A profile of Sequoia's Roelof Botha, who seeded the idea of Sequoia Capital Fund, which holds stakes in companies past the traditional 10-year VC fund cycle
109. One billion dollars. — Roelof Botha used to write 109 on the corner of his notepad every week when he started at Sequoia 19 years ago. Tweets: @bizcarson , @inakib , @mfriedrichark , @sarthakgh...
Mapbox workers voted against a union 123-81, after the company forced a formal vote on whether workers wanted to form a union allied with CWA
Anna Kramer / Protocol : Tweets: @seldo , @protocol , and @anna_c_kramer Tweets: Laurie Voss / @seldo : There will be other companies, there will be further votes. The highest support for labor union...
Poll: of 750 tech workers, half are at least somewhat interested in joining a union, and ~50% say there is already interest of unionizing at their workplace
Anna Kramer / Protocol : Tweets: @_aupe_ , @techworkersco , @bizcarson , and @alphabetworkers Tweets: Aupe / @_aupe_ : “Unions tend to form during short moments of high-pressure social change, accord...
Q&A with Rick Klau, an ex-Google product manager and California's new CTIO responsible for building apps and services for various departments across the state
Biz Carson / Protocol : Tweets: @bizcarson , @protocol , @bwjones , @rsquared , @rklau , and @protocol Tweets: Biz Carson / @bizcarson : I asked @rklau what shocked him about joining the government a...
Interview with Stanford comp lit professor Adrian Daub on the naiveté of undergrads eager to work in tech, “useless” VC Twitter, and challenges to SV narratives
In the early 2010s, professor Adrian Daub began noticing changes in some Stanford undergraduates that troubled him. Tweets: @toddwalker , @dancharvey , @issielapowsky , @protocol , and @chrmanning Twe...
Profile of Christine Su, Twitter's senior PM for conversational safety, who is a queer Asian-American “activist-entrepreneur” with an MBA and MA in agriculture
About six months ago, Twitter quietly hired someone to become the head of product for conversational safety on the platform. Tweets: @neerajka , @anna_c_kramer , @protocol , @martinsfp , @anna_c_krame...
Interview with Dantley Davis, Twitter's chief design officer, on building diverse and inclusive design teams in tech
When Dantley Davis worked as a designer at Netflix a few years back, he had an epiphany: For ages, “Star Wars” had been marketed as a sci-fi saga. But what if it could also be a princess story? Tweet...