Amazon Web Services on Tuesday provided key details about its decision over the weekend to stop hosting Parler, a Twitter-like social media app popular with some right-wing personalities, following last week’s deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. The high-profile decision, which triggered outrage from conservative politicians, libertarians and others, wasn’t out of the blue, Amazon said in its...
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The social and racial homogeneity of the venture capital industry has long been a source of frustration for entrepreneurs and investors alike. In recent years, this frustration has boiled over into a full-fledged movement, with a growing chorus of voices arguing that venture capitalists are destroying value by overlooking founders from swaths of the population including women, people of color...
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