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<ul><li>Full time remote or <keyword id="981626" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="flexible-working" source="Orion">flexible working</keyword> and other benefits were among the top reasons behind software developers quitting their jobs other than salary compensation.</li><li><keyword id="512000" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Technology-companies" source="Orion">Technology companies</keyword> may face a talent shortage as 44% of the developers may quit their jobs this year, as per <keyword id="14184195" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="DigitalOcean-report" source="Orion">DigitalOcean report</keyword>.</li><li>Around 19% of the developers cite technical debt and prioritizing speed over quality of work as a mere challenge in the organizations.</li></ul>As much as 44% of software developers plan to quit their jobs this year. If companies are looking for reasons behind them — they should remember that flexible working is almost as important as compensation. According to a survey by DigitalOcean, non-flexible working environments motivated 24% of them to quit last year. The top reason however remains compensation - which motivated 28%. Yet, flexibility comes a close second as 21% who are planning on quitting this year for the same reason. Better benefits also motivated 17% of the respondents to resign last year, while 15% of them may quit this year. "Attracting and retaining developer talent is evolving rapidly and companies need to adapt to the new landscape. Businesses need to better understand developers and give them the tools, benefits, and pay they need to be successful - business survival in the digital era depends on it," said <keyword id="14184196" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gabe-Monroy" source="Orion">Gabe Monroy</keyword>, chief product officer at DigitalOcean. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Youngest are more likely to quit" comment="subhead" text="Youngest are more likely to quit">Youngest are more likely to quit</cmsannotation> As many as 64% of those with less than a year's experience are more likely to leave a job and 32% of those with 1–5 years of experience have left a job recently, compared to only 21% with over 15 years of experience. Nearly 18% of respondents cited lack of time and resources to work on projects is also a key challenge, and 11% mention team members leaving as a challenge, demonstrating that the developer talent shortage is impacting even those who stay in their roles. “Developers have mixed opinions and usage of other emerging technologies, including automation (AI/ML), blockchain and Web3, and no-code or low-code tools,” the report says. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/nearly-four-lakh-fliers-are-thronging-airports-every-day-and-indigo-is-flying-half-of-them/articleshow/92179593.cms">Nearly four lakh fliers are thronging airports every day and Indigo is flying half of them</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/domestic-investors-brought-in-3-for-every-4-pulled-out-by-foreign-investors/articleshow/92179370.cms">Domestic investors brought in $3 for every $4 pulled out by foreign investors</a>

Not just money, lack of flexi working is making software developers quit

About 44 per cent of developers based in India are considering leaving their job this year compared to 42 per cent globally, according to a report. The report by DigitalOcean Holdings, the cloud for developers, startups and SMBs, surveyed over 2,500 respondents from 94 countries including India, US, Germany, Canada and the UK. It shows that the developer talent shortage has potential to worsen with 64 per cent of those with less than a year's experience, and 32 per cent of those with 1-5 years experience, leaving their job recently. Motivations for leaving jobs were found to be consistent among both those who have already left and those considering leaving, with compensation, remote or flexible work environments, and better benefits being the top factors that motivate people to leave jobs, especially for younger developers. Nearly 18 per cent of respondents cited lack of time and resources to work on projects is also a key challenge, and 11 per cent mention team members leaving as a challenge, demonstrating that the developer talent shortage is impacting even those who stay in their roles. "Attracting and retaining developer talent is evolving rapidly and companies need to adapt to the new landscape," said Gabe Monroy, Chief Product Officer at DigitalOcean, in a statement. "Businesses need to better understand developers and give them the tools, benefits, and pay they need to be successful - business survival in the digital era depends on it," Monroy added. About 56 per cent of India developers also participated in open source projects in the past year, of which just 12 per cent of were paid for their contribution. Open source has contributed to learning and networking in India, with 37 per cent stating they have gained enhanced skills from open source, 23 per cent networking opportunities, and 10 per cent have found job opportunities through the open source community. It is clear that businesses of all sizes need to rethink their approach to attracting and retaining highly-skilled developer talent. The report also identifies compensation and desire for fully remote or more flexible work environments as the top reasons developers are thinking about quitting, or already have. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/tcs-infosys-lt-triplets-tank-on-us-troubles-wiping-10-billion-off-tech-wealth/articleshow/92172454.cms">TCS, Infosys, L&amp;T triplets tank on US troubles — wiping $10 billion off tech wealth</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/leading-crypto-lender-celsius-network-has-announced-to-pause-all-withdrawals-swap-and-transfers-between-accounts/articleshow/92174042.cms">Crypto lender Celsius Network pauses all withdrawals, transfers due to 'extreme' market conditions</a>

One in two Indian software developers plan to quit their jobs this year

Hi. I'm Aaron Weinman. Julian Robertson has died at the age of 90. The hedge-fund titan founded Tiger Management in 1980.He turned about $8 million in start-up capital in the 1980s into more than $20 billion in assets under management throughout the 1990s.Robertson's fund accurately predicted the dot-com bubble and underweighted the sector based on the belief that tech companies were overvalued due to a lack of cash flow. His fund <a href="https://medium.com/@mattia-c/the-man-who-bet-against-the-dotcom-bubble-and-missed-it-by-a-whisker-76d8da367d55">still lost billions</a> of dollars as a result of that bet, but it was Robertson's "I told you so" moment to many on Wall Street.Another mea culpa might be Tiger's <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-03/31/077r-033100-idx.html">big bet on US Airways</a> — it controlled about a quarter of the airline at one point. It got in on the company's stock for about $17 apiece, and while this peaked to $80, it then spiraled back into the $20 range.In investing — like gravity — what goes up, inevitably comes crashing down. Robertson closed his firm in late 2000 and returned money to investors.One of his greatest achievements, however, is arguably the impact Robertson had on other investors. His mentorship helped coin the term "Tiger Cubs," used to describe well-known investors like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiger-global-venture-capital-bain-relationship-2022-6">Chase Coleman</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coatue-quant-fund-philippe-laffont-performance-data-science-2020-11">Philippe Laffont</a> who cut their teeth under the Tiger Management founder.Today, we are taking a look back at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/julian-robertson-dead-tiger-cubs-hedge-fund-spinoffs-2022-8">Robertson's legacy</a>.If this was forwarded to you,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-on-wall-street"> sign up here</a>. Download Insider's app <a href="https://www.insider.com/app">here</a>.