🔮 Better VC; rebuilding the Web; self-driving snafus; cities meet tech; emoji, plasma & hipsters++ #173

Dept of the near future

📈 Diverse VCs make more money according to the data, say Paul Gompers and Silpa Kovvali. “VC firms that increased their proportion of female partner hires by 10% saw, on average, a 1.5% spike in overall fund returns each year and had 9.7% more profitable exits”.

🔗 Tim Berners-Lee is “devastated” by how the world-wide-web has evol…