Bytes: Week in Review — SV takes DC, bitcoin’s historic rally and Reddit’s revenue rockets
It’s been almost eight months since Reddit went public. Since then, the platform known as the front page of the internet has been going gangbusters.
We’ll get into why on this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
Plus, crypto surges to new highs in the wake of the election. But first up, Silicon Valley goes to Washington.
This week, President-elect Donald Trump tapped his favorite tech CEO, Elon Musk, as the co-lead of a new Department of Government Efficiency along with Vivek Ramaswamy, the former biotech entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate.
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Anita Ramaswamy (no relation), financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.
More on everything we talked about
“Trump’s techno-libertarian dream team goes to Washington” from Vox
“Silicon Valley protested Trump in 2016. Now it wants to work with him” from The Washington Post
“Trump announces Musk will lead new Department of Government Efficiency” from Axios
“Bitcoin’s Monster Run to $90,000, in Charts” from The Wall Street Journal
“Crypto Industry Lobbies Trump and His Allies to Capitalize on Election Wins” from The New York Times
“Bitcoin rises above $90,000 on Trump euphoria” from Reuters
“Why Reddit’s Explosive Growth Could Last” from The Information
“Exclusive: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google” from Reuters
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