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Josh Constine leaves TechCrunch for VC fund SignalFire

How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love. Now it’s time to put that love into action to help a new generation of entrepreneurs build their dreams and tell their stories.

So it’s “TC to VC” for me. After 8.5 years at TechCrunch and 10 in tech journalism, I’m leaving today to join the venture team at VC fund SignalFire. I’m going to be a principal investor and their head of content.

I’ll be seeking out inspiring new companies, doing deals (when I’m eventually up to speed) and providing pitch workshops based on countless interviews for TechCrunch. Thankfully, I’ll also still get to write. We’re going to find out what founders really want to learn and produce that content to help them form, evolve and grow their companies. I’m doing my signature bounce & smile with excitement.

Where to follow my writing

You’ll still be able to follow my writing as well as my journey into VC on my newsletter Moving Product at constine.substack.com as well as on Twitter: @JoshConstine. No way I could just suddenly shut up about startups! If you’re building something, you can always reach me at joshsc [at] gmail.com

On the newsletter you can read a deeper explanation for why I picked SignalFire . I also just published the first real issue of Moving Product on how quarantine is “loaning” concurrent users to startups that will help the new wave of synchronous apps snowball to sustainability, plus commentary from top product thinkers on Facebook’s new Rooms.

Why I chose SignalFire?

I was drawn to SignalFire because it’s built like the startups I love writing about: to solve a need. Entrepreneurs need tactical advantages in areas like recruiting, where they spend most of their time, and expert advice on specific problems they’re facing.

SignalFire CEO and founder Chris Farmer

That’s why SignalFire spent six years in stealth building its recruitment prediction and market data analysis engine called Beacon. It can spot deal opportunities for SignalFire’s new $200 million seed and $300 million breakout funds while helping the portfolio hire smarter. Then SignalFire assembled more than 80 top experts, like Instagram’s founders, for its invested advisor network. Traditional funds need partners to exhaust their social capital asking for favors from friends to help their portfolio. SignalFire’s model sees its advisors share in the returns of the fund, so they’re sustainably motivated to assist.

SignalFire’s founder and CEO Chris Farmer was also willing to invest in me, figuratively. I’ve written about thousands of startups but I’ve never funded one. He and his team have offered to mentor me as I learn the art and science of investing. They also accept me for my opinionated, outspoken self. Instead of constricting my voice, the plan is to harness it to highlight new ideas and proven methods for building companies. I wrote this post on my newsletter with a deeper look at why I picked SignalFire and how its modernized approach to venture works.

What makes TechCrunch different

Of the 3,600 articles I’ve written for TechCrunch, this was the hardest.

TechCrunch gave me the platform to make an impact and the freedom to say what I believe. That’s a rare opportunity in journalism, but especially important for covering startups. TechCrunch writes about things that haven’t happened yet. There are often no objective facts by which to judge an early-stage company. Whether you decide to cover them or not, and the tone of your analysis, depends on having conviction about whether the world needs something or not, if the product is built right and if the team has what it takes.

If you rely on others’ signals about what matters, whether in the form of traction or investment, you’ll be late to the story. That means editors have to trust their writers’ intuition. At TechCrunch, that trust never wavered.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 04: (L-R) Snap Inc. Co-founder & CEO Evan Spiegel and TechCrunch editor-at-large Josh Constine speak onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Eric Eldon, Alexia Tsotsis and Matthew Panzarino put their absolute faith in our team. That gave me a chance to write the first-ever coverage of startups like Robinhood before its seed round, and SnappyCam before it was acquired by Apple and turned into iPhone burst fire. My editors also never shied away from confrontations with the tech giants, like my investigation into Facebook paying teens for their data that caused it to shut down its Onavo tool, or my exposé on Bing suggesting child abuse imagery in search results that led it to overhaul its systems.

I met my wife Andee at a TechCrunch event. [Image Credit: Max Morse]

I’ll always be indebted to Eric Eldon, who gave a freshly graduated cybersociologist with no experience his first shot at blogging back at Inside Facebook. Editors like Alexia Tsotsis and Matthew Panzarino helped me develop a more critical voice without sterilizing my personality. And all my fellow writers over the years, including Zack Whittaker and Sarah Perez, pushed me to hustle, whether that meant pontificating on new product launches or exposing industry abuse. If my departure from journalism elicits a sigh of relief from the companies in my cross-hairs, I know I did my job. The TechCrunch business and events team have turned Disrupt into the tech industry’s reunion. I appreciate them giving me the chance to learn public speaking, from the most heartfelt moments to the cringiest. And really, I owe them the rest of my life, too, since I met my wife Andee at a Disrupt after-party.

Treating writing like a sport to be won kept me cranking all these years, and I’m grateful for Techmeme offering a scoreboard for extra motivation. I’ll unhumbly admit it’s nice to hang up my jersey while ranked No. 1. My gratitude to Jane Manchun Wong for furnishing so many scoops over the years, and to all my other sources. It’s been fun competing and collaborating with my favorite other reporters, and I know Taylor Lorenz, Casey Newton and Mike Isaac will keep a close eye on tech’s trends and travesties.

But most of all, I want to extend an enormous thank you to…you. To everyone who has read or shared my articles over the years. I woke up each day with a sense of duty to you, and felt proud to say “I fight for the user” like Tron. What makes this industry special is how the community refuses to treat it as zero-sum. We grow the pie together, and everyone knows their competitor today could be their future co-founder. That makes us willing to share and learn together. I believe no recession, correction or bubble-burst will change that. 

BERLIN, GERMANY – DECEMBER 12: Group Photo on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019 at Arena Berlin on December 12, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

So I’ll leave you with a final thought that’s made my life so fulfilling: If you have the privilege or create the opportunity, turn your passion into your profession.

Specialize. Learn. Then make what you want. If you can find some niche you’re endlessly interested in, that’s growing in importance, and at least someone somewhere earns money from, you’ll become essential. Not necessarily today. But that’s the beauty of writing — it teaches you while proving to others what you’ve been taught. No matter what it is, blog about it once a week. In time you’ll become an expert, and be recognized as one. Then you’ll have the power to adapt to the future, however feels most graceful.

