2/5— Friday Fun Reading — Six Links Worthy of your Attention

1.Mattermark published an interesting insight into What Product VPs At High-Growth Startups Have In Common. To summarize, product leaders at high-growth startups are smart, have deep experience, yet while many are technical, there are fewer true technical product people leading product organizations than you might have expected.

2. Super Bowl the most watched television spectacle in the country is here. So if you are feeling lucky maybe you can bet on some of these crazy bets — Will there be an earthquake during the game ? Will Beyonce wear white or black shoes ? or Will Peyton Manning cry ? Check out all the other odd props you can bet on for the Super bowl this Sunday.

3. The esoteric debate that’s tearing the Bitcoin world apart, explained — the problem was that the Bitcoin network was getting too crowded to accommodate everyone who wanted to use it. In recent months, most payments are still going through without delays. But as Bitcoin continues to get more popular, congestion and slow payments are going to become a bigger and bigger problem.

4. For the first time, Visa is inviting third-party software developers onto its network with the goal of advancing digital commerce. Developers will now have access to payment technologies and services including account holder identification, person-to-person payment capabilities, secure in-store and online payment services such as Visa Checkout, currency conversion and consumer transaction alerts, the company revealed Thursday during a press conference in San Francisco.

5. The End of Twitter — The New Yorker — This article is getting a lot of buzz. Is this about leadership? Stock price? Executive changes? Product development? Or… have people simply decided that there is enough ‘other stuff’ that the value of Twitter is, simply and sadly, no longer there? — Time will tell. Facebook has surpassed the company by orders of magnitude, but it’s hardly Twitter’s only foe. Instagram, WhatsApp, and even WeChat all now have more individual users than Twitter does. Snapchat has almost caught Twitter, too.

6. Finally, Celebrating its 12 year anniversary — Facebook aims to have 5 billion of the world’s 7 billion humans connected to its social network, this jump could come with the use of their Internet Drones. Providing Internet to the remotest part of the world, an endeavor Google is chasing as well, can open up the door to amazing possibilities. Facebook also introduced a new way of measuring its global spread: as users doubled from 2011 to 1.5 billion, the degrees of separation between each user has shrunk from 3.74 to 3.57 degrees today — six degrees of separation is shrinking rapidly.