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The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups Like Jokr
It took only eight months for Jokr, the superfast delivery startup, to become a unicorn, and just six months more…
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Bolt Loaned Employees Thousands to Buy Stock—Then Laid Them Off
In late May, employees of the fintech startup Bolt saw a message from their CEO on the company’s Slack. It…
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Bolt Loaned Employees Thousands to Buy Stock—Then Laid Them Off
In late May, employees of the fintech startup Bolt saw a message from their CEO on the company’s Slack. It…
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The Bad Times Are Coming for Startups
Last week, the employees of Cameo, a startup that sells personalized videos from celebrities, gathered for an all-hands meeting. The…
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Today’s Startups Are Flush With Cash—and Watching Every Penny
Liz Giorgi expected she would raise more money for her startup, Soona, in April. But when she saw how much…
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Latino Founders Have a Hard Time Raising Money From VCs
A few years ago, RocÃo van Nierop visited the tech accelerator Y Combinator. Nierop is the cofounder and executive director…
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VCs Lavished Startups With Cash in 2021. Now Comes the Hard Part
In June 2021, Ralf Wenzel founded the grocery delivery startup JOKR to meet the demand of millions of people who…
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How Y Combinator Changed the World
This month a successful entertainment-business newsletter written by an influential reporter joined forces with publishing legend Janice Min to form…
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‘We Got Memed Into Moving’: Inside Miami’s Tech Boom
Early in the first pandemic summer, around the time California started requiring people to wear masks indoors, Jack Abraham booked…
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Earth’s Unicorn Population Is Exploding
When the venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term unicorn, in 2013, there were 39 of them—roughly four minted every…
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