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...
Staffers at Medium in editorial, engineering, design, and product units say they're unionizing; a majority of about 140 employees signed union cards with CWA
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Colin Kaepernick joins Medium's board and will write for Medium publications; Kaepernick Publishing will create stories for Medium about race and civil rights
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Former employees of dog-walking startup Wag, which raised $300M from SoftBank and replaced CEO in Jan. 2018, describe slowed growth, multiple layoffs, and more
(CNN)At the start of 2018, Wag looked like tech's next Big Thing. — In January, the founders of the dog-walking startup announced … Tweets: @seldo , @carnage4life , @_cingraham , @tomgara , @sfieger...
An account of the rise and untimely death of Vine and HQ Trivia cofounder Colin Kroll, based on interviews with and documents from friends, police, and others
Self-taught coder Colin Kroll shot to startup fame, allowing him to live life in a fast lane — Colin Kroll, a college dropout … Tweets: @shalini , @daiwaka , @mattrosoff , @poochmcgoo , @antoniogm ,...
Friends and colleagues remember Colin Kroll, cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia, as an inspiring and talented visionary who built products that made millions happy
Kerry Flynn / Digiday : Tweets: @digiday , @digiday , @jaykapoornyc , @scottrogowsky , and @kerrymflynn Tweets: @digiday : “The interesting thing about Colin is everything he ever did had never been ...
Friends and colleagues remember Colin Kroll, cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia, as an inspiring and talented visionary who built products that made millions happy
In his childhood, Colin Kroll imagined being able to interact with all the TV shows he watched. Tweets: @kerrymflynn , @digiday , @digiday , @jaykapoornyc , and @scottrogowsky Tweets: Kerry Flynn / @k...
Silicon Valley should move past its glowing perception of the Zuckerberg-Sandberg paradigm, where the challenges created by a brash CEO are tackled by the COO
and they invariably will — often a disproportionate amount of the blame falls on them, too. The fixer, it turns out, always gets the blame.” - the ever-thoughtful perspective of @jessiwrites. http://t...
Source: Uber harassment findings result in 20+ fired after 215 claims investigated; a separate Eric Holder-led probe has sent recommendations to board
including some senior employees — after internal investigation Janet Burns / Forbes : Uber Has Fired 20 In Wide Discrimination Probe, Including Some Senior Execs Richard Chirgwin / The Register : Uber...
Snap's hands-off approach to high profile Snapchat users has alienated some of them, increasing the appeal of Instagram and YouTube
which is exactly what happened to Vine before its demise. http://www.buzzfeed.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Snapchat influencers are feeling the cold shoulder, so they're bringing their audi...