An interview with CEO Amjad Masad on Replit's path to a $3B valuation, revenue growth, pivot to non-technical white-collar workers, $350M war chest, and more
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Bluesky: @pierrejulian and @geniusrefi Bluesky: @pierrejulian : So, we failed to convert the actual devs, now we're going with non-devs so they can code some slop. Legit...
A profile of Katie Haun, a former federal prosecutor turned a16z partner who later founded Haun Ventures and believes the GENIUS Act will make stablecoins safer
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
An interview with Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on building the “next Nextdoor”, not licensing data to AI firms for now, his relationship with Bill Gurley, and more
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about the company's aggressive plans for 2025, including competing with prediction market startups like Kalshi and Polymarket
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Laela Sturdy, the head of Alphabet's growth stage venture arm CapitalG, about its decision-making process, AI strategy, Stripe's valuation, and more
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
Tiger Global Management's Scott Shleifer will transition from his role leading private investments to a senior adviser role, effective January 1, 2024
and a map of his empire Kul Bhushan / Entrackr : Tiger Global's private investment head Scott Shleifer steps down Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Tiger Global chieftain Scott Shleifer transitions to advi...
Medium founder Ev Williams is stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by Coach.me CEO Tony Stubblebine; Williams plans to start a new holding company/research lab
Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. Coach Tony : Hello Medium readers, authors, editors and publishers Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Ev Williams calls it quits as CEO of M...
Direct-to-consumer retailer Brandless shuts down, becoming the first company backed by SoftBank's Vision Fund to do so
Good morning and welcome back to Merger Week. Tom Maxwell / Input : Brandless is shutting down after two years and $300 million invested Miles Kruppa / Financial Times : SoftBank-backed Brandless cuts...
Source: a16z to open a San Francisco office later this year, but won't close its Sand Hill Road offices and doesn't plan to rent an entire building
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
Alexia Bonatsos, former co-editor of TechCrunch, unveils her new seed-stage venture fund, Dream Machine, and says the fund has made seven investments to date
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Tweets: @iam_preethi , @semil , and @alexia Tweets: Preethi Kasireddy / @iam_preethi : I've only worked with @alexia for a few months so far but I can honestly say that s...