Continuing its quest to become the Amazon Web Services for biomanufacturing, Ginkgo Bioworks has launched a new spinoff called Motif Ingredients with $90 million in funding to develop proteins that can serve as meat and dairy replacements. It’s the second spinout for Ginkgo since late 2017 when the company partnered with Bayer to launch Joyn […]
View More With $90 million in funding, the Ginkgo spinoff Motif joins the fight for the future of foodCategory: Reid Hoffman
Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M as interest in audio content explodes
The production business behind Reid Hoffman’s ‘Masters of Scale’ podcast raised the funds from Hoffman himself, plus Cue Ball Capital, Burda Principal Investments and more.
View More Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M as interest in audio content explodesUber Freight co-founders and top dealmakers join logistics startup Turvo
Uber Freight co-founders Charlie Bergevin and Brian Cristol have left for Turvo, a venture-funded collaborative logistics platform.
View More Uber Freight co-founders and top dealmakers join logistics startup TurvoEntrepreneur First eyes further Asia growth to build its global network of founders
British startup venture builder Entrepreneur First is eying additional expansion in Asia, where its operation is now as large as it is in Europe, as it expands its reach in 2019. But, despite serving a varied mixture of markets, the company said its founders are a fairly unified breed. The Entrepreneur First program is billed […]
View More Entrepreneur First eyes further Asia growth to build its global network of foundersReport: Self-driving car startup Aurora is raising capital at a $2B valuation
Early last year, LinkedIn co-founder and prolific venture capital investor Reid Hoffman called Chris Urmson “the Henry Ford of autonomous vehicles (AV).” The vote of confidence and big check from Hoffman, coupled with a team of deeply knowledgable AV entrepreneurs, has catapulted his company, Aurora Innovation, squarely into “unicorn” territory. Aurora, the developer of a full-stack […]
View More Report: Self-driving car startup Aurora is raising capital at a $2B valuationLinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman accidentally funded fake news
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A Silicon Valley billionaire who co-founded LinkedIn is apologizing for accidentally funding a recently uncovered fake news operation.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman issued a statement on Wednesday addressing a New York Times story that uncovered a “secret experiment” that utilized fake news in the Alabama Senate race that pit Democrat Doug Jones against Republican Roy Moore in December 2017.
The Times report claims that Democratic tech operatives engaged in Russian manipulation tactics, funded by Hoffman, in an effort to help Jones defeat Moore in last year’s special election.
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Reid Hoffman denies direct knowledge of funding disinformation in the Alabama Senate race
One of Silicon Valley’s prominent billionaires is in hot water after funding deceptive social media campaigns with echoes of Russia’s own political playbook. Reid Hoffman, who co-founded LinkedIn in 2003 and is now a partner at Greylock, footed the bill for a small political project with the aim of getting Democrat Doug Jones elected in […]
View More Reid Hoffman denies direct knowledge of funding disinformation in the Alabama Senate raceVillage Global’s accelerator introduces founders to Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt and more
The VC fund backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries is offering early-stage startups access to its killer network.
View More Village Global’s accelerator introduces founders to Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt and moreUnifonic, dubbed the Twilio of emerging markets, closes $21M Series A round
Those of you familiar with the incredible rise of Twilio, which came along to utterly disrupt the communications world, will be interested to hear that another player plans to do the same, but this time in the staid and tricky area of emerging markets. Unifonic, which has been dubbed “the Twilio of emerging markets” has […]
View More Unifonic, dubbed the Twilio of emerging markets, closes $21M Series A roundWhat your receptionist says about your company culture
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On this episode of ‘Masters of Scale,’ entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan talks about how your company culture is reflected in the person people interact with first: your receptionist.
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View More What your receptionist says about your company cultureReid Hoffman to talk ‘blitzscaling’ at Disrupt SF 2018
When it comes to scaling startups, few people are as accomplished or consistently successful as Reid Hoffman . While the rest of us consider scaling a startup to market domination a daunting task, Hoffman has continued to make it look easy. In September, Hoffman will join us at TC Disrupt SF to share his strategies […]
View More Reid Hoffman to talk ‘blitzscaling’ at Disrupt SF 2018The best ideas die in the shower
On this episode of ‘Masters of Scale,’ Linda Rottenberg talks about how the best ideas originate in the shower, but too often they never escape the bathroom. Read more…More about Business, Ceo, Podcasts, Reid Hoffman, and Masters Of Scale
View More The best ideas die in the shower