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/julian-robertson-dead-tiger-cubs-hedge-fund-spinoffs-2022-8"></a>1. Julian Robertson, a pioneer in hedge funds and founder of Tiger Management, has died at 90 years of age. At its peak, Tiger Management managed about $21 billion in assets.Since closing his fund in the year 2000, Robertson had been closely linked to some of the hedge-fund world's biggest names, many of whom he helped launch.The Tiger Cubs — like Tiger Global founder Chase Coleman, Lee Ainslie who started Maverick Capital, and Philippe Laffont of Coatue fame — learned the ropes under Robertson and went on to found some of Wall Street's most successful hedge funds.Coleman, in a statement to Insider, described Robertson as a "pioneer and a giant in our industry.""He made the time to be a true mentor, always leading by example and pushing all of us to become the best versions of ourselves," Coleman said. "For that and for his friendship, I am forever grateful."Insider's Alyson Velati <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/julian-robertson-dead-tiger-cubs-hedge-fund-spinoffs-2022-8">took a look back</a> at Robertson's legacy, and how the legendary investor <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaire-julian-robertsons-tiger-network-spans-hundreds-of-funds-2019-11">stood at the center</a> of a quarter-trillion-dollar web of hedge-fund spinoffs.For more on the Tiger Cubs, check out this story from Alyson on how the funds dumped tech stocks and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiger-cubs-placed-bets-on-retail-food-and-travel-stocks-2022-8?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=">diversified their holdings</a>.In other news:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-twitter-whistleblower-means-for-elon-musk-legal-battle-2022-8"></a><div type="image" title="Elon Musk handcuffed to Twitter logo 4x3" height="1750" width="2334" msid="93756387" hostid="261" sizebytes="340072"></div>2. The Twitter whistleblower — former security chief Peiter Zatko — complaint is unlikely to be the silver bullet Elon Musk may hope for. But it could convince Twitter to let him pay to walk away from his $44 billion agreement to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-twitter-whistleblower-means-for-elon-musk-legal-battle-2022-8">buy the social-media platform</a>.3. Short seller Carson Block's former research partner has ripped the US Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower team as "hopelessly incoherent." Here's why <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sec-14-million-carson-block-whistleblower-award-lawsuit-2022-8">Kevin R. Barnes is mad</a>.4. MoneyLion's Chief Executive Dee Choubey said the company can become the go-to destination for personal finance. Shares of the company, which went public via a special purpose vehicle in September, have fallen 80%, and Choubey's ambitions <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moneylion-ceo-interview-scale-personal-finance-ml-2022-8">might be a struggle</a>.5. Goldman Sachs' long-running gender bias lawsuit will head to trial in June next year. A US federal judge rejected the bank's bid to dismiss most of a 12-year-old class action alleging widespread bias <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/goldman-sachs-long-running-gender-bias-lawsuit-set-june-2023-trial-2022-08-22/">against women in pay and promotions</a>.6. VMware is slowing down and vetoing customer deals as the $61 billion acquisition by Broadcom looms. Fearful customers are trying to lock in favorable terms with VMware before the deal closes, and some deals are getting canceled outright, a leaked memo <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/vmware-sales-slowdown-contracts-salespeople-frustration-2022-8">seen by Insider showed</a>.7. Credit Suisse is chasing a broader set of the global wealthy, according to Bloomberg. The Swiss bank is shifting resources to pursue a broader range of rich clients. The development comes as Credit Suisse focuses on wealth management and dials back <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-23/credit-suisse-is-reassigning-bankers-as-part-of-focus-to-wealth?srnd=wealth&amp;sref=ipW5reFz">exposure to investment banking</a>.8. SoftBank's epic losses spotlight founder Masayoshi Son's broken business model. The bubble that the tech investor blamed for his company's $23 billion loss last quarter is one that he helped create, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-23/softbank-s-23-billion-loss-looks-like-more-wework-fun?cmpid=BBBXT082322_DEALS&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=220823&amp;utm_campaign=deals">reported</a>.9. A PwC employee lost part of his skull after falling over during a drinking game at a work event. Michael Brockie is suing the financial-services company for more than $235,000. He is alleging that he faced "heavy pressure" to attend <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pwc-sued-employee-lawsuit-brain-injury-drinking-game-2022-8">the work event</a>.10. Tensions have reached sky-high drama at East Hampton airport, per the Financial Times. Some Hamptons residents say the noise from private planes is intolerable, while supporters clamor for the dollars of deep-pocketed Manhattanites who vacation in <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/29233c63-745a-415f-8422-ab991a562efb?shareType=nongift">the region every summer</a>.Done deals:<ul><li>Private-equity shop Alpine Investors <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220822005563/en/Alpine-Investors-Announces-Sale-of-Mindful-A-Leading-Contact-Center-Callback-Technology">has sold</a> portfolio company Mindful to Medallia, a customer and employee experience company. Mindful provides automated callback services.</li><li>Cloud developer DigitalOcean <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220823005306/en/DigitalOcean-to-Acquire-Cloudways">has agreed</a> to buy Cloudways, a cloud-hosting software provider, for about $350 million in cash.</li></ul>Curated by Aaron Weinman in New York. Tips? Email <a href="mailto:aweinman@insider.com">aweinman@insider.com</a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronw11">@aaronw11</a>. Edited by Hallam Bullock (tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/hallam_bullock">@hallam_bullock</a>) in London.

