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Kalanick’s CloudKitchens, Ideal Bet for Pandemic, Hits Snags

By Amir Efrati · April 20, 2020 7:02 AM PDT · 4 comments

This should be Travis Kalanick’s moment.The Uber co-founder not only sold out of Uber ahead of the pandemic that has cratered that company’s ride-hailing business, but switched his money and energy to a real estate startup that leases space to restaurants for meal preparation. The firm, CloudKitchens, is well positioned to benefit... This should be Travis Kalanick’s moment.The Uber co-founder not only sold out of Uber ahead...

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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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An Aborted IPO Reflects Market Jitters About Covid Winners

By Martin Peers · Oct. 7, 2021 5:00 PM PDT

After a spate of IPO filings earlier this week, including from companies Rent the Runway, Udemy and GlobalFoundries, you might have thought the roller-coaster ups and downs of the market weren’t deterring anyone from going public. Wrong! Today iFit Health & Fitness, a competitor to Peloton, decided to postpone its IPO due to “adverse market... After a spate of IPO filings earlier this week, including from companies Rent the Runway, Udemy...

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Kathryn Murdoch Says Big Companies Shouldn’t Be Controlled By One Person

By Mahira Dayal · Oct. 6, 2021 2:25 PM PDT · 2 comments

Philanthropist Kathryn Murdoch said no individual should control a big company like Facebook, saying “it is troubling when you have one person who wields that kind of power and it’s probably not the right way forward.” The comments by Murdoch, at The Information’s Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference on Wednesday,... Philanthropist Kathryn Murdoch said no individual should control a big company like Facebook,...

A VR design meeting in Project Hubble. Each room is a virtual testing space for AR apps. Credit: Unity

Inside Unity’s Project Hubble, a Different Spin on VR For Work

By Mathew Olson · Oct. 4, 2021 11:00 AM PDT

If you want to get a sense of how digital design work could be transformed by AR and VR, look to Unity’s Project Hubble. The gaming engine’s XR design team, which has long been spread across several time zones, started using Hubble in VR for its weekly design review meetings when Covid hit. Hubble is a curious thing to experience as an... If you want to get a sense of how digital design work could be transformed by AR and VR, look to...