Startups and VC desk editor, TechCrunch. Formerly Business Insider, IDG, author of two books. I'm a mom, skier and mountain biker.
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Applications are open for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield. If you are pitching your pre-seed; seed startup to my email inbox, please apply! If your company is exciting (even if I don't bite and write about it), it might just win! techcrunch.com/2026-startup-…
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"The film literally makes things up and adds to misunderstandings about how serious news organizations work,” said Riley. “It’s ironic that the film commits the same sins that it accuses the media of committing.”
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Thrilled that I’ve joined @TechCrunch as editor of the Startups/VC desk working with some of the best startups reporters in the business! @alex @rebecca_szkutak @DominicMadori @bayareawriter @jacqmelinek @ChristineMHall; all under the fab @Cookie; & I’m reunited with @MattRosoff
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Personal news! After 12 years at @BusinessInsider I have moved on to another opportunity that I'm incredibly excited about. Ty to colleagues like @nichcarlson @lexnfx @ajs @ashannstew @LeenaRao @alistairmbarr so many more! ty for all you've done for me. Stay tuned for details.
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Sure. But there's the little part about the 95% of their income they get from his daddy that they plan to keep for now and the house from granny. The boundaries didn't include giving up all the money from the toxic family ... yet.
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A tip from a woman: I always check a bag on direct flights. It’s expensive and it means waiting at bag claim but it also means bringing whatever makeup, hair care products, shoes and home comfort items u need. Plus, room to bring gifts back.
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I’m available to be hired as a CEO I’ll sign terrible term sheets that give the startup an insane valuation, do some shady things at parties and then get fired giving myself a $10m Golden parachute package.
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My news: I will be interviewing @Benioff and @parkerharris on stage at Salesforce's #TrailheaDX dev conference on Wednesday. What would you like to find out about them, their company, their opinions?
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I also want to know why recipe bloggers think anyone wants to read 1,000 words, often about random other stuff, before/after the recipe.
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Kristin Beck, transgender Navy SEAL: 'Let's meet face to face & you tell me I'm not worthy' read.bi/2tJjiBH via @PaulSzoldra
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After weeks of research, meet Business Insider's 100 rising-star VCs of 2020 who represent the future of venture capital and don't work for the big firms businessinsider.com/rising-s… via @businessinsider
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The VERY scary story of women who reported “penetration without consent” to their college, Yale, businessinsider.com/yale-sex… @abbyjax
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My job at @businessinsider has me meeting some of the world's most interesting people. Last week, I met President Obama. Maybe I'll get a chance to meet other past presidents like President Bush. I'd also love to meet some of the Supreme Court justices.
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Israeli social media star @HilzFuld described his life to me recently in this essay: 'I'm now fighting war disinformation 20 hours a day. It's exhausting.' businessinsider.com/israeli-… via @businessinsider
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Pausing a TV show on the downstairs TV and resuming it the next day on the upstairs TV or any other device. I’m old enogh to remember when you couldn’t pause live TV at all.
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I’m thrilled to announce the newest edition to Insider’s Tech startups/VC team. April Joyner @aprjoy is joining my team as a VC/startups correspondent. She’s a fantastic writer with expertise in everything from entrepreneurship to the public markets. I am so happy to have her!
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Sex, tequila, and a tiger: Employees inside Adam Neumann’s WeWork talk about the non-stop party to attain a $100 billion dream and the messy reality that tanked it businessinsider.com/employee… via @BIPrime
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newly unemployed @RobertDowneyJr announces a new non-profit to use robotics and AI to clean up the earth in the next 10 years at #reMARS .. and he's funny too. footpriintcoalition.com
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I think your question may be backwards. The guy that verbally abuses someone is caused to do it on his own, not by anything the woman has done. So answer is nothing.
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Theranos employees created a game that shoots at the investigative journalist who exposed the startup read.bi/2EINBsA via @kifleswing
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And I’m hiring for another Bay Area reporter! Send your news tips to me at julie.bort@techcrunch.com. If you already have my phone number from my time at BI, it still works, even on Signal.
