Sources: Eric Schmidt has spent the last few months working on Hooglee, an AI startup that describes its mission as “democratizing video creation with AI”
Sarah Emerson / Forbes : Bluesky: @criticismkumar , @tompaine1776 , and @lauridonahue . X: @mathewi Bluesky: @criticismkumar : Close enough, welcome back Gavin belson [embedded post] @tompaine1776 : ...
How Ryan's World, launched in 2015 with a then three-year-old Ryan Kaji, grew into a content behemoth with 10 YouTube channels and deals with Amazon and others
Ten-year-old Ryan Kaji and his family have turned videos of him playing with toys into a multimillion-dollar empire. Tweets: @mathewi , @ubiquity75 , @nytimes , @gdalmiathinks , @teamziller , @mformah...
Stratechery's Ben Thompson announces a service called Passport to let creators manage their subscriptions and communicate with subscribers
Seven years ago, when I initially launched the paid Daily Update, there weren't really any tools designed for independent subscription businesses … Tweets: @sarthakgh , @stratechery , @caseynewton , @...
Apple says it parted ways with recent hire Antonio García Martínez, an ex-Facebook staffer and author, after employee petition citing “misogynistic statements”
unless a woke mob forms a boycott campaign, in which case termination shall be immediate. Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn : I have seen the “woke mob” discourse around a man who literally wrote a book sayin...
Blockchain journalism startup Civil is shutting down following its failure to find substitute financing after losing its major source of funding, ConsenSys
Lessons from a failed startup: The high-profile, blockchain-backed attempt to nurture nascent digital news sites is shutting down.” https://www.poynter.org/... The company seeded The Colorado Sun w/ a...
Profile of Lee Holloway, Cloudflare's third founder, widely considered a genius, who became distant and erratic due to a tragic case of frontotemporal dementia
for a long time, no one could make sense of it. https://www.wired.com/... @richardheartwin : If you read this, you will understand how desperately we need more progress in medicine. https://www.wired....
A close reading of the S-1 of the soap opera that is The We Company, a “tech company” whose mission “is to elevate the world's consciousness”
Fruit Water and Financial Arbitrage Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn Byrne Hobart / Medium : What is We!? Understanding the WeWork IPO Gabriela Barkho / Observe...
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
We have graduated, along with oil, real estate, insurance, and finance, to the big T. Trillions of dollars. Trillions! Get to that number any way you like: Sum up the market cap of the major tech co...
Alex Stamos and 19 people who knew him professionally over the course of his career talk about his work at various startups, Yahoo, Facebook, and now, Stanford
@alexstamos http://finance.yahoo.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : This entirely misses the point. The CA issue is FB had a consent decree to report this and has obfuscated, covered-up decision-makin...
Alex Stamos and 19 people who knew him professionally over the course of his career talk about his work at various startups, Yahoo, Facebook, and now, Stanford
Alex Stamos, whose highest degree is a BS in computer science and electrical engineering, delivered his first academic lecture. Tweets: @jason_kint , @mathewi , @mathewi , @readdanwrite , and @k8em0 ....