Doug Clinton

Apple, Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) closed up 2.5% higher on Monday, just shy of a $3 trillion market capitalization the stock briefly reached intraday. The move was in continuation of a strong fourth-quarter 2021, where Apple soared over 27% higher. Although the multinational technology company climbed...

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) CEO Parag Agrawal got three pieces of advice from Loup Funds Managing Partner Doug Clinton in an open letter over the weekend. Here’s what Clinton had to say. Defend What Makes Twitter Tick: Clinton called Twitter the “last bastion of truth discovery.”...

Volume and demand for non-fungible tokens have been surging. One project that is climbing up the leaderboards is PUNKS Comic, an NFT comic series drawn by Marvel and DC Comics artist Chris Wahl. A burning mechanism, new NFT launch and more items for PUNKS are attracting venture capitalists to the...

Venture capital firm Loup Ventures is out with commentary comparing SPACs to venture capital. What Happened: Loup researcher Doug Clinton makes the case for SPACs being more like venture capital vehicles rather than an alternative to a traditional IPO. “A SPAC isn’t just a vehicle...

The team of Doug Clinton and Steve Van Sloun at Loup Ventures made a bullish case for Unity Software (NYSE: U), a company in which they have owned a stake since before the IPO in a blog post.  “Unity is on the road to becoming the next great creative software company,”...

The tech sector is mounting a strong recovery after the COVID-19-induced weakness seen in early-to-mid March. With most stocks trading at or near record highs, Loup Ventures revisited the 2020 predictions it made at the start of the year. Apple To Catch Up Other With Other FAANG Stocks?...

Media veterans Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman were confident in the mid-pandemic timing of their launch of Quibi, a short-form video app. “Think about how often you use your phone when you’re homebound,” Whitman told the New York Times before the April 6 rollout. “People...

After one of its worst days in market history on Thursday, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) and the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSE: DIA) each opened higher by more than 6% on Friday, continuing the streak of extreme volatility in the stock market this week. Even with Friday...

Could the next version of you on a social media platform be an alternate version? Like maybe a guy who steals cars? Loup Ventures managing partner Doug Clinton says the next iteration of social media may be starting to emerge in which the identity people present to the world on the platform is an...

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is no stranger to controversy, and one of the latest controversial actions by the world’s largest social media company involved banning a handful of popular users such as Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos and Laura Loomer. Facebook said the bans occurred because each...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares were trading higher Friday after the company named Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to the board of directors as part of a Securities and Exchange Commission settlement.  Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corporation (NYSE...

Steam, Discord and Epic Games are improving their lineups by improving their developers, and they’re improving their slate of developers with competitive revenue models. Discord and Epic Games recently announced more favorable revenue splits for contributing creators, and Steam followed suit...

Social media users should be able to filter out all political content from their news feeds -- that is if companies like Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) are truly committed to "being a platform for social good," according to Loup Ventures' Doug Clinton. What Happened Clinton, a managing...

Late Thursday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged CEO Elon Musk with fraud and ordered his removal from Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) following an investigation into controversial take-private tweets. The lawsuit catalyzed a 13.7-percent plunge in the stock — and shook the faith of one...

It seems there’s little the Trump Administration could do to surprise these days. So in the possibility that, in the third round of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement this week, it withdraws from the treaty altogether, it may be worth considering what a self-sufficient...