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June 2022: Gilded Cages and Bullshit Jobs -- and other news too!

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June 2022: Gilded Cages and Bullshit Jobs -- and other news too!

News from Go1, Living Food, Pique Action, Super, and Xendit; our interview with Roland Geyer

Jul 1, 2022
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Portfolio News

  • Go1 raised $100M co-led by AirTree Ventures and Five Sigma. 

  • Living Food's CEO Akash Sajith was featured in the New Indian Express.

  • Pique Action reached 100K followers on TikTok. 

  • Super closed a $70M Series C led by NEA.

  • Xendit was featured in Business World.

Amasia News

  • Ramanan talked to Roland Geyer about greenwashing and the business of less. 

  • Ramanan wrote a blog post on gilded cages.

What We're Reading

  • Tim Hwang's Subprime Attention Crisis presents an interesting portrait of how attention has been financialized in the internet's digital advertising model. 

  • Joachim Fest's Not I provides some wisdom on what the individual can do in the face of injustice.

  • Rest of World's How to Buy is a series of entertaining and insightful portraits of e-commerce, formal and informal, around the world.

Useful links:

  • The Amasia website for an overview of our firm, our team, and our portfolio.

  • The Amasia blog for essays on the VC business, our portfolio, and our impact.

  • The In Our Hands podcast with theorists and practitioners in climate science and behavior change (with full transcripts if you prefer text).

  • The Futureverse podcast with authors of climate-related fiction (with full transcripts if you prefer text).

  • Ramanan’s blog for personal essays.

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