peHUB First Read
* Steve Rattner took the fifth
* KKR backs off CAA investment: “The town is too complex for me.”
* Om Malik: Google’s purchase of Slide “shows that Google not only has no idea what to do about social, but actually lacks the imagination to even think of anything worthwhile on its own.”
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London stays static, European shares edge higher and the Nikkei climbs 1.7%.
* The SEC gets set to open up the proxy process
* Brad Feld: How I think about seed investing as a VC
* John Patrick Pullen: How Mafia Wars can fix the media
* Keith Hennessey: How Obamanomics really compares to Clintonomics
* Tweet of the Day: @timcarville If Barnes & Noble winds up on the auction block, I plan to go to the sale, pretend I’m interested in buying it, use the bathroom, and leave.
* Tesla’s losses continue to climb (kind of like Tesla suggested they would)
* This Week in Venture Capital, with yours truly as guest:
Tom said on August 5, 2010
> This Week in Venture Capital, with yours truly as guest:
Dan: you should talk to Suster and be a regular on this show (at least once a quarter for an
update in PE deals). The CNBC interviews you do, although good for a larger audience,
always seem so thin and quick – this type of format (online) allows for a lot more depth and
is much more interesting.
Thanks for the pointer and doing the show.
BTW: The “Facebook Movie” trailer they talk about in the end of the show is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHkYEC-UfTo
The soundtrack underlying it is “Creep” by Radiohead done by Scala, a Belgian girls choir.
Don’t know if they are unsubtly saying Mark Z. is a “creep” as well but the lyrics to the song
fit the whole Facebook thing so well.