Hedge-fund pioneer Julian Robertson has died, aged 90. The founder of Tiger Management not only amassed billlions of dollars in assets, his lasting legacy includes a slew of 'Tiger Cub' protégés.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Andreessen Horowitz earned its Silicon Valley power broker status by backing Facebook and Twitter. </li><li>It's turned those wins into a decade of multi-billion exits.</li><li>Here are the firm's eight biggest IPO exits since 2011.</li></ul>A decade after Marc Andreessen declared that software was "eating the world," his VC firm has notched a succession of multibillion-dollar exits.Andreessen Horowitz, founded in 2009, hit the ground running early with a few <keyword id="35156" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="ipos">IPOs</keyword> among its portfolio companies in its first few years: Groupon and Zynga in 2011, and Facebook in 2012. The firm, known as a16z, reportedly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter/vc-andreessen-horowitz-sinks-80-million-in-twitter-idUSTRE7187MW20110209">bought a stake in Twitter</a>, which went public in 2013, through secondary markets.But as Crunchbase noted in a <a href="https://news.crunchbase.com/news/under-the-hood-a-decade-after-software-is-eating-the-world-andreessen-horowitz-has-its-best-exit-year-yet/">recent analysis of Andreessen Horowitz's performance</a>, the VC firm didn't have large enough stakes in those companies to merit a mention in SEC filings.That's also the case for a couple of more recent public debuts within its portfolio: Airbnb and Roblox. Andreessen Horowitz <a href="https://a16z.com/2020/02/26/roblox/">backed Roblox in 2020</a> as part of its later-stage portfolio.But several of its more substantial investments have borne fruit recently. According to Crunchbase, the firm has had stakes of 5% or more in eight companies that have gone public since 2011. All but one have gone public in the last two years.The VC firm was the largest institutional investor in Coinbase prior to the company's direct listing in April. Andreessen Horowitz's stake, based on the company's recent share performance, is worth around $6 billion. Here are all the public companies since 2011 in which a16z held at least a 5% stake. For most of the companies, the VC firm got in early.<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 198px;" border="1"><tbody><tr style="height: 22px;"><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Company</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Public debut</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">First a16z investment</td></tr><tr style="height: 22px;"><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Okta</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">April 2017</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">2010, Series A</td></tr><tr style="height: 22px;"><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Lyft</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">March 2019</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">2013, Series C</td></tr><tr style="height: 22px;"><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">PagerDuty</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">April 2019</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">2013, Series A</td></tr><tr style="height: 22px;"><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Pinterest</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">April 2019</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">2011, Series B</td></tr><tr style="height: 22px;"><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Slack</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">June 2019</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">2010, Series A</td></tr><tr style="height: 22px;"><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Accolade</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">July 2020</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">2016, Series E</td></tr><tr style="height: 22px;"><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">DigitalOcean</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">March 2021</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">2014, Series A</td></tr><tr style="height: 22px;"><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Coinbase</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">April 2021</td><td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">2013, Series B</td></tr></tbody></table>

8 multi-billion IPOs that cemented Andreessen Horowitz's power

New Delhi, In a damning report, researchers from Canada-based Citizen Lab have revealed that the Pegasus spyware, developed by Israel-based NSO Group, compromised the <keyword id="10468098" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="iphones-of-dozens">iPhones of dozens</keyword> of journalists. In July and August this year, <keyword id="10468095" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="government-operatives">government operatives</keyword> used NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to hack 36 <keyword id="10468097" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="personal-phones">personal phones</keyword> belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The personal phone of a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV was also hacked, said researchers in a report that came out on Sunday. "The phones were compromised using an <keyword id="10468096" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="exploit-chain">exploit chain</keyword> that we call KISMET, which appears to involve an invisible zero-click exploit in iMessage" in iPhones. In July 2020, KISMET was a zero-day against at <keyword id="10468094" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="least-ios">least iOS</keyword> 13.5.1 and could hack Apple's then-latest iPhone 11. "Based on logs from compromised phones, we believe that NSO Group customers also successfully deployed KISMET or a related zero-click, zero-day exploit between October and December 2019," said the researchers from the Citizen Lab, which is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy, University of Toronto. <keyword id="9600060" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="the-nso-group">The NSO Group</keyword> is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Facebook, which last year accused that the Israeli spyware maker used Pegasus in WhatsApp to infect some 1,400 people, mostly celebrities. Facebook has submitted detailed proof in the court about the Israeli company and the allegedly hacking into at least 1,400 WhatsApp users last year via its controversial surveillance software Pegasus. The new Citizen Lab report further stated that the 36 journalists were hacked by four Pegasus operators, "including one operator MONARCHY that we attribute to Saudi Arabia, and one operator SNEAKY KESTREL