Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It was a Wednesday night in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and 40 people—mostly millennials—sat cross-legged on a cramped living room, drinking craft beers and taking off their jackets to reveal the flannels underneath. Around 8pm, the introductions and recommendations for farmer’s markets died down, as Sam Bodkin stood to announce the night’s entertainment: two violinists, one cellist,…
Photo by Sasquatch I Diversity and inclusion are hard, especially in tech. Doing them right means agreeing on values, setting standards, calling out bad behavior, and sometimes firing people. At Project Include, we call it getting comfortable being uncomfortable with the hard work of reshaping a homogeneous industry. Today, we struggle to rationalize Peter Thiel’s power…
Fuck You Startup World That’s right, I said it. Fuck your startup scene with your 30 minute morning routines of reading TechCrunch, TNW, Wired, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Verge and ProductHunt- all so you don’t feel ‘left out’. Fuck your weird fucking conversations, things like “OMG did you see Snapchat’s new feature? OMG Instagram is totally copying Snapchat?…
Venture capitalists Joe Lonsdale and Brian Koo set out to conquer Asia and claim a prize that has eluded the American tech elite for decades. Now, they’ll be lucky to open a Korean restaurant in Palo Alto. Posted on October 11, 2016, at 6:04 p.m. William Alden BuzzFeed News Reporter Brian Koo often compared his business partnership…
Technology Zenefits, a Rocket That Fell to Earth, Tries to Launch Again close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Credit Doug Chayka Trying to turn around a failing technology company is almost always a futile task — just ask Marissa Mayer at Yahoo or whoever it is who now runs BlackBerry. But the…
For our stakeholders, After many months spent assessing our strengths and addressing our weaknesses, we have moved to structure our company around the model best aligned with our core values and mission. We have decided to close our clinical labs and Theranos Wellness Centers, which will impact approximately 340 employees in Arizona, California, and Pennsylvania. …
August 26, 2015, was, by all accounts, a stressful day at Blue Apron’s facility in Richmond, California. As the sun rose over what would be an unusually warm Wednesday, a 21-year-old employee made a phone call to a supervisor at the $2 billion food startup’s Bay Area fulfillment center, where tens of thousands of meal kits…
The car you rented from Turo for the day You quit your day job last week. The time was right to drop everything and pursue your passion. You aren’t meant to work for someone else. You’re too smart. The time is right for you to start a company. You floundered at a 500-person company for two…
Samir Arora, the cofounder and former CEO of Mode Media. Sean Gallup/Getty Images; Skye Gould/Business Insider From the winding freeway that links Silicon Valley with San Francisco, the giant Mode Media sign gracing the company’s headquarters was a hard-to-miss proclamation alerting passing drivers to an internet success story with a rich, $1 billion valuation. But…
Ever since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease three years ago, Kevin, an Airbnb host in San Francisco, says the extra income his family earns through the home-sharing company has helped ease the financial burden brought on by his medical care, he explains in a recent video ad. It’s helped “mitigate the stress,” adds his…