The Friday Forward

Scotland tracks all their snow plows and gives them incredible names.

Look, AirBnB, Stripe, DoorDash and all the recent media darlings are cool. I really mean that. But there's nothing cooler than building an interplanetary logistics company.

Let's take a little break from the tech news and talk about something you probably don't know much about: the environmental impact of a leaf blower.

Fintech is all the rage these days but with each new major product release it seems as if the entire ecosystem is being disrupted (ie powered) by Stripe.

Patrick Collison -- the CEO of $36B fintech startup Stripe -- is obsessed with how fast ambitious projects can get done.

Roblox, a San Mateo, Calif.-based social gaming platform for tweens and teens, filed for a $1 billion initial public offering.

On Wednesday, venture capitalists such as General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Arbor Ventures injected $175 million in Series A funding into Heyday, a company that acquires and incubates companies that sell products on Amazon.

Sriram Krishnan has a great repository of historically important memos from the tech world that I recommend checking out.

Guitar Center, a 61 year-old musical instrument retailer owned by Ares Management, plans to file for prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, per the New York Times.

Aphria (TSX: APHA), a Canadian cannabis company, agreed to buy Atlanta-based craft brewer SweetWater Brewing Co. for $300 million. Sellers include TSG Consumer Partners.