Jillian Goodman

Opinion Editor
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About
Jillian joined The Information in 2021 as opinion editor. Previously, she served as deputy editor at Bloomberg Green, which she helped launch in early 2020, and as politics editor at Bloomberg Businessweek. She got her start at New York Magazine and is still a proud resident of New York City. Want to send her a pitch? Find out how here: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-to-get-your-opinions-published-in-the-information
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Was SPACing ever a good idea?
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My colleague Akash wrote yesterday in his Briefing column about Chamath Palihapitiya's SPAC pullback that "the death of SPACs is a sad but predictable development." My first thought was, "Yes! I agree! Enough of this silliness!" But... is that maybe shortsighted of me? First of all, SPACs may be functionally dead at the moment, but that's not the...
#investing#social capital#spacs
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The VC model is fine. VCs on the other hand...
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Venture capital investor Del Johnson is in our opinion section today with some real talk for his fellow VCs. The current market downturn has made some question whether the model is capable of producing Google- and Facebook-size hits anymore. Johnson argues that the model still works—it's the VCs who are making bad decisions about which businesses and founders to invest in.
#diversity#founders#startups#venture capital
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Nobody wants to get laid off
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Silicon Valley's CEOs seem to have gotten together and agreed that the year-long hiring binge they've been on was somehow their employees' fault. Now that the party is over, many are undertaking sweeping layoffs, or else telling their employees that there are lazy-bones among them and encouraging the slackers to show themselves to the exit. Is this any way to run...
#alphabet#facebook#google#hr#meta platforms
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What kinds of capital do climate startups need?
Posted byJillian Goodman
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Investors got burned in the 2010s when they expected climate tech startups to deliver hardware innovations on a software development timeline, writes Azolla Ventures General Partner Amy Duffuor. Now enthusiasm is ramping up again, and we don't have time to make the same mistakes twice.
#climate change#climate tech
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