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Yes, Salesforce's Marc Benioff is related to Game of Thrones creator David Benioff (CRM) read.bi/1PAow4E
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Startups That Will Boom in 2021 was named by an invitational group of VCs. Yes, they named fav portfolio companies but ALSO named startups OUTSIDE their portfolios that they love. An exciting list of hot startups to watch. businessinsider.com/vcs-name… via @businessinsider
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Brady will lose $2M million out of $8M for his 4 games suspension. Can a person even LIVE on $6M? businessinsider.com/tom-brad…
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Britain is having trouble recruiting new spies because Facebook and Google pay 'five times more' read.bi/2DkqsMO via @shonaghosh
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A quant analyst took 6 months off work to deal with cancer, and when he returned sent this 4,000-word note to clients questioning the purpose of the financial sector businessinsider.com/bernstei… via @Jim_Edwards
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@sarahcpr The Ellen Show! Congratulations! Been enjoying your success since I wrote this oh so long ago now. businessinsider.com/sarah-co…
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Big FAT SCOOP from scoop machines @MMCandyCheng and @DaveMosher EXCLUSIVE: SpaceX is looking to raise another big round of funding and wants to double its valuation to up to $92 billion businessinsider.com/spacex-f… via @businessinsider
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Macs are 3 times cheaper to own than Windows PCs, says IBM's IT guy read.bi/2eLSl9n
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Pitch: our company had a record year of growth! me: ok, what's ur revenue? Company: we can't share it, want to write about our growth?
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Having known @nichcarlson a long time, I'm excited to see what he'll do next (after he's done my old job, editor-at-large, for a while). Building BI from a tiny New York focused blog to a major newsroom was a wild ride!
First in @semafor: @nichcarlson is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Business Insider semafor.com/article/05/07/20…
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Because bitcoin isn't physical. It only has value if people agree it does. Anything can be 'money' ... even turnips. Gold is, as they say, the gold standard.
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My startup idea is a chocolate delivery company. Press a button and within 1 hour someone brings you some chocolate. Who wants to fund?
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How accurate was that prediction generally, if not for the Lab specifically? How about this: wired.com/story/richard-stal…
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OMG! A normal press conference with an informed press sec. trying to share accurate information. Delightful. #BidenHarrisInauguration
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How playing World of Warcraft every day for a year led Robert Hohman to found a $1 billion startup read.bi/1RrvhXf
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I am so excited to announce the newest hire to Insider's Startups/VC team, powerhouse scoopster Ben Bergman! He's the whole package, scoops, profiles, beautiful writing, impactful journalism. Want to join our growing team? I'm hiring! If you're already in Silicon Valley, DM me.
I'm beyond thrilled to be joining @BusinessInsider.
I've been so impressed by what they have been doing wsj.com/articles/business-in…
Please send me your VC/startup story tips. DM's are open!
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Our research showed Tesla had over 300 911 calls in the past 2 years while a GM factory had 9. Now Calif regulators opened another investigation after a report that part of a Tesla employee’s finger was amputated at work, scoop by @matousekmark
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Melinda Gates: Warren Buffett Taught Me How To Be A Good Friend read.bi/1o6qRcY
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This new Apple designed A12 Bionic chip is truly amazing, 7nm, 8 core, Apple designed GPU, dedicated machine learning ... with all that, will Siri actually be worth using? #appleevent
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Salesforce CEO: Government leaders are 'weaker' so 'CEOs need to be stronger' and fight for social change (CRM) read.bi/1TrmUyP
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The most secretive unicorn in Silicon Valley, Palantir, just raised a whopping $880 million read.bi/1QIImgP
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In honor of International Women in Engineering day we've picked the 39 most powerful female engineers of 2018 read.bi/2tmGwud via @businessinsider
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Dear People Who Work With Other People: Keep your hands to yourself, no sex talk at work, don’t fire people who say no. Thank you, Society.
