An interview with CEO Amjad Masad on Replit's path to a $3B valuation, revenue growth, pivot to non-technical white-collar workers, $350M war chest, and more
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Bluesky: @pierrejulian and @geniusrefi Bluesky: @pierrejulian : So, we failed to convert the actual devs, now we're going with non-devs so they can code some slop. Legit...
The exclusivity period for OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf, entered into in May, has expired
Google just Poached the CEO Instead Bloomberg Law : OpenAI's $3 Billion Deal to Buy AI Startup Windsurf Falls Apart Bluesky: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : This leaves Anthropic looking like a remarka...
Internal report: employees at Wildlife Studios, a Brazilian mobile game maker valued at $3B, have repeatedly alleged gender wage imbalances and discrimination
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Sources: Magic Leap is laying off about half its employees, or around 1,000 people, as it winds down its consumer business; Magic Leap has raised over $2B
50 percent of its workforce — and shutting down its consumer division: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Jon Evans / @rezendi : This is going to go down as one of the biggest failures in the history of te...
Open letter from New York's state budget director regarding Amazon's pullout, which he calls a “tremendous loss”, claiming that HQ2 would have had a 9-to-1 ROI
losing 25,000+ jobs and $27 billion in tax revenue https://www.governor.ny.gov/ ... @semil : To each their own, tho as the facts bear out, cannot be argued as a win for NY/NYC/Queens based on this htt...
After Amazon misread New York's politics, pulling out was a typical Bezos power play of belligerently confronting opposition he views as unfair or unjust
And Everyone Lost Paige Leskin / Business Insider : Amazon was having official talks with city officials just the day before it canceled the New York HQ2 Chris Nuttall / Financial Times : Amazon and N...
Profile of Epic Systems, a privately held healthcare software company based in Wisconsin that claims to hold medical records for more than 50% of US patients
@nytimes http://www.nytimes.com/... Jess Shull / @jgshull : Epic is poorly designed. Full stop. It still carries code from 1979?? And seeing an open heart surgery is NOT the same as using the EHR soft...
Profile of Epic Systems, a privately held healthcare software company based in Wisconsin that claims to hold medical records for more than 50% of US patients
@nytimes http://www.nytimes.com/... Joyce Novacek Ragard / @joycenovacek : I worked at Epic for 3.5 yrs & I think the way Epic treats its (thousands of) employees deserves more attention. The turnover...
Profile of Epic Systems, a privately held healthcare software company based in Wisconsin that claims to hold medical records for more than 50% of US patients
The engineers at Epic Systems work on a campus full of childish whimsy but also sit in on open-heart surgery. Tweets: @chrissyfarr , @katekelly , @joycenovacek , @fdmts , @nytimes , @stevecase , @davi...
Jet.com's president Liza Landsman is leaving just 18 months after the $3B Walmart acquisition
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