Personal news: It's TC to VC for me! I'm leaving TechCrunch to join SignalFire as a principal investor & head of content. I'm also launching my newsletter where I'm writing now: https://t.co/F7gvssC4Ky A "toast", to the future! pic.twitter.com/XRhDxdS5NF

— joshconstine (@JoshConstine) April 27, 2020

Keep up with my writing on my newsletter at constine.substack.com, stay in touch on Twitter, and reach out at joshsc [at] gmail.com

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Broker Besar, Lingkaran Lebih Besar, dan Putaran MakerDAO: Minggu Ini di Crypto

Pastikan Anda memeriksa edisi sebelumnya di  sini , sekarang mari kita lihat apa yang terjadi di crypto minggu ini. Juga, pastikan Anda berlangganan untuk edisi minggu ini dari  The Detikdax Podcast  di  iTunes ,  TuneIn ,  Stitcher ,  Google Play Musik ,  Spotify ,  SoundCloud ,  YouTube  atau di  mana pun  Anda mendapatkan podcast Anda.

Harga Tonton:

Bitcoin turun 2% menjadi $ 6,333 minggu ini setelah mencapai $ 6.700 minggu lalu. Harga bervariasi minimal minggu ini dibandingkan dengan pergerakan harga dramatis minggu lalu. Ini termasuk osilasi cepat antara  $ 6.300 dan $ 6.400  dan harga menyentuh  level $ 6.600  dan  level $ 6.200 dalam beberapa hari satu sama lain. Minggu ini melihat variabilitas yang jauh lebih sedikit. Ethereum turun 10% minggu ini  membalikkan kenaikan 10% yang dilakukan minggu lalu . Kenaikan minggu lalu mungkin merupakan anomali dengan minggu sebelumnya yang mengalami penurunan sebesar  31% minggu lalu , 5% pada pekan sebelumnya dan turun  11%   dan  24%  pada minggu-minggu sebelumnya dengan penurunan satu dan dua digit pada bulan-bulan sebelumnya. Penurunan baru-baru ini terus disalahkan pada  penjualan ICO . Lebih berkontribusi terhadap penurunan harga minggu ini adalah fakta bahwa Utrust telah bermitra dengan tim dev Ethereum Klasik untuk mengintegrasikan dll . Kapitalisasi Pasar Koin datar minggu lalu  karena perubahan minimal oleh Bitcoin dan dengan kerugian Ethereum yang dibuat oleh harga Stellar yang melonjak .

Bank:

Kasikornbank dari Thailand ke Platform Lintas-Batas Pembayaran Pilot Blocka  - Kasikornbank , bank terbesar berdasarkan kapitalisasi pasar di Thailand bergabung dengan platform Visa B2B Connect. Dirancang untuk memungkinkan pembayaran lintas batas yang cepat dan aman antara bisnis menggunakan teknologi blockchain, platform ini mengandalkan pada izin arsitektur blockchain pribadi yang dioperasikan oleh perusahaan jasa keuangan global, Visa Inc.

Pemerintah:

Rencana Pialang Terbesar Brasil untuk Proses Hukum Perdagangan Bitcoin  - Grupo XP, pialang independen terbesar di Brasil, telah mengumumkan rencananya untuk meluncurkan platform perdagangan Bitcoin dan Ethereum pada akhir 2018. Langkah ini dilakukan setelah penyelidikan oleh pemerintah Brasil dan pengawas antimonopoli telah meluncurkan penyelidikan resmi ke bank dan lembaga keuangan utama di negara ini setelah menerima keluhan bahwa pertukaran kripto menerima layanan keuangan di bawah standar dari bank lokal. Dubai Meningkatkan Pembayaran Portal DubaiPay dengan teknologi Blockchain -  Dikembangkan bekerja sama dengan Departemen Keuangan Dubai (DoF), Smart Dubai Office (SDO) meluncurkan sistem yang ditujukan untuk memungkinkan rekonsiliasi dan penyelesaian transaksi secara real-time. pada hari Minggu dengan siaran pers yang melabelinya "upgrade blockchain-powered ke sistem keuangannya". Mahkamah Agung India untuk Mendengarkan Argumen Akhir tentang Bank Sentral vs Kasus Bitcoin  - Mahkamah Agung India bersiap untuk mendengar argumen terakhir pada petisi terhadap larangan perbankan Bitcoin pada hari Selasa, melaporkan  media lokal.

Pertukaran:

Gemini Eyes UK Expansion  - The  Financial Times  melaporkan bahwa Gemini telah menyewa penasihat terkait kepindahan ke Inggris dan dapat segera mengajukan permohonan kepada Otoritas Perilaku Keuangan Inggris ( FCA ) untuk otorisasi pengaturan untuk membuka pertukaran di negara di bawah e-money agensi program lisensi. Langkah ini muncul setelah pengumuman baru-baru ini tentang dolar Gemini dapat menandai gesekan di Coinbase, karena pertukaran e  menerima  lisensi e-money dari FCA, memberikan wewenang untuk memberikan pembayaran dan layanan uang elektronik kepada pelanggan di Inggris dan 23 lainnya Negara-negara Uni Eropa. Crypto Giant Circle Lists EOS, Stellar, 0x dan Qtum  - Circle telah mengumumkan dalam  posting blog penambahan empat aset digital baru ke platform Circle Invest, sehingga jumlah total cryptocurrency yang terdaftar pada platform menjadi 11. Menurut posting blog Circle , Empat aset crypto dipilih untuk listing berdasarkan kesesuaian mereka, yang ditentukan oleh Lingkaran Aset Asset . Sejak merilis  Lingkaran Invest di bulan Maret, platform telah agresif dirayu meningkatkan pangsa pasar, listing Zcash  dan Monero  pada bulan Mei. $ 230 Juta: Mt. Gox Trustee Mengonfirmasi Penjualan Bitcoin di Masa Lalu  - Menurut dokumen yang diterbitkan di Mt. Situs web Gox, Nobuaki Kobayashi, wali amanat operator pertukaran, menjual sekitar 24.658 BTC dan 25.333 BCH antara pertemuan kreditur terakhir pada 7 Maret dankeputusan pengadilan 22 Juni  memungkinkan perkebunan untuk keluar dari kebangkrutan dan memasuki rehabilitasi sipil. Beberapa orang mempertanyakan apakah penjualan ini telah menyebabkan pasar beruang . Google membatalkan pencekalannya Crypto Iklan  - Google, $ 828.000.000.000 mesin pencari raksasa, telah membatalkan pemblokiran  iklan terkait kripto, yang memungkinkan perusahaan diatur untuk memanfaatkan platform untuk mengiklankan produk mereka.

