Amid a downturn, tech companies may shift their focus from “gee-whiz” projects, like self-driving cars and metaverses, to truly useful products that make money
History shows that downturns are when the industry shifts focus from flashy novelties to things that are truly useful Tweets: @mims , @wsj , @mims , @jessefelder , @tunguz , @fosspatents , @jason_pont...
[Thread] A tech startup founder describes how he made ~$200K in 2021 by ghostwriting tweets for venture capitalists, as a side hustle for five hours per week
👻 Ghostwriting tweets for venture capitalists is the side hustle of the founder of a tech startup (who asked to remain anonymous). Last year he made about $200,000. Here's how he did it, as told to In...
A look at Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon startup and its Goddess Nature Token, focused on tokenizing carbon offsetting, and what it says about Web3 more broadly
Falling prices for cryptocurrencies test the logic of the ‘tokenomics’ behind Web3 startups, but true believers think the real problem is existing securities regulations Tweets: @mims , @drorpoleg , @...
Bezos' biggest legacy could be “Bezosism”, using surveillance, algorithms, and data to supercharge old management systems and squeeze performance out of workers
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Some Black startup founders are finding it easier to attract investors in 2020, as investors are accessible on Zoom and creating diversity-focused funds
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Amid an explosion in demand for home-delivered goods, shippers like FedEx are increasingly adopting industrial robot arms equipped with computer vision and AI
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mfordfuture , @sub8u , @mileskimball , @mims , @2peterharris , and @farshchi Tweets: Martin Ford / @mfordfuture : Short on workers during the pandemi...
Retail stores, which were closing due to declining foot traffic even before the pandemic, are now increasingly being turned into online fulfillment centers
As the demand for in-person shopping diminishes, landlords, startups and retailers are converting abandoned stores into online fulfillment centers Tweets: @denniswygmans , @mjasay , @mims , @paytonchu...
As unionized dockworkers protest automation in LA ports, truckers welcome the port robots which reduce unpaid time they spend waiting for the cargo to load
Day after day, Walter Diaz, an immigrant truck driver from El Salvador, steers his 18-wheeler toward the giant ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Tweets: @margotroosevelt , @latimes , @paulpage , @m...
How women, who helped shape computing's early years when it was considered “women's work”, were systemically pushed out of the field in the US and UK
In computing's early years, when it was considered women's work, all six programmers of America's first digital computer, ENIAC, were women Tweets: @un_women , @mims , @histoftech , and @skupor Tweets...
AngelList co-founder Babak Nivi has also left the board; sources describe an incident leading to a contractor and Nivi signing a nondisparagement agreement
Often used at tech companies, nondisparagement agreements are increasingly included in employment contracts and legal settlements. Tweets: @ktbenner , @sw , @mims , and @juliacarriew Tweets: Katie Ben...