N and harwits is one of the up and comingventure firms here in the valley. They've received grants, not investments, from v c firms like intry,. saint horrad's village global, s v angel and others. The firm has raised around 200 millions in these grants. This happens to me all the time - when you invest in a company, it gets syndicated two or three times by people who don't even know you're an investor. So i really think about that deeply every time I'm making an investment. In my mind, you got to be careful what you put your name on.
In this rapid fire news episode, Jason covers a16z-backed Dfinity's crypto class action complaint (02:46), Snapchat and Twitter's massive earnings (19:33), the CCP considering turning it's ed-tech sector non-profit (34:15), Alphabet's new company (40:23), San Francisco's 17M sq. ft. of vacant office space (47:22), and then reflects on some old Disney+ predictions (58:28).