Uber's 2008 Pitch Deck

Read the pitch deck that Uber founder Garrett Camp created for the ride-hailing giant back in 2008 — before the company became the $120 billion giant it is today. | Continue reading


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Palantir will start paying employee bonuses in stock units instead of cash

The secretive data analytics firm Palantir will move to a restricted stock model, according to a memo obtained by Business Insider. | Continue reading


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Conspiracy theories that turned out to be true

Just because you're paranoid ... | Continue reading


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Musk slammed one of Tesla's founders by calling him the worst person he's ever

Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard said Musk's comment amounted to a breach of a non-disparagement agreement between the two. | Continue reading


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Slack acquisition by IBM coming soon?

IBM employees started using Slack in 2014 for the very simple reason that they liked using it. Six years later, the entire company is switching over. | Continue reading


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WhatsApp Pay is set to roll out to 10M users in India

WhatsApp gained permission from the National Payments Corporation of India to expand WhatsApp Pay in stages – the first working with 10 million users. | Continue reading


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TikTok waited 3 hours to call police after teen's death was livestreamed

The Intercept reports that TikTok waited nearly three hours after being notified of an apparent livestreamed suicide to notify local law enforcement. | Continue reading


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Macy’s closing San Francisco office. Hundreds laid off

On Monday, Macy's CEO Jeff Gennette informed employees in its San Francisco tech office that it would be closing on April 1. | Continue reading


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People could get the novel coronavirus more than once

China's Health Commission warns that patients who have contracted the novel coronavirus could be at risk of getting it again. | Continue reading


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A nuclear bomb shot a manhole into space before Sputnik

Robert Brownlee told us how he shot an object into space before Sputnik. | Continue reading


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Mark Zuckerberg: I wouldn't start a new company in Silicon Valley today

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the latest to say that Silicon Valley is the last place to launch a new startup. | Continue reading


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EU presses ahead on forcing standardized phone chargers

The EU might kill the Lightning port on the iPhone. | Continue reading


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AWS made an accounting change that will add $2.3B in profits this year

Amazon now expects its servers to last longer, and will spread the total cost of them over an extended period, leading to bigger profits each year. | Continue reading


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How to stop getting emails from stores and restaurants that use Square

If you've ever used a credit or debit card to pay at a store that uses Square, you've probably gotten a lot of spam emails. Here's how to stop that. | Continue reading


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A Palantir exec compared autonomous drone targeting to the Manhattan Project

Palantir believes that its work helping drones autonomously identify targets is as important as the race to develop nuclear weapons. | Continue reading


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WeWork is getting rid of free beer and wine on tap in North America

WeWork will phase out beer and wine taps across North American locations by the end of February. The move applies to both WeWork's member and employee locations. | Continue reading


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Tech billionaire Vinod Khosla sues California to keep beach to himself

The lawsuit comes just three weeks after the state of California sued Vinod Khosla, alleging that he blocked public access to Martin's Beach. | Continue reading


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Kobe Bryant had startup work ethic

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Artist made only $2,700 in royalties from 43M plays on Pandora

A million streams of a song on Pandora yields just $60 in royalties for an artist. | Continue reading


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Birthday Affects Your Chances of Success

The older they are, the more they achieve. | Continue reading


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Tech giants like Apple and Google are grasping for EHR

FHIR (pronounced "fire") could let you view your medical records on your phone. Tech giants are hungry for a piece of the pie, but obstacles remain. | Continue reading


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Mother in Law Market Research (2010)

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The Email Zuckerberg Sent to Cut His Cofounder Out of Facebook (2012)

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Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman once worked so hard he got scurvy (2016)

Y Combinator's Sam Altman went through the accelerator himself after dropping out of Stanford. He worked so hard that summer, he caught an 18th century malady. | Continue reading


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Singer Akon finalizes plans to build a 2000-acre city powered by cryptocurrency

Akon, whose cryptocurrency is called "Akoin," has said he thinks the system could be the key to growth in Africa. | Continue reading


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With Steve taking over R&D, the team is in good shape to adjust to my departure