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What's it like to work at WeWork? A former WeWork exec describes a cult-like culture, a mandatory boozy sleepover and working with Adam Neumann businessinsider.com/wework-v… via @businessinsider
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I'm very excited to announce the latest hire to my team of crack startup/VC tech reporters. Michael Haley @michael_s_haley from Dow Jones/Venture Source. He's a great reporter. Stay tuned for scoops and more scoops. (We are still hiring!)
.@businessinsider hires @michael_s_haley to cover VCs and startups. He will start in February: talkingbiznews.com/they-talk…
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Another insane scoop from @meliarobin: SF folks spending $1 million to live near a nuclear site, which counts as 'affordable' housing read.bi/2rie9MJ via @businessinsider
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I first heard that top VCs were watching @GPTZeroAI a year ago. Turns out, they weren't wrong to want a piece. It was @nbt who won the lead. techcrunch.com/2024/06/13/gp…
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A 48-hour stay in the hospital: $47,103.18! No one in America except the 1% can afford to get sick. We have a health care system that is not available for the sick and that really is sickening. I hope you are well now!
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For my Holiday gift to myself, I deleted 76,000 unread emails that accumulated in my inbox. (Took about a year.) If you emailed my since last December and haven't heard back you are officially not going to.
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While Amazon employees plead with the company to do this, arch competitor Microsoft says: "Ok, we're in." I hope Microsoft builds a multi-trillion business teaching all companies how to remove carbon, not just slow down their emissions.
Microsoft CEO @satyanadella: "Today we are making the commitment that by 2030 Microsoft will become carbon negative. By 2050, we will remove from the environment all the carbon we have emitted since our company's founding in 1975." News event now: news.microsoft.com/climate/
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Imagine! Focusing on revenue instead of "growth at all costs." Personally, I like this message: You don't have to work yourself to death to be successful: businessinsider.com/shopify-…
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This was an intense story to work on: A Google X employee who collapsed on the job read.bi/2oq56Hl via @sai
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Dear world. Hope you are having a wonderful holiday. May we all be kinder and more understanding to each other in 2017.
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Yes, that's Linus Torvalds happily chatting with Microsoft folks at a tech conference read.bi/2bjlWEG
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Here's a rare look inside the black-box process of employee lawsuits & who the arbitrators are that big companies hire: When Cigna fired an employee, she thought she’d found a fair referee — until she saw pictures of him partying with Cigna’s attorney businessinsider.com/fired-ci…
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In a good sign for the tech industry, tech unicorn Nutanix's IPO pops a huge 90% (NTNX) read.bi/2dBtZhR
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Can a startup (ehem Bolt) really force a pay-to-play deal, especially one this aggressive? Not really. And things will almost certainly get ugly an expert familiar with Bolt's corporate charter tells @bayareawriter techcrunch.com/2024/08/21/bo…
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When you wake up, I have a GIANT package of stories coming for you that you will love, everyone in startups and VC land. They are celebratory. Stay tuned.
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Stripe COO (Stripe dropped support for bitcoin) @chughesjohnson: 'iI we’re going to be honest with ourselves, the killer app for bitcoin today is ransomware.' #FortuneTech
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had a great response to his old boss and rival Larry Ellison's keynote read.bi/1MmQvG6
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would have been a lot more believable if he said this during his media tour the prev day. instead, he denied his own cash crunch and claimed he was ‘protecting’ customers. also fails to mention Citidel being his source of revenue.
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Gov’t is so dysfunctional that simply voting to continue doing its job and paying employees/bills is viewed as a victory.
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Dear random PR person. No, I’m not going to jump on the phone to tell you what I’m working on. Do u jump on the phone with strangers to dish about your company & clients?
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A looong week of editing but we have such a good crop of stories coming to you on Thanksgiving week. Stay tuned.