Cryptocurrency:

Brave Browser Hits 4 Juta Pengguna Aktif Bulanan  - Berani, browser web yang dibuat oleh pendiri Mozilla B rendan Eichdan didanai melalui  $ 36 juta ICO  telah mencapai 4 juta pengguna aktif bulanan dan 10 juta unduhan . Angka-angka baru datang setelah pengumuman minggu lalu  dari kemitraan dengan startup identitas blockchain Civic untuk memungkinkan penerbit yang diverifikasi untuk menerima pembayaran BAT bulanan mereka di dompet Ethereum eksternal daripada yang default yang disediakan oleh browser. Vitalik Mengatakan Ethereum Dapat Mengukur Hingga 500 tx / s Menggunakan Teknologi Zcash  - Menulis di sebuah forum penelitian ETH  dalam sebuah tulisan yang diterbitkan pada hari Sabtu, Buterin mengatakan bahwa Ethereum dapat meminjam inovasi teknologi dari Cryptocurrency privasi-sentris  Zcash  untuk "memvalidasi massal" ETH transaksi dengan  mengizinkan merelai simpul untuk "memverifikasi kebenaran perhitungan tanpa harus mengeksekusinya" atau "mempelajari apa yang dieksekusi". Bitmain Rival Ebang Meluncurkan Jajaran Baru Penambang Bitcoin Uber-Efisien  -   Ebang Communication yang berbasis di China, salah satu produsen terbesar di dunia untuk rangkaian prosesor terintegrasi khusus (ASIC) untuk penambang bitcoin, telah meluncurkan generasi selanjutnya dari lini produk andalannya, lengkap dengan chip yang ditingkatkan yang membuat langkah signifikan dalam efisiensi energi. Andreessen Horowitz Menginvestasikan $ 15 Juta di AsetBAet-Backed Stablecoin  - Perusahaan modal ventura Amerika, yang telah berinvestasi dalam startup kripto seperti CryptoKitties dan OpenBazaar di masa lalu, membeli 6 persen dari total pasokan token MKR melalui  dana crypto $ 300 juta , a16z . Dana tersebut memberikan total $ 15 juta untukproyek MakerDAOdan menandai investasi mereka sebagai "pembelian strategis." Memegang token MKR akan menawarkan a16z hak untuk mengatur MakerDAO dan Sistem Kredit Dai karena ia menjadi organisasi stablecoin otonom terdesentralisasi pertama.

Kejahatan:

Otoritas India Mengumpulkan Properti Bitcoin Scammer Senilai $ 60 Juta -   Petugas penegak hukum India telah menyita harta tak bergerak dari pemilik Detikdax.com , termasuk enam kantor di Dubai dan apartemen perumahan dan saldo bank dari dua rekannya Hemant Bhope dan Pankaj Adlakha , di bawah ketentuan tindakan Anti Pencucian Uang (AML). Jepang Menampar Operator Crypto Exchange setelah Pencurian $ 60 Juta  - Otoritas keuangan Jepang meningkatkan pengawasan mereka ke sektor pertukaran kripto dalam negeri setelah of 6.7 miliar ($ 60 juta) per minggu dari pertukaran Tech Bureau, Zaif . Cryptojacking Dibuka sebesar 86% di Kuartal Kedua 2018: McAfee Labs  - Menurut  McAfee Labs, serangan malware penambangan cryptocurrency meningkat 86% pada kuartal kedua tahun ini. Sementara target utama penambangan malware cryptocurrency tetap komputer pribadi, cryptojackers semakin mengalihkan perhatian mereka ke perangkat seperti smartphone dan gadget lain yang memiliki koneksi internet. Penting: Ini adalah beberapa bagian yang sangat populer minggu ini. Temui Pria yang Melacak Penculik dan Paramiliter Menggunakan Blockchain -  Profil Ben Strickland, yang menggunakan data blockchain untuk melacak penculik. Artikel ini menawarkan 10-30 kasus pemerasan seksual harian yang dilaporkan yang menggunakan Bitcoin. Sistem Off-Grid, Bertenaga Surya Mengirim Crypto Melalui Gelombang Radio  - Gambaran tentang Burst, blockchain bertenaga surya yang beroperasi sepenuhnya di luar jaringan. Burst mungkin proyek pertama yang melakukan  transaksi off-grid sepenuhnya , membuka kasus penggunaan untuk cryptocurrency dalam contoh bencana alam atau area dengan infrastruktur yang buruk. Opini: Apakah Bank Sentral India Gugup Tentang Mahkamah Agung Membiarkan Crypto Trading? - Analisis mendalam tentang motivasi Bank Sentral India seputar kebijakannya tentang mata uang kripto. Penambangan Bitcoin Energi Hijau Akan Memiliki 'Dampak Lingkungan Tidak Penting'  - Wawancara dengan Hass McCook, seorang insinyur sipil serta peneliti Bitcoin dan advokat yang telah melakukan penyelidikan terdalam ke dalam kebutuhan energi Bitcoin yang pernah dilakukan. McCook baru-baru ini merilis laporan  39 halaman  tentang penggunaan energi dalam crypto bersama dengan   sepuluh bagian seri Youtube yang  menjelaskan temuannya. CEO Bitcoin Reksa Dana Menjelaskan Mengapa Kanada Lebih Ramah untuk Blockchain daripada AS -  Dalam sebuah wawancara eksklusif dengan CCN, Sean Clark, CEO  First Block Capital Inc.  - operator dari Bitcoin Trust FBC, reksa dana bitcoin pertama untuk berdagang di Kanada - Membahas faktor-faktor mendasar yang membuat Kanada menjadi negara yang ramah terhadap teknologi baru seperti cryptocurrency. Wawancara: TechCrunch Editor-at-Large Josh Constine Bincang-bincang dengan Cryptocurrency  - Duduklah dengan TechCrunch editor-at-Josh Constine yang besar. Josh adalah kelas berat media, setelah mewawancarai orang-orang seperti Mark Zuckerberg, Edward Snowden, dan Cory Booker dan telah berbicara di 120 acara dengan beragam topik. Read the full article

