CM Weekly: What PMs Do, History of TSMC, Facebook Glasses

Last week I recorded an interview with Taiki Maeda showing off the Solana ecosystem through a series of live demos of the various DeFi apps in the ecosystem.

It’s always nerve racking doing live demos, especially of products that aren’t yours, but I’m glad everything worked out smoothly.

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Written by Chris McCann , General Partner @ Race Capital , former Greylock Partners . More about me .

??? Tech News Last Week?

• Facebook is building and launching smart glasses (remember Google Glasses?) in partnership with Ray-Ban.
• Apple is losing its grip on its payment ecosystem now through the latest in the lawsuit with Epic Games , and with Korea Japan & India forcing Apple to allow alternative payment rails in the App Store.?
• A detailed look on how Amazon AWS generates its revenue including breakdowns of specific sub-sectors of storage, platform, compute, infrastructure, etc.?
• Coinbase is publicly challenging the SEC around its to-be-launched lending product.

?? Deep Dive Posts

• One of the benefits of joining a startup is learning what it takes to start your own.
• Here is what product managers do , in a single easy to share image.
• To write more, write less .
• An incredible deep dive podcast on the history of TSMC - the dominant producer of semiconductors in the world.
• A roadmap on how mid-sized banks can compete against fintech startups.?

?? Race Capital - Portfolio Jobs

• Polysign: Senior BSA Analyst (New York, NY)
• FTX: Full Stack Developer (Miami, FL)
• Opaque: Technical Recruiter (Berkeley, CA)
• Opaque: Product Designer (Berkeley, CA)
• Opaque: Developer Evangelist (Berkeley, CA)
• SocialChat: Operations manager (San Francisco, CA)
• GoodNotes: Back-End Team Lead (London, UK)

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