a16z names Sriram Krishnan as its newest GP, after roles at Facebook, Snap, Twitter; Krishnan has been consulting for nine months on an a16z “community project”
Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz : Tweets: @sriramk , @pmarca , @sriramk , @vintweeta , @austen , @vijaypande , @rrhoover , @hkanji , @benedictevans , @sriramk , @alexeheath , @amir , @sarthakgh...
Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first 20 members, out of a total of 40, who will oversee challenging content issues
“We want to make sure the content people … Steven Levy / Wired : Facebook Names the 20 People Who Can Overrule Mark Zuckerberg Chinmayi Arun / Just Security : The Facebook Oversight Board: An Experime...
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...
20+ people, many who worked with Jack Dorsey at Square or Twitter, recall how he avoids decision-making, is a slower thinker, and sometime responds in riddles
“Jack is thinking about things at a different pace from the rest of us,” says Greg Kidd, who has known Jack Dorsey, now 42, since Dorsey was 19. Tweets: @bendwalsh , @_harshilshah , @hlplost , @darias...
Google says it will spend $13B this year on expanding data centers and offices across the US, adding a new office in Virginia as it doubles its workforce there
popular from Facebook and Google — are total crap w/r/t “job creation"http://www.cnbc.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Ron Miller / @ron_miller : Have you ever toured a data center? It's crazy. There a...
A look at Snapchat's secretive culture and the controlling leadership style of CEO Evan Spiegel
It's Evan Spiegel's world — we're all just snapping in it — Before Evan Spiegel was Evan Spiegel, there were times he wanted to fit in. — Like in June 2012, when Spiegel walked across … Tweets: @e...