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Love this "Which communication channel?" matrix from @rahulvohra. Stop Slacking what can be done tomorrow. Stop emailing what must be done right now! pic.twitter.com/uQvP8vz74M

— Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) December 10, 2020

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Facebook to shut down Lasso, its TikTok Clone

Facebook has decided to shut down Lasso, a TikTok-like app, that it launched a year and a half ago. The company has started informing users through the app that it will be shutting the platform down 10 July 10 onward. The in-app message thanks users for using the app and gives directions for downloading their videos from it. “We place multiple bets across our family of apps to test and learn how people want to express themselves. One of these tests was Lasso, our stand-alone-short-form video app, which we have decided to shut down. We thank everyone who shared their creativity and feedback with us, which we’ll look to incorporate in our other video experiences," a company spokesperson told Techcrunch. Facebook’s TikTok clone lasso is shutting down ahead of the Instagram Reels launch, so basically Fb lost 2 years by half-assing. Brb, gotta go save my zero Lassos pic.twitter.com/VgKImjgWM4— Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) July 2, 2020 Lasso was launched back in 2018 and was seen as TikTok's rival. The app allows users shoot 15-second videos and play popular music in the background with them, incorporating hashtags to create trends. Lasso hadn’t been launched in most countries and was available only in the United States (US), Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama and some other countries. Read the full article

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Facebook is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone

Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut’s TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Lasso alerted users on Wednesday.

Launched in late 2018, Lasso was seen as Facebook’s answer to TikTok that’s gained ground with young users, both in China and in the West. Lasso allowed users shoot up to 15-second long videos and overlay popular songs. The app centered around an algorithmic feed of recommended videos, but also allowed users to tap through hashtags or a Browse page of themed collections.

As of February, Lasso was available in Colombia, Mexico, the U.S., Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Uruguay, research firm Sensor Tower told TechCrunch. Earlier this year, Facebook added support for Hindi language in Lasso, suggesting that it may have had plans to bring Lasso to India, its biggest market by users account.

Lasso’s demise comes ahead of the launch of Instagram Reels — the new horse Facebook is counting on to steal TikTok’s lunch, said Josh Constine, who first spotted Lasso’s announcement.

Facebook’s TikTok clone lasso is shutting down ahead of the Instagram Reels launch, so basically Fb lost 2 years by half-assing. Brb, gotta go save my zero Lassos pic.twitter.com/VgKImjgWM4

— Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) July 2, 2020

It’s unclear why Facebook never expanded Lasso to more markets. But what is clear is that Lasso’s journey was troubled from the beginning. Brady Voss, who led the development of this app, left Facebook days after the launch of Lasso.

We have reached out to Facebook for comment.

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Facebook is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone

Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut’s TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Lasso alerted users on Wednesday.

Launched in late 2018, Lasso was seen as Facebook’s answer to TikTok that’s gained ground with young users, both in China and in the West. Lasso allowed users shoot up to 15-second long videos and overlay popular songs. The app centered around an algorithmic feed of recommended videos, but also allowed users to tap through hashtags or a Browse page of themed collections.

As of February, Lasso was available in Colombia, Mexico, the U.S., Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Uruguay, research firm Sensor Tower told TechCrunch. Earlier this year, Facebook added support for Hindi language in Lasso, suggesting that it may have had plans to bring Lasso to India, its biggest market by users account.

Lasso’s demise comes ahead of the launch of Instagram Reels — the new horse Facebook is counting on to steal TikTok’s lunch, said Josh Constine, who first spotted Lasso’s announcement.

Facebook’s TikTok clone lasso is shutting down ahead of the Instagram Reels launch, so basically Fb lost 2 years by half-assing. Brb, gotta go save my zero Lassos pic.twitter.com/VgKImjgWM4

— Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) July 2, 2020

It’s unclear why Facebook never expanded Lasso to more markets. But what is clear is that Lasso’s journey was troubled from the beginning. Brady Voss, who led the development of this app, left Facebook days after the launch of Lasso.

We have reached out to Facebook for comment.

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Is This The End Of Scrolling Up And Down On Instagram?

Instagram is testing a new way to view your timeline which replaces scrolling up or down using your thumb with tap-to-advance. This is identical to Instagram Stories.

According to Techcrunch, Instagram is planning to eliminate thumb-scrolling fatigue, by letting you tap on posts to see the next one one your feed. How does it work? Much like Instagram Stories, users will tap to proceed to the next post that would regularly appear on their timeline.

The upside of such approach is of course the size of media. When scrolling up and down, sometimes users need to “center” the visual in order to have optimal viewing experience. By tapping, videos and images will appear full screen at once, without having to fiddle. This way to navigate the timeline is also known as tap-to-advance.

By eliminating thumb swipe fatigue and ensuring the full post always appears on screen, testing tap-to-advance in Explore could get us spending more time on Instagram https://t.co/l2yIHAHUkCpic.twitter.com/Mr0khQQATH

— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) October 11, 2018

Moreover, such a format is perfect for uninterrupted of content consumption. Some users argue that it’s the perfect way to ‘switch off’ one’s brain and spend hours watching videos or images. This can be somewhat contrarian to the fact that both Facebook and Instagram are now tracking your time online, but Facebook Inc. has been full of contradictions lately anyway.

According to a spokesperson, Instagram is “always testing ways to improve the experience on Instagram and bring you closer to the people and things you love.” While this cute little feature is currently being tested to selected few thousands of users, there are no active plans to roll it out any time soon.

#instagram stories#tap to advance#thumb scrolling#Timeline

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Broker Besar, Lingkaran Lebih Besar, dan Putaran MakerDAO: Minggu Ini di Crypto

Pastikan Anda memeriksa edisi sebelumnya di  sini , sekarang mari kita lihat apa yang terjadi di crypto minggu ini. Juga, pastikan Anda berlangganan untuk edisi minggu ini dari  The Detikdax Podcast  di  iTunes ,  TuneIn ,  Stitcher ,  Google Play Musik ,  Spotify ,  SoundCloud ,  YouTube  atau di  mana pun  Anda mendapatkan podcast Anda.

