Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy, effective immediately; Shear is a Justin.tv co-founder
My work on Twitch began in October 2006, when Justin, Michael … Jay Peters / The Verge : Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz : Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down K...
AngelList launches AngelList Stack, a set of tools to help founders start and run their companies, including end-to-end incorporation and banking services
AngelList Stack is a new suite of workflow products for founders — AngelList this week launched AngelList Stack … Source: AngelList Venture and AngelList Venture Tweets: @angellist , @alexh_johnson ...
Instacart hires Fidji Simo, the head of Facebook's app and one of the highest-ranking female executives at Facebook, as its new CEO starting August 2
an ex-Facebook exec — hints at post-IPO ambitions Michelle Cheng / Quartz : Instacart will go public under a new CEO hired from Facebook Tweets: Deirdre Bosa / @dee_bosa : 🚨BREAKING: instacart taps Fi...
Katie Haun, a co-chair of a16z's crypto fund, talks about the geopolitics of blockchain, risk, regulation, outlook for the crypto industry, and the fund's focus
Katie Haun, a co-chair of Andreessen Horowitz's new $2.2 billion crypto fund, is betting that the blockchain will be as big as the internet. Tweets: @tomicahtd , @unhedgedchatter , @jess , @rachaelrad...
Stripe extends its business lending service Stripe Capital to online platforms, offering an “end-to-end lending API” to provide customers with financing options
Payments giant Stripe is taking Stripe Capital, its push into online business finance and lending, to the next level. Tweets: @patrickc , @stripe , @stripe , @jess , @itsjoeco , @jeremiahdillon , @roh...
Bill Gates has stepped down from the Microsoft's Board of Directors, will continue to serve as Technology Advisor to CEO Satya Nadella
Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CNBC : Bill Gates leaves Microsoft board Paul Morris / Redmond Pie : Bill Gates Has Announced He's Stepping Down From The Microsoft Board Louis Casiano / Fox ...
How brands and individuals across China are leveraging short video apps for commerce, a trend that can help inform the next frontier for ecommerce in the US
In the future, we're all going to be shopping on video apps like TikTok. Whether you're buying instant noodles or high-end sweaters … Tweets: @jess , @jalajboy , and @a16z Tweets: Jessica Verrilli / ...
Walmart to buy menswear company Bonobos for $310M; Bonobos' CEO Andy Dunn will oversee Walmart's digital brands
> Walmart $ Shave Club —> Unilever Chewy —> PetSmart Jet —> Walmart ModCloth —> Walmart Disrupting retail is hard Jessica Verrilli / @jess : Lots of interesting M&A happening in the intersection point...
Matching characters from HBO's “Silicon Valley” to real tech world personalities
The absolutely definitive, supremely authoritative, person-to-person mapping of “Silicon Valley” characters to real tech world personalities. — When we say that a television show is “realistic,” wha...
Inside the development of Amazon Echo: early Echo team members recount company's ambitions for the device and the challenges they faced
Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Tweets: @dannysullivan , @mgsiegler , @kevinctofel , @jess , @mdudas , @rakeshlobster , @jess , @mercenaryjack and @efeng Tweets: Danny Sullivan / @dannysullivan : Awe...