that we attribute to the United Arab Emirates". "We do not believe that KISMET works against iOS 14 and above, which includes new security protections. All iOS device owners should immediately update to the latest version of the operating system". Given the global reach of NSO Group's customer base and the apparent vulnerability of almost all iPhone devices prior to the iOS 14 update, the researchers suspect that the infections were a miniscule fraction of the total attacks leveraging this exploit. Infrastructure used in these attacks included servers in Germany, France, UK, and Italy using cloud providers Aruba, Choopa, CloudSigma, and DigitalOcean. The researchers have shared the findings with Apple and the company was looking into the issue. NSO said in a statement to <keyword id="179988" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="TechCrunch">TechCrunch</keyword> it was unable to comment on the allegations as it had not seen the report. "This is the first we are hearing of these assertions. As we have repeatedly stated, we do not have access to any information related to the identities of individuals upon whom our system is alleged to have been used to conduct surveillances," a NSO spokesperson was quoted and saying. Counting the 36 cases revealed in the new report, there are now at least 50 publicly known cases of journalists and others in media targeted with NSO spyware, with attacks observed as recently as August 2020. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/heres-what-analysts-say-if-you-should-subscribe-or-not-to-the-300-crore-ipo-of-antony-waste-handling-cell/articleshow/79790998.cms">Antony Waste Handling Cell ₹300-crore IPO opens today — these are the risks and opportunities</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/the-founder-of-sugar-cosmetics-explains-how-the-startup-clocked-a-60-growth-in-sales-during-the-pandemic/articleshow/79832966.cms">The founder of SUGAR cosmetics explains how the startup clocked a 60% growth in sales during the pandemic</a>

Israeli spyware used to hack phones of dozens of Al Jazeera journalists

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">DigitalOceanDigitalOcean CEO and cofounder Ben Uretsky at the startup's New York City headquarters.</div></div></div><ul><li>DigitalOcean is a cloud computing startup based in New York, competing with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure by focusing on smaller developers and startups.</li><li>The company exclusively reveals to BI that it's on a $175 million annualized run rate (ARR) for 2017.</li><li>An IPO isn't necessarily in the cards, but the company says it's well-positioned should it choose to do so.</li></ul>There's a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-is-so-hard-to-topple-in-the-cloud-and-where-everybody-else-falls-2017-7">war raging in the cloud</a> as the leader, Amazon Web Services, defends its $16 billion business from the rise of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The battleground: Lucrative customer deals with Fortune 500 companies.That battle has created opportunity for <a href="http://www.digitalocean.com">DigitalOcean </a>- a New York-based cloud computing startup,<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/startup-from-craigslist-to-amazon-killer-2014-4"> founded by guys who met on Craigslist and backed by Andreessen Horowitz</a>, that caters to the individual programmers or startups that value simplicity and flexibility above the business-grade technology offered by Amazon and Microsoft.And today, DigitalOcean tells Business Insider that it's on track to generate $175 million in revenue this year, in a measure termed annualized run rate, or ARR. That puts DigitalOcean on track for 48% more revenue than the $118 million it generated in 2015. "We're approaching the cloud market from a totally different angle," says DigitalOcean CEO and cofounder Ben Uretsky. "No one is really paying attention to the smaller market." To that end, Uretsky says that the company isn't necessarily planning on an IPO soon, and could raise more funding. He does say, however, that he believes the company is well-positioned should it choose to go public.Here are the other fast facts on DigitalOcean's business, some of which had been reported previously:<ul><li>The company claims revenue of $118 million in 2016, up from $77 million in 2015. </li><li>DigitalOcean says that it's been profitable on an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) basis since 2015.</li><li>The company says that spending and costs have stayed flat, even as revenue increases, leading to widening margins "well north of 20%," says Uretsky. </li><li>Uretsky says that the company still has the entirety of its <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/digitalocean-raising-83-million-series-b-round-2015-7">$83 million Series B</a> investment from 2015 in the bank - the money was used as leverage to obtain a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/14/digitalocean-gets-130-million-credit-line-because-servers-are-really-expensive/">$130 million line of credit</a> in early 2016.</li><li>DigitalOcean has 400 employees today, up from 209 at the end of 2015.</li></ul><h2>'That's not really our sweet spot'</h2>Competing in the cloud is hard. The whole business model hinges on offering companies access to fundamentally unlimited supercomputing power, rented at a rate of pennies per hour. To achieve the kind of scale to make that profitable, a provider needs lots and lots of servers, plus the land, electricity, and manpower to keep them running.Indeed Uretsky says that it costs "tens of millions" of dollars annually to keep DigitalOcean's cloud running. That's why DigitalOcean opened that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/14/digitalocean-gets-130-million-credit-line-because-servers-are-really-expensive/">$130 million line of credit</a>: It needed to lease out more data centers, and buy the servers to stock them up, just to scale up. Debt was preferable to additional investment, says Uretsky, because it doesn't dilute the equity of existing investors.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">DigitalOceanDigitalOcean CMO Mitch Wainer</div></div></div>In terms of product strategy, co-founder and CMO Mitch Wainer says that DigitalOcean is taking a "different approach" to the likes of Amazon and Microsoft, who make a point of catering their offerings to the needs of large businesses. That's borne out by Dave Bartoletti, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, who tells us that DigitalOcean is very popular among startups, but rarely spotted in the <keyword id="6356323" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Enterprise">enterprise</keyword>."That's not really our sweet spot," agrees Urestsky. Instead, as DigitalOcean builds its product, the company is thinking more about simplicity and flexibility. Not every developer needs that whole range of business-class services, he says - they just want something they can use to get coding, simply and easily. Uretsky attributes that approach to the growth of the business: As small customers grow into big companies, Uretsky says, they only accelerate how much they spend with DigitalOcean."In the long term, [growth] is because it's easier to build on DigitalOcean than on one of the more complex providers," Uretsky says. