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Marc Lore Has Big Plans for Wonder That Go Beyond Fast Casual
Ashton Kutcher Never Wants to See Your Pitch Deck Again
Live from Disrupt: Vinod Khosla Is Optimistic about AI despite the Risks
Billionaire Frank McCourt Wants to Buy TikTok; Here’s His Plan
General Catalyst Layers in Financing to Boost Its Fortunes
A Frustrated Al Gore Compares Climate Pledges to "New Year’s Resolutions"
FTC Chair Lina Khan on Startups, Scaling, and “Innovations in Potential Lawbreaking”
The Ins and Outs of Investing in Europe, according to VC Saul Klein
Rippling’s Parker Conrad on the company’s new round, its new lease and its newest critic
IVP’s Eric Liaw on London, succession, and that Klarna kerfuffle
VC Arjun Sethi Wants to Manage Other Investors' Data. You Got a Problem with That?
VC David Pakman Makes the Case Why AI Needs Crypto
Talking Shop with Medha Agarwal and Amy Yin of Early Stage Firm Defy
Former Twitter and Facebook Execs Are Going Deep on B2B Software
Catching up with Keith Rabois of Founders Fund
Y Combinator's Pete Koomen Argues YC's Size Is Its Strength
Investor Hans Swildens on the Small Tech Buyout Opportunity
Reed Jobs and Katie Haun at Disrupt
Al Gore Has a Plan to Save the World
LP Michael Kim on Why He Doesn't Like Special Deals
VC Heidi Roizen Doesn't Think the Arm IPO Will Open the IPO Floodgates
A Startup That Is Buying Up Mom-and-Pop Shops
How Index Ventures Jumped to the Front of the AI GPU Line
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going to Jail … and More
VC Dan Gwak on Getting Deals Done with the DOD
How to Invest $1 Billion in Consumer Tech, with Goodwater Capital
Uncork Capital's Andy McLoughlin on the Three Axes of Investing Risk
Talking Amazon v. Walmart with Journalist Jason Del Ray
Benchmark’s Miles Grimshaw on the Coming AI Shakeout and More
Greycroft Co-Founder Ian Sigalow on Investing $1 Billion Right Now
Explaining Blockchain Capital's Big Bet on an Eyeball-Scanning Orb
Scientist and Entrepreneur Gary Marcus on AI’s Black Mirror Moment
Solo VC Elad Gil, the AI Whisperer
In Europe, Accel Banks on a Turnaround Over the Next 6 to 9 Months
Human Brain Cells on a Chip?
How Rippling's Parker Conrad Rescued His Company as SVB Was Imploding
Aydin Senkut of Felicis Ventures Is Investing in AI's Picks and Shovels
VC Larry Cheng on How Volition Survived an LP Armageddon
Talking Shop with Neil Sequeira of Defy.vc
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on ChatGPT and Our Future with AI
Sequoia’s Alfred Lin on FTX, Crypto, and Investing for the Long Haul
VCs Pushing Startups May Face Investor Demands Themselves
VC Bradley Tusk Thinks Twitter Will Cost Elon Musk Much More Than He Paid for It
Economist, VC, and MIT fellow Paul Kedrosky on the Dangers of OpenAI
A Healthcare Brand for Women Begins to Take Shape
What's Really Happening at Drive Capital ... and More
Crypto VC David Pakman on FTX: An “Entirely Avoidable Tragedy”
The Past, Present, and Future of YC with Geoff Ralston
VC James Currier Explains Why Generative AI Is So Buzzworthy
Early Stage Startups Still Attracting Big Checks, Says Matrix Partners' Antonio Rodriguez
GV Smells a New Opportunity in Digitizing Scent
Steve Case on the Arbitrage Opportunity Outside of Silicon Valley
Floodgate's Ann Miura-Ko Asks, "Is This Idea Big Enough?"
Chris Olsen's Drive Capital Is Betting $2 Billion on the Midwest and Beyond
Silicon Valley Operator Jason Lemkin Dishes on VCs Missing Board Meetings
Talking with the Anti-Adam Neumann, Landing Founder Bill Smith
Story Potpourri
Index Ventures Co-Founder Danny Rimer Doesn't Buy Web3
Sequoia’s Jess Lee Has a Plan to Help You Build Your Startup
Why French Venture Capitalist Frederic Court Doesn't Fear U.S. VCs
Talking Startup Boards in a Downturn with Brad Feld
Lots of Sellers, Fewer Buyers, in Markets for Startup Shares
Assessing the Market Meltdown with VC Ed Sim
Crypto VC Sam Rosenblum Offers a Peek into Haun Ventures
Bonobos Co-Founder Andy Dunn on His Battle with Bipolar Disorder
Hopin's Meltdown, Musk's Machinations, and Gurley's Valuation Advice
Benchmark's Sarah Tavel Says Web3 Is Not Crypto
Venrock's Bryan Roberts Is Betting that the Central Nervous System Is the Next Big Healthcare Opportunity
Jim Breyer Senses Quantum Will Be Big
Kirsten Green on the Rise of Solopreneurs
Fifth Wall's Brendan Wallace Two Years and a Pandemic Later
ACME's Founders on SPACs, SPVs, and Space
Crossover Investor Mitchell Green Sees Opportunity in This Week's Market Turmoil
A Peek into Web3 Power Player Animoca Brands
Andrew Chen on Cold Starts, Substack and What’s Next for Clubhouse
VCs (and Celebrities) Find Religion with Glorify
Brit & Dave Morin's New Venture Fund Plus the Inside Story of Vollebak
