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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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Serial fintech founder raises $20M for Ant Money to make micro-investing even more accessible

TechCrunch

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. I think that’s a really big differentiator for us from our competitors.”. Interestingly, the company’s revenue model is a mix of adtech and fintech.

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Acorns acquires UK’s GoHenry, a fintech focused on 6- to 18-year-olds

TechCrunch

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. The combined valuation of the company, as well as further financial terms, were not disclosed.

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Acorns squirrels away $300M Series F after scrapping SPAC, now worth nearly $2B

TechCrunch

Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix. So at the moment of decision-making we’re bringing together educational content and product in the same place.”. The company also plans to continue building products that allow parents and their kids “to save and invest, and get educated together.”

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

RS: If you look at a decade ago when I worked for the Tor Project and they got funding, we set out to teach reporters how to use the Tor Browser. And also, how do they go about getting up to speed, and how do they then later on educate staff in the newsroom? When The New York Times was hacked by China in 2012, that was phishing.

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HackerRank, a platform for recruiters to test coders and coders to hone their skills, raises $60M at a $500M valuation

TechCrunch

“We saw that resumes had a very mixed correlation to skills, and that was what triggered this,” Ravisankar said. It eventually became the first startup out of India to join Y Combinator, and it was actually also a Battlefield contender in 2012. “With university recruiting, they used to visit 10-15 campuses.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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