Harga Tonton:

Bitcoin turun 2% menjadi $ 6,333 minggu ini setelah mencapai $ 6.700 minggu lalu. Harga bervariasi minimal minggu ini dibandingkan dengan pergerakan harga dramatis minggu lalu. Ini termasuk osilasi cepat antara  $ 6.300 dan $ 6.400  dan harga menyentuh  level $ 6.600  dan  level $ 6.200 dalam beberapa hari satu sama lain. Minggu ini melihat variabilitas yang jauh lebih sedikit. Ethereum turun 10% minggu ini  membalikkan kenaikan 10% yang dilakukan minggu lalu . Kenaikan minggu lalu mungkin merupakan anomali dengan minggu sebelumnya yang mengalami penurunan sebesar  31% minggu lalu , 5% pada pekan sebelumnya dan turun  11%   dan  24%  pada minggu-minggu sebelumnya dengan penurunan satu dan dua digit pada bulan-bulan sebelumnya. Penurunan baru-baru ini terus disalahkan pada  penjualan ICO . Lebih berkontribusi terhadap penurunan harga minggu ini adalah fakta bahwa Utrust telah bermitra dengan tim dev Ethereum Klasik untuk mengintegrasikan dll . Kapitalisasi Pasar Koin datar minggu lalu  karena perubahan minimal oleh Bitcoin dan dengan kerugian Ethereum yang dibuat oleh harga Stellar yang melonjak .

Bank:

Kasikornbank dari Thailand ke Platform Lintas-Batas Pembayaran Pilot Blocka  - Kasikornbank , bank terbesar berdasarkan kapitalisasi pasar di Thailand bergabung dengan platform Visa B2B Connect. Dirancang untuk memungkinkan pembayaran lintas batas yang cepat dan aman antara bisnis menggunakan teknologi blockchain, platform ini mengandalkan pada izin arsitektur blockchain pribadi yang dioperasikan oleh perusahaan jasa keuangan global, Visa Inc.

Pemerintah:

Rencana Pialang Terbesar Brasil untuk Proses Hukum Perdagangan Bitcoin  - Grupo XP, pialang independen terbesar di Brasil, telah mengumumkan rencananya untuk meluncurkan platform perdagangan Bitcoin dan Ethereum pada akhir 2018. Langkah ini dilakukan setelah penyelidikan oleh pemerintah Brasil dan pengawas antimonopoli telah meluncurkan penyelidikan resmi ke bank dan lembaga keuangan utama di negara ini setelah menerima keluhan bahwa pertukaran kripto menerima layanan keuangan di bawah standar dari bank lokal. Dubai Meningkatkan Pembayaran Portal DubaiPay dengan teknologi Blockchain -  Dikembangkan bekerja sama dengan Departemen Keuangan Dubai (DoF), Smart Dubai Office (SDO) meluncurkan sistem yang ditujukan untuk memungkinkan rekonsiliasi dan penyelesaian transaksi secara real-time. pada hari Minggu dengan siaran pers yang melabelinya "upgrade blockchain-powered ke sistem keuangannya". Mahkamah Agung India untuk Mendengarkan Argumen Akhir tentang Bank Sentral vs Kasus Bitcoin  - Mahkamah Agung India bersiap untuk mendengar argumen terakhir pada petisi terhadap larangan perbankan Bitcoin pada hari Selasa, melaporkan  media lokal.

Pertukaran:

Gemini Eyes UK Expansion  - The  Financial Times  melaporkan bahwa Gemini telah menyewa penasihat terkait kepindahan ke Inggris dan dapat segera mengajukan permohonan kepada Otoritas Perilaku Keuangan Inggris ( FCA ) untuk otorisasi pengaturan untuk membuka pertukaran di negara di bawah e-money agensi program lisensi. Langkah ini muncul setelah pengumuman baru-baru ini tentang dolar Gemini dapat menandai gesekan di Coinbase, karena pertukaran e  menerima  lisensi e-money dari FCA, memberikan wewenang untuk memberikan pembayaran dan layanan uang elektronik kepada pelanggan di Inggris dan 23 lainnya Negara-negara Uni Eropa. Crypto Giant Circle Lists EOS, Stellar, 0x dan Qtum  - Circle telah mengumumkan dalam  posting blog penambahan empat aset digital baru ke platform Circle Invest, sehingga jumlah total cryptocurrency yang terdaftar pada platform menjadi 11. Menurut posting blog Circle , Empat aset crypto dipilih untuk listing berdasarkan kesesuaian mereka, yang ditentukan oleh Lingkaran Aset Asset . Sejak merilis  Lingkaran Invest di bulan Maret, platform telah agresif dirayu meningkatkan pangsa pasar, listing Zcash  dan Monero  pada bulan Mei. $ 230 Juta: Mt. Gox Trustee Mengonfirmasi Penjualan Bitcoin di Masa Lalu  - Menurut dokumen yang diterbitkan di Mt. Situs web Gox, Nobuaki Kobayashi, wali amanat operator pertukaran, menjual sekitar 24.658 BTC dan 25.333 BCH antara pertemuan kreditur terakhir pada 7 Maret dankeputusan pengadilan 22 Juni  memungkinkan perkebunan untuk keluar dari kebangkrutan dan memasuki rehabilitasi sipil. Beberapa orang mempertanyakan apakah penjualan ini telah menyebabkan pasar beruang . Google membatalkan pencekalannya Crypto Iklan  - Google, $ 828.000.000.000 mesin pencari raksasa, telah membatalkan pemblokiran  iklan terkait kripto, yang memungkinkan perusahaan diatur untuk memanfaatkan platform untuk mengiklankan produk mereka.

