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Gift Guide 2018 Silicon Valley Tech

The super chill guide to buying gifts for tech bros

sudshr47 November 16, 2018

It’s late, and you’re so very tired.

You just finished another meaningless day at your thankless job, putting in too many hours only to see that prick Todd once again take credit for your work. You console yourself with the reminder that it could be worse — you could work at Google. Or Uber. Or Amazon Studios. Or Magic Leap. Or Tesla. Or Oracle.

But you shove all that aside, because the holiday season will soon be upon you and you’re determined to get through it. Things are expected of you — as you’re always reminded by some idiot telling you to “smile more” — and, despite all the bullshit, you’re going to exceed those expectations. Because, well, screw those assholes. Read more…

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Mexican venture firm ALL VP has a $73 million first close on its latest fund

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

Buoyed by international attention from U.S. and Chinese investors and technology companies, new financing keeps flowing into the coffers of Latin American venture capital firms. One day after the Brazilian-based pan-Latin American announced the close of its $150 million latest fund comes word from our sources that ALL VP, the Mexico City-based, early stage technology […]

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Silicon Valley’s sovereign wealth problem

sudshr47 October 29, 2018

John Vrionis Contributor Share on Twitter John Vrionis is the founder of Unusual Ventures. It’s time to bring the conversation about where Silicon Valley gets its money from out into the open. Following recent revelations into Saudi Arabia’s extensive reach and influence in the US technology sector, the willful ignorance that has defined the relationship […]

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The 747 that went to Burning Man: What really happened

sudshr47 October 28, 2018

Much of Burning Man‘s art projects — the good, the bad, and the ugly — have the same origin story. Invariably, one of the 70,000 attendees at the noncommercial desert festival start a conversation with the words “wouldn’t it be great if …”

The Big Imagination project began that way too — and grew into a group that raised and spent just short of $1 million to bring a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet (or rather, 3/4 of one) to Burning Man this year. But the final execution of its plan was unprecedented in the event’s 32-year history — both in its scale, and the level of controversy it generated.

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Envoy raises $43 million to digitize your office

sudshr47 October 23, 2018

The office might not seem like an area in desperate need of disruption, but Envoy — a Silicon Valley company used to sign in over 100,000 visitors at offices across the world each day; and a TechCrunch SF office neighbor! — has raised $43 million to do just that. The company started life five years […]

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Lessons from building Brex into a billion-dollar startup

sudshr47 October 19, 2018

When I think about my experience as an immigrant and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, I remember growing up in Brazil and how we saw tech founders and CEOs as kings. We imagined what it would be like to assume the throne.

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VCs say Silicon Valley isn’t the gold mine it used to be

sudshr47 September 21, 2018 Startups

In the days leading up to TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, The Economist published the cover story, ‘Why Startups Are Leaving Silicon Valley.’ The author outlined reasons why the Valley has “peaked.” Venture capital investors are deploying capital outside the Bay Area more than ever before. High-profile entrepreneurs and investors, Peter Thiel, for example, have left. Rising […]

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In Bad Blood, a pedestrian tale of heuristics and lies

sudshr47 September 16, 2018 Startups

In a world where thousands and thousands of startups are started in the Bay Area every year, becoming a name that everyone recognizes is no small feat. Theranos reached that summit, and it all came crashing down. The story of the fraudulent rise and precipitous fall of the company and its entrepreneur, Elizabeth Holmes, is […]

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Golden Gate Ventures closes new $100M fund for Southeast Asia

sudshr47 September 14, 2018

Singapore’s Golden Gate Ventures has announced the close of its newest (and third) fund for Southeast Asia at a total of $100 million. The first hit a first close in the summer, as TechCrunch reported at the time, and now it has reached full capacity. Seven-year-old Golden Gate said its LPs include existing backers Singapore […]

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Playing the global game, Sequoia can cut checks for up to $1 billion

sudshr47 September 6, 2018

As the shadow of SoftBank (and its $100 billion fund) looms large over the investment landscape, Sequoia Capital is pushing the upper limits of the checks it’s willing to write to global growth-stage companies up to $1 billion. With a B. That’s the word from Sequoia’s global managing partner Doug Leone speaking onstage at Disrupt […]

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Safety and inspection bot startup Gecko Robotics adds $7 million to the coffers

sudshr47 August 20, 2018 Startups

Gecko Robotics aims to save human lives at our nation’s power plants with its wall-climbing robots. To continue doing so, the startup tells TechCrunch it has just secured $7 million from a cadre of high-profile sources, including Founders Fund, Mark Cuban, The Westly Group, Justin Kan and Y Combinator. We first reported on the Pittsburgh-based company when […]