Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells staff to return to the office five days per week from January 2, 2025, citing the importance of the policy to the company's culture
Amazon orders employees back to the office five days a week Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Amazon CEO Andy Jassy orders employees back to the office 5 days a week in one of the strictest RTO mandat...
Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic are returning, saying they can't miss out on the funding, hackathons, and networking of the AI boom
Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can't afford to miss out on the funding … Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social . Mastodon: @BruceHalperin@sfba.social . Tweets: @tom...
MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square's CTO and on Android at Google, dies after being stabbed in San Francisco on April 4
I worked with Bob Lee when I first started working at Google. … Jenny Lee : Last night, I heard about Bob Lee's passing. I am completely devasted and heartbroken. — Bob was our Chief Product Office...
Documents: Google cuts back on fitness classes, tape, staplers, and the frequency of staff laptop replacements; non-engineers will get a Chromebook by default
& maybe even 5 — this year https://www.cnbc.com/... Patricia Aas / @pati_gallardo : If a Google engineer costs 125K (which iiuc is lowballing it) then they cost about a dollar a minute. Making someone...
Analysts say Salesforce's customers do not seem to be swayed by Slack; the messaging service's revenue growth declined from 11.7% in Q1 2022 to 6.9% in Q3 2022
Carhartt's CIO says the addition of the messaging app hasn't made Salesforce's products more appealing Tweets: @tomgara , @kazanjy , @carnage4life , @katherinemiller , and @bluecoyote Tweets: Tom Gara...
Former FTX employees detail the chaotic days after its collapse: mass resignations, learning news from social media, equity compensation going to zero, and more
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @tomgara , @mattzeitlin , @tomgara , @velocitywong , @gunjanjs , @davidkeo , @niubi , @dannygroner , @aosipovich , and @daviduberti Tweets: Tom Gara / @tomgara : Also, o...
A profile of Twitter Head of Safety & Integrity Yoel Roth, who joined in 2015 and is one of few executives to gain Elon Musk's public support after the takeover
including harmful misinformation that can suppress the vote and combatting state-backed information operations — remain a top priority. Yoel Roth / @yoyoel : Last week, for security reasons, we restri...
Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk says it will “wind down” and is “working on the details of what's next”; Kittyhawk was founded as Zee.Aero in 2010
Larry Page's air taxi startup — is shutting down Umar Shakir / The Verge : Larry Page's flying car startup Kitty Hawk is shutting down Kyle Barr / Gizmodo : Air Taxi Company Kittyhawk Calls It Quits K...
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...
Interview with Sam Lessin and YouTuber Marina Mogilko about a $1.7M investment in her, in exchange for 5% of her creator-related earnings for the next 30 years
which attaches a number to a human and locks them into a three-decade contract—brings up a host of potential legal, ethical, and moral issues, which Lessin didn't shy away from when I asked him about ...