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Jessica Lessin is the founder and CEO of The Information, the publication known for original, in-depth reporting about technology and business. In eight years, Lessin has grown The Information into one of the largest subscription journalism communities in the world, attracting an influential audience of business leaders globally. Lessin has covered Silicon Valley and the technology industry for almost two decades and was previously a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal. She lives in the Bay Area, with her husband and three boys. When not trying to keep up with her children, she enjoys surfing and skiing.
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Cash or stock?
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Which would you rather have? A very basic question. Tech workers have long said equity. But that's been changing and now Tesla is making cash the default. Do you all see a big shift here? What's driving it?
#compensation#startups#tesla
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Comparing moonshots
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Tech loves a good moonshot. But they don't often pay off for decades. So evaluating them is always tough and fun. I liked Martin and Amir's approach today and am wondering what else we missed?
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Advice for running a management team meeting
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As our team has grown, we have some more cross-functional senior managers meetings. How do you run a good one? What works and what doesn't? I tend to dislike meetings that just have everyone go around and give updates.
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What Will Get the VC Market Humming Again
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I've been thinking a lot about what will get VC deals humming again. Kate's piece today and the dry powder arsenal certainly suggests that private tech investors have money to spend. I think sometimes people chalk up the slowdown in investing to the stoppage of exits. No exits. No deals. But VCs just need the exit market to return EVENTUALLY—not right away. What the...
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Red, Green, Yellow?
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As a little window behind the scenes here, our reporters were working on this awesome list internally to prepare their reporting for the IPO floodgates to come. I saw it and said "Let's publish that puppy!" So we did. What did we miss?
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