E-commerce and Entertainment: Navigating New Frontiers

Twitter is revving the little blue checkmark engine back up, but it will work slightly differently than before. Stripe is either already impossibly big, or not nearly as big as it should be, depending on your point of view. Are you ready to speculate about the next generation of Apple Silicon chips? And, uniquely for this week, the week… end longreads suggestions.

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• Twitter to relaunch account verifications in early 2021, asks for feedback on policy (TechCrunch)
• Payments Startup Stripe in Talks for Funding at $70 Billion Valuation or More (Bloomberg)
• MacBook Pro 16-inch M1X chip just leaked — and it's game over for Intel (Tom's Guide)
• Kuo: iPhone 12 demand strong, new form factor Apple Watch and MacBooks in late 2021 (9to5Mac)
• Ethereum 2.0’s Genesis Day Is Officially Set for Dec. 1 (Coindesk)

Week-end Longread Suggestions:

• Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon? (NYTimes Magazine)
• Hollywood’s ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’ Moment (NYTimes)
• How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism (The New Yorker)
• Substack got lucky, and so did Margins (Margins)
• Why a Paid Newsletter Won't Be Enough Money for Most Writers (And That's Fine): The Multi-SKU Creator (Hunter Walk)
• If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (Anil Dash)

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