YC's decision to remove two of its CEOs who critiqued the accelerator publicly from its program raises questions about how YC moderates its community
TechCrunch : Tweets: @pardesoteric , @lzsthw , and @martinsfp Tweets: Arielle Pardes / @pardesoteric : “I think YC has become an institution, and institutions are viewed with high scrutiny,” says @ga...
Despite protests against racial inequality, VC promises to do better, and special funds for minorities, Black founders are still sidelined in Silicon Valley
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Amid the pandemic, tech companies are moving workplace incentives out of the office, focusing more on time-off allowances for parents and mental health support
Arielle Pardes / Wired :
Amid the pandemic, tech companies are moving workplace incentives out of the office, focusing more on time-off allowances for parents and mental health support
Arielle Pardes / Wired : Tweets: @nmainland and @dancharvey Tweets: Nathalie Mainland / @nmainland : “In the long term this is not a pandemic response app, it's a system for engagement and health and...
A growing number of astrophysicists are leaving academia to join data science teams at tech companies amid a surging demand for machine learning expertise
Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it's stars or Stitch Fix, it's all about machine learning. Tweets: @wired , @hshaban , @ar...
Slack closes at $38.62, up 48.5% from its $26 reference price, on its first day of trading, valuing the company at about $20B
for Now Reuters : Slack stock surges at debut, values company at more than $25 billion Thomas Franck / CNBC : Slack CEO explains why the company didn't go public with a traditional IPO Shawn Knight / ...