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-can-overwhelm-competition-with-brute-force-2017-10">Amazon can 'overwhelm the competition with brute force'</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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Georgene Huang; Jessie Wisdom; Erica Mackey; Kathy Hannun; Ruobing Su/Business Insider<ul class="summary-list"><li>Only 17% of venture dollars are owned by women, according to a 2019 report from Crunchbase.</li><li>But some women are paving the way for the future of female leadership in fintech, energy, childcare, and real estate - including these seven rising stars.</li><li>Business Insider received 80 nominations from top founders, CEOs, MBA professors, and others to decide on these women to feature. Meet them below.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prime?module=article&amp;area=summary">Click here for more BI Prime stories.</a></li></ul>Only 17% of venture dollars are owned by women, according to a <a href="https://news.crunchbase.com/news/q1-2019-diversity-report-female-founders-own-17-percent-of-venture-dollars/">2019 report from Crunchbase</a>. The study found that this represented $8.1 billion in the first quarter of the year. Of that slim percentage, 15% went to companies with male and female copartners, and only 2% to companies founded solely by women. With these statistics in mind, Business Insider set out to identify some of the top women in business to watch. We received 80 nominations from top founders, CEOs, MBA professors, and others, including:<ul><li style="font-weight: 400;">Alex Rampell, a general partner at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/andreessen-horowitz">Andreessen Horowitz</a></li><li style="font-weight: 400;">Julia Austin, a senior lecturer at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-into-harvard-business-school-according-to-admissions-2019-7">Harvard Business School</a>, startup advisor and board member, and former CTO at DigitalOcean</li><li style="font-weight: 400;">Obi Felton, the head of getting moonshots ready for contact with the real world at X (formerly Google X), supervisory board member at Springer Nature, and former director of consumer marketing at Google EMEA</li><li style="font-weight: 400;">Catherine Casey Nanda, the director of Acumen America and a board member at Jacaranda Health</li><li style="font-weight: 400;">Brian Welle, the vice president of people analytics and performance management at Google</li><li style="font-weight: 400;">Tami Forman, the executive director at Path Forward, a nonprofit that empowers people who have spent time on caregiving to restart their careers</li><li style="font-weight: 400;">Dianna Cohen, the CEO and cofounder of Plastic Pollution Coalition </li></ul>From the uber-competitive pool of nominees, we selected seven businesswomen who are doing amazing things in their industries and have been particularly successful in their lines of work before turning 40.The power players are listed in no particular order.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="7908002" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Lil-Nas-X">Lil Nas X</keyword> announced on Tuesday that he would hold a virtual concert in <keyword id="7371554" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="roblox">Roblox</keyword>, a video game platform popular among kids and teenagers.</li><li>The event will begin just a day after Lil Nas X releases his new single, "Holiday," on November 13, and he'll perform it for the first time in Roblox. </li><li>Virtual <keyword id="3997287" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="concerts">concerts</keyword> in video games like "Fortnite" and Roblox have become increasingly popular in recent months — rapper Travis Scott played a virtual concert in "Fortnite" that drew in over 12 million viewers.</li></ul>Lil Nas X, the musician best known for his 2019 single "Old Town Road," is going to perform his new single "Holiday" for the first time during a <a href="https://blog.roblox.com/2020/11/roblox-presents-lil-nas-x-concert-experience/">virtual concert held in the video game Roblox</a> on November 14 and 15. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21557275/lil-nas-x-roblox-virtual-performance-announced-holiday-old-town-road">The Verge reported</a> that the concert will feature motion-capture technology that will allow a Lil Nas X avatar to perform his greatest hits on stage in the game.Lil Nas X announced the upcoming concert experience on Tuesday morning on Twitter, accompanied by a flashy teaser video that appears to use a snippet of Lil Nas X's upcoming single "Holiday," which is <a href="https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1325650388503023620?s=20">set to be released this Friday, November 13. </a>"I've been working hard with Roblox to create this incredible VIRTUAL LIVE CONCERT EXPERIENCE!" Lil Nas X wrote in the caption of the tweet. "WE GOT VIDEOS &amp; A PERFORMANCE you don't want to miss coming this weekend!"Roblox is one of the biggest video games in the world with over 150 million players (mostly kids and teens) logging on each month, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21557275/lil-nas-x-roblox-virtual-performance-announced-holiday-old-town-road">The Verge reported.</a> For many, it's a kind of social network as well, where players can hang out in different games and <a href="https://www.insider.com/why-roblox-is-so-popular-and-how-it-works-2017-8">even develop their own.</a> The platform has been pushing into musical events recently too — a September virtual concert in the game from pop star Ava Max <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21502149/roblox-virtual-music-events-concerts-ava-max-interview">drew in 1.156 million unique viewers. </a><a href="https://blog.roblox.com/2020/11/roblox-presents-lil-nas-x-concert-experience/">According to the event's page on the Roblox website</a>, Lil Nas X's upcoming concert will take place during three separate sessions: November 14 at 4:00 p.m. ET and 1:00 a.m. ET and November 15 at 12:00 p.m. ET. The event also includes a pre-show on Friday, November 13 at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET that will include behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the concert along with a Q&amp;A session. Players will also be able to participate in a scavenger hunt with the chance to unlock an exclusive Lil Nas X emote. