How Elon Musk and X's division of labor stymied some of Linda Yaccarino's plans, like a Visa deal; internal figures show X had 250.8M DAUs in Q2, up 1.56% YoY
Wall Street Journal : Threads: @karaswisher , @alexa.corse , and @alexa.corse X: @mediaevan , @barbariancap , and @youwouldntpost See also Mediagazer Threads: Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : “Sharing p...
Facebook hires HP's CMO Antonio Lucio as its CMO, replacing Gary Briggs, who said in January he would step down; Lucio will start on September 4
Amidst Facebook's biggest branding crisis, It's just hired a veteran CMO formerly of Pepsi and Visa to boost the social network's external image and cross-promote features inside its apps.
Equifax hires Jamil Farshchi as its chief information security officer; Farshchi was previously Home Depot's CISO and held similar roles at Time Warner, Visa
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French President Macron announces a tech-focused visa open to founders, employees, and investors with intention of making France a “country of unicorns”
Things are heating up in the tech industry. Associated Press : Macron woos tech world, pledges French ‘startup nation’ Stephen Lepitak / The Drum : ‘Entrepreneur is the new France’: Emmanuel Macron in...
Alex Rampell, co-founder and former CEO of TrialPay which was acquired by Visa this year, joins Andreessen Horowitz as general partner
On behalf of the a16z team, I am excited …