Episode 192: Coté still doesn’t understand how startup valuations work

We discuss WeWork vs. Regus, Cloudera, and tumblr. Plus, some clarifications on trans-dimensional bomb defusing.

Mood board:

• You talk about the Pacific Northwest, but have you thought about Florida?
• I could be like the 35 year old Andy Rooney.
• Hey Google, where are my keys?
• We’re driving off hosts at this point
• Herbalife.
• Funny logs.
• Was it real money?
• It’s probably cheaper than severance.
• I am not following any of it.
• Where’s Tim Wu when you need him?
• This is Tumblr all over again.
• Nothing but insects please.
• Oh Andy Rooney, save me!

Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.

Relevant to your interests

• Apple Card Review: The Credit Card of the Future Is No Card At All - Banking.
• Matt Asay goes to AWS
• Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress.com Owner
• Automattic’s bargain-bin Tumblr deal plugs right into the WordPress business model
• Verizon agrees to sell Tumblr to owner of Wordpress
• Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera
• Kubernetes open sourced their security audit. What can we learn?
• GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
• Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B
• Broadcom's Strategy for its Symantec Deal Has a Lot in Common with its CA Deal
• Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion
• Cloud Computing without Containers
• Spiceworks acquired.
• Amazon announces general availability of AWS Lake Formation
• Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
• Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com
• Introducing Certificate Transparency Monitoring
• The XY Problem - or (x)Y?
• Snap announces Spectacles 3 with an updated design and a second HD camera
• A cofounder of NPM, a startup that 11 million developers rely on, has resigned in the wake of a period of employee unrest
• He tried to prank the DMV. Then his vanity license plate backfired big time.
• Clever Vanity License Plate Backfires On Man, Winds Up With Tons Of Tickets
• I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets
• Microsoft culls Office 2019 from its Home Use Program
• War and Peace (Book)

Nonsense

• Man dies after competing in California taco-eating contest
• Real ad that a real restaurant in Mexico

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Conferences, et. al.

• August 30th - Agile Scotland, Glasgow - Coté giving 90 minute workshop. Use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount: from £70 to £56.13.
• Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
• Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Coté (make sure to use the accented e). Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
• Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
• Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
• December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney

SDT news & hype

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• Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

• Brandon: Azlo and TransferWise.
• Matt: Eluvium An Accidental Memory In the Case of Death
• Coté: Thunderspace app.

Outro: “Andy Rooney MONTAGE.”

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