the Recap: 4/17/2021

Nas Cashes in on Coinbase IPO 💵 | PayPal Mafia 💼 | Jeff Bezos Farewell Letter 💌 | Life Skills 📝 | How the Brain Works 🧠

1. Nas cashed in on the Coinbase IPO! His venture capital firm, QueensBridge Venture Partners was an early investor and invested between $100,000 - $500,000 per Forbes. After the Coinbase IPO this week, that investment turned into $40 million.

2. Early PayPal employees are infamous in Silicon Valley and have started some of the most well known companies today: YouTube, Uber, Lyft, Tesla, LinkedIn to name a few. This tweet thread shows how all these founders were once at the same company, known as the PayPal Mafia.

3. Jeff Bezos published his final annual letter before retiring. A quick summary here of some mind blowing stats. Take a bow Mr. Bezos.

4. This tweet thread talks about underrated skills to have that can apply to work and life in general. Just like any skill, these can be worked on and learned through habits.

5. This is a 2 hour podcast (well worth the watch/listen). Andrew Huberman drops so many gems and is able to simply explain how the brain works. From this entire episode, his #1 takeaway for listeners: Get 10 minutes of sunlight every morning to set your physical body up for success.

Stay well.