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Tech Layoffs in 2023 Are Feeding a New Startup Surge
Henry Kirk always thought he would eventually leave his job as an engineering manager at Google and start his own…
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Quantum Startups’ Stock Market Dreams Are Decohering
At the end of September, Rigetti reported $212 million in assets and a net loss of $49 million for the year to…
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ChatGPT Has Investors Drooling—but Can It Bring Home the Bacon?
When ChatGPT—the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI—was asked this week how much the company behind it is worth, its…
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Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos Gets 11 Years in Prison
Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to just over 11 years in prison for defrauding investors by falsely claiming her technology…
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Big Tech’s Layoffs Will Fuel the Industry’s Future
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Despite Big Layoffs, Tech Workers Are Still in Demand
“You have two diverging paths for tech workers,” says Pollak. “One group is taking a flight-to-safety approach and going to…
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The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland
The Rise of the Rest investments you extoll certainly benefited from that exuberance—and now may suffer. Some Silicon Valley venture…
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Would You Ditch All This Chaos for a Country in the Cloud?
You see the future, right? You want to have a kid, so you go enroll in a network state with…
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Would You Ditch All This Chaos for a Country in the Cloud?
You see the future, right? You want to have a kid, so you go enroll in a network state with…
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Raising Startup Funding Used to Be Easy—Not Anymore
In 2021, when Roshan Patel was raising his startup Walnut’s first round of funding, his email inbox overflowed with interest…
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