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A Minecraft YouTuber raised $1,234,567 for a meme prediction market called Giggles. It helped me. | TechCrunch

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A Minecraft YouTuber raised $1,234,567 for a meme prediction market called Giggles. It helped me. | TechCrunch

I can’t say with 100% certainty that nineteen-year-old Justin Jin isn’t playing a good joke on me. In his defense, Jin Giggles’ company – which he describes as “a business app combined with TikTok” – started as a joke. “It was around 2023, when TikTok was rumored to be banned, and people were trying to … Read more

Anthropic is to be short on private markets; SpaceX can spoil the party | TechCrunch

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Glen Anderson has been selling private company shares since 2010, back when the number of institutional investors focusing on the recent private equity market can be counted on two hands. He says today there are thousands. As president of investment bank Rainmaker Securities, which focuses exclusively on private equity markets and manages transactions in about … Read more