A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI's CEO in November 2023
which is why you never find anyone from the Bilal Zuberi / @bznotes : Since it is @JoshuaKushner appreciation day, I should mention how he interned at General Catalyst in Boston when I was there (duri...
Source: VC firm OpenView laid off most of its staff and does not plan to make new investments, after several partners recently left the firm
OpenView Venture Partners is a VC firm which raised $2.4 billion and is now shutting down because they don't think they can generate returns for their LPs. … X: @saranormous : Dramatic VC fund collaps...
Q&A with AOL founder Steve Case on his prediction that tech companies will flourish in the US heartland, the current investment slowdown, J.D. Vance, and more
and grilling him on what why he ghosted JD Vance (who led Case's heartlands venture fund) in his book. https://www.wired.com/... Ted Leonsis / @tedleonsis : .@SteveCase on #RiseOfRestBook and the grow...
How Toast, founded in Boston with a $500K investment from Endeca's Steve Papa after VCs shunned it, became a $30B business, in part by avoiding the Bay Area
- Toast's first backer, Steve Papa, invested in the company because no venture capital firm would write the initial check. Tweets: @jordannovet , @strngwys , @luoshengpeng , @arbuge , @jamespchuck , @...
Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications
Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @pranavab47 , @aparanjape , @mouserelec , @kaeshour , and @helengreiner Tweets: Pranav Bhounsule / @pranavab47 : Boston dynamics does not use machine learning ...
Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications
Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @aparanjape , @mouserelec , @kaeshour , @pranavab47 , and @helengreiner Tweets: Amit Paranjape / @aparanjape : By now, most of you would have seen those amazin...
As tech giants introduce new work from home guidelines, employees are considering moving away from Silicon Valley and companies contemplate adjusting salaries
wait for it — actually enjoy living in the Bay Area, which, spoiler, is a nice place to live! https://twitter.com/... Josh / @joshuaogundu : The funny thing is people assuming that their employer won'...
Dropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston joins Facebook's board of directors, effective immediately
Good times https://twitter.com/... Dan Primack / @danprimack : Boston tech folks view @drewhouston and @finkd as the two who got away, so makes sense they'd team up. Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew ...
Overview of startup exits outside Silicon Valley from the past ten years, not including Asian companies: Sweden edges out UK, Boston remains big, more
There's never been a better time to build a company outside the Bay Area — The Bay Area has been the best place to build a startup for the last two decades. Tweets: @niklas_a and @stevecase Tweets: ...
Esports companies like Blizzard are growing by replicating traditional sports leagues like NBA that are structured around local franchises and fanfare
Jay Goldthwaite had never felt passion for a Boston sports team, no matter how often his neighbors' cheers pierced the walls …