Happy Monday! This weekend, we were informed that there is a coffee three times stronger than that of Starbucks’ dark roast (that may or may not be called Morning Brew). Here’s your Brew for April 3rd, please consume responsibly…
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If I was directly told to do so, I will withdraw from the United States”—Tadashi Yanai chairman of Uniqlo’s parent company, on his plans for if the White House forces his Japanese clothing chain to manufacture in the United States.
…but in Robinhood’s case, they are valued at $1.3 billion. The stock trading app that’s known for offering no-fee trading to investors has been making waves in the brokerage industry by stealing customers from traditional brokerage powerhouses like Charles Schwab and Scottrade. Over the weekend, investment fund DST Global valued the app at $1.3 billion. This isn’t DST’s first rodeo with tech, either—some of its prior portfolio investments include Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon—heard of ‘em?
…as Microsoft shuts down its in-house service, CodePlex. This is a huge boost for GitHub, which has been valued as highly as $2 billion as of late. For those not hip with GitHub, it’s a code management platform for software developers, and with its main competitor out of the way, its future is looking even more lucrative. But GitHub’s rapid growth didn’t come without speed bumps: In 2014, CEO Tom Preston-Werner resigned following harassment claims from an engineer. He was cleared of any legal wrongdoing.
…for U.S. real estate, that is. Coming out of the recession, Chinese investors were some of the most popular buyers for American real estate. It was a great relationship: real estate sellers got mostly all-cash deals and the Chinese buyers got stable investments in the U.S. But it looks like that trend might be ending soon:
Find a five digit number which has no zeros or ones in it and no digit is repeated, where:
How Uber uses video game theory to more closely manage driver routes and hours
