WeWork's bananas valuation. iPhone health patent. Same-day delivery.
Texts to your wife
Hi there,
Over 20 of you sent me this horrible pie chart.
If there was a way to make pie charts worse, this is it.
Double deca-corn
On the heels of its latest mega-rounds, WeWork just became the 6th most valuable startup in the world. If the company hits its ambitious revenue and expansion goals this year, its $20B+ valuation might not be so crazy.
See, Zuck is just like you
What founder hasn’t sent a text to his wife exactly like this at some point?
Apple a day
Apple’s latest patent is aiming to turn your iPhone into a medical device. The filing describes how a phone camera could be used to collect data like heart function, body fat, and blood pressure.
The robots are coming, the robots are coming
Amazon will have more robots than employees pretty soon.
Digital health funding saw a roughly 35% increase to $3.2B last quarter, a new record. Deal flow, initially off to a slow start in Q1’17, grew 8% in Q2’17 to reach 290 deals, matching the previous record.
Future snap
With Snap reporting more slow user growth in quarterly earnings today (daily active users increased just 4% from last quarter), it’s worth looking at their patent trove for clues to their growth and innovation strategies.
We recently examined 55 of Snap’s most promising patents in commerce, AR/VR, and object recognition (including the superimposed dinosaur AR patent below).
The Industry Standard
CB Insights data is the most trusted by those in the industry and the media. A few recent hits.
ValueWalk. Rupert Hargreaves (@ruperthargreav1) writes about VC deal trends and cites CB Insights VC financing data (as well as CB Insights micro VC/microbrewery data).
