The tech industry should treat sexual harrassment of founders by VCs much like HR departments treat workplace abuses
I have been reading the slow but meaningful fall … Reed Albergotti / The Information : Venture Capitalists, Tech Leaders Back ‘Decency Pledge’ Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Binary Capital reportedly d...
John Doerr to Step Aside From New Venture Funds at Kleiner Perkins, Become Chair
Friday, April 1 Katie Benner / New York Times : John Doerr to Step Aside and Become Chairman at Kleiner Perkins Alex Konrad / Forbes : VC Firm Kleiner Perkins Is In Transition As Billionaire Leader Jo...
Oculus Has Hired Former Flipboard, Hulu Product Exec Eugene Wei to Run Video
Oculus, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company, has hired former Hulu SVP Eugene Wei as its new head of video. Wei was most recently head of product at Flipboard, and also spent seven years at Am...
John Markoff on slow pace of automation, shorter term bets from VCs and government, future of transportation, AR as the next big platform, more
The Next Wave — A Conversation With John Markoff — This can't be the end of human evolution. We have to go someplace else. — It's quite remarkable. Tweets: @philiped , @bigdata , @dangillmor , @c...
Inside story of the final days of Mojang: feelings of betrayal, plummeting employee morale, an absent Notch, and money as salve
The Unlikely Story of Microsoft's Surprise Minecraft Buyout — Microsoft's $2.5 billion purchase of Mojang and Minecraft last September … Tweets: @hunterwalk Tweets: Hunter Walk / @hunterwalk : Hmm, ...
Among America's top 50 philanthopists, tech industry figures gave 47% of total donations in 2014
America's biggest donors gave $9.8-billion … Gregory Ferenstein / VentureBeat : Tech elite account for half of the money given by top 50 U.S. donors (in 2 graphs) Chris Rauber / bizjournals : Nearly h...
Startups and Self-Loathing at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards
here's what it was like Sam Colt / Business Insider : This guy managed to appall almost all of Silicon Valley over the course of an hour Jamapro / CBS San Francisco : Did ‘Silicon Valley’ Star TJ Mill...