A Student Loan Startup's "Watershed Moment"
Serial Entrepreneur Kevin Chou Dives Deeper into Web3
Rippling CEO Parker Conrad Rides Employee Data to $6.5 Billion Valuation
Author Jacob Helberg Says U.S.-China Relations Are Even Worse than You Think
Tusk Ventures Approaches the Final VC Frontier: Incubating Companies
Renowned Investor Kevin Ryan Thinks the Big Money Is in Healthcare
Max Chafkin on the Inexorable Rise of Peter Thiel
VC Peter Relan on Writing Discord's First Check
What's Really Going on in China & Other Stories
Upfront Ventures' Mark Suster on Investing in a Fast Forward Market
Why the Tech Elite Turned on Gavin Newsom, According to Stanford Professor Neil Malhotra
A Sequoia-Backed Predictions Market & Talking Crypto Gaming with a16z's Arianna Simpson
Talking Shop with NY Times Tech Reporter Sheera Frenkel and Early-Stage VC Jeff Clavier
TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Is All-In on Crypto - Here's Why
Renegade Partners on Why the World Needs Another VC Fund
Startup Mighty Aims to Build a "Shopify for Kids"
Former Uber Data Science Head Kevin Novak on His Leap into VC
FlyHomes' Giant Round and a Small Growth Fund Among Giants
Intelligence Expert & Serial Entrepreneur Christopher Ahlberg on How Ransomware Gangs Really Work
Why Founders Are Making Room for Jamison Hill's New Growth-Stage Fund
Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Need for Speed
Two Different Founders with Novel Ideas and Fresh Seed Funding to Chase Them
Bison Trails Co-Founder Joe Lallouz on Coinbase and Big Changes in the Blockchain Market
Form Capital's Bobby Goodlatte on Clubhouse, Coinbase, and Why Nano Funds Rule
Coinbase Director Katie Haun and Early Coinbase Backer Garry Tan on What's Next for the Company
Jake Paul and Geoffrey Woo Aim to Be the Cool Kids on the Cap Table
Canadian VC John Ruffolo Escaped Death and Now He’s Seizing the Moment
Blackstone Growth's Big Bumble Bet
Famed Prof and Serial Entrepreneur Scott Galloway Is Blowing Up B-School As You Know It
Deep Science VC Lindy Fishburne on Turning Molecules into Money
VC David Pakman on the Sudden Rise of Cyrptocollectibles
Ed Sim of Boldstart Ventures on the Next Wave of Developer First Startups
NEA’s Tony Florence on Building Breakthrough Brands
Fintech Founder and VC Alexa von Tobel on GameStop, Robinhood, and the Future of Crypto
Science Inc. on Building the Next Big Consumer Brand
Reilly Brennan of TrucksVC on Rivian, Hydrogen, and the Future of Transportation
Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko on Space, SPACs, and the Great Tech Exodus
Former Sequoia VCs' Move to the Midwest Starts to Pay Off
A Low-Key Investor with Some High Profile Bets
Lux Capital's Deena Shakir: Frontier Tech Is Going Mainstream
Positive Thinking with Ev Williams and James Joaquin
Zoom Investor Jason Green on What's Next
PR Pro Mike Sitrick on Communications in a Time of Crisis
Mirror Founder Brynn Putnam on Her New Lululemon Life
Steve Case on Section 230, SPACs, and The Rise of the Rest
Social Dilemma Star Tim Kendall Envisions a World Beyond Facebook
Bradley Tusk of Tusk Ventures on SPACs and Mobile Voting
VC Amish Jani on Why His Firm FirstMark Has Jumped into SPACs
Tech Strategist Jessica Alter on How Democrats Fall in Love and Republicans Fall in Line
Truth-Teller Anand Giridharadas on Why Silicon Valley Is the New Rome
The Chainsmokers Are Finding Tech Investing a Hard Habit to Quit
First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Rolling Funds Are Becoming Hot
IPO Expert Lise Buyer on the Current Craze for SPACs and Direct Listings
Silicon Valley Stalwart Kevin Hartz Aims to Legitimize SPACs
A Cannabis VC Spells Out Why Weed Sales Are Blazing in the Covid Era
Brad Feld on Knowing When to Ditch Plan A
Faced with a Potential TikTok Ban, Social Media Influencers Plot Their Next Steps
Blavity's Big Opportunity with Black Milennials
Investor Michael Kim on Why Pre-Seed is the Place to Be
Tim O’Reilly: VC is Now Fundamentally Broken
Lo Toney’s Plan to Bring the Clubby VC World into the Future
Hair Color Startup Madison Reed Crosses the $100 Million Mark
A Startup Riding High as Americans Turn to RVs
E-Commerce Veteran Julie Bornstein Plans to Change the Way You Shop Online
Kevin Rose on Crytocurrency, VR, and How Founders Can Stay Sane
Silicon Valley Recruiters Tell All!
Former Tesla and Lyft Exec Plans to Launch Dozens of Startups
Top VC at IVP Makes His Most Important Investment Ever
How This Silicon Valley VC Saw Covid-19 Coming
For Silicon Valley's "Undertaker," Business Is Booming
Funding Strangers in a Strange World
Venture Debt in an Upside Down World
A VC Backer Tells It Like It Is
Mike Volpi on the Impact of COVID-19 on VC Investing
Wiping Out Coronavirus
The Two Connies
Brendan Wallace of Fifth Wall
Connie & Alex