This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house. Rundown VC Stripe is now valued at $95 billion Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing Work Life This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard Relevant to your interests Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’ Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon Google’s plan to disrupt higher education Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage Boosting developer success on Google Play IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021 Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services Nonsense Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5? Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET Cloud Native Rust Day SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt*:* 1917 & Thin Red Line Coté: Patagonia Torrentshell Pants. (Repeat?) Brandon: What you do is who you are by Ben Horowitz, Companies & Culture a16z Podcast Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.