An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement
By Nov. 9, 2022, anxiety was high among the Twitter employees gathered at the company's San Francisco headquarters. Threads: @oliverdarcy , @kateaconger , @sheerafrenkel , @mac_ryan_ , @thekenyeung , ...
At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China
Jacob Helberg, a senior adviser to Palantir, is organizing a conference for tech leaders and Washington lawmakers on May 1.Jason Andrew for The New York Times X: @ainowinstitute , @thekenyeung , and @...
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as a settlement for collecting their location data for over a year
Joseph Cox / VICE : Tweets: @journeydan , @loopemma , @counternotions , @drewfitzgerald , @taylor_owen , @kantrowitz , @robaeprice , @rahulmehrotraa , @thekenyeung , @martinsfp , @jason_koebler , @ke...
A profile of Stripe's John and Patrick Collison; sources say the startup's gross revenue rose 60% YoY to nearly $12B in 2021 as net revenue reached almost $2.5B
Billionaire brothers John and Patrick Collison built Stripe into one of the world's most-hyped, highest valued — and profitable! — startups, worth some $95 billion. Tweets: @alexrkonrad , @narasimhaka...
A look at Orange DAO, a crypto collective made up of 1,000+ YC founders that has closed an initial fund and invested in ~30 Web3 startups
A crypto collective backing web3 startups is seeking new members. The only condition for joining? Applicants must be alumni of the Y Combinator accelerator. Tweets: @maxwellstrachan , @onchainmonkey...
Despite claims of diversity and inclusion, Asian Americans in Silicon Valley still face racism and are least likely to break into leadership positions
Tech companies love to crow about diversity and inclusion. Workers see a racist “bait and switch.” — Silicon Valley executives sometimes seem … Tweets: @quelquefois , @priyasideas , @ekp , @ericbah...
An internal Facebook report found it failed to take appropriate action against Stop the Steal groups before Capitol riot, saying it should “do better next time”
Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of a House of Representatives committee that his company … Tweets: @janelytv , @rmac18 , @oliverdarcy , @rmac18 , @craigsilverman , @rmac18 ...
Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse
The increasingly popular social media app is allowing conspiracy theories … Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : What is Clubhouse and why is Facebook cloning the voice chat app? The Economic Times : ETtech ...
a16z names Sriram Krishnan as its newest GP, after roles at Facebook, Snap, Twitter; Krishnan has been consulting for nine months on an a16z “community project”
Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz : Tweets: @sriramk , @pmarca , @sriramk , @vintweeta , @austen , @vijaypande , @rrhoover , @hkanji , @benedictevans , @sriramk , @alexeheath , @amir , @sarthakgh...
Product Hunt announces founder of Mino Games and angel investor Josh Buckley as its new CEO
Today we're introducing the new CEO of Product Hunt. But first, the backstory... The last seven years have been the most challenging and rewarding of my life and career. Tweets: @joshbuckley , @rrho...