Cryptocurrency:

Brave Browser Hits 4 Juta Pengguna Aktif Bulanan  - Berani, browser web yang dibuat oleh pendiri Mozilla B rendan Eichdan didanai melalui  $ 36 juta ICO  telah mencapai 4 juta pengguna aktif bulanan dan 10 juta unduhan . Angka-angka baru datang setelah pengumuman minggu lalu  dari kemitraan dengan startup identitas blockchain Civic untuk memungkinkan penerbit yang diverifikasi untuk menerima pembayaran BAT bulanan mereka di dompet Ethereum eksternal daripada yang default yang disediakan oleh browser. Vitalik Mengatakan Ethereum Dapat Mengukur Hingga 500 tx / s Menggunakan Teknologi Zcash  - Menulis di sebuah forum penelitian ETH  dalam sebuah tulisan yang diterbitkan pada hari Sabtu, Buterin mengatakan bahwa Ethereum dapat meminjam inovasi teknologi dari Cryptocurrency privasi-sentris  Zcash  untuk "memvalidasi massal" ETH transaksi dengan  mengizinkan merelai simpul untuk "memverifikasi kebenaran perhitungan tanpa harus mengeksekusinya" atau "mempelajari apa yang dieksekusi". Bitmain Rival Ebang Meluncurkan Jajaran Baru Penambang Bitcoin Uber-Efisien  -   Ebang Communication yang berbasis di China, salah satu produsen terbesar di dunia untuk rangkaian prosesor terintegrasi khusus (ASIC) untuk penambang bitcoin, telah meluncurkan generasi selanjutnya dari lini produk andalannya, lengkap dengan chip yang ditingkatkan yang membuat langkah signifikan dalam efisiensi energi. Andreessen Horowitz Menginvestasikan $ 15 Juta di AsetBAet-Backed Stablecoin  - Perusahaan modal ventura Amerika, yang telah berinvestasi dalam startup kripto seperti CryptoKitties dan OpenBazaar di masa lalu, membeli 6 persen dari total pasokan token MKR melalui  dana crypto $ 300 juta , a16z . Dana tersebut memberikan total $ 15 juta untukproyek MakerDAOdan menandai investasi mereka sebagai "pembelian strategis." Memegang token MKR akan menawarkan a16z hak untuk mengatur MakerDAO dan Sistem Kredit Dai karena ia menjadi organisasi stablecoin otonom terdesentralisasi pertama.

Kejahatan:

Otoritas India Mengumpulkan Properti Bitcoin Scammer Senilai $ 60 Juta -   Petugas penegak hukum India telah menyita harta tak bergerak dari pemilik Detikdax.com , termasuk enam kantor di Dubai dan apartemen perumahan dan saldo bank dari dua rekannya Hemant Bhope dan Pankaj Adlakha , di bawah ketentuan tindakan Anti Pencucian Uang (AML). Jepang Menampar Operator Crypto Exchange setelah Pencurian $ 60 Juta  - Otoritas keuangan Jepang meningkatkan pengawasan mereka ke sektor pertukaran kripto dalam negeri setelah of 6.7 miliar ($ 60 juta) per minggu dari pertukaran Tech Bureau, Zaif . Cryptojacking Dibuka sebesar 86% di Kuartal Kedua 2018: McAfee Labs  - Menurut  McAfee Labs, serangan malware penambangan cryptocurrency meningkat 86% pada kuartal kedua tahun ini. Sementara target utama penambangan malware cryptocurrency tetap komputer pribadi, cryptojackers semakin mengalihkan perhatian mereka ke perangkat seperti smartphone dan gadget lain yang memiliki koneksi internet. Penting: Ini adalah beberapa bagian yang sangat populer minggu ini. Temui Pria yang Melacak Penculik dan Paramiliter Menggunakan Blockchain -  Profil Ben Strickland, yang menggunakan data blockchain untuk melacak penculik. Artikel ini menawarkan 10-30 kasus pemerasan seksual harian yang dilaporkan yang menggunakan Bitcoin. Sistem Off-Grid, Bertenaga Surya Mengirim Crypto Melalui Gelombang Radio  - Gambaran tentang Burst, blockchain bertenaga surya yang beroperasi sepenuhnya di luar jaringan. Burst mungkin proyek pertama yang melakukan  transaksi off-grid sepenuhnya , membuka kasus penggunaan untuk cryptocurrency dalam contoh bencana alam atau area dengan infrastruktur yang buruk. Opini: Apakah Bank Sentral India Gugup Tentang Mahkamah Agung Membiarkan Crypto Trading? - Analisis mendalam tentang motivasi Bank Sentral India seputar kebijakannya tentang mata uang kripto. Penambangan Bitcoin Energi Hijau Akan Memiliki 'Dampak Lingkungan Tidak Penting'  - Wawancara dengan Hass McCook, seorang insinyur sipil serta peneliti Bitcoin dan advokat yang telah melakukan penyelidikan terdalam ke dalam kebutuhan energi Bitcoin yang pernah dilakukan. McCook baru-baru ini merilis laporan  39 halaman  tentang penggunaan energi dalam crypto bersama dengan   sepuluh bagian seri Youtube yang  menjelaskan temuannya. CEO Bitcoin Reksa Dana Menjelaskan Mengapa Kanada Lebih Ramah untuk Blockchain daripada AS -  Dalam sebuah wawancara eksklusif dengan Detikdax, Sean Clark, CEO  First Block Capital Inc.  - operator dari Bitcoin Trust FBC, reksa dana bitcoin pertama untuk berdagang di Kanada - Membahas faktor-faktor mendasar yang membuat Kanada menjadi negara yang ramah terhadap teknologi baru seperti cryptocurrency. Wawancara: TechCrunch Editor-at-Large Josh Constine Bincang-bincang dengan Cryptocurrency  - Duduklah dengan TechCrunch editor-at-Josh Constine yang besar. Josh adalah kelas berat media, setelah mewawancarai orang-orang seperti Mark Zuckerberg, Edward Snowden, dan Cory Booker dan telah berbicara di 120 acara dengan beragam topik. Read the full article

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Snapchat’s Zenly launches coronavirus Stay Home leaderboard

Snapchat’s location sharing app acquisition Zenly has gamified shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 outbreak. Today the app launched its Stay At Home challenge that shows a leaderboard of which friends have spent the most percentage of the last three days in their homes. Users can see who’s social distancing the best and share stickers of the scoreboard and coronavirus prevention tips to Snapchat, Instagram, and other apps.

Location apps like Zenly typically encourage users to go out and explore the world suddenly lost most of their purpose due to widespread order for people to self-quarantine. They even might have incentivized people to disobey those orders. But by building a game around isolation, Zenly could make it cool to show off how you’re NOT grabbing coffee, visiting friends, or taking a walk down Main St.

Zenly’s co-founder announced the feature this morning, and credited a tweet I posted on March 15th calling for developers to build a gamified quarantine app as the inspiration. The quick work and rapid deployment was spearheaded by Danny Trinh, the renowned designer of Path who joined the company last year.

