Investopad

Zucks did a Trump and blocked ad-blockers on the desktop version of Facebook.
It didn't work, to say the least. AdBlock Plus informed users of a simple tweak to their settings to block ads literally 2 days later.

A bunch of people believe that this is a war Facebook cannot win. What do you think? Let us know on Twitter.

The people that hack everyone, just got hacked. Turns out no one's safe. :|

A group calling themselves the Shadow Brokers, published a bunch of hacking tools that the NSA used, on Github. Ironically, NSA seemed to have been saved from all out humiliation because of Edward Snowden. Yeah..

These last 2 weeks have been particularly good for us. While Octo.ai was trending on ProductHunt last week, this week it was Lisn, one of our in-house teams. You should check them out.

In other news, Meesho, one of our portfolio teams and YC 2016 Summer batch attendee, got covered by TechCrunch and TechInAsia amongst other media houses. 

Life is good! :)

While Oyo was raising a $62 million round from Softbank last week, Ola decided to let go of roughly a 1000 employees and is shutting down its TaxiForSure unit.

Hike, the messenger app, raised $175 million from China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd, Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group and other investors in a round that propelled it to the elite list of unicorns.

Seriously? We talked about this.

• How we grew Saas inbound traffic by 300% in 6 months
• Amazon is eating the world so Walmart just bought a Bezos whisperer
• How to price anything
• Why we're post-fact

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Peace.