Okta CEO, Todd McKinnon left his Salesforce job to start a tech company that's now worth $14 billion. Here's how he pitched the idea to his wife. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Huawei offers devs $26mm to build apps

Huawei announced a $26 million investment to court British and Irish developers to make apps the Huawei's App Gallery. | Continue reading


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Scientists detect ripples in space and time from a new class of collision

Annotations and Annotation Processors are here with us for over a decade now. There are many libraries like ButterKnife, Dagger, Room etc… | Continue reading


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Nutella billionaire Giovanni Ferrero, who built a $32B fortune

An anonymous executive at The Ferrero Group once compared the company's security measures to those of NASA. | Continue reading


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Travelex currency exchange company data being held hostage by hackers – Busines

On December 31, 2019, the worldwide currency exchange company Travelex discovered that hackers breached its system. It's been offline ever since. | Continue reading


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More than 3k firms quit Catalonia amid its political upheaval

The economic fallout from the Catalan vote is not limited to corporate flight. Other economic indicators like tourism and consumption are being affected also. | Continue reading


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Study: US could save $600B in admin costs by switching to a single-payer system

A shift toward a single-payer Medicare For All system in US healthcare could be a potential balm to the system's current admin cost crisis. | Continue reading


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Will Google Acquire Salesforce?

RBC predicts Google could acquire Salesforce to leapfrog Microsoft in the cloud market and spin out Google Cloud Platform into a dedicated company. | Continue reading


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Zume, SoftBank-backed pizza startup, loses 1/3 of its executives amid layoffs

The startup also announced it was closing its San Francisco and Seattle offices and terminating 360 employees on Wednesday. | Continue reading


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SoftBank-backed Zume announces hundreds of layoffs and abandon pizza robots

Employees were informed of a "mandatory" meeting on Wednesday, at which about 400 staffers were terminated. | Continue reading


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Alt-Data Industry Showing Cracks

Sources say Vista Equity Partners spent nearly $100 million to buy 7Park, which has beefed up its sales team to sell clients tools instead of reports. | Continue reading


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SoftBank-backed robotic pizza startup Zume plans to lay off up to 400 employees

The $1 billion startup is backed by SoftBank's Vision Fund but has struggled with shifting business priorities in an effort to become profitable. | Continue reading


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The 'Toothbrush Test' Google's CEO Uses to Make Acquisition Decisions (2014)

There's one question that CEO Larry Page always asks before Google buys a company. | Continue reading


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Scientists are planning to count whales from space as way to track animals

An aquarium and an engineering firm in Massachusetts are partnering on a project to better protect whales by monitoring them from space. | Continue reading


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A.I. experts reveal their fave scifi (2015)

We want to read and watch all of these. | Continue reading


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A 160k-year-old jaw in a Tibetan cave might explain high altitude living

Scientists found a 160,000-year-old jawbone from a human ancestor in a Tibetan cave. It might explain why Tibetans today can live at high altitudes. | Continue reading


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Extinct Operating Systems That Time Forgot

Extinct operating systems. | Continue reading


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Steve Wozniak wears a vacuum tube watch

It's retro tech. | Continue reading


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Movie Theater in town created by Disney World closed for almost a decade (2018)

The movie theater in Celebration, Florida, is one of the crown jewels of the town created by Disney World. But it's been closed for almost a decade. | Continue reading


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Amazon is about to host a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters

Marty Hartman is the director of Mary's Place, which runs the shelter on Amazon's campus. She wants to ensure no child sleeps outside in Seattle. | Continue reading


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You might want to think twice before writing 'thank you' at the end of email

Don't use "thank you" to just distinguish a generic email. Instead, use a specific (and authentic) qualifier. | Continue reading


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Police dogs are trained to sniff out hidden electronics

Police dogs at the Connecticut State Police Department are trained to sniff out electronics. They can find anything with digital storage, such as cell phones, thumb drives, computers, and memory cards. The program started in 2012 to help investigators find digital evidence to cri … | Continue reading


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