Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss that Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not an anti-blockchain conspiracy
lashing out at skeptics in a way usually reserved for CEOs of fraudulent companies. How did we get here? 1/ https://twitter.com/... Ben McKenzie / @ben_mckenzie : One interesting v...
Some teenagers say French social networking app Yubo, which has 18M downloads in the US, ignored reports that the Uvalde shooter threatened violence on the app
Young people who met the alleged gunman online said he had threatened to kidnap, rape or kill.
Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says the “ugly truth” is “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghurs in China, himself included
- Chamath Palihapitiya said “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghur Muslims in China.
YC announces a new standard deal: a $125K investment for 7% of the startup and a further $375K at terms founders can negotiate with future investors
We have a new standard deal at Y Combinator. When a company is accepted into the YC batch program, we now invest a total of $500,000.
Jeremy Liew, Bijan Sabet, and Roger Ehrenberg stepping back from active roles at their firms reflects a broader generational shift in the VC industry
many of whom announced this week. Really feels like a ‘changing of the guard moment’ for the venture community. Austen Allred / @austen : Is there an overarching reason why so many...
Jeremy Liew, Bijan Sabet, and Roger Ehrenberg stepping back from active roles at their firms reflects a broader generational shift in the VC industry
Over the course of the past week, three venture capitalists have announced plans to step back from their investing roles at their respective firms.
Verizon Media Group to rebrand most of its media franchises as Yahoo products and sell subscriptions to those products via Yahoo+, a new subscription platform
Sara Fischer / Axios :
In a postmortem, Indie.vc founder shares the reasons why the alternative VC financing experiment failed
Bryce Roberts : Tweets: @indievc , @operaqueenie , @sirjrg , @jhoronjeff , @krdonnelly , @mattallen , @gilxhernandez , @danielvlopes , @gbennett41 , @adamhjk , @cwhogg , @miles_k ...
A look at r/WallStreetBets, a 2M-member subreddit that helped push GameStop's stock to record highs and is now facing allegations of harassment
Over the past several weeks, GameStop stock has traded … Philip Stafford / Financial Times : GameStop and BlackBerry shares soar on amateur traders' fervour YouTube : The Big Short...
Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints
whose CEO said “keep politics out of the workplace”—has a hostile and racist workplace. https://www.nytimes.com/... Wynter Mitchell Rohrbaugh / @wyntermitchell : Y'all gon learn th...
Q&A with Casey Newton on incentives for media and reporters in the age of social media, why some people in tech hate tech press, evolution of Facebook, and more
The Verge's Silicon Valley editor discusses tech media, recent issues with Facebook, and more … Part of the tech world is fed up with tech journalists. Tweets: @dlberes , @caseynew...
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are expected to have a combined 20,000 workers in New York City by 2022, mostly concentrated along Manhattan's West Side
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in New York City, many in offices on the West Side.