Blade, backed by Lerer Hippeau and Airbus, has begun chauffering the Bay Area’s elite.
View More Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass trafficCategory: palo alto
HotelTonight, Slack stakeholder Accel stays on top with $2.5B fund
Sources confirm Accel has nabbed $2.5 billion — its largest pool of capital yet — for three new funds.
View More HotelTonight, Slack stakeholder Accel stays on top with $2.5B fundThe Silicon Valley exodus continues
Y Combinator, a longtime resident of Silicon Valley, is planning to move its HQ to San Francisco.
View More The Silicon Valley exodus continuesTesla to recall 14,000 Model S cars in China over faulty Takata airbags
China’s top market regulator said on Friday that Tesla will recall a total of 14,123 imported Model S vehicles in the country over potentially deadly airbags. The recall is part of an industry-wide crackdown on Takata-made front passenger airbags, which involves roughly 37 million vehicles including more mainstream brands such as Toyota and Ford, as […]
View More Tesla to recall 14,000 Model S cars in China over faulty Takata airbagsThe Venture Twins
Justine and Olivia Moore like to introduce themselves together, otherwise, it can be a little confusing. They live together in an apartment in Menlo Park. They share clothes. They both wear Rothy’s sustainable ballet flats and are big fans of Glossier. Their desks are only inches apart, because yes, they work together too — and […]
View More The Venture TwinsHewlett Packard Enterprise to move HQ to San Jose
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving north from Palo Alto to San Jose. The company will relocate 1,000 employees to a 220,000-square-foot space in late 2018. HPE was spun-off from Hewlett-Packard in 2015 and is focused on servers and storage. This news comes months after HPE announced a different plan in which the company was moving […]
View More Hewlett Packard Enterprise to move HQ to San JoseAurora hires SpaceX’s Jinnah Hosein, opens SF and Pittsburgh offices
Self-driving technology company Aurora has made some key moves on its leadership team and overall company growth: It’s bringing on SpaceX’s now former head of software engineering, Jinnah Hosein, to lead its own software engineering team in a VP role. The autonomous software provider is also opening up two new offices, including one in San […]
View More Aurora hires SpaceX’s Jinnah Hosein, opens SF and Pittsburgh officesMy Tesla Model X test drive made me an Autopilot superfan
This past week, I’ve had the chance to try out a brand new Tesla Model X P100D, on loan from Tesla for my use during a trip in and around San Francisco.
Needless to say, the car got a lot of attention, especially given its all-black exterior and high contrast all-white leather cabin styling. And of course, the P100D’s instant, extreme acceleration was a blast to use first-hand… Read More