Weekly Recap, June 6th - June 12th 2022

Hey there, hi there, ho there!

Here's my LinkedIn posts for the past week...plus a few extra gems to entertain.

Ready? Because here it comes!

"Tiger Global did 421 deals in the 12 months to March 2022." ?? ??

Most the money in the Dutch government's fund to boost local innovation has gone outside the Netherlands. ???? ????♂?

"Europe’s largest asset manager has likened parts of the private equity industry to a 'Ponzi scheme' that will face a reckoning in the coming years." ??

Founders doing the heavy lifting so their investors can take all the glory for the success on social media. ???♀?

It only took old money Europeans 20 years to recover last time from venture investing. ??

Jeff Bezos on the advantages startups have over corporate incumbents. ??

"US valuations on a 10-year, cyclically-adjusted basis were about three times higher than in the UK. That has not narrowed much despite this year’s US-centric sell-off". ??

Depends a lot on which sector a startup is in, but overall this feels about right at the moment. ??

Good read on America’s Frontier Fund, an important US deep tech initiative that I will be following closely. ??

And just like that a16z has agreed to fund TMC. ?? ?? ??

"Japan plans to tap the $1.5tn might of the world’s biggest pension fund to build a desperately needed domestic start-up culture". ???? A possible model for Europe, whose pension funds largely sit on the sidelines in backing European venture funds and tech companies.

“‘We're going to start a crossover fund’…it will be a closed-end fund that will invest in public equities, early to late-stage startups, and venture capital funds, among other investments.” Sure, ok. ????

"Michael Jackson, VC americano ora trasferitosi a Parigi che ha un grande seguito nel Vecchio Continente (persona assolutamente da seguire per chi si occupa di Venture Capital)." ?? ???? ????????

Now time for some extras!

Live music from this past week (the Christian McBride New Quintet playing 'Familiar Steps') ??

Europe drawn from memory ??

Musical relativity ??

European mammal population rebounding ??

What America spends on elementary education as opposed to policing ??

Americans more concerned by cyberattacks than a lot of other worrisome things ????♂?

If you blended all 7.88 billion ppl on Earth into a fine goo (density of a human=985 kg/m3, average human body mass=62 kg), you would end up with a sphere of human goo just under 1 km wide. This is a visualization of how that would look like in Central Park. ??

And there it was!

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Have an amazing week!

MJ.