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culture
venture capital
How (and Where) VCs Take Their Coffee
By
Jon Steinberg
· March 25, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!We all have our spot: The one cafe within a 5-minute walk (or a 10-minute drive, if you work in L.A.), where you can grab a quick meeting, sidle up to an acquaintance or eavesdrop on a stranger. It’s the kind of place where you feel like you’re being productive, even when you’re really procrastinating. My...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!We all have our spot: The one cafe within a 5-minute walk (or a...
The Weekend
media/telecom
markets
The Best of Times (for AI), the Worst of Times (for Your Bank)
By
Jon Steinberg
· March 18, 2023 8:14 AM PDT ·
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Deep breath, everyone. The last 10 days have been a doozy. First came the Great Regional Bank Panic of 2023, which essentially wiped out the previous weekend for anyone operating in the startup ecosystem. In the cover story below, our team recorded the stories of two dozen tech leaders, including...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Deep breath, everyone. The last 10 days have been a doozy. First came...
The Weekend
media/telecom
startups
How to Run a Modern Media Company: Bank Crash Edition
By
Jon Steinberg
· March 11, 2023 7:17 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!I do not envy news media executives, who have difficult jobs in the best of times. This week was not the best of times, as our CEO Jessica Lessin could tell you. While captaining a newsroom going full-throttle to cover the cataclysmic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Jessica was also scrambling to ensure that The...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!I do not envy news media executives, who have difficult jobs in the...
It's Wunderkind Week
By
Jon Steinberg
· March 4, 2023 7:00 AM PST
The Weekend
startups
crypto
It's Wunderkind Week
By
Jon Steinberg
· March 4, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Ever since Covid lockdowns began three years ago, young people have seemed a bit adrift. I see it at home with my two daughters, 13 and 11, who still can’t break some of the annoying screen habits they formed during the pandemic. I see it with their public school peers in San Francisco, many of whom are still climbing...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Ever since Covid lockdowns began three years ago, young people have...
The Weekend
policy
google
The Keys to Josh Kushner's Venture Kingdom
By
Jon Steinberg
· Feb. 25, 2023 8:43 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!The tech industry is not a zero-sum game. It can foster many winners, all at once—as the last decade showed. But it’s also noteworthy when one darling of Silicon Valley rises just as another falls. That’s been happening this winter, with the anointing of OpenAI and the simultaneous humbling of Stripe. As my...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!The tech industry is not a zero-sum game. It can foster many winners,...
The Weekend
electric vehicles
startups
One Year of War: How Ukrainian Tech Companies Have Persevered
By
Jon Steinberg
· Feb. 18, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!While the tech press was freaking out over Microsoft’s new AI search capabilities this week (present company included), a war in Ukraine lurched toward an awful anniversary. This Friday marks one year since Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded the country, extinguishing hundreds of thousands of lives and permanently...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!While the tech press was freaking out over Microsoft’s new AI search...
The Weekend
startups
culture
A Quarter-Million Reasons to Not Trust Your Company
By
Jon Steinberg
· Feb. 11, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!When you're a tech company, life comes at you fast. Just last year around this time, things were looking mighty flush for both big firms and smaller startups. Evidence for this can be found in the sizable number of brands that splurged on multimillion-dollar Super Bowl ads in 2022: 18 of them, by our count. Now, can...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!When you're a tech company, life comes at you fast. Just last year...
Silicon Valley's Latest Invention: The Supplement Stack
By
Jon Steinberg
· Feb. 4, 2023 7:00 AM PST
The Weekend
culture
ai
Silicon Valley's Latest Invention: The Supplement Stack
By
Jon Steinberg
· Feb. 4, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Greetings, and welcome to your Weekend!Today’s newsletter really ought to come with a surgeon general’s warning: “Consuming dozens of unregulated health supplements may not actually be awesome for your health.” It’s hard not to shake your head at the sheer number of nascent and untested substances that some of our tech-industry peers are...
Greetings, and welcome to your Weekend!Today’s newsletter really ought to come with a surgeon...
The Weekend
media/telecom
policy
Ban It, Divest It or Regulate It? Washington Looks for an Answer to TikTok
By
Jon Steinberg
· Jan. 28, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Interesting dinner table discussion this week: My 13-year-old daughter, hearing about Nancy Scola’s cover story on TikTok’s war in Washington, offered her prediction for what would happen if the U.S. took the drastic step of banning the app.“Every teenager in America would refuse to come out of their rooms,” she...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Interesting dinner table discussion this week: My 13-year-old...
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startups
culture
Citizen Andreessen Is Still Looking for His Rosebud
By
Jon Steinberg
· Jan. 21, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!“I am very bullish on the future of the news business,” wrote Marc Andreessen in 2014, predicting 10x to 100x growth for the journalism industry over the next 20 years. “But as Tommy Lasorda said: ‘Nobody said this f—king job would be all that f—king easy.’”Andreessen was half right, anyway: The last decade hasn’...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!“I am very bullish on the future of the news business,” wrote...
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startups
culture
He Helped Conceive Instagram. Can He Strike Gold Again as a Novelist?
