in just three years in the industry.
Unlike most people in crypto though, he’s building up a fortune in order to give half of it away. An ‘effective altruist’ he’s essentially robbing from the rich, via his preternatural crypto trading strategies, in order to give to the poor.
“Maybe without the robbing part,” he says. “In the end my goal is to have as much impact as I can, however that is. And right now, I think that’s flowing through donations, so figuring out how I can be able to make as much as I can and donate as much as I can.”
Trump submitted an appeal directly to Facebook s Oversight Board - it will rule if he s allowed back Feb 24, 2021, 11:57 AM
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Former President Donald Trump appealed to the Facebook Oversight Board, Channel 4 News reported.
The Oversight Board will decide whether Facebook should reinstate Trump s account.
An Oversight Board spokesperson confirmed it received a user statement regarding Trump s case.
Former president Donald Trump appealed directly to Facebook s Oversight Board to rejoin the platform, Channel 4 News reported.
The Facebook Oversight Board, a team of 20 experts from around the world, is reviewing the tech company s decision to permanently suspend Trump s account. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former prime minister of Denmark and a member of the Oversight Board, told Channel 4 News of Trump s appeal, according to the outlet s communication director Hayley Barlow.
Venture capital firms are forming blank-check companies at a torrid pace.
They have the potential to buy startups they re already invested in, in order to take them public.
It s not illegal to buy companies where they have an interest, but it raises a potential conflict.
These days, more venture capital firms are either forming their own special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, or having internal conversations about doing so. A SPAC would let them launch a startup onto the public markets, even one from their own portfolios.
Peter Hébert, a founding partner at Lux Capital, whose SPAC started trading on the stock market last fall, said he s had at least 60 phone calls with venture capitalists who are asking if they should jump on the trend.