Tag: Venture Capital
Sam Bankman-Fried Interview: Read the Transcript
SORKIN: How would that happen?BANKMAN-FRIED: There’ve been examples of this before in crypto history where this happened. Obviously,…
Stripe, the Payments Start-Up, Lowers Internal Valuation 28 Percent
Stripe, a payments start-up that has been one of the most valuable privately held tech companies in Silicon…
Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For years, scientists in laboratories from Silicon Valley to Boston have been searching for…
Start-Up Funding Falls the Most It Has Since 2019
SAN FRANCISCO — For the first time in three years, start-up funding is dropping.The numbers are stark. Investments…
Substack Is Laying Off 14% of Its Staff
Substack, the newsletter start-up that has attracted prominent writers including George Saunders and Salman Rushdie, laid off 13…
The Billionaires Behind a Push to Reinvigorate U.S. Chip-Making
Amid the debate about how the United States can bring more manufacturing of semiconductors back to the country…
What Sheryl Sandberg’s Exit Reveals About Women’s Progress in Tech
But many of them encountered difficulties steering aging tech companies. Of those women, only Ms. Catz, Ms. Hood…
Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours
Substack, the ballyhooed newsletter platform that has lured prominent writers with the promise of cashing in on their…
How a Trash-Talking Crypto Founder Caused a $40 Billion Crash
Do Kwon, a trash-talking entrepreneur from South Korea, called the cryptocurrency he created in 2018 “my greatest invention.”…
Fear and Loathing Return to Tech Start-Ups
Start-up workers came into 2022 expecting another year of cash-gushing initial public offerings. Then the stock market tanked,…
Bolt Built $11 Billion Business With Inflated Metrics and Eager Investors
A Fund-Raising GuruStill, Mr. Breslow has become something of a legend in the Valley, for his fund-raising prowess…
Gopuff Buys Time for Its 30-Minutes-or-Less Delivery Promise
“Once you can execute, and obviously that’s hard, it wins in the long term,” he said.Gopuff added that…