Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the trade-offs with Route Share, Uber's business structure, autonomous vehicles, working with fleet operators, and more
Today, I'm talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. We recorded this conversation the day Uber announced a big set of product updates … Bluesky: @edzitron.com , @martinsfp , @marypcbuk , and @reckles...
Source: Meta plans to break up its civil rights team, which helped develop tech to address racial and other disparities in how Meta distributed ads on its apps
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Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 staffers, amid industry-wide cutbacks
The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019 — Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday … Threads: @thekenyeung , @markstenberg3 , @martinsfp , and @frederi...
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a “2007 Twitter” vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies
Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer supplies. Tweets: @martinsfp , @pt , @gabor , @stevenlevy , and @ch...
Disney, P&G, LVMH, and other large companies have hired chief metaverse officers to capitalize on Web3 trends, but it's unclear how long they will be needed
Advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA introduced the newest member of its C-suite at a technology conference in Paris this year. Tweets: @bizboyle , @bizboyle , @armstrongdrew , @eliotwb , @alexweprin ...
Email service Superhuman, which charges $30/month and hasn't formally launched, raises $75M Series C led by IVP, source says at a $825M valuation
Covering venture capital, software and startups — When Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra agreed to meet with former Dropbox CFO Ajay Vashee's … Tweets: @caseynewton , @alexrkonrad , @imkialikethecar , @mar...
Q&A with Zuckerberg about his vision for the metaverse and its potential to further splinter our sense of shared reality, Biden's comments about Facebook, more
As June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative. Tweets: @ballmatthew , @caseynewton , @reckless , @craigsilverman , @reese_shapiro , @reckles...
Current and former employees at Medium say CEO Ev Williams' internal memo in April on the company's shifting culture led to a mass exodus of non-editorial staff
In April, Medium CEO Ev Williams wrote a memo to his staff about the company's shifting culture in the wake of a challenging year. Tweets: @nmasc_ , @om , @nmasc_ , @martinsfp , and @caseynewton Tweet...
Austin has been a top destination for tech workers leaving CA during Covid, and residents are concerned about how the new wave is affecting city's culture
Matthew Congrove got the first offer on his house one month into the pandemic. Now, says Congrove, who lives in an eclectic neighborhood … Tweets: @martinsfp , @alistairmbarr , @urbanizedokie , @lize...
Profile of Bret Taylor, Salesforce's new COO and the architect of its $27.7B acquisition of Slack, who might one day succeed Marc Benioff as CEO of the company
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