TechCrunch+'s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch's ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters
January was a brutal month for journalists, globally from death and locally from layoffs. The latter hit home this week … Threads: @firstadopter . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @mjburnsy , @rez...
Profile of Bessemer Venture Partners, an early investor in Twilio and Shopify, as its competition with Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, and SoftBank ramps up
Bessemer Venture Partners is a thoughtful firm in a world of loose money. — 4 hr ago — In 2009, Ethan Kurzweil … Tweets: @ericnewcomer , @sarthakgh , @jasonlk , @ericnewcomer , @ericnewcomer , and...
Salesforce's Marc Benioff on elevating Keith Block to co-CEO, company's deal with US Customs and Border Protection, comparing Facebook to cigarettes, more
- After a summer vacation, Benioff made the surprising decision to elevate Keith Block to co-CEO, enabling a “divide and conquer strategy” … Tweets: @jasonlk , @adam_mansfield_ , @caseynewton , @mattr...
History shows the best time for startups to out-innovate incumbents in tech is when incumbents have achieved extreme product-market-fit and seem unassailable
One of the most interesting challenges in building an enterprise startup is navigating around, through, under, or over the big tech companies. Tweets: @rfflores , @stevesi , @mattrosoff , @timbeejones...
Sources say Iconiq Capital, a $7B asset management firm linked to many Silicon Valley elites, plans to refocus on tech investments, including buyouts
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jasonlk , @cezary , @shitfund , @chriswitkowsky , @preetatweets , and @ddayen Tweets: Jason M. Lemkin / @jasonlk : Translation: some of the ultra-smartest late stage in...
Sources say Iconiq Capital, a $7B asset management firm linked to many Silicon Valley elites, plans to refocus on tech investments, including buyouts
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jasonlk , @cezary , @shitfund , @chriswitkowsky , @preetatweets , and @ddayen Tweets: Jason M. Lemkin / @jasonlk : Translation: some of the ultra-smartest late stage in...
Profile of MailChimp, the 16-year-old Atlanta-based startup that makes marketing tools for SMBs, hasn't taken VC funding, and is on pace for $400M+ 2016 revenue
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times : Tweets: @avdi , @mims , @krogsgard , @caseynewton , @jasonlk , @wadefoster , @fmanjoo , @puiwingtam and @cfair1 . Thanks: @johnthebeeler Tweets: Avdi Grimm / @avdi : ...