Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July
tech oligarchs depend heavily on their access in washington, so will do everything they can to keep it. a16z desperately wants washington to legitimize crypto, so they can get a return on their signi...
Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital
YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community. https://www.forbes.com/... @initialized : News alert: Congratulations to @jenhwolf & @brettdg, our new managing partners. Jen & Brett joi...
A look at the “Palantir Pack”, a group of Palantir alumni who have founded companies and VC firms like Affirm, Anduril, OpenSea, Handshake, Ironclad, and 8VC
Biz Carson / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol , @bizcarson , and @bizcarson . Thanks: @owenthomas Tweets: @protocol : Unlike PayPal, which saw its early employees leave after eBay bought the company and ...
Interviews with 50+ people detail Bolt's meteoric rise, which involved overstating tech and performance, as its valuation went from $250M to $11B in three years
The start-up has had a meteoric rise, thanks to its charismatic co-founder, Ryan Breslow. But he sometimes stretched the truth to get there. Tweets: @robinwauters , @brad262run , @rmac18 , @bizcarson...
A profile of Sequoia's Roelof Botha, who seeded the idea of Sequoia Capital Fund, which holds stakes in companies past the traditional 10-year VC fund cycle
109. One billion dollars. — Roelof Botha used to write 109 on the corner of his notepad every week when he started at Sequoia 19 years ago. Tweets: @bizcarson , @inakib , @mfriedrichark , @sarthakgh...
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Automattic's recent funding news, which outlined a $288M primary round, buybacks, and an internal liquidity market for staff
Hello and welcome to Pipeline. This week: the FBI's warning to startups, OnlyFans pulls a Tumblr and inside Automattic's unusual funding and buyback rounds. Tweets: @bizcarson Tweets: Biz Carson / @b...
A look at the divergent investment strategies of SoftBank and Tiger Global, the largest funders of startups in 2021, amid growing competition between the firms
Nylas CEO Gleb Polyakov had been following the Silicon Valley playbook for raising money: meet with firms; deal with associates … Tweets: @sarthakgh , @bizcarson , @apompliano , @bizcarson , @kateclar...
Q&A with Rick Klau, an ex-Google product manager and California's new CTIO responsible for building apps and services for various departments across the state
Biz Carson / Protocol : Tweets: @bizcarson , @protocol , @bwjones , @rsquared , @rklau , and @protocol Tweets: Biz Carson / @bizcarson : I asked @rklau what shocked him about joining the government a...
Expensify's CEO emailed all users to encourage them to vote for Biden, says “anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy”
Trump has pressed every boundary of the office, beyond its breaking point in some cases. Michael Kapilkov / Cointelegraph : Charles Hoskinson calls for a different kind of apoliticism than Brian Armst...
Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era
with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... @clar...