A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others
Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for granted. She was working on a process optimization project … X: @mattmday . LinkedIn: Rachel Metz and Max Chafkin . Forums:...
After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicle startups, little progress has been made as companies take shortcuts and losses continue to mount
The first car woke Jennifer King at 2 a.m. with a loud, high‑pitched hum. “It sounded like a hovercraft,” she says, and that wasn't the weird part. Tweets: @trippmickle , @trengriffin , @joelwebersho...
A profile of Changpeng Zhao, who built Binance into the largest crypto exchange, as he navigates a regulatory crackdown in a brutal crypto winter
During the first few months of this year—back when buying digital tokens named after dog memes was still seen, at least in some of the most … Tweets: @muyaoshen , @mattysino , @mhbergen , @sidcoins , ...
Sources: as Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen buy Las Vegas properties, they are less involved in a16z's daily operations and cutting down on board memberships
Recently, the Bay Area-based venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took part in a popular pandemic-era pastime: updating the location on his LinkedIn profile. Tweets: @pt , @lucas_shaw , @chafkin , @tomgara...
Direct-to-consumer retailer Brandless shuts down, becoming the first company backed by SoftBank's Vision Fund to do so
Good morning and welcome back to Merger Week. Tom Maxwell / Input : Brandless is shutting down after two years and $300 million invested Miles Kruppa / Financial Times : SoftBank-backed Brandless cuts...
Despite saying he was leaving 15 months ago, Facebook's former policy chief Elliot Schrage is still working as a full time employee with a new title
When Elliot Schrage announced his resignation last June, the buzz was that the Facebook Inc. executive—who had shaped the company's public messaging during … Tweets: @chafkin , @technology , @michaelc...
A look at Amazon's efforts in India, getting users and merchants to buy and sell online, creating its own courier network, and more, as it battles with Walmart
Like many neighborhood stores in India, the Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara Kirana is tiny and cramped. Tweets: @sub8u , @hem_arsenal , @alistairmbarr , @aaronrutkoff , @chafkin , @spencersoper , @manjunath...
Profile of Starsky Robotics, which hires truckers to train and eventually remotely control semi-autonomous trucks
Just before Stefan Seltz-Axmacher offers a job to an engineer at Starsky Robotics Inc., a driverless trucking startup in San Francisco, he gives them the talk. Tweets: @aexm , @planetmoney , @chafkin ...
Etsy is under pressure from activist investors to grow revenue, reduce spending and perks, and give up its ethical ideals
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” the economist Milton Friedman famously wrote in 1962. And that is “to use its resources and engage … Tweets: @chafkin , @ross , @schingl...
How Alphabet has tightened spending on its Other Bets divisions such as Fiber, a strategy enforced by CFO Ruth Porat, leaving some employees frustrated
this was excellent read Mat Honan / @mat : Damn, this is one of the more interesting stories on Google that I've read in a long time: http://www.bloomberg.com/... Max Chafkin / @chafkin : Before there...