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Headline says it all, people: IT'S NOT THAT HARD: Here are 21 female tech leaders ideal for board seats as Nasdaq forces corporate America's hand businessinsider.com/top-fema… from @MMCandyCheng and @SaacksAttack via @businessinsider
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Inside the 'awkward,' 'tense,' and 'heated' private meeting between Elon Musk and Texans whom SpaceX is trying to buy out to fully realize its vision to reach Mars businessinsider.com/elon-mus… via @DaveMosher
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Remember that odd tweet from RH investor Sequoia that said it didn't pressure Robinhood to cut off #GME? Turns out Sequoia partners had personal $ in the hedge fund that got crushed. GREAT scoop by @alexmorrell businessinsider.com/sequoia-… via @businessinsider
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at least he’s showing up to listen. @SenCoryGardner is so far, ignoring his home, Colorado. 20K signed petition.
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I could never do disaster reporting. I would throw down my pen and be trying to help everyone. CNN was right 2 help, a little cheap 2 film.
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Cutest press release of the day. A local flower shop in my town sent it out to announce they were expanding and they knew I was a journo and would I write about it? Sometimes FoCo is like a Western Stars Hallow.
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My company, Insider, just won its first Pulitzer Prize! If you have not read this illustrated account of an Uyghur's woman terrifying detention in a Chinese intern camp, do it. It is one of the most memorable stories I've ever read.
Congratulations to @fahmida_azim, @anthony_delcol, @joshadams, @WaltHickey and @thisisinsider. #Pulitzer
ALT Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider have received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.
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Men have always known. They worry about the women that they love. But now they are speaking up. GOOD!
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Come see me this afternoon! I will be interviewing @Benioff and @parkerharris on stage at Salesforce's #TrailheaDX dev conference. Tweet me with your questions for them.
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Salesforce's Marc Benioff says he's following 'the Oracle playbook' to improve profits — and Larry Ellison is helping him. A shocking call out for those who know their history! businessinsider.com/oracle-l… via @businessinsider
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Hope all you tech IPO lovers can handle another one before 2020 ends because Poshmark's IPO is back on and its S-1 paperwork is expected to become public 'in the next week or so' scoop by @MMCandyCheng businessinsider.com/sources-… via @businessinsider
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For anyone wondering if they should ditch the golden handcuffs and pursue something less predictable, read this from @mmeckf who writes, I left a high-powered job at Google to launch my own startup, and I've never been happier businessinsider.com/former-g… via @businessinsider
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Source: Microsoft Employees Are 'Worn Out' Over So Much Change (MSFT) read.bi/13eTw6o
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Brilliant encapsulation. The economic analysis of the cause of the recession was especially informative.
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If you read TechCrunch, you know the inside story of TechStars, one of the world's biggest startup accelerators: @DominicMadori scoops reveal everything from their financials to their squabbles with partners and employees techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/te…
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I'm thrilled to announce BI's newest hire @MMCandyCheng welcome! Candy Cheng is one of the most versatile, accomplished journalists in the business. talkingbiznews.com/they-talk…
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$NVDA earnings today felt like some kind of a national tech industry holiday, or like Super Bowl Sunday or like how Amazon Prime Days used to feel.
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Wow! Alyson joined Insider as an intern! worked her way up to EIC during unprecedented growth. I’m so happy for her.
Joining Insider at age 22 was the opportunity of a lifetime. So much respect for what @hblodget and all are building there. After 13 years, I’m thrilled to take on a new challenge joining the world-class Fortune newsroom as its EIC!
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The problem with COVID-19 political deniers is that the people who bear the brunt of their stupidity are the healthcare workers: At least 62,000 healthcare workers in the US have tested positive for the coronavirus, the CDC says. businessinsider.com/us-healt… via @businessinsider
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This woman built a $65 million tech company thanks to Google read.bi/2aGKLWj
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We asked the experts which startups are crushing it in 2021 so far. Here are 46 of the most promising startups of the year, according to top VCs businessinsider.com/vcs-name… via @businessinsider
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5M job openings in US today, 1/2M in tech, U.S. CTO Megan Smith, #fortunetech
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