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Spencer Rascoff

@spencerrascoff
9 posts
2024-02-22
Brutal takedown of the Seattle startup scene in the @Techstars memo announcing the end of their Seattle accelerator program. As a former Techstars Seattle mentor, it's tough to read. I wonder why they chose to slam Seattle rather than just be vague. I lived in Seattle for 15...
2024-02-22 View on X
GeekWire

Techstars is shutting down its Seattle program, which was started in 2010, to shift focus on “hubs with the highest concentration of VC activity”

https://www.geekwire.com/... X: Chon Tang / @chontang : Raise a glass for Techstars 1.0, end of an era. I had a lot of respect for what they built - can't imagine what Techstars is...

2023-01-08
Bye bye web3, hello AI. Easy come, easy go. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-01-08 View on X
New York Times

PitchBook: investors pumped $1.37B+ into generative AI companies across 78 deals in 2022, almost as much as was invested in the previous five years combined

An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text …

2022-08-08
Saddened to hear of the death of Tom Alberg. I had the pleasure of working with Tom on @ChallengeSeaWA where he helped bring together CEOs to work together on civic issues. He was a great leader, community builder, person and mentor. https://www.geekwire.com/...
2022-08-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Tom Alberg, an early Amazon investor and Madrona Venture Group co-founder, who was a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy, dies at 82

2020-12-02
Congrats on the megadeal, @stewart, @SlackHQ, @salesforce, @benioff. You've built an amazing company that has fundamentally changed workplace communication (RIP email), and I can't think of a better partnership to take on the challenges of remote work.
2020-12-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Salesforce announces it's buying Slack in a $27.7B deal

Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billi...

2020-07-28
Even post COVID-19, companies requiring 100% in-office 5 days a week attendance will be like companies who had personal offices for everyone after 2005: quaint, out of touch and undesirable.
2020-07-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Google will extend its work from home policy until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees

a year from now — making it the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable. Partly to give staff maximum family flexibility. One year from now. https://ww...

There will be a big ripple effect from the Google announcement extending WFH to July 2021. Other companies will match. WFH, or hybrid, is the new normal.
2020-07-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Google will extend its work from home policy until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees

a year from now — making it the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable. Partly to give staff maximum family flexibility. One year from now. https://ww...

2020-07-27
Even post COVID-19, companies requiring 100% in-office 5 days a week attendance will be like companies who had personal offices for everyone after 2005: quaint, out of touch and undesirable.
2020-07-27 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Google will keep nearly all of its employees working from home until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees

Search-engine giant pushes back return to normalcy  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Google will keep its employees home until at least next July …

There will be a big ripple effect from the Google announcement extending WFH to July 2021. Other companies will match. WFH, or hybrid, is the new normal.
2020-07-27 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Google will keep nearly all of its employees working from home until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees

Search-engine giant pushes back return to normalcy  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Google will keep its employees home until at least next July …

2020-05-06
This is how you do layoffs. Well done @bchesky @Airbnb: empathetic, transparent, generous, authentic, apologetic, thoughtful, mission-driven, refocusing. Well done. https://news.airbnb.com/... #CV #layoffs #recession2020 #startups
2020-05-06 View on X
Vox

Letter from Brian Chesky to Airbnb employees says the company is laying off 1,900, or ~25% of its workforce, and expects a 2020 revenue decline of 50% YoY

Airbnb is laying off a quarter of its staff.  —  Airbnb, seen until recently as one of Silicon Valley's most financially secure unicorns, is laying off a quarter of its staff.