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The Perils of Venture Patriotism

By Kate Clark · May 25, 2023 1:30 PM PDT · 2 comments

Welcome back!U.S. venture capitalists seem to be gripped by patriotic fervor, with a growing faction urging their peers to back more companies that help the U.S. battle adversaries like China. That’s put other venture capital firms with large China footprints on the defensive, as I reported this week.The recent bout of nationalism has worried... Welcome back!U.S. venture capitalists seem to be gripped by patriotic fervor, with a growing...

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What Comes After TikTok

By Ryan Broderick · April 13, 2023 9:00 AM PDT · 2 comments

Last month, the U.S. gave TikTok a choice—either its owner, Chinese artificial intelligence company ByteDance, has to sell it, or it will face a federal ban. As we wait to see how ByteDance responds, more than 25 U.S. states have gone ahead and banned the app from state employees’ devices. And in the event that ByteDance won’t... Last month, the U.S. gave TikTok a choice—either its owner, Chinese artificial intelligence...

From left, Jamie Xie (Christian Vierig/Getty Images), Alexis Cuban, Phoebe Gates and Eve Jobs (Edward Berthelot/Getty Images). Art by Clark Miller.

The Wunderkind Issue

Their Last Names Are Gates, Jobs, Xie and Cuban. Their Brands Are Still Loading

By Annie Goldsmith · March 3, 2023 9:00 AM PST

The 6-second video (caption: “When dad gets the #boxball for Christmas”) seems like standard TikTok fare. Posted on December 26, it features a white-haired man in glasses punching at a red ball. The ball is attached to the man’s forehead by a bungee cord. The man keeps trying to jab the target, but like a cat... The 6-second video (caption: “When dad gets the #boxball for Christmas”)...

A Quarter-Million Reasons to Not Trust Your Company

A Quarter-Million Reasons to Not Trust Your Company

By Jon Steinberg · Feb. 11, 2023 7:00 AM PST

A Quarter-Million Reasons to Not Trust Your Company

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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...

Ban It, Divest It or Regulate It? Washington Looks for an Answer to TikTok

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...

On Jasper! On YouTuber! On ChatGPT! A Special Holiday Edition of Weekend

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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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