A profile of Blake Benthall, arrested in 2014 for running Silk Road 2.0, which had 1.7M users and $8M/month sales, as he promotes his crypto startup Fathom(x)
New York Times : X: @rmac18 , @kashhill , @emers0nian , and @eddyelfenbein X: Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : 10 years ago, @kashhill and I covered the downfall of Silk Road 2.0 and the arrest of its leader Bla...
The FDIC plans to sell all of Signature Bank's 40 branches to Flagstar Bank, as well as some Signature loans and deposits not in its digital banking business
Bloomberg reports: — “Signature Bank's crypto-related deposits will be returned to customers directly … Michael Farrell : I am pleased to announce that Signature Bridge Bank, N.A. was acquired Sunda...
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
Leaked audio: at a Google all-hands, Sundar Pichai expressed some annoyance at employees asking about cost cutting, telling them not to “equate fun with money”
less lavish parties at work means fewer “day of work” tiktok videos :( https://www.cnbc.com/... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : Pichai trying hard to not lash out on the entitled class “I'm a bit concer...
Valuations of recent IPOs, relative to the companies' revenue, are at their highest levels since the dot-com era, sparking concerns among investors
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @eliotwb , @rationalwalk , @markjeffrey , @daveambrose , @eliotwb , @jessefelder , and @eddyelfenbein Tweets: Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : -Airbnb is worth the combination o...
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 / ...