Wed. 01/20 – A16Z To Get Into The Media Business?

Is Andreessen Horowitz about to spin up its own media platform? Anthony Levandowski gets a pardon and Jack Ma resurfaces. Netflix is about to start printing money, and they’re about to give you a “shuffle play” button. And why Ben Thompson thinks Intel is in even more trouble than everybody thinks.

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Links:

• Andreessen Horowitz Looks to Launch Opinion Publication as Its Media Ambition Grows (The Information)
• The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz (Newcomer)
• Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski (Engadget)
• Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Ant, Alibaba Crackdown (Bloomberg)
• Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol (ZDNet)
• Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth, considers share buybacks (CNBC)
• Netflix’s ‘Shuffle Play’ feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year (TechCrunch)
• Intel Problems (Stratechery)
• Twitter Thread on the Intel stuff

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