Sources: Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd says Bumble's “center of gravity” will move to the US where the “talent pool is right now”; 70% of its staff is UK-based
Amazing that Bumble's staff weren't charmed by their CEO's approach.... [images] Christopher Mims / @mims : “Dating apps are feeling like a thing of the past” says [checks notes] CEO of a dating app ...
A study based on the patent-filing history of 760K+ US inventors finds they produce fewer innovations after joining big firms vs. inventors hired by young firms
Big companies are hiring an ever-larger proportion of America's inventors, who are less productive once they join LinkedIn: Christopher Mims . Tweets: @freakonometrics , @carnage4life , @carnage4life ...
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum
Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick / iMore : Is Twitter ...
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
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jensmithwsj , @mims , @mims , @jathansadowski , @greg_ip , @mims , @gregbensinger , @todd_yancey , and @hypervisible Tweets: Jennifer Smith / @jensmi...
Kitchen automation has risen during the pandemic, with robots from Miso Robotics, Chowbotics, and other startups now replacing some jobs in fast food chains
it's practically Food As A Service 🧵 https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : Honestly if your first reaction on seeing this is “ugh robots gonna take all the jobs” y...
A look at the role of social media manager, which has evolved from a position commonly filled by millennial interns into a more professionalized discipline
Krithika Varagur / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mims , @arb , @owenmroe , @travishelwig , @genepark , and @kofie Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : Does the person who tweets for your brand account...
Due to the pandemic, trends that normally may have taken years to unfold, like remote work or the shift from physical to virtual commerce, happened in months
Joel Mokyr We may not be digital creatures now. But someday maybe we will be. https://www.wsj.com/... Miles Kimball / @mileskimball : “Through Shopify, a business can quickly set up a web site with ma...