A look at Eric Schmidt's push to profit from an AI cold war between the US and China; CB Insights: Schmidt took part in investing $2B+ in AI-focused companies
both to democracy and to his own interests. https://www.protocol.com/... Kate Kaye / @katekayereports : Schmidt's story is an exploration of how a private sector tech mogul has pla...
Square's parent company Block sells access to customers' email addresses used to receive receipts, which privacy experts say falls short of best practices
When COVID-19 forced Compass Coffee to close down its Washington, D.C.-area shops, the roastery's owners turned to email to stay in touch with customers.
Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition will likely face antitrust scrutiny over whether the deal would snuff out competition or harm consumers by taking away choices
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A profile of Figma founder Dylan Field, who will become the wealthiest person from the Thiel Fellowship by far, as PitchBook estimates his stake is worth $2B+
Dylan Field dropped out of an Ivy League school in 2012 to take a grant from the billionaire Peter Thiel and start a software company called Figma.
A look at antitrust concerns for Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition, including whether the deal could eliminate competition and harm consumers by reducing choices
Hello, and welcome to Pipeline. I'm Biz Carson, and I'm devastated after I lost my 149-day Wordle streak to “parer” yesterday.
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 bou...
The megadrought gripping the US West is increasing the scrutiny of water use by hyperscale data centers
Lisa Martine Jenkins / Protocol : Tweets: @hypervisible and @protocol Tweets: @hypervisible : “Roughly one-fifth of the data center servers in the U.S. source water directly from ...
Google Workspace head Javier Soltero, who managed Google's productivity and collaboration tools including Gmail and Meet, is leaving the company on July 15
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The NLRB files a complaint against Mapbox, whose leadership allegedly threatened jobs for union organizing and fired organizers after a failed August 2021 vote
Researchers say Big Tech's political ad bans are a charade and likely had minimal impact on curbing misinformation while hurting smaller advocacy groups
they actively advantage corporations over advocacy groups and unions. Platforms either need to fix this or drop the bans entirely. More of my 🌶️ takes in this 🧠 piece by @issielapo...
How Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $419M donation to US local and state election officials in 2020 has become a target of right-wing conspiracies
If Mark Zuckerberg could have imagined the worst possible outcome of his decision to insert himself into the 2020 election … Tweets: @justinhendrix , @ianclucas , @radicalalarmist ...
How Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $419M donation to US local and state election officials in 2020 has become a target of right-wing conspiracies
If Mark Zuckerberg could have imagined the worst possible outcome of his decision to insert himself into the 2020 election … Tweets: @justinhendrix , @ianclucas , @radicalalarmist ...
How Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $419M donation to US local and state election officials in 2020 has become a target of right-wing conspiracies
If Mark Zuckerberg could have imagined the worst possible outcome of his decision to insert himself into the 2020 election … Tweets: @justinhendrix , @ianclucas , @radicalalarmist ...
Cameo lays off 87 staff; source says CTO Rob Post, marketing exec Emily Boschwitz, CPO Nundu Janakiram, and Chief People Officer Melanie Steinbach have gone
Cameo, the celebrity video greetings startup, laid off 87 of staffers Wednesday, a move that CEO Steven Galanis described as “right-sizing.”
Open-source data architectures like Iceberg and Hudi, incubated by Netflix and Uber, now form the foundation of products sold to enterprises as data lakehouses
Kate Kaye / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol and @katekayereports Tweets: @protocol : What vendors today call “the lakehouse” is, to many data professionals, just an evolved version o...
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 , @mfried...
The US CFPB orders online payday lender LendUp to shutter lending operations after finding it repeatedly lied to and illegally cheated its customers
it has been a long time coming. In other news, anyone looking to buy my shares of LendUp? Rohit Chopra / @chopracfpb : We will be working to provide redress to borrowers cheated by...
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems
@photomatt, quoting Camus https://www.protocol.com/... While others go searching for “the decentralized web”, we'll be over here w/ DNS, HTML, & open source. David Pierce / @pierce...
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems
@photomatt, quoting Camus https://www.protocol.com/... While others go searching for “the decentralized web”, we'll be over here w/ DNS, HTML, & open source. David Pierce / @pierce...
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems
@photomatt, quoting Camus https://www.protocol.com/... While others go searching for “the decentralized web”, we'll be over here w/ DNS, HTML, & open source. David Pierce / @pierce...