Numlock News: May 16, 2019 • Honey, Peas, Ransomware
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By Walt Hickey Next Door Good fences may make good neighbors, but the app NextDoor wants to break down those fences and connect you to your neighbors, which walking through the metaphor kind of sounds terrible. Investors are looking past the fact that the less that people know about others, the better we’re able to improvise social cohesion and are dumping a fortune into the app: it secured a $123 million round that gives it a $2.1 billion valuation. The conceit is that NextDoor enables neighbors to meet through location-based message boards, which I’m sure sounded great in theory to a person that has never been to a single HOA or neighborhood board meeting in their entire life. Worth highlighting is that the
Numlock News: May 16, 2019 • Honey, Peas, Ransomware
Numlock News: May 16, 2019 • Honey, Peas…
Numlock News: May 16, 2019 • Honey, Peas, Ransomware
By Walt Hickey Next Door Good fences may make good neighbors, but the app NextDoor wants to break down those fences and connect you to your neighbors, which walking through the metaphor kind of sounds terrible. Investors are looking past the fact that the less that people know about others, the better we’re able to improvise social cohesion and are dumping a fortune into the app: it secured a $123 million round that gives it a $2.1 billion valuation. The conceit is that NextDoor enables neighbors to meet through location-based message boards, which I’m sure sounded great in theory to a person that has never been to a single HOA or neighborhood board meeting in their entire life. Worth highlighting is that the