Venture Capital
What if startups chose for themselves who should get money? Would they back more female founders?
People want selfies. They don’t usually want to give you money.
Hobson is one of the most prominent black women in finance, and she’s not happy with how her industry is doing.
Some investors balked at the price tag for the direct-to-consumer men’s health brand.
Fried says tech startups are addicted to raising and spending money, and the VC funding cycle is to blame.
It’s the third high-profile change at Greylock within the last year.
“I want to tell a reader something they don’t know yet ... I want to make them feel smart when they get to work and feel like they’re ready to do their jobs.”
Lime is expected to take in $400 million in a round financed primarily by its existing investors.
Llewellyn’s company makes it easier for designers and clients to find each other, but he doesn’t think design will ever be totally done by computers.
Aurora’s appeal is predicated on three well-credentialed founders from Google, Tesla, and Uber.
Rabois talked with Recode’s Kara Swisher about startups, innovation, Facebook, President Trump, and more on a recent Recode Decode.
When your investor has drama, you have drama.
Venture capitalists spent 2018 welcoming women to the fold, but the welcome has been fitful, uneven and, scariest of all, tentative.
This is weird.
Belsky, a venture partner at Benchmark and the CPO at Adobe, talks about his book “The Messy Middle” on the latest Recode Decode.
Co-founder Jonathan Neman tells Recode’s Kara Swisher the company is way bigger than a chain of salad restaurants: “We see this as building the food platform.”
On this episode of Recode Decode, Tynan talks about overcoming investors’ skepticism in order to start her online framing company.
The failure of Basis is a reminder of why some Silicon Valley investors shied away from the cryptocurrency industry in the first place.
Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself? And other tough questions.
The game theory behind the next phase of an old fight.
There are deep ties between Coinbase and Andreessen Horowitz.
General Catalyst has been weighing a new business that would be another evolution in the Silicon Valley investing playbook: A credit fund that would lend money to startups.
The entire race was effectively a referendum on Silicon Valley.
RevUp CEO Steve Spinner cracked the code on raising money for politicians online. And he says it’s not so different from raising money for a startup.
Matt Heiman comes from Greylock Partners, which is trying to execute a tricky generational transition.
Masayoshi Son finally spoke about the murder of a Saudi Arabian dissident.
People talk about money from “the Saudis.” But it’s not that simple. Who exactly are “the Saudis,” anyway?
MJD tells Recode’s Kurt Wagner that the low success rate in tech investing scares him: “I grew up with no money, so it’s like, I got money, I’m gonna try to keep it as long as I can.”
Here’s what to watch for as Davos in the Desert begins.
Recode’s Kara Swisher and NYU’s Scott Galloway discuss the links between Jamal Khashoggi’s killers and the tech industry on this episode of Pivot.
Sean Parker crafted a little-known part of the tax code called Opportunity Zones. Now every one-percenter in Silicon Valley wants in.
It’s likely to include Maryanna Saenko, an investor at Khosla Ventures.
Venture capitalists should display some responsibility just like big corporations do.
Is there a big business here?
Here are some of the hazards that could trip up either side over the next few weeks.
About one quarter of the fund could depend on the success of one company.
Also, some thoughts from the CEO about Uber moving into the grocery business.
It’s not an obvious marriage, but it has worked.
The company is in talks with Tiger Global and its existing shareholders for an investment of up to $500 million.
How does a celebrated, tight-knit partnership keep the luster of its brand as it changes its personnel?