“You had one job” might be funny when a birthday cake decoration goes wrong, but if we’re talking about executives who don’t show up for board meetings, the stakes are much higher. “Disengaged or dysfunctional boards aren’t just bad for CEOs and LPs; they’re bad for everyone,” writes Matt Blumberg, co-founder and CEO of Bolster,…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
John Zic Contributor Share on Twitter John Zic is a partner and founding team member at EQUIAM. He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. Shachi Shah Contributor Shachi Shah is director of business operations at EQUIAM. She is passionate…
Whether you’re bullish or bearish, web3-native or web3-naive, you have to admit nothing remains the same for long in the growing blockchain, crypto, NFT and web3 universe. And the entirety of the rapidly evolving space is under increasing scrutiny — both public and regulatory. This constant change, combined with plenty of controversy, are just two…
General Motors is partnering with a Canadian battery recycler to produce new batteries from recovered battery materials, as it aims to scale EV production in North America amid supply shortages and rising costs. The automaker invested through its GM Ventures arm in a Series A financing round for Lithion Recycling, a developer of advanced battery…
Can anyone truthfully claim to have nothing to play in the Year of Our Lord 2022? Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, The Quarry, and [insert any number of fantastic Nintendo releases from the past few months] have entered the chat. In the off-chance your backlog is completely empty, or if you just need a quick…
Cybercriminals are impersonating CircleCI to try and steal GitHub accounts, both companies have confirmed. According to the two firms, criminals are currently distributing a phishing email, in which they impersonate the continuous integration and delivery platform, CircleCI. The email is being sent to GitHub users, and warns them that CircleCI’s user terms and privacy policy…
Intel’s next-gen flagship CPU has been spotted in a leaked benchmark, with the Raptor Lake chip showing a good turn of speed. The Core i9-13900K has turned up in PassMark, as Tum_Apisak brought to our attention on Twitter (courtesy of VideoCardz), with the processor being ranked on four sample runs. i9-13900Khttps://t.co/HdXGMn3D8w pic.twitter.com/2WTK9g0TFESeptember 23, 2022 See…
A UK 10 pound note featuring Queen Elizabeth II’s image lies alongside a US dollar bill. Photo Illustration by Matt Cardy/Getty Images The UK pound hits a fresh 37-year low against the US dollar on Friday. Pound sterling fell below $1.09 as the UK’s new government outlined tax cuts and other moves to bolster economic…
American flag over US money STILLFX/Getty Images The US has the highest number of individuals with worth more than $50 million, according to a new global wealth report. The US is also home to the majority of people with more than $100 million in wealth. The median wealth per adult in the US was a…
Illustration of DART approaching Dimorphos. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASA is about to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to nudge it into a new orbit. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is practice for deflecting an asteroid away from Earth. But NASA can’t protect Earth if it doesn’t see asteroids coming, and its surveillance is…