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21557275/lil-nas-x-roblox-virtual-performance-announced-holiday-old-town-road">The Verge reported</a> that the concert will feature a motion-captured Lil Nas X avatar that will perform hits including his newest single, "Holiday," on an in-game stage. The venue itself, <a href="https://www.roblox.com/games/5790039516/Lil-Nas-X-Concert-Experience">which is currently open for exploring</a> and was designed to feature aspects of the artist's persona, features opportunities to answer trivia questions about Lil Nas X and his music, earn hidden tokens, and purchase in-game merch.While many artists have performed virtual concerts in recent years and <a href="https://www.insider.com/live-private-concerts-coronavirus-watch-online-music-streaming-2020-3">over the course of the pandemic</a>, some of music's biggest names are turning to video game platforms like Roblox and "Fortnite" to host elaborate concert events. Rapper Travis Scott <a href="https://www.insider.com/travis-scott-fortnite-concert-video-photo-visually-stunning-the-scotts-2020-4">put on a visually stunning virtual concert in 'Fortnite'</a> earlier this year that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/travis-scott-fortnite-concert-12-million-live-viewers-2020-4">drew in an audience of over 12 million live viewers.</a> In May, a four-piece indie band called Courier Club <a href="https://www.insider.com/minecraft-music-festival-block-by-blockwest-bxbw-courier-club-2020-5">organized Block By Blockwest, an immersive music festival</a> featuring bands like Idles, The Wrecks, and Sir Sly that was held entirely in Minecraft with the support of DigitalOcean and Cloudflare. 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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Block by Blockwest was a virtual <keyword id="6354530" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="music">music</keyword> festival hosted in <keyword id="858537" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Minecraft">Minecraft</keyword> with livestreams on both YouTube and Twitch.</li><li>The festival, which included acts like Grandson, Idles and Sir Sly, was organized by the band Courier Club.</li><li>Although the event faced technical setbacks in April, it delivered an immersive, festival-like experience that could help set a precedent for virtual music events.</li></ul>On Saturday, May 16, I attended my first music festival in months. Instead of buying overpriced beer and jostling against other concertgoers for a good view of the stage, I leisurely logged onto Minecraft at 3 pm EST and entered the virtual world of Block By Blockwest (intended to spoof the South by Southwest name and similarly abbreviated as BXBW), a virtual festival featuring very real music from groups like Grandson, Idles, Pussy Riot, The Wrecks, and Sir Sly.Of course, this isn't the first concert experience to take place in Minecraft or online during the pandemic. Pitchfork's Cat Zhang reported on <keyword id="3997287" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="concerts">concerts</keyword> from bands like Anamanaguchi or 100 gecs that took place in Minecraft, spearheaded by <a href="https://openpit.net/">Open Pit</a>, a volunteer collective of event organizers who have put together Minecraft concert events in the past. Block by Blockwest, however, started as an independent effort by Courier Club, a four-piece indie band that recently released its debut EP, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKPpRFfzeOk">"Drive Like Your Kids Live Here,"</a> a week before the original event, which was slated for April 25.Things on that day didn't go quite as planned, with technical setbacks leading to the cancelation of the original April 25 event, but BXBW came back strong on May 16, drawing in approximately 5,000 Minecraft players and 134,000 livestream viewers on Twitch and YouTube. All proceeds from the event benefited the CDC Foundation's Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund, <a href="https://give4cdcf.org/cdcf2020/BXBW">raising nearly $50,000,</a> according to the event's team page on the CDC Foundation website.What started as a small event originally slated to fall on the heels of the Courier Club's debut EP, "Drive Like Your Kids Live Here," turned into a festival featuring big name artists performing in an immersive Minecraft world filled with interactive games, special features and easter eggs, and plenty of opportunities for attendees to interact with artists and each other. <h2>Block by Blockwest was an immersive experience built in Minecraft.</h2>The festival took place in a custom Minecraft server featuring three separate stages (i.e. fully fleshed-out settings ranging from a mountain lodge to an underground hangout) as well as a lobby and paintball arena where users could play 50 v. 50 games while still tuning into the music. Attendees tuned into the artists' sets, which were pre-recorded, via livestreams on YouTube and Twitch. In the meantime, they could socialize with people in the BXBW discord server, which also served as the event's central hub for information and updates. Attendees could also get VIP status by making a $15 donation, which earned them perks like virtual artist meet-and-greets on Discord as well as concert emotes in-game.The idea itself started partially as a joke. "We made a tweet joking around one day being like, 'Oh, if our tour gets canceled, we're going to throw a show with Minecraft,'" Timothy Waldron, Courier Club's lead vocalist, told Insider when we spoke in mid-April. "We thought it was cheeky to say at the time. And then our tour got canceled."Waldron texted Steve Silverglade, the brother of Courier Club's bassist Michael Silverglade, and someone who "knows what he's doing" when it comes to Minecraft servers, asking if it'd be possible to hold a concert in the game.From there, interest spiked in the event. Courier Club provided a list of bands that they were fans of to their manager, who began to reach out. Cowgirl Clue was the first artist to sign on, and as other artists joined the lineup, their friends found out and bigger artists started to come aboard as well. "Towards the end, it became people approaching us about it," Waldron said. <h2>Development of the festival was a collaborative effort.