An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn's push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering
For 19 months, the sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky embedded himself in an early-stage tech startup to study its organization and culture. X: @ieeespectrum , @p_h_albuquerque , and @grady_booch Linke...
Sources: Twitter is leaving 12+ offices due to closures or not paying rent, including in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Mexico, Australia, South Korea, and India
its Asia-Pacific headquarters — over nonpayment of rent. Landlords walked employees out of the building Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : You must work in the office but there is no office. Figure it ou...
Sources say ScaleFactor, which raised ~$100M to automate bookkeeping before blaming COVID-19 for its closure, used dozens of human accountants instead of AI
Kurt Rathmann told his big-name investors he had developed groundbreaking AI to do the books for small businesses. In reality, humans did most of the work. Tweets: @davidjeans2 , @dannygroner , @davi...
Wirecard's CEO Markus Braun resigns over the missing €1.9B in cash; James Freis, chief compliance officer who joined company on Thursday, named as interim CEO
Want this in your inbox each morning? Tweets: HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig : Braun is reportedly stepping down to more time with his collection of Fabergé eggs on his superyacht. https://twitter.com...