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Blackstone has acquired Ancestry for $4.7 billion from a group of private equity investors (Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, Permira, Silver Lake, Spectrum Equity)
Within eight years those private equity investors purchased Ancestry for $1.3 billion and have now sold for $4.7 billion. Not a bad return!
Ancestry currently has $1 billion in annual revenue from a base of more than 3 million customers who pay for its various family history services.
Zoho is a software provider that creates a huge amount of products and services.
Head to their website about page to see a full timeline of all of their main product launches.
Zoho Corporation Private Limited is an Indian software development company. … The company was founded in 1996 by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas in Pleasanton, California, and currently holds its presence in seven locations with its global headquarters in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and corporate headquarters in Pleasanton.
Zoho is a software giant that no one is really talking about (purely because it is a private company and not a public company).
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A lottery win means you receive the money with no obligations.
Getting Venture Capital means it is only the beginning of your journey and that you are selling part of your company with an expectation that it will grow and be worth more money in the future. This comes with a huge amount of pressure and a lot of work!
Podcasts are completely free on Spotify at the moment. Thus, Spotify won’t pay you any royalties no matter how many times your podcast is played or downloaded.
How Do I Make Money on Podcasts?
Advertising / Sponsors is the main way to monetize a podcast at present. You will need to create a podcast with listeners and then go out and find Sponsors.
Universal Music and Sony Music don’t have an official website and app for submissions at present. They have always selected music based on their A&R team who keep a close eye on artists and platforms all over the world and then select the artists that are performing well.
If you want to be a major label artist you should focus your efforts on building your own fan base to start and getting your music into the world’s largest stores and streaming services via a platform like RouteNote.
Synchedin is a sync licensing service that lets creator subscribe and use any audio track in the catalogue in the videos they create on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and more.
Key Selling Points:
If your looking for royalty free music for your videos then take a look at Synchedin. Its great value for money and will allow you to make more money and focus more on the videos you are creating.
Great speech from Steve Jobs just after he returned to Apple.
At the time he gave this speech in the background the company was only several weeks away from going bankrupt.
It was a very important speech for Apple and I also think it was a very important speech for Steve Jobs himself.
Tiny Houses are really growing in popularity as the world moves towards a simpler life! This tiny house is a real game changer as it incorporates some amazing design and features.
The property is in New Zealand among some outstanding scenery.
Yes Theory is a YouTube channel that tries to push people out of their comfort zones to do something amazing.
Most of their videos are based around travel, but during the Coronavirus it has been a little difficult for them to produce the videos they would normally want to do.
Here is a quick explanation from Yes Theory on why they haven’t been posting and what are their next plans.
Captain America is now live in Fortnite. Captain America costs 2,000 V-bucks (about $20) from the Fortnite in-game store.
Avengers invasion is coming?
Fortnite does seem to be the only game that is trying to cross promote characters from other areas of entertainment into gaming. It’s interesting and it’s fun!
Peter Thiel is a very interesting guy with some crazy views at times. Here is a great video of him talking about his life and education.
Rocket Lab mission fails shortly after launch
There has been a lot of talk about the failed mission for Rocket Lab – but as they say “onward and upward!”.
Additionally, why couldn’t they have come up with a more imaginative name?
It has been confirmed that Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s energy unit will acquire Dominion Energy Inc’s natural gas transmission and storage business for $9.7 billion.
This puts Berkshire Hathaway Energy into a very strong position in the market.
Potentially, this is why Warren Buffett has been holding onto an extra large cash sum? Maybe not.
Tesla Cybertruck orders in China.
Tesla is now officially taking Cybertruck orders in China. You can head to the Tesla website to reserve your Cybertruck.
The Cybertruck has such a unique design I’m sure there will be a lot of upper class Chinese who would love to be driving around in such a car. Really makes a statement.
Bill Ackman is a very interesting person in the world of investing. Below is a great interview with Bill that talks about everything Pershing Square, hedge funds and learning from your mistakes. There are a lot of great quotes inside this interview.
The world class Xiaomi Lamp is finally available to purchase on Amazon.
Xiaomi has won many design awards with this lamp and I read that is by far and away their most popular product. It provides a sleek and simple design that can fit into pretty much any office design.
Notion is an amazing new product that has been growing in popularity very quickly. If you have never used Notion it is a Wiki, Notes, Docs and To List manager all in one product. Notion allows customer to use the service in whatever way they choose and it’s a completely customisable toolset to meet each persons needs.
Notion is all run by a very small team at present of around 50 people and worth a valuation of around $2 billion.
At my company we have started to use Notion as we needed an internal wiki as our company has been growing very quickly from around 30 staff to now 80 staff. Notion provides a great place to have staff members collaborate on documents and organise as much information as possible.
I have been wondering for some time how other medium and large companies are using Notion? However, there seems to be very little information about this online at present.
If you have been using Notion at your organisation I would love to hear how you have been using the product to benefit collaborate, communication and transparency.
There are three main affiliate sites that standout at the present and they are:
However, that being said a lot of big companies have start putting their own affiliate programs into their own hands as they want to control the relationships with the websites and not leave it to affiliate networks, which they have been doing for so long.
TikTok has become a very strong force in online video and become a place for youth culture to thrive.
TikTok has a great feature that allows anyone creating a TikTok to use any music they have licensed in their catalogue. This has driven great success for specific artists and it has now become a marketing strategy of the major labels to get their music used by song of the world’s largest TikTok creators.
TikTok isn’t the future of music, but it is for sure a driving force in the music industry.