everything’s comp(letely unserious)

Bonjour,

With the amount of livestreaming we’ve been doing this week, I’m starting to feel like this

Fortunately, I’m also annoying in person. Currently in Florida, pushing my sister to the absolute limit. 

Anyway, tune in tonight at 9pm est live on twitter dot com to catch our nightly coverage of Crypto: The Game or if you’re looking to see me really commit to a bit catch up on Dumb B!tch Hour here.

ily,

Writer: Natasha 
Editor: Deana

A Saudi Arabia investment fund bought Pokémon Go for $3.5B this week. In other Pokémon news, their NFTs did over $25M in sales in February on Polygon. Call that PMF.

Thirteen years ago, the daddy of venture capital, Marc Andreessen, spoke into existence the idea that Software Is Eating The World. This week, it got remixed and went mainstream.

On Tuesday, the 47th president of the United States of America held a press conference outside of The White House to showcase his friend’s newest lineup of cars.

It’s giving:

Over the course of the 35-minute livestream, viewers toured five of Elon’s new Teslas. One moment during this livestream rang so deeply true that it immediately went into the history books as canon. When Trump took one look at the interior of the car and said:

A useful TLDR:

The timeline became littered with examples of how this truth of modern existence comes to life.

OK but back to him.

For those of you who haven’t worshiped at the altar of tech for the last decade, Why Software Is Eating the World is a borderline biblical text for Silicon Valley, where Mr. Andreessen argues that software will transform our world and that every industry will either adapt to this or die.

Or, in ELI5, TikTok-addled, smooth-brain terms: everything's computer.