The Marin Community Foundation sold 13.4M+ Figma shares for $440M+ in the IPO; source: the foundation had received the shares from Figma co-founder Evan Wallace
As Figma went public this week to much fanfare—and an almost instantaneous 250% stock pop—quite a few folks from Silicon Valley made money. X: @ajs X: Alyson Shontell / @ajs : Figma IPO's surprise win...
A profile of AWS CEO Matt Garman, including his first few months on the job, what his stewardship means for the business, and his opportunities and challenges
It's true. I *can't* understand why he wouldn't take a selfie with me! — fortune.com/2024/12/19/a... Mastodon: Greg Linden / @glinden@sigmoid.social : @Techmeme It seems weird to me that this busin...
Three Nvidia customers spent a collective $12.6B in Q3, over a third of Nvidia's total $35.1B Q3 revenue; each of them spent $10B+ in the nine months to October
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang doesn't have any real competition in the market for AI training chips. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski.bsky.social . X: @ajs Bluesky: Emil Protalinski / @emilprotalinski....
Source: Figure, which is building a humanoid robot, is in talks to raise as much as $500M in a round led by Microsoft and OpenAI at a $1.9B pre-money valuation
could we see ChatGPT robots soon? Jyoti Mann / Business Insider : Microsoft and OpenAI are in talks to inject $500 million into humanoid robotics startup Figure AI, report says K L Krithika / Analytic...
A profile of Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, who built the $5.3B firm outside his famous family, growing from a $40M fund in 2011 to a $3.3B eighth fund
so much so that the print intro (which closed 2 weeks ago) is different than the digital intro. Excited to share it and grateful to our world class editor @MatthewHeimer who... David Marcus / @davidma...
A profile of Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, who built the $5.3B firm outside his famous family, growing from a $40M fund in 2011 to a $3.3B eighth fund
How Joshua Kushner won over Silicon Valley CEOs and built a $5.3 billion venture firm outside his famous family. X: @ajs and @ajs X: Alyson Shontell / @ajs : “Josh had access to capital and had access...
A look at OpenAI's complicated relationship with Microsoft, which does not have a seat on the OpenAI board due to OpenAI's origins as a non-profit organization
but the leading theory about the drama at OpenAI tells a different story Benson Mawira / Cryptopolitan : OpenAI's Mission: Balancing Profit and Ethical AI Development Rohan Goswami / CNBC : OpenAI's u...
A look at a16z's communication efforts over the years, as the firm expands its own media operations and has largely stopped cooperating with reporters
Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct. — Benedict Evans, Andreessen Horowitz's former in-house analyst … Tweets: @mdudas , @ajs , @jason , @jeffjohnroberts , @ajs , @sarthakgh , @sa...
Axios says it will launch AxiosHQ, which lets companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, next month, starting at $10K a year
AxiosHQ communications platform to launch with Delta Air Lines and AT&T among early customers — Punchy news startup Axios is betting … Tweets: @stevekopack , @caseynewton , @benmullin , @katie_roof ...
Emails from Mark Zuckerberg, revealed by the House antitrust panel, show that Facebook wanted to buy Instagram at least partly to explicitly avoid competition
Hey what's up driving to dinner … Teja Chedalla / Android Headlines : Emails Reveal Zuckerberg Neutralized Competition With Instagram Acquisition Jack Gramenz / news.com.au : Billion dollar buy labell...