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Airbnb Finally Lands The Zappos Veteran It's Eyed For Years
Airbnb was valued at $1 billion in 2011 and is reportedly arranging new financing which could take …
Owen Thomas
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Sam Bankman-Fried was once caught playing the video game 'League of Legends' during a pitch meeting for FTX
Sam Bankman-Fried wowed investors, while playing a video game, with his idea to make FTX a super-ap…
Britney Nguyen
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VC firm Sequoia Capital is launching a fund with up to $600 million to invest in cryptocurrencies and other digital assets
"Our goal with this fund is to participate more actively in protocols, better support token-only pr…
Carla Mozée
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Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh was remembered as a 'gentle soul' by his colleagues and acquaintances
The popular Zappos entrepreneur was praised by those who had worked with him for leading with empat…
Kevin Shalvey
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The crypto exchange run by 29-year-old billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was just valued at $18 billion
Though a touch lower than the $20 billion Bankman-Fried had previously sought, the valuation has co…
Ethan Wu
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Tony Hsieh, the late former CEO of Zappos, wrote the definitive playbook on corporate culture. Here are 4 lessons from his bestseller 'Delivering Happiness.'
"Setting out to create a great long-term company may seem to be an overwhelmingly daunting task at …
Caterina Dassie
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Asian American executives at DoorDash, YouTube, Facebook donated $10 million to support the AAPI community
DoorDash founder Tony Xu, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, and Zoom CEO Eric Yuan joined nearly 1,000…
Allana Akhtar
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Tony Hsieh, the former visionary CEO of Zappos, has died. Here's how his radical business philosophy transformed Zappos and made him 'a pioneer of a company culture.'
At Zappos, Tony Hsieh adopted a method called "Holacracy," which aimed to create a company culture …
Avery Hartmans
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Sequoia's coronavirus memo is eerily similar to another warning the VC firm gave to startup founders in 2008. Here's the full 'R.I.P. Good Times' deck.
The memo, which has been posted online and has spread through all of "tech Twitter," told company f…
Melia Russell
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Meet the 7 VC investors getting rich off of this year's parade of 'unicorn' IPOs
Lyft, PagerDuty, Zoom and Pinterest have all had IPOs since January. On Monday, WeWork parent The W…
Megan Hernbroth
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An aide to Elon Musk hired a private investigator to look into the diver Musk called a 'pedo guy'
L. Lin Wood, an attorney representing Unsworth, told Business Insider that Howard's alleged finding…
Mark Matousek
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Tech elites are making moves out of San Francisco as they rethink the area's costs, political climate, and safety
Silicon Valley has long been the capital of America's tech economy. But the pandemic, and the rise …
Matt Turner
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A top VC is teaming up with the co-founder of Coinbase to launch an investment fund that's all about cryptocurrency
"Once you spend enough time in the area, there's enough real substance coming to the forefront and …
Becky Peterson
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Two VCs just told us how tech startups create economic inequality
This "staying private" phenomenon was best illustrated by Andreessen Horowitz analyst Benedict Evan…
Jim Edwards
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Tony Hsieh was more than a successful CEO - he was also a giver, community builder, and visionary ahead of his time
The late Zappos CEO was known to friends as a kind, generous leader who was masterful at making con…
Aimee Groth
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Steve Jobs: don't start a business unless there's 'a wrong that you want to right'
As the funding climate in Silicon Valley cools, a lot of old-timers are looking on the bright side:…
Matt Rosoff
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Why this startup bubble won't pop like the last
Sequoia's Lin started feeling the tremors of the shift after July 4th, but it didn't really enter t…
Biz Carson
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Why a founder on track to take his company public sold it for $110 million in cash instead
Suleman says that, ultimately, Blackhawk just made an offer too good for him to refuse. "They real…
Maya Kosoff
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Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, And Marissa Mayer Want To Teach You 'How To Start A Startup'
Altman, Y Combinator's president, will teach the first two sessions. But from Sept. 30, he will be …
Eugene Kim
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Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit
The buzz around Zappos' quirky employee-centric culture reached a new high in 2009, a crucial year …