03.28.2023

Maya's Reading List

March 28, 2023

March 28th 2023

SPICE CAPITAL PRESENTS: 🔥 🌶 HOT SAUCE 🌶 🔥

Here at Spice Capital, we’re focused on making big bets in areas primed for rapid change. To do that, we believe it’s important to stay up to date with what some of the most exciting thinkers and builders are saying day-to-day as well as mixing up your content intake with some fun from the corners of the internet. We know there’s a lot of noise and the space can feel overwhelming. Don’t worry! We’re here to be the Hot Sauce in your bag so you can make sure you always keep things spicy!

1) Nvidia Founder Jensen Huang Video Interview

This is a founder story of strong conviction in the early days when Nvidia was up against incumbents in a seemingly impossible task...and then adaptability + resilience. Nvidia has reinvented itself several times in response to technological revolutions, including the PC revolution, the internet revolution, the cloud computing revolution, and the AI revolution.

Always cool to see how founder-led CEOs think at this scale.

2) State of Commercial Real Estate ($20 Trillion Market)

Main point to think about here is that Commercial Real Estate is a very large umbrella term. Headlines can be misleading - and certain categories and regions have very positive outlooks + growth.

Where Stress Is Showing in the $20 Trillion Commercial Real Estate Market

Listen to this episode from Odd Lots on Spotify. Markets are suddenly on edge due to strains in the financial system. But banks aren't the only source of stress. Pockets of the commercial real estate market — which is worth around $20 trillion — are showing cracks as well. Higher interest rates are one factor, but also a lot of commercial office space is still not at pre-Covid capacity levels, putting pressure on income. So where are the trouble spots? And who is holding the bag? On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Rich Hill, head of real estate strategy & research at Cohen & Steers, about the state of the market.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3) !!🚨Anna Wintour Interview 🚨 !!

Anna Wintour

Listen to this episode from Table for Two on Spotify. Anna Wintour's job titles are such a mouthful—she's editor-in-chief and global editorial director of Vogue, and artistic director and global chief content officer of Condé Nast—that it's a wonder she eats lunch at all. And when she does, it's reportedly a steak and Caprese salad (hold the tomatoes) at her desk at the World Trade Center. But this week, she makes time for a veritable Italian feast with Bruce at New York's Via Carota, where they dish on everything from the Met Gala and how she came up with the idea for Vogue World to why the next frontier in fashion is designers who resell their brand's vintage products in store. Hear a preview of the episode below, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4) Nasdaq hoping to launch Crypto Custody by end of Q2 2023

Nasdaq joins TRAD financial institutions like Fidelity & BNY Mellon - who are all looking to fill the role of crypto custody providers since many have gone bust as of recent

5) Fireside chat- Elad Gil interviews one of my favorite founders Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face 🤗

6) Here's your inspiration to try building something using GPT

LOLLLLL

7) Loved this article showing how inflation is having significant impact on Americans' spending even though lower-income demographics have been experiencing an increase in wages.

8) Garry Tan interviews the no-code king Bryan Helmig, CTO @Zapier

Building APIs for AI: An Interview with Zapier’s Bryan Helmig | Y Combinator

We sat down with Bryan Helmig, the CTO and founder of Zapier, to talk APIs and interoperability, and learn more about the company’s first-ever public API: Natural Language Actions (NLA).

9) Ticketmaster is dipping their toe in NFT-gated ticketing...

Ticketmaster Debuts NFT-Gated Ticket Sales, Starting With Avenged Sevenfold - Decrypt

After developing the feature with the metal band, Ticketmaster is offering artists a token-gated option for exclusive ticket access.

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