The Exchange is digging into the Chinese venture capital market this week, but getting folks to chat about business and China on the record is turning out to be slightly harder than we anticipated. More on that later this week. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/venture-capital-is-going-to-need-a-record-breaking-run-of-ipos-to-clear-its-own-decks/

It’s that time of the month again, where we beat you over the head with statistics demonstrating how red-hot the venture funding markets continue to be. In technical terms, growth decelerated…but the important point is that these already record-breaking total funding figures are *still growing.

Link: https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2021/10/08/global-vc-funding-hit-a-record-breaking-usd160-billion-in-q3

This outage was triggered by the system that manages our global backbone network capacity.

Link: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/