@thek3vinkim @TurnerNovak @GillesPoupardin @LucasLambertini @nicolasfallourd for staying home!

And thanks @JoshConstine for the idea leading to this feature! pic.twitter.com/CEwrJiCFHd

— Antoine Martin (@an21m) March 24, 2020

Beyond Zenly’s version of “Pokemon No Go”, the app is also offering up tips for containing coronavirus and a link to World Health Organization info. You can also attach a surgical mask to your profile pic to let your friends know you’re taking social distancing seriously.

What could really make a difference in convincing people to do their part to fight this worldwide pandemic, though, is Zenly’s coronavirus lens for its map. It lets you look around the world and see the number of confirmed cases and recoveries in each country or state. Zenly is update the data three times per day based on the The John Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The map also overlays info from the WHO, the Netherlands’ BNO News, China’s DXY, and this crowdsourced GitHub.

Knowing that this is happening around the globe might reinforce the gravity of our situation and that people can’t just go about their normal routine. We all have to battle this together, even if we’re stuck apart.

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Доля рынка Facebook Gaming выросла до 8,5% от всех потоковых часов, наблюдавшихся в прошлом месяце, по сравнению с 3,1% в декабре 2018 года, в то время как Twitch упал до 61% с 67,1% (Ольга Хариф / Bloomberg)

Цукерберг бросает ежегодные личные проблемы, разделяет его цели на следующее десятилетие, включая новую частную с��циальную платформу, AR / VR и новые формы управления. Каждый новый год последнего десятилетия я ставил перед собой личные задачи. Моя цель состояла в том, чтобы вырасти новыми путями вне моей повседневной работы под управлением Facebook. Больше: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Axios, Gizmodo, CNN, Fortune, The Guardian, CoinDesk, CNET, CNBC, SlashGear и Mashable Твиты: @caseynewton, @mikeisaac, @joshconstine, @amrith, @yoda, @dylanbyers, @willoremus, @alexeheath, @sarahfkessler, @joshconstine, @balajis, @alexeheath, @mikeisaac, @jasonabbruhungf

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General Election 2019: 'Cyber attack' on Labour Party digital platforms

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IoT News - Microsoft and Nokia collaborate to accelerate digital transformation and Industry 4.0

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Instagram Stories launches TikTok clone Reels in Brazil

TechCrunch – Josh Constine ( @JoshConstine ) – Nov 11, 7:00 PM

Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok. Instagram Reels lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, with the potential to go viral on a new Top…

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Robotic health care is coming to a hospital near you

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Inspired Capital, founded by Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker, just closed its debut fund with $200 million

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Facebook is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone

Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut’s TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Lasso alerted users on Wednesday.

Launched in late 2018, Lasso was seen as Facebook’s answer to TikTok that’s gained ground with young users, both in China and in the West. Lasso allowed users shoot up to 15-second long videos and overlay popular songs. The app centered around an algorithmic feed of recommended videos, but also allowed users to tap through hashtags or a Browse page of themed collections.

As of February, Lasso was available in Colombia, Mexico, the U.S., Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Uruguay, research firm Sensor Tower told TechCrunch. Earlier this year, Facebook added support for Hindi language in Lasso, suggesting that it may have had plans to bring Lasso to India, its biggest market by users account.

Lasso’s demise comes ahead of the launch of Instagram Reels — the new horse Facebook is counting on to steal TikTok’s lunch, said Josh Constine, who first spotted Lasso’s announcement.

Facebook’s TikTok clone lasso is shutting down ahead of the Instagram Reels launch, so basically Fb lost 2 years by half-assing. Brb, gotta go save my zero Lassos pic.twitter.com/VgKImjgWM4

— Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) July 2, 2020

It’s unclear why Facebook never expanded Lasso to more markets. But what is clear is that Lasso’s journey was troubled from the beginning. Brady Voss, who led the development of this app, left Facebook days after the launch of Lasso.

We have reached out to Facebook for comment.

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Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff

Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff

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Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. TechCrunch was…

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Twitter acqui-hires highlight-sharing app Highly

Quotes from articles are much more eye-catching than links on Twitter, so the social giant is scooping up the team behind highlight-sharing app Highly. This talent could help Twitter build its own version of Highly or develop other ways to excerpt the best content from websites and get it into the timeline.

Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch that the deal was an acqui-hire, and a spokesperson provided this statement: “We are excited to welcome the Highly team to Twitter. Their expertise will accelerate our product and design thinking around making Twitter more conversational.” We’ve asked about what data portability options Highly will offer.

Highly will shut down its iOS and Slack app on April 26th, though it promises that “No highlights will be harmed.” It’s also making its paid “Crowd Control” for private highlight sharing plus Highly For Teams free in the meantime.

“Social highlights can make sharing stories online feel personal, efficient and alive — like retelling a story to a friend, over coffee. They give people shared context and spark meaningful conversations,” the Highly team writes.

Quotes can make the difference between someone breezing past a link they don’t want to leave Twitter to explore, and getting a peek at what’s smart about an article so they know if it’s worth diving deeper. Many people use OneShot to generate Twitter-formatted screenshots of posts. But Highly lets you just rub your finger over text to turn it into an image with a link back to the article for easy tweeting. You could also search an archive of your past highlights, and follow curators who spot the best quotes. Its browser extensions and native app let you highlight from wherever you read.

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— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) April 17, 2019

“Sharing highlights, not headlines — sharing thinking instead of lazily linking — helps spark the kind of conversation that leaves participants and observers alike a bit better off than they started. We’d like to see more of this,” the Highly teams writes. That’s why it’s joining Twitter to work on improving conversation health. Founded in 2014, Highly had raised a seed round in 2017.

Twitter’s shift to algorithmic ranking of the timeline means every tweet has to compete to be seen. Blasting out links that are a chore to open and read can lead to low engagement, causing Twitter to show it to fewer people. Tools like Highly can give tweeters a leg up. And if Twitter can build these tools right into its service, it could allow more people to create appealing tweets so they actually feel heard.

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Josh Constine leaves TechCrunch for VC fund SignalFire

How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love. Now it’s time to put that love into action to help a new generation of entrepreneurs build their dreams and tell their stories.

So it’s “TC to VC” for me. After 8.5 years at TechCrunch and 10 in tech journalism, I’m leaving today to join the venture team at VC fund SignalFire. I’m going to be a principal investor and their head of content.

