Sources: in 2019, Paul Graham flew from the UK to San Francisco to fire his protégé Sam Altman from YC, worried that Altman put his interests ahead of YC
Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator … X: @cher0x801 , @bigmeaninternet , @deljohnsonvc , @josh_wills , @itsurboyevan , @itsurboyevan...
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt attributes angst over driverless cars to anti-robot bias, saying “anything that we do differently than humans is being sensationalized”
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said in an interview with The Washington Post that the angst around driverless cars in San Francisco is overblown X: @yoda . Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars X: Drew Olanoff / @yoda : I ...
Twitter VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin says she has resigned from the company; Irwin joined in June 2022 and took over as head of T&S when Yoel Roth resigned
maybe the Matt Walsh movie? — but she oversaw some egregious violations of trust and safety. John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton.bsky.social : Ella Irwin stayed around at Twitter. — She consolidated pow...
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says he was humbled and outraged by toxic workplace claims and blames “outside forces” for most of Activision's image issues
Bobby Kotick has a secret: He was ready to buy Time Warner a few years ago.The CEO of Activision Blizzard drops this nugget early … Tweets: @yoda , @stephentotilo , @toadsanime , @variety , @hazzadorg...
Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, for allegedly stealing ~$10.5M of the project's seed funding
Forbes : Tweets: @jelenaaa____ , @moo9000 , @sub8u , @carnage4life , @evacide , @yoda , @hkanji , and @sarahnemerson Tweets: Jelena / @jelenaaa____ : Brutal, but in many ways not surprising that this...
Ex-staffers say Google's Jigsaw saw its workforce of 50 cut by at least 20 and fear Google is phasing out the altruistic division as it isn't profit oriented
Let us recall that Gmail is similarly ‘altruistic’... Tweets: Drew Olanoff / @yoda : cool now we're getting rid of the people running projects to protect us. https://twitter.com/... Thomas Brewster / ...
Meta Executive Advisor and former Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness”
over *years* of effort — to produce little more than... ...legless 1992 quality avatars... viewed through a size 16 boot strapped to your face... https://twitter.com/... Casilli / @antoniocasilli : Me...
An interview with NFT project Loot creator Dom Hofmann, who says it still has ~200 developers despite the project's market cap falling from $180M+ to under $6M
Loot's Dom Hofmann on outlasting the hype cycle, public-domain video games, and why Creative Commons is the future Tweets: @yoda , @caseynewton , @alexhern , and @caseynewton Tweets: Drew Olanoff / @y...
A profile of Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky, as the company goes bankrupt; sources say he is a brash entrepreneur with a history of unhappy investors and colleagues
Entrepreneur proposed a stream of moonshot ideas in different industries over many years—and frequently left a string of unhappy colleagues and investors Tweets: @vlajournaliste , @donnaredel , @yoda ...
Tweets by 8VC's Joe Lonsdale about “woke” tech diversity prompt swift criticism from tech investors as he attempts to recontextualize his earlier statements
Last week, in response to someone who tweeted that VCs were racist, venture capitalist and entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale … Tweets: @thevaluesvc , @ceonyc , @triketora , @brianbrackeen , @jtlonsdale , @jtl...