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Lil Miquela is a star by today’s standards: She has roughly 1.5m followers on IG and, thanks to new financing, the company that owns her is about to be worth at least $125m.
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Brud, the company that created Lil Miquela, is currently closing a round between
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To clear up any confusion, Lil Miquela is what they call in the biz, an “avastar” -- meaning she’s not real, but her fans certainly are, and investors are smellin’ the potential.
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Per
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The potential of avastardom goes far beyond its characters: Betaworks, a NY-based investment firm that invested in
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Companies are learning that human influencers have an expiration date to their potential, where virtual IP can be extended -- world’s will be built, interactive games will be created, and trends influenced by characters like Lil Miquela will become a way of life.
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That’s a big ol’ TBD, Ghost Rider, but with Brud’s new funding round (on top of the
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In the distant future, virtual influencers could be the social sheriff to run human influencers out of town. But when one trash lid closes a new one’s bound to open… i.e. a Logan Paul avastar.
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Shares of PG&E, the largest utility company in California, fell
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50%
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+ yesterday after PG&E announced it will file for bankruptcy protection.
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Just months ago, PG&E was a
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hot investment
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. But regulators are holding PG&E responsible for several deadly California fires, and now it's struggling to pay the billion-dollar bills.
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It costs a lot to upgrade old equipment…
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But, as it turns out, it costs
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even more
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to rebuild scorched cities. The past 10 years have been the
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driest
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in California history, making PG&E’s old, spark-prone wires more dangerous than ever.
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While PG&E has spent millions trying to upgrade its equipment, it hasn’t been able to keep up: PG&E equipment was responsible for 1,550 fires between 2014 and 2017.
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Since California state law makes utilities responsible for fires started by their equipment, the increase in damaging wildfires has resulted in an increase in financial fires at PG&E.
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Fires spread
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fast
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According to analysts, PG&E’s liabilities could exceed $30B, while the company’s entire market value is just $9.12B.
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PG&E’s disaster happened quickly: Several hedge funds invested money in the utility just a few months ago in the 3rd quarter of 2018.
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But since October, the company’s market value fell from $25.32B to $9.12B today. Today, a 2015 investment in the utility (which would have been seen as a very safe bet at the time) delivers a -80% return.
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PayPal has stayed on top of the payment pile for 2 decades by paying big bucks for users
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stock is up
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more than 100% since the start of 2017, and it still has a
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61%
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market share.
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PayPal may be a product of the first dotcom boom, but it’s
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still
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on top of the digital payments world, thanks to its acquisition strategy.
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The mafia moved on, but PayPal didn’t go anywhere
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PayPal’s early members famously left to build other mega-businesses: Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX), Peter Thiel (Palantir, Founder’s Fund), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Jawed Karim (YouTube), and Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp) were all part of the PayPal mafia.
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But, 21-year-old PayPal remained successful: Today, PayPal’s $100B market cap is more than 100x when it went public in 2002, and its market share is roughly
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3x
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larger than any competitor.
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Much of PayPal’s success rests on a few strategic acquisitions: PayPal acquired Venmo (as a part of Braintree) in 2013 and European payment giant iZettle in 2018, giving its user base a big boost.
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PayPal will pay for users
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Despite its popularity, Venmo itself still loses hundreds of millions of dollars — but its users are invaluable.
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It took PayPal 12 years to grow from 50m to 200m users. After buying Venmo, its new users grew from 200m to 250m in 18 months.
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Now, PayPal plans to keep buying users: The company has a $10.5B pile of cash on hand for when it finds the next Venmo.
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Look Ma, no code! Low-code platform Quick Base sells majority stake for $1B
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Vista Equity Partners will buy a majority stake in Quick Base Inc., a software company that provides people with no coding experience the tools to build internal software platforms.
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Vista will acquire the stake from Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe for over
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$1B
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, while the latter will keep a minority stake.
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Slow and steady for Quick Base
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Founded in 1999, Quick Base was one of the 3 business units sold by software maker Intuit
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back in 2016
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, along with software units Demandforce and Quicken.
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According to the
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WSJ
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, the
<em>
total
</em>
sale was likely worth about $500m at the time (meaning Quick Base alone was worth even less).
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But since then, coding for the layman has taken off: Quick Base has upped its annual revenue by at least 20% to more than $125m, and bagged high-profile customers like Southwest Airlines, Google, and Sprint.
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The rise of coding for dummies
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Over the last few years, DIY-coding platforms like Google’s App Maker program and Microsoft’s PowerApps have gained popularity.
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Now, Quick Base joins its competitor
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Airtable
</a>
in the unicorn coding software club. (Like Quick Base, Airtable saw its revenue increase 400% in 2018 with a total of 80k companies now using the company’s software.)
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And now that they’re in 30 cities across the country, it’s
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easier than ever
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We dress plenty comfortable at The Hustle HQ, but even the most hoodie-loving of us know that when groomsman or even --
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gasp
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-- groom duty calls, you gotta level up your fashion sense.
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It removes all the stress from wedding season, so you can focus on the good stuff, like mentally preparing for an open bar.
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Right now, you can get
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Nothing says, ‘stop by my desk anytime’ like this hand-powered marble-maze. Made with laser-cut plywood, this wooden wonder sends metal bearings on 1 of 3 different twisted descents -- just crank away and let the day’s stress dissolve. Assembly required.
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