Episode 290: Make your own slides

This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house.

Rundown

VC

Stripe is now valued at $95 billion
Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market
Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch
Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done
Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing

Work Life

This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout
Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon
Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?
Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard

Relevant to your interests

Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’
Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon
Google’s plan to disrupt higher education
Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions
Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML
Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration
Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices
China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules
Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program
Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs
Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise
CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation
Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage
Boosting developer success on Google Play
IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions
AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type
Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021
Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch
Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users
Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong
Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google
Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers
Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services

Nonsense

Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year
Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more
Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla
IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns
So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5?

Sponsors

strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT

Conferences

SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
Cloud Native Rust Day

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

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Make your own slides

Episode 290

March 19th, 2021

50 mins 15 secs

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About this Episode

This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house.

Rundown

• VC

• Stripe is now valued at $95 billion

• Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market

• Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch

• Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done

• Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing

• Work Life

• This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout

• Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon

• Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

• Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard

Relevant to your interests

• Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’

• Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon

• Google’s plan to disrupt higher education

• Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions

• Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML

• Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration

• Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices

• China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules

• Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program

• Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs

• Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise

• CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation

• Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage

• Boosting developer success on Google Play

• IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions

• AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type

• Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021

• Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch

• Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users

• Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong

• Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google

• Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers

• Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals

• IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services

Nonsense

• Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year

• Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more

• Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla

• IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns

• So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5?

Sponsors

• strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT

Conferences

• SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.

• Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.

• VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET

• Cloud Native Rust Day

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.

• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!

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