IT総合 Sequoia’s Carl Eschenbach, who led deals for Zoom and Snowflake, to run Workday as co-CEO
Carl Eschenbach, a longtime enterprise software executive who joined Sequoia Capital in 2016 and went on to lead a numbe...
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IT総合 IT総合 Three counterintuitive 2023 predictions about Musk, SFB and even Kraft
Bradley Tusk — who spent his early career in Democratic politics and later became a consultant and lobbyist for pr...
IT総合 The most active global VC firm on deal terms, fatality rates, and the drawbacks of credit lines
Yesterday, we had the chance to catch up with Fabrice Grinda, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded the free classifieds ...
IT総合 Frustration and anger after SPV platform Assure dumps users at the curb ahead of holidays
Over the last decade or so, the once-clubby world of startup investing has been cracked wide open by a number of innovat...
IT総合 Is ChatGPT a ‘virus that has been released into the wild’?
More than three years ago, this editor sat down with Sam Altman for a small event in San Francisco soon after he’d...
IT総合 A data-driven duo just raised roughly $350M to fund seed-stage startups with metrics
Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday trust data over the kind of pattern matching that most VCs swear by. It’s not surpr...
IT総合 On the secondary market, shares are discounted 40% on average, says industry pro
Earlier today, we talked with Phil Haslett, the cofounder and now chief strategy officer of EquityZen, a 10-year-old, Ne...
IT総合 Was Sam Bankman-Fried’s appearance a performance?
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried talked from an undisclosed location in the Bahamas today with reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin ...
IT総合 It’s a little late to be talking about red flags in venture investing?
Earlier today, renowned VC Bill Gurley put together a list of the many “red flags” that VCs should have paid...
IT総合 George Hotz, hacker and long-time frenemy of Elon Musk, signs on for 12 weeks at Twitter
A lot has been made of Twitter’s shrinking workforce, which is reportedly down to 2,300 people down from the 7,500...
IT総合 Drive Capital’s investors hit a fork in the road
Drive Capital was founded by two former Sequoia Capital Partners looking to start anew in the Midwest. But investors in ...
IT総合 Elon Musk talked about laying off 75% of Twitter employees; he may have just gotten his wish
When Peter Clowes last updated his LinkedIn profile, he listed his role as “Layoff Survivor” at Twitter. Yet...
IT総合 Jack Selby of Thiel Capital is using a new VC fund to invest in Arizona startups
Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back...
IT総合 BoomPop gains traction by designing high-end off-sites for our now remote-first world
There’s nothing sexy about corporate retreats. But BoomPop, a 26-person, San Francisco-based outfit that the start...
IT総合 Bling Capital, avoiding crypto bets, pulls in capital across two new funds
Ben Ling, a prolific angel investor turned venture capitalist, has never put a lot of stock in the need for a new, decen...
IT総合 Crypto VC David Pakman on FTX: an “entirely avoidable tragedy”
If you want to better understand exactly how big a deal it is that the cryptocurrency exchange FTX just imploded, you co...
IT総合 Sequoia Capital marks its FTX investment down to zero dollars
Sequoia Capital just marked down to zero the value of its stake in the cryptocurrency exchange FTX — a stake that,...
IT総合 Outgoing YC President Geoff Ralston: the market is changing; YC’s terms are not
Last week at Web Summit, we were asked to interview outgoing Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston about the past, presen...
IT総合 Formula 1’s Toto Wolff, accused of running his team remotely, leans into software
Toto Wolff, the 50-year-old Austrian chief executive, team principal and part-owner of the Mercedes Formula 1 team who w...
IT総合 ‘CZ’ Zhao on why Binance bet big on Twitter despite Musk’s machinations
It’s hard to imagine committing to invest $500 million in someone’s vision for a company, only to watch that...
IT総合 These founders landed early checks by being savvy about social media
On first blush, founders building a coffee brand, a social networking app, and a fintech-focused venture fund wouldnR...
IT総合 Why “generative AI” is suddenly on everyone’s lips: it’s an “open field”
If you’ve been closely following the progress of Open AI, the company run by Sam Altman whose neural nets can now ...
IT総合 Chris Sacca on climate investing right now; the opportunity “almost feels unfair”
Today, for a series of climate-related conversations organized by the global venture firm SOSV, we interviewed famed inv...
IT総合 Top VCs have expanded into broader asset managers; is the model sustainable?
Last week at TechCrunch’s annual Disrupt event, this editor sat down with VCs from two firms that have come to loo...
IT総合 Some new venture firms are so niche that, at first glance, it’s easy to laugh off their focus
There are big, overarching top-down trends, and there are little-bitty baby trends that have a way of growing into bigge...
IT総合 Ask the professor: Wharton’s Mori Taheripour on how to negotiate the right way
Mori Taheripour teaches negotiations at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught under...
IT総合 Matrix Partners, long an investor in software infrastructure, has some questions about web3
Antonio Rodriguez, who joined Matrix in 2005 after a company he’d founded — that Matrix backed — was s...
IT総合 As the market cools, aggressive Tiger Global looks to raise a fund that’s half the size as its last
In recent years, assets under management at the investment firm Tiger Global have exploded. Now the firm is taking stock...
IT総合 Elon Musk stepped in it again today — “F#ck off is my very diplomatic reply to you”
Elon Musk today waded into the Ukraine-Russia war with a peace plan that was . . . not very well-received. It may have b...
IT総合 GV aims to help build a company that can sniff out disease, literally
Alex Wiltschko has what he thinks is a big idea. He wants to build a company that digitizes scent.
It’s a natural ...