A profile of Christian Garrett, co-founder of the Hill and Valley Forum and partner at 137 Ventures, who has become Silicon Valley's diplomat to Washington, DC
Margaux MacColl / The San Francisco Standard : X: @wolfejosh , @cgarrett_15 , @cgarrett_15 , @hkanji , and @seanhenryatl X: Josh Wolfe / @wolfejosh : He @CGarrett_15 is the man. A smart savvy class a...
Several media and tech executives say UK VC Matt Clifford, who has advised successive Tory and Labour governments, has an outsized influence over AI policy
British venture capitalist has advised successive Tory and Labour governments — Last year, as thousands of customers withdrew … X: @nickswan73 , @hkanji , @james_coe1 , and @krishnanrohit . LinkedIn...
Since the OpenAI board dispute, Microsoft diversified AI investments and partnerships, built its own models, and hired aggressively for its consumer AI efforts
Financial Times : X: @bgurley , @hetanshah , @hkanji , and @rwang07 X: Bill Gurley / @bgurley : This is a very long and interesting article. Must read I would say. It says Microsoft invested $13B in ...
An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, a big breakthrough in AI, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper
They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history. X: @jsmarr , @webbarr , @sandraupson , @hkanji , and @stevenle...
Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, for allegedly stealing ~$10.5M of the project's seed funding
Forbes : Tweets: @jelenaaa____ , @moo9000 , @sub8u , @carnage4life , @evacide , @yoda , @hkanji , and @sarahnemerson Tweets: Jelena / @jelenaaa____ : Brutal, but in many ways not surprising that this...
Wall Street firms are gaining ground in the talent war as hiring freezes impact Silicon Valley and computer engineers move from big tech and crypto to finance
Computer engineers are returning to finance after a reversal of fortune in the war for talent — After years of fighting … Tweets: @pkedrosky , @hkanji , and @carlquintanilla Tweets: Paul Kedrosky / ...
Daversa, an executive recruitment firm for companies like Instacart and Spotify, is facing allegations of male-on-male harassment and assault in a new lawsuit
The company places senior leadership in fast-growing startups to help them become stable, safe work environments Tweets: @russellbrandom , @kateconger , @hkanji , @cmuggla , and @klarnaseb Tweets: Rus...
Current and former employees at German grocery delivery startup Gorillas describe arbitrary firings and exploitation of riders and warehouse workers
“It's like the new WeWork story,” says Ben*, who joined Gorillas' operations team last summer in Berlin. — The comparison to coworking company WeWork is a brutal one. Tweets: @siftedeu , @fpratty , ...
Justin Zhu, former Iterable CEO ousted for taking LSD before a meeting, on his disputes with key investors and the challenges of being Chinese in Silicon Valley
Justin Zhu, chief executive officer of digital marketing startup Iterable Inc., was walking down Broadway in San Francisco … Tweets: @ellenhuet , @chris_skinner , @jfberke , @markmilian , @kateclarktw...
As a disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 were tech employees from the Bay Area, locals worry about “Aspenification of Tahoe”
Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker … Tweets: @rachellevinsf , @chrisasolomon , @sesmith , @skiingrogge , @outsidemagazine , @talkpo...