Amazon shuts down its philanthropic thing
Amazon shutting down AmazonSmile charitable program
AmazonSmile launched in 2013
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/amazon-shutting-down-amazonsmile-charitable-program
sad.
Laughing All The Way
Pie In The Buh-Bye
Talk about foaming the runway. From the Financial Times:
Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, closed almost all of its eight-year bet on cryptocurrencies shortly before the market began to crash last year, generating about $1.8bn in returns.
In April 2022, about the same time that Founders Fund sold out of most of its cryptocurrency holdings, Thiel said he was optimistic about the future of bitcoin. He told a cryptocurrency conference in Miami that “we’re at the end of the fiat money regime” and suggested its price — which was then trading at about $44,000 — could increase by a factor of 100.
Leaving those gains for the next generation of investors: a civic-minded spirit rarely seen on Wall Street.
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a resounding yes