</h2>From there, development began as the group began to build the concert world, drawing upon open-source code to create elements like the initial concert stage. On the other hand, the band also started to build up a community for the event as well, directing attendees to sign up for <a href="https://discord.com/invite/MeVk6ZD">BXBW's Discord server</a>. The group was worried about technical difficulties, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_OadSxJaKz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">conducting a stress test</a> and pre-party on the festival server on April 22, three days before the initial event date. When I spoke with Waldron and lead guitarist Ryan Conway, April 23, they said that the stress test had helped them iron out the big kinks on the server, with things generally going well.Then, everything turned out to be much bigger than anyone had prepared for, with unprecedented turnout on April 25 overloading the servers. Rather than trying to push through, the BXBW team made the decision to reschedule the event for May 16 in order to deliver on the immersive experience that they had promised early-on. BXBW partnered with DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider, for server hosting, as well as Cloudflare, a web security, for DDOS protection. In the end, the development team was comprised of five international developers from the UK, Germany, and the United States. BXBW also hosted "community build events," where members of the Discord server and players who used the pre-festival Minecraft server came together to help build the worlds that would comprise the experience.<h2>BXBW was able to virtually capture the festival experience.</h2>"Creating an opportunity like this where we're providing that festival experience where you're engaging with people is why we wanted to create that festival dynamic," Ryan Conway, Courier Club's lead guitarist, told Insider. "We wanted it to be an interactive thing where someone can go into it for a day and play the different games and look at the art and check out all the different artists and meet people."Block by Blockwest delivered on that aspiration, with <a href="https://www.nme.com/reviews/block-by-block-west-festival-review-idles-pussy-riot-nasty-cherry-sports-team-2671053">NME's Ali Shutler calling it</a> "the closest we've yet come to an authentic festival experience. More than just a concert, BXBW was a total experience: there were bars where VIPs could get virtual drinks like a "Starblocks Latte" or a "Blockweiser;" I stumbled across a Shrek complete with a "get out of my swamp" sign. There were virtual representations of art available for purchase in real life; I jammed to alt-rock band The Wrecks' set by making my Minecraft avatar jump around and head bob. <div type="image" title="shrek bxbw" height="1800" width="2400" msid="75833307" hostid="261"></div>The festival's primary success, however, was building a community that doesn't appear to be going away any time soon. People on the BXBW Discord server are still chatting two days after the event, and there's a second event in the works. Ultimately, Courier Club hopes that the event will help set a bar for events in the future, even post-pandemic."One thing I've been saying to people is that we want to lay this out as a blueprint on how to handle things moving forward and maybe handle connectivity and accessibility in the music world," Conway said. "This is something that costs you maybe the cost of Minecraft if you don't have it, and that's it. It's gonna open up a lot of doors."<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/live-private-concerts-coronavirus-watch-online-music-streaming-2020-3">Artists are playing live concerts from their homes amid the coronavirus outbreak — here's how to watch the best ones</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/travis-scott-fortnite-concert-video-photo-visually-stunning-the-scotts-2020-4">Travis Scott's 'Fortnite' concert was the game's most visually impressive event to date</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/music-events-festivals-tours-concerts-canceled-postponed-coronavirus-2020-3">Every tour, concert, and music festival that's been canceled or postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/minecraft-music-festival-block-by-blockwest-bxbw-courier-club-2020-5">Insider</a>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">MicrosoftSony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida (left) with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (right)</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>On Thursday, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/microsoft">Microsoft</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/sony">Sony</a> made a joint announcement that they would "explore joint development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure to support their respective game and content-streaming services." </li><li>This partnership came as a big shock: They've been fierce rivals since the first Microsoft Xbox challenged the Sony PlayStation 2 in 2001. </li><li>However, it makes a lot of sense: The next big thing in gaming is cloud streaming, and it's difficult and expensive to build a cloud platform that can hang with those from Microsoft and Google - both of whom have their own cloud gaming services on the way. </li><li>It's just another example of how cloud computing makes for strange bedfellows, given that basically only three companies - Microsoft, Google, and Amazon - have enough cloud cred to present a viable, modern cloud infrastructure. </li><li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories</a>.</li></ul>On Thursday, Microsoft and Sony shocked the world with a joint statement that they would be teaming up - and on video gaming, no less, where the two have been fierce rivals ever since the original Microsoft Xbox picked a fight with the Sony PlayStation 2, way back in 2001. In their own words, "the two companies will explore joint development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure to support their respective game and content-streaming services," with the promise of more specifics to come in the future. They'll also work together to integrate Microsoft's Azure AI technology with Sony's ubiquitous image sensor business. It's exciting times, right at a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/epic-games-vs-steam-discord-microsoft-xbox-game-pass-2018-12">pivotal moment in the gaming industry.</a>The imminent launch of cloud gaming services like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-project-xcloud-xbox-games-2018-10">Microsoft xCloud</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-stadia-hands-on-impressions-2019-3">Google Stadia</a> promise to stream even the most graphically intensive video games to any device, anywhere - from a game console down to the humblest of smartphones - by leveraging the computer processing brawn of the tech titans' massive data centers. Now, it seems, Sony is turning to Microsoft and its <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/microsoft-azure">Azure cloud</a> to get in on the action. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesThe two platforms have been rivals for going on two decades.