Q&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing the platform, attracting new creators, managing a fully remote, four-day-per-week workplace, and more
Everette Taylor took over Kickstarter at a low moment for the crowdfunding pioneer, which made its name with small projects …
An AWS developer claims Amazon is “silently sacking” staff by pushing them to take a different role that they would quit later, avoiding the need for severance
Amazon has a stock problem. It's not only Amazon, but they have more to lose. If you're a customer, that's going to be bad for your business too. Threads: @alkalinegarrett and @carnage4life Mastodon...
Airbnb says its employees can work from home or the office moving forward, and their compensation won't change if they move, unless it's to a different country
But Here's The Fine Print Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo : Airbnb Will Stop Giving Refunds for Covid-19 Walter Frick / Quartz : Airbnb's five rules for work-from-anywhere Emma Goldberg / www-nytimes-com.cdn.a...
Andela, which trains African programmers to work remotely for US companies, raises $200M Series E led by Vision Fund 2 at a $1.5B valuation
Andela, a fully remote company that helps tech companies build remote engineering teams (initially from Africa but now a global market) …
Google says anyone coming to work at its campuses must be vaccinated, starting in the US, and will delay the return to offices from September until mid-October
will others step up? @salesforce, @lyft, @Facebook, @apple, @Cisco, @Uber, @WellsFargo, @Visa? Does your workplace require vaccination?https://www.nytimes.com/ ... @amy_siskind : More of this! “Google...
Google, shifting to a hybrid workplace, debuts a Work Location Tool for staff to apply for an office move or to become fully remote and see how salaries change
but change your approach Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : FAAMNG has now settled on hybrid work with 3 days in the office as a minimum threshold or optionally working remote. The next consensus...
In a letter to Tim Cook, written and edited by about 80 people, Apple employees push back against a policy requiring them to return to the office in September
and Leaks to The Verge — Pushing Back Against Returning to the Office Dan Pontefract / Forbes : Is Apple In Trouble With Its Hybrid Work Model? Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Apple Employees Ask Tim Cook t...
Memo: Google relaxes WFH rules to let more staff work remotely, expecting 20% to be fully remote, 20% to move sites, 60% to return to offices a few days a week
Google is giving its employees more flexibility to work from different locations or entirely from home, taking a more lenient policy …
At least half a dozen startup founders from non-Western markets say YC's fully remote S20 Demo Day put them on a more equal footing with their US counterparts
Due the merchant connected nature of their business the founders didn't bother applying to YC having to operate on a different timezone than their customer. Virtual YC baited them. They applied. Got i...
An overview of 94 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2020 Demo Day 2; the Summer 2020 batch of companies was YC's first fully remote startup batch
And we're back! Today was part two of Y Combinator's absolutely massive Demo Day(s) event for its Summer 2020 class.