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All the ways Saudi Arabia’s cash powers tech startups and venture capital.
Adam Neumann burned billions. Now investors are giving him more money.
Meet a stealth investment firm run by Robbie Robinson, who advises the former president.
Silicon Valley’s elite can’t actually jump the line.
“I’m the most sued podcaster and I love it.”
Zume Pizza is a Silicon Valley punchline, but investors are pouring millions into it.
Anonymous whistleblower complaints. Federal investigations. And, now, lawsuits.
Caryn Marooney told Recode that her time at Facebook showed her “tech has real good and bad it brings to the world — and it’s important to look early at that.”
However, Lake says on Recode Decode, she still hopes there’s a future for retail stores that deliver an experience to visitors.
On the latest Recode Decode, MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito says we need to resist the urge to oversimplify the problems we’re solving.
Here are all the slides, plus analysis.
“We may have to just throw our hands up and say, ‘Instead of continuing to try to change the establishment, let’s make our own establishment.’”
In the short term, learning to code is good for your job prospects. But on the latest Recode Decode, Cuban explained the important role liberal arts majors will play in the future.
“There is a better version of social media to be invented,” Williams said on the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher.
Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
According to some, the financing round for the question-and-answer platform speaks to the high valuation for virtually everything these days in the tech sector.
“It will always come back to bite you.”
A tough, new enforcement regime is becoming a geopolitical minefield for venture capitalists and startups.
It’s a hard, hard fall.
On the latest Recode Decode, Kapor Klein says we need to “take a deep hard look at the BS notion of meritocracy.”
DST, the venture capital firm founded by Yuri Milner, is expected to lead the deal.
Who is next?
Ray Dalio’s 7,500-word missive reflects a new reality for the world’s wealthiest people in 2019.
The new CEO of All Raise, Pam Kostka, will have to keep attention on a problem that some in Silicon Valley want to slink away from.
A much-hyped football league — or a much-hyped tech company — has failed spectacularly.
Lyft’s IPO gives regular folks the chance to make or lose a fortune.
This story tells you a lot about how Silicon Valley really works.
McGlashan’s argument, boiled down, is essentially: I didn’t do anything illegal ... yet.
Hamilton and Davis spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher at South By Southwest earlier this month.
“The way the world works these days is unbelievable.”
Lee Fixel epitomized how attractive private tech investing has become to New York finance.
“If you don’t understand it, you’re going to fall behind.”
Here’s the idea behind a “capped-profit” model.
“To all the people that worked for me and whose money I took, you’re fucking welcome,” he said.
Does Silicon Valley only work if there is some exclusion, some selectivity, and some prestige? Or can it scale and be accessible to everyone?
More turnover in the upper ranks of an industry that has had a ton recently.
A dozen former employees, investors in the fund, and other people close to the matter describe an investment firm in disarray.
On the latest Recode Media podcast, Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts says it’s only for the 1 percent of the 1 percent.
McNamee was an adviser to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and helped recruit Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, but now he’s speaking out against the social giant.
Blumberg and Lieber spoke with Recode’s Peter Kafka on the latest episode of Recode Media.