partnership with Brightgrove and other technology development organizations.