Many SV startups are using AI to boost productivity in research, coding, and more, reducing reliance on VC money for hiring, fueling “tiny team” success stories
Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Bluesky: @aaronosaur.us . Mastodon: @jchyip@mastodon.online . X: @gjain , @bittingthembits , @stevelohr , and @tmroha...
Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic are returning, saying they can't miss out on the funding, hackathons, and networking of the AI boom
Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can't afford to miss out on the funding … Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social . Mastodon: @BruceHalperin@sfba.social . Tweets: @tom...
Because going public via a SPAC is seen as a merger, startups doing so face fewer restrictions on promoting stock vs. normal IPOs, which have a “quiet period”
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @eliotwb , @jmacinvesting , @eringriffith , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : On startups going public IPOs: CEOs barred from talking to the ...
A look at startup culture wars happening around Coinbase, Expensify, and others as they become embroiled in a debate over the role of politics in the workplace
Coinbase, Expensify, Soylent, Clubhouse and others are embroiled in a culture war over politics and the workplace. Tweets: @belril , @nathanielpopper , @nicoleperlroth , @nytmedia , @oduneweniyi , @el...
Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic
Erin Griffith / New York Times : Tweets: @dpteran , @twadhwa , @nbashaw , @briangaar , @mdudas , @nytimes , @alex_peys , @eringriffith , @karaswisher , @roseveleth , and @chrisalbon Tweets: Dan Teran...
Starship Technologies' fleet of delivery robots helped residents of Milton Keynes, a small city of 270K in UK, with grocery deliveries during the lockdown
Like many other places, a community 50 miles outside London went into quarantine. A fleet of delivery robots has been helping with the groceries. Tweets: @mit_csail , @dintersmith , @eringriffith , a...
Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets
Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags. — A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … Tweets: @andrew__reed , @dhaliwas , @vcbrags , @vcbrags...
As Lyft, Pinterest, Postmates, Slack, and Uber prepare to go public, VCs are preparing to invest in a new wave of startups created by employees enriched by IPOs
SAN FRANCISCO — Riley Newman, a former head of data science at Airbnb, set out in mid-2017 to raise a venture capital fund that would invest in a multitude of tech trends. Tweets: @triketora , @eringr...