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Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Never Flashy, Is Fired Up

By Jessica E. Lessin · Aug. 29, 2020 8:01 AM PDT · 3 comments

It’s a quirk of Silicon Valley that one of the most seemingly uninteresting businesses is run by one of the most interesting people. Ten years into running Stripe, its co-founder and CEO, Patrick Collison, still has a voracious appetite for just about everything related to the future of technology—including his payment... It’s a quirk of Silicon Valley that one of the most seemingly uninteresting businesses is...

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How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech

By Sam Lessin · March 9, 2020 10:00 AM PDT · 10 comments

The impact of COVID-19 on the economy and our lives has been the subject of a lot of discussions in the last several weeks. But there’s been less discussion of the potential long-term implications of how the virus—or something like it—may alter the longer-term trajectory of our society and economy.Here are some big-picture... The impact of COVID-19 on the economy and our lives has been the subject of a lot of discussions...

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Uber CEO Wants to Shift More Engineering Jobs to India, Sparking Internal Debate

By Amir Efrati · July 2, 2020 7:01 AM PDT · 6 comments

Since Dara Khosrowshahi became CEO of Uber in 2017, he has been steadily pushing his engineering team to move jobs to India as a way of saving money. Despite some resistance from his top technology executive, Khosrowshahi made progress: about 15% of Uber’s engineering team, or about 600 people, is now in India. That’s up from 80... Since Dara Khosrowshahi became CEO of Uber in 2017, he has been steadily pushing his engineering...

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A Top China VC Firm Struggles to Raise Funds After 10% Return, U.S. Investor Fears

By Juro Osawa · May 26, 2022 6:00 AM PDT · 2 comments

Despite a difficult climate for raising money, at least four top-tier Chinese venture capital firms set ambitious goals to raise billions of dollars this year from Western institutional investors. Some have already succeeded—but not all of them. Matrix Partners China, one of China’s most prolific early-stage VC firms and an early... Despite a difficult climate for raising money, at least four top-tier Chinese venture capital...

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Former Musical.ly President Alex Hofmann Spends 9 Hours a Day on His Phone, Still Won’t Return Your Texts

By Annie Goldsmith · May 21, 2022 7:00 AM PDT · 1 comment

Welcome to Screentime, a new series from The Weekend in which tech leaders divulge their personal phone habits. Alex Hofmann has an app for everything. His phone is filled with—literally—hundreds of them. Apps to meditate (Insight Timer), check air quality (AirVisual), remember birthdays (Birthdays), pursue romance (30-plus dating... Welcome to Screentime, a new series from The Weekend in which tech leaders divulge their personal...

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As Amazon Stock Tanks, Bezos Makes Jokes

By Martin Peers · May 18, 2022 5:00 PM PDT

What is happening to our world? Not only is the stock market in free fall (again), but Jeff Bezos appears to have been infected by a Musk-like bug that causes business executives to lose their inhibitions on social media. Today, for instance, as Amazon stock was dropping 7%, the Amazon founder was tweeting about how he’s been working hard on his... What is happening to our world? Not only is the stock market in free fall (again), but Jeff Bezos...

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