Inside Rover’s HQ in Seattle. (Rover Photo) Pet adoption rates have surged amid the pandemic, and pet spending accelerated last year. Those are a few of the tailwinds driving optimism at Rover as the Seattle startup prepares to go public via a SPAC deal by the end of next month. Unlike many tech companies, Rover … Read more
Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, said Tuesday the company had been mandated to ship 1.6 billion doses of its Covid-19 vaccine worldwide this year and the company expects to deliver at least 3 billion doses of the vaccine by 2022 to produce. The company is in talks with countries for multi-year contracts with potential delivery. … Read more
Squarespace goes public, Apple shares some music payment details, and Twitter bans the founder of right-wing media organization Project Veritas. This is your daily crisis for April 16, 2021. The big story: Squarespace files are released Squarespace has applied for a public listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SQSP. The … Read more
Greed is God. At this pointUnless you go public through a direct listing, traditional IPO, or SPAC, are you a high growth company at all? Every CEO I speak to at a startup that generates more than just Series B revenue tells me that SPACs are circling and hungry for a deal so they don’t … Read more
WASHINGTON – More than 370 Democratic congressional assistants will launch an unusual public appeal Wednesday to the Senators – in some cases their own bosses – to condemn former President Donald J. Trump for inciting a violent “attack on our workplace”, the the peaceful transition threatens power. In a very personal letter, the employees describe … Read more