Influence Archive
Archives for May 2018


WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook’s core app are getting new leaders as part of a massive executive reorg.


Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger are now all rolling up to Cox.


Arlan Hamilton and her firm, Backstage Capital, are raising a new seed fund for underrepresented founders.


Plus other stuff you need to know about Facebook’s new push into online dating.


“Excuse me. Next. Boring, bonehead questions are not cool,” Musk said in response to one analyst’s question.


“Please don’t tank my videos.”


Facebook’s developer conference showed that Facebook is still Facebook.


Tesla only produced 2,270 cars a week in April, short of its adjusted goal of 2,500 a week.


It’s hiring thousands of people to avoid a repeat of 2016, says Mark Zuckerberg.


Sorry, Rupert Murdoch: Facebook isn’t a pay TV company.


Is Model 3 production on par with Musk’s new goal of producing 6,000 cars a week by June?


“This is going to be for building real long-term relationships,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “not just for hookups.”


“This leaves us with no choice but to fire you,” the letter to HealthTap CEO Ron Gutman reads.


It’s arguably the company’s biggest update since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke.


Verrilli left Twitter for Google Ventures in 2015. Now she’s trying it again.