</div></div></div>It's really tempting to read a lot into this announcement: Have the two arch-rivals really put their beef behind them? Will you be able to play Xbox games on a PlayStation, or vice versa? Let's not jump to conclusions. Over at <a href="https://news.microsoft.com/2019/05/16/sony-and-microsoft-to-explore-strategic-partnership/">Ars Technica</a>, Kyle Orland has a convincing breakdown of why that's unlikely, mostly because the next <a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/us/next-xbox-release-date-rumors,news-27484.html">Xbox</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/playstation-5-backwards-compatible-2019-4">PlayStation</a> are both already preparing for a not-so-distant launch, and it wouldn't make a lot of sense for either company to invest so heavily in rival hardware if they were planning on laying down their arms and embracing a joint cloud service.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/epic-games-vs-steam-discord-microsoft-xbox-game-pass-2018-12" data-analytics-position="7">The creator of 'Fortnite' is leading a battle that could throw the entire video game industry into disarray, and it's likely to be terrible for Google and Apple</a>Instead, here's my reading of this announcement: Sony needs Microsoft's help, because there's a lot keeping it from competing toe-to-toe with Microsoft xCloud, Google Stadia, or, eventually, <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-developing-game-streaming-service">Amazon's own planned game streaming service</a>. And so, it had to turn to Microsoft, a competitor, to help it keep pace with the rest of the industry. <h2>A little background</h2>It's worth noting here that Sony has offered <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/you-can-play-old-playstation-games-on-the-ps4-2014-1">PlayStation Now</a>, a game-streaming service, since 2014 - well before current Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer had his current job. To build PlayStation Now, Sony shelled out $380 million for startup <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sony-buys-gaikai-the-impact-on-mobile-gaming-2012-7">Gaikai</a> in 2012, and then opened its checkbook again for <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8337955/sony-buys-onlive-only-to-shut-it-down">OnLive</a> in 2015. However, PlayStation Now has never been a huge hit, despite Sony's investment. In February, Engadget said it "<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/18/playstation-now-re-review/">still isn't good enough</a>."It's also worth noting that around the same time that Sony launched PlayStation Now, it was reported that the company was "urgently seeking ways to build an infrastructure" to support its cloud ambitions. To make it happen, it was reported, Sony had <a href="https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/sonys-streaming-context-strategy-needs-huge-data-center-expansion/">sought contracts with data center facility providers to boost its capacity</a>. This gives a hint as to what might be driving Sony towards this Microsoft partnership. <h2>It ain't easy bein' cloud</h2>One of the big reasons why Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are able to succeed in this cloud market - where companies like Dell, VMware, and Cisco have all backed down - is that they invested heavily in building their own data centers, and then further invested in making them as efficient and powerful as humanly possible. Indeed, at Microsoft, former chief software architect Ray Ozzie gets the credit for convincing then-CEO Steve Ballmer that the company would never get anywhere in the internet age without owning its own data centers, despite the massive expense involved. Now, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-vp-scott-guthrie-hololens-game-stack-azure-sentinel-2019-3">under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella and cloud boss Scott Guthrie</a> that investment is paying off: Microsoft has data centers all over the world, all running applications large and small, both for the company itself, and on behalf of the customers of Microsoft Azure.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">MicrosoftMicrosoft's Project xCloud promises to let you play even the biggest blockbusters from your smartphone or just about any other internet-connected screen.</div></div></div>At the same time, Microsoft has tasked its leading researchers and engineers with finding new, innovative, bleeding-edge ways to improve efficiency, get more power, and even run the cloud in more eco-friendly ways. More recently, the company has launched Azure Game Stack, a package of services to help game developers capitalize on everything Microsoft has learned from operating Azure for about a decade now. We haven't heard anything new about Sony's cloud infrastructure in a while. But it's hard to imagine that Sony's infrastructure is at the same scale as Microsoft's, let alone as efficient or as powerful. We don't know if Sony will use Microsoft to beef up PlayStation Now, or to build an entirely new gaming service, but it's not strange at all to think that the company might want Microsoft to at least partially power that future.<h2>Strange bedfellows</h2>A weird effect of all of this is that the cloud has made for some strange partnerships, and some even stranger counter-partnerships. Apple, for example, has been reported to use both <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-amazon-web-services-spending-report-2019-4">Amazon Web Services</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-scores-victory-over-amazon-apple-is-a-cloud-customer-2018-2">Google Cloud</a> to power its iCloud service. Sony, too, could choose to use multiple clouds, if it isn't already. On the flip side, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-tells-its-tech-providers-to-stop-using-amazon-services-2017-6">Walmart famously asked its partners to stop using Amazon Web Services</a>, as a line in the sand in the online retail wars. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/target-to-move-off-amazons-cloud-cnbc-report-2017-8">Target made its own move away from AWS at around the same time.</a>In gaming, though, there aren't many places for Sony to turn if it wants a cloud partner who won't also be a competitor. Google has its Stadia service, while Amazon is rumored to be working on its own game streaming service. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/digitalocean-ceo-mark-templeton-cloud-developers-2019-4">DigitalOcean</a>, probably the largest independent cloud platform, doesn't have the same scale as its competitors. Since Sony can't avoid the reality of competition, its best bet is probably to embrace it - by choosing a company that it at least understands and respects, thanks to their years of long competition. Get the latest Microsoft stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/MSFT-Quote"> here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/avengers-endgame-end-credits-hidden-meaning-behind-mobius-strip-2019-4">The hidden meaning behind the 'Avengers: Endgame' end credits</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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