By
Jon Steinberg
· Jan. 14, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!If there’s an unintended theme for this week’s stories, it’s the comeback, the second act, the immune response to a contagion.In the case of Josh Riedel, it’s the story of a young tech employee who lands at the seminal startup of the early 2010s, Instagram. He devotes his whole life to the company, watching in awe as...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!If there’s an unintended theme for this week’s stories, it’s the...
The Pied Piper of Defense Startups
By
Jon Steinberg
· Jan. 7, 2023 7:00 AM PST
The Weekend
startups
culture
The Pied Piper of Defense Startups
By
Jon Steinberg
· Jan. 7, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to the first Weekend of 2023!You have to hand it to Josh Wolfe. The co-founder of Lux Capital has spent the past two decades zigging while many in the Valley have zagged. This week’s cover story by Margaux focuses on the rise of defense tech as a booming startup sector in Silicon Valley. It’s a space Wolfe and Lux have owned for...
Hi, welcome to the first Weekend of 2023!You have to hand it to Josh Wolfe. The co-founder of Lux...
The Weekend
culture
In Praise of Real (Not Tweetable) Conversations
By
Jon Steinberg
· Dec. 31, 2022 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to the last Weekend of 2022!Because everyone’s feeling nostalgic for auld lang syne (rough translation: before everything sucked), we wanted to reflect on some lessons from the recent past. So this week, the team asked some of the smartest people in tech about the conversations that stuck with them the most from 2022. My...
Hi, welcome to the last Weekend of 2022!Because everyone’s feeling nostalgic for auld lang syne...
The Weekend
e-commerce
startups
On Jasper! On YouTuber! On ChatGPT! A Special Holiday Edition of Weekend
By
Jon Steinberg
· Dec. 24, 2022 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your holiday Weekend!If you haven’t already slipped into a ’noghole (a bottomless tumbler of eggnog paired with an endless scroll of Netflix Christmas movies), we have a fascinating sampler of stories for you to indulge in this week.There’s Arielle’s dispatch from the red-hot AI scene in Texas, where a 6-foot-8-inch Kansan came up...
Hi, welcome to your holiday Weekend!If you haven’t already slipped into a ’noghole (a bottomless...
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economy
entertainment
Back to Work, the Party's Over
By
Jon Steinberg
· Dec. 17, 2022 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Compared to other austerity measures that have swept over tech this past year (the mass layoffs, the hiring freezes, the end of in-house laundry), the demise of the holiday party likely isn’t inspiring panic amongst tech workers. But should it? As Annie and Arielle write in this week’s cover story, it seems like...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Compared to other austerity measures that have swept over tech this...
Where Sleep Is Religion, These Are Our Idols
By
Jon Steinberg
· Dec. 10, 2022 7:00 AM PST
The Weekend
e-commerce
startups
Where Sleep Is Religion, These Are Our Idols
By
Jon Steinberg
· Dec. 10, 2022 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!After a week that gave us the exhaustive (and exhausting) Twitter Files, more fallout from the FTX affair, exhilarating World Cup matches and some rare good news out of Russia, you’re probably catching up on much-needed sleep this weekend. Maybe you’re even grabbing z’s in one of the Eight Sleep Pods that have swept...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!After a week that gave us the exhaustive (and exhausting) Twitter...
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ar/vr
e-commerce
Cathie Wood Is Still Team Musk
By
Jon Steinberg
· Dec. 3, 2022 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Cathie Wood isn’t just an investor—she’s a Rorschach test in cat-eyed glasses. There are few portfolio managers more argued over than the Ark Invest chief. But what I find most fascinating about the woman some call “Crazy Cathie” isn’t her contrarian stock picks or her out-there economic predictions, but her unusual...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Cathie Wood isn’t just an investor—she’s a Rorschach test in cat-eyed...
The Weekend
startups
crypto
Long Holiday Gifts, Short FTX Tokens
By
Jon Steinberg
· Nov. 26, 2022 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!The official opening of holiday gifting season is upon us, so we meet the moment as we always do—by shaking down our colleagues for gift suggestions. Our subscribers are obviously discerning, so we take gift tips seriously. I was able to knock off half of my list already by following our staff’s recommendations....
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!The official opening of holiday gifting season is upon us, so we meet...
The Weekend
markets
startups
A Is for Altman, B Is For Bravo: Looking Back at One Year of Weekends
By
Jon Steinberg
· Nov. 19, 2022 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!I remember when my kids each turned one—and the pride their mom and I felt in surviving that first joyous, exhausting year. We knew we had accomplished a lot—like learning how to sleep in two-hour increments—but also that we were still naifs. The following years were when the real tests would start. (The girls are 11...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!I remember when my kids each turned one—and the pride their mom and I...
Silicon Valley Pours One Out
By
Jon Steinberg
· Nov. 12, 2022 7:00 AM PST
The Weekend
media/telecom
crypto
Silicon Valley Pours One Out
By
Jon Steinberg
· Nov. 12, 2022 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!After everything that transpired this week—from the midterms, to the Elon–Twitter debacle to the FTX implosion—much of tech could probably use a stiff martini right now. But as Annie reports in this weekend’s extremely well-timed cover story, much of tech will politely abstain.Sobriety—as it pertains to alcohol, if...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!After everything that transpired this week—from the midterms, to the...
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