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The Wall Street Journal
WeWork: A $20 Billion Startup Fueled by Silicon Valley Pixie Dust
The Wall Street Journal
2 min read · From 2017 · The office-space provider’s 38-year-old CEO sells tech investors on his vision for communal workplaces that appeal to millennials—while critics call it an overvalued real-estate play.
Reader View · Shared by 101, including Scott Galloway, Agustin, Thomas Power, Mara Averick, Matthias Lampe, John Hues, Eric David Smith
Harvard Business Review
No, WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company. Here’s Why That Matters
Harvard Business Review
6 min read · From 2019 · The kind of company it is influences investors and its valuation.
Reader View · Shared by 237, including Dominik Grolimund, Debbie Meier ✍️⚖️, Randy Deutsch, Merkstatt, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, JP Nicols 🇺🇸🇺🇦, Thomas Wong
The New York Times
Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley
The New York Times
~16 min read · From 2018 · About a dozen venture capitalists recently took a bus tour through the Midwest, and a funny thing happened: They caught the heartland bug.
Reader View · Shared by 222, including Martina Grolimund, Bernhard Huessy, Oliver Reichenstein, 瑞拿頭, Christophe Jean, FinTech Connector, Sara Usinger, Rodrigo Prior, Clemens M. Schuster, Thomas Power, Brian Solis, Jane, timoreilly, Chris Kloss, Chris Messina, Dominik Grolimund, Dr. Nettra Pan 🦇🔊 #w3ready, Yash Tekriwal, Merkstatt, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork
The New York Times
The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups
The New York Times
7 min read · 2021-12-20 · Tech executives and engineers are quitting Google, Meta, Amazon and other large companies for what they say is a once-in-generation opportunity with crypto.
Reader View · Shared by 328, including Nancy, Craig Brown, PhD, Kevin Roose, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Chris Messina, Zoe Scaman, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Kara Swisher, Laura Shin, Sam Maule, Alina Fichter, Brian Solis, Richard MacManus, Jeremiah Owyang | jowyang.eth, jowyang.sol, Forbes India
The New York Times
MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a Start-Up
The New York Times
8 min read · From 2016 · No venture capital, no Bay Area presence, no crazy burn rate: MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs and following their instincts.
Reader View · Shared by 387, including Ryan Boren, Patrick Scheuerer, Matthias Lampe, Auf der Isar gibt es keine Matrosen, nur Flößer., Weiting Chen, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, Mark Kaigwa, Moritz Meenen, Stammy, Daniel Jörg, Sara Usinger, Matthias Sala, Elia Palme, Ernie Smith, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Jane Friedman, Richard MacManus, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Dominik Grolimund, Charles Adler
Stratechery
The WeWork IPO
Stratechery
~11 min read · From 2019 · The WeWork IPO is defined by audaciousness and excess, all of which is driven by unlimited access to capital.
Reader View · Shared by 246, including Thomas Power, Scott Monty, Dominik Grolimund, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Sarah E. Brown, Sachin Rekhi, Scott Galloway, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nathan Baschez, Brian LeRoux, Taylor Pearson, Claudia Sommer, Mathew Ingram, Patrick Collison, Bryce Roberts, Steve Faktor, Jonathan Kogan, Balaji Srinivasan, Stowe Boyd, Thomas Knuewer
Reuters
How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
Reuters
4 min read · 2021-08-11 · As Klarna's billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings, a feast of capitalism, he credits an unlikely backer for his runaway success: the Swedish welfare state.
Reader View · Shared by 361, including David Doughty, Nicolas Babin, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Cem Sertoglu 🤖, Johannes Lenz
The New York Times
Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
The New York Times
~20 min read · From 2017 · More than two dozen women in the tech start-up industry spoke to The New York Times about being sexually harassed by investors and mentors.
Reader View · Shared by 279, including Klaus Eck, Nathan Baschez, Tris Hussey, Adam Tinworth, Scott Williams, Claudia Sommer, Florian Hanke 🍎, Kunal Bhatia, Merkstatt, Natacha Quester-Séméon Salomon, Xavier Bertschy, Esther Schindler, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Clemens M. Schuster, Nils Hitze, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram, Fabricio Teixeira, Mark Kaigwa, Max Niederhofer
Chris Messina
Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon’s Echo Show
Chris Messina
~15 min read · From 2017 · So you think Amazon is a tech company? No, you’re wrong
Reader View · Shared by 287, including Brian Roemmele, Nir Eyal, Johannes Baeck, Simon Wüthrich, Thomas Power, Martin Recke, Andreas Von Gunten, Charlie O'Keefe, Eric Sinclair, Ilia Markov, Herbert Bay, Klaus Eck, Gideonro, Weiting Chen, Dominik Grolimund, Martin Hoffmann, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Jochen Burkhard, Andreas Stegmann