I’ll be seeking out inspiring new companies, doing deals (when I’m eventually up to speed) and providing pitch workshops based on countless interviews for TechCrunch. Thankfully, I’ll also still get to write. We’re going to find out what founders really want to learn and produce that content to help them form, evolve and grow their companies. I’m doing my signature bounce & smile with excitement.

Where to follow my writing

You’ll still be able to follow my writing as well as my journey into VC on my newsletter Moving Product at constine.substack.com as well as on Twitter: @JoshConstine. No way I could just suddenly shut up about startups! If you’re building something, you can always reach me at joshsc [at] gmail.com

On the newsletter you can read a deeper explanation for why I picked SignalFire . I also just published the first real issue of Moving Product on how quarantine is “loaning” concurrent users to startups that will help the new wave of synchronous apps snowball to sustainability, plus commentary from top product thinkers on Facebook’s new Rooms.

Why I chose SignalFire?

I was drawn to SignalFire because it’s built like the startups I love writing about: to solve a need. Entrepreneurs need tactical advantages in areas like recruiting, where they spend most of their time, and expert advice on specific problems they’re facing.

SignalFire CEO and founder Chris Farmer

That’s why SignalFire spent six years in stealth building its recruitment prediction and market data analysis engine called Beacon. It can spot deal opportunities for SignalFire’s new $200 million seed and $300 million breakout funds while helping the portfolio hire smarter. Then SignalFire assembled more than 80 top experts, like Instagram’s founders, for its invested advisor network. Traditional funds need partners to exhaust their social capital asking for favors from friends to help their portfolio. SignalFire’s model sees its advisors share in the returns of the fund, so they’re sustainably motivated to assist.

SignalFire’s founder and CEO Chris Farmer was also willing to invest in me, figuratively. I’ve written about thousands of startups but I’ve never funded one. He and his team have offered to mentor me as I learn the art and science of investing. They also accept me for my opinionated, outspoken self. Instead of constricting my voice, the plan is to harness it to highlight new ideas and proven methods for building companies. I wrote this post on my newsletter with a deeper look at why I picked SignalFire and how its modernized approach to venture works.

What makes TechCrunch different

Of the 3,600 articles I’ve written for TechCrunch, this was the hardest.

TechCrunch gave me the platform to make an impact and the freedom to say what I believe. That’s a rare opportunity in journalism, but especially important for covering startups. TechCrunch writes about things that haven’t happened yet. There are often no objective facts by which to judge an early-stage company. Whether you decide to cover them or not, and the tone of your analysis, depends on having conviction about whether the world needs something or not, if the product is built right and if the team has what it takes.

If you rely on others’ signals about what matters, whether in the form of traction or investment, you’ll be late to the story. That means editors have to trust their writers’ intuition. At TechCrunch, that trust never wavered.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 04: (L-R) Snap Inc. Co-founder & CEO Evan Spiegel and TechCrunch editor-at-large Josh Constine speak onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Eric Eldon, Alexia Tsotsis and Matthew Panzarino put their absolute faith in our team. That gave me a chance to write the first-ever coverage of startups like Robinhood before its seed round, and SnappyCam before it was acquired by Apple and turned into iPhone burst fire. My editors also never shied away from confrontations with the tech giants, like my investigation into Facebook paying teens for their data that caused it to shut down its Onavo tool, or my exposé on Bing suggesting child abuse imagery in search results that led it to overhaul its systems.

I met my wife Andee at a TechCrunch event. [Image Credit: Max Morse]

I’ll always be indebted to Eric Eldon, who gave a freshly graduated cybersociologist with no experience his first shot at blogging back at Inside Facebook. Editors like Alexia Tsotsis and Matthew Panzarino helped me develop a more critical voice without sterilizing my personality. And all my fellow writers over the years, including Zack Whittaker and Sarah Perez, pushed me to hustle, whether that meant pontificating on new product launches or exposing industry abuse. If my departure from journalism elicits a sigh of relief from the companies in my cross-hairs, I know I did my job. The TechCrunch business and events team have turned Disrupt into the tech industry’s reunion. I appreciate them giving me the chance to learn public speaking, from the most heartfelt moments to the cringiest. And really, I owe them the rest of my life, too, since I met my wife Andee at a Disrupt after-party.

Treating writing like a sport to be won kept me cranking all these years, and I’m grateful for Techmeme offering a scoreboard for extra motivation. I’ll unhumbly admit it’s nice to hang up my jersey while ranked No. 1. My gratitude to Jane Manchun Wong for furnishing so many scoops over the years, and to all my other sources. It’s been fun competing and collaborating with my favorite other reporters, and I know Taylor Lorenz, Casey Newton and Mike Isaac will keep a close eye on tech’s trends and travesties.

But most of all, I want to extend an enormous thank you to…you. To everyone who has read or shared my articles over the years. I woke up each day with a sense of duty to you, and felt proud to say “I fight for the user” like Tron. What makes this industry special is how the community refuses to treat it as zero-sum. We grow the pie together, and everyone knows their competitor today could be their future co-founder. That makes us willing to share and learn together. I believe no recession, correction or bubble-burst will change that. 

BERLIN, GERMANY – DECEMBER 12: Group Photo on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019 at Arena Berlin on December 12, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

So I’ll leave you with a final thought that’s made my life so fulfilling: If you have the privilege or create the opportunity, turn your passion into your profession.

Specialize. Learn. Then make what you want. If you can find some niche you’re endlessly interested in, that’s growing in importance, and at least someone somewhere earns money from, you’ll become essential. Not necessarily today. But that’s the beauty of writing — it teaches you while proving to others what you’ve been taught. No matter what it is, blog about it once a week. In time you’ll become an expert, and be recognized as one. Then you’ll have the power to adapt to the future, however feels most graceful.

Personal news: It's TC to VC for me! I'm leaving TechCrunch to join SignalFire as a principal investor & head of content. I'm also launching my newsletter where I'm writing now: https://t.co/F7gvssC4Ky A "toast", to the future! pic.twitter.com/XRhDxdS5NF

— joshconstine (@JoshConstine) April 27, 2020

Keep up with my writing on my newsletter at constine.substack.com, stay in touch on Twitter, and reach out at joshsc [at] gmail.com

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