In this edition of the Priori Digest, we look at cryptocurrency securities lawsuits in the past year, the new global data economy in the era of GDPR and the age-old debate over the office temperature. Enjoy!
What we’re reading
- Securities lawsuits filed over cryptocurrencies or bitcoin have tripled so far this year
- Fewer jobs for law graduates means that the traditional pyramid structure to law firms is being supplanted by a rocket-looking structure
- Deemphasizing billable hours and focusing on breadth of service per client may be the key for law firms to land higher-value work
- Do you disagree with your colleagues about the office temperature? You’re not alone
- What’s the definition of a startup? The answer is less clear than you might think
- This piece examines how companies have handled GDPR and looks to the future of the global data economy
What in the weird
- Have you ever needed to make an essay look longer than it actually was? Meet Times Newer Roman (p.s. I had the opposite problem and made my punctuation tiny)
- Jeff Bezos has spent $42 million backing a project to build a clock that will tick for 10 millennia
By the numbers
- 40: Only about 40% of companies that raise Pre-Series A funding successfully make it to Series A or beyond
- 52: As competition builds over who will dominate driverless car technology, traditional automakers such as Toyota, Volkswagen and Ford have participated in 52 venture capital deals so far in 2018—easily the most ever
