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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

1 month

hi, all, an opinion piece that ran on our site yesterday did not go through our standard review process and was unfair to both our readers and our staff. that post has since been updated to reflect our standards, and we'll ensure that this doesn't happen again in the future.

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Sequoia is walking away from a payments startup it recently funded -- and leaving behind its $21 million investment.

Sequoia is giving away $21 million to a payments startup it recently funded as it walks away from...

In the world of venture capital, where trust between investors and founders is paramount to the success of both, investing in a company that competes with

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 months

Since becoming TechCrunch's EIC, my top priority has been to hire people who can make our exceptional staff even stronger. I was thrilled when @sokane1 joined us. I'm elated to say that @mattrosoff is now headed here, too.

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@Cookie

5 months

!! i phoned julie on my very first day as eic and i'm *so* pumped to call her a colleague at long last.

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@Julie188

5 months

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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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

i rarely have personal news, but today, some personal news! http://t.co/oR26FfDTUd

Welcome Connie Loizos To TechCrunch | TechCrunch

TechCrunch thrives on change. And it’s a good thing that it does because we’ve seen plenty of it in recent weeks. Today, we’re happy to announce more changes — with some familiar folks in new roles...

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

6 years

if you were just at a busy intersection in sf and saw a woman trip in her rain boots and fall flat on the ground before springing up and waving to you like nbd, that was maybe me.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

i’m no vc (for good reason), but i think this could be huge:

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

9 years

Forget Amazon Gift Cards; Give Someone Public Stock With Stockpile http://t.co/sDRPwfy3F1 by @cookie

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

3 years

I talked with @theryanking Friday about his move from CEO to executive chair of Bolt. "The operating and scaling headspace is very different than the creative headspace. I've played both until now. This allows me to stay in the creative headspace."

Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO -- and he says it's...

Ryan Breslow, who founded the "one-click" checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it, is stepping away as the

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

1 month

@harjtaggar hi @harjtaggar , this is not what techcrunch is about or represents; this was unfortunate all around.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

5 months

1000 x this. know she is v appreciative of the support

Panzer

@panzer

5 months

Hey folks, I'm sure a lot of you on here know @SarahPerezTC , an amazing writer, single mother and human. She suffered a total loss house fire this morning. She and her daughter are safe but if you can help at all please do so.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

5 years

glad many read my piece on cloud kitchens this weekend. fwiw, this short film on what shared kitchens will do to "middle class" restaurants, including interviews w marc canter (canter's deli), eric greenspan, and many others tells much more of the story.

001. fast(er) food

As Americans dine-out less and order-in more, “ghost kitchens” are emerging in dense metropolitan areas to house dozens of delivery-only concepts in converte...

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@Cookie

5 years

something is definitely not on the level here. morgan stanley has too much at stake to lie about this (i'd think):

Uber IPO underwriter Morgan Stanley denies reports that it marketed a short-selling product to Lyft...

It's getting bare-knuckled out there again in the ride-hailing wars. According to a report earlier today from The Information, newly public Lyft

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

starting a “founder’s questions” column for tc. email your questions; we’ll get you answers. email connie @techcrunch .com

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

8 years

. @presssec get out while you can. you're in over your head.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

5 years

@danprimack @dkhos impossible situation for him but always so impressed with your interviewing skillz.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

2 years

so good:

WeWork’s Adam Neumann on investing, startups, surfing and Masayoshi Son

After a fall as spectacular as his rise, the charismatic salesman is back

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 years

great break. v needed.:)

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

6 years

Thank you, thank you, @semil @lightspeedvp and everyone who came out. Very nice way to end the day.:)

Semil

@semil

6 years

Thanks old friends & new ones who came out this evening for @StrictlyVC ’s Summer Drinks w/ @cookie . The team at @lightspeedvp was happy to co-host, in particular @jeremysliew @Nik_Quinn @ravirajjain @nakul @adamwgoldberg @carolinedclark

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

3 years

How Robert Reffkin went from being a C-average student to the founder of Compass via @techcrunch

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

10 years

inside mysterious Mithril Capital, the growth-stage fund of Peter Thiel and Ajay Royan http://t.co/MUOfDlHZgv

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane on going public: After a point, it's "time to move out of your parents' basement."

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

poor kind bars. maligned again as an excessive startup indulgence. http://t.co/4VtfHjMcnR

Bill Gurley: "I Hope To God We Have A Soft Landing" | TechCrunch

Venture capitalist Bill Gurley, Julie Wainright from TheRealReal and co-founder of unicorn startup Slack Stewart Butterfield discussed the frothiness of

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 months

It's a Big Deal. Matt has been running news teams for decades; he knows how to get great work out of great people. (I have talked with some of these people -- the accolades are endless.) We could not be happier that he's joining our team in a couple of weeks. Welcome @mattrosoff !

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

2 years

yikes.

IPVM

@ipvideo

2 years

VCs look the other way as they give $205M more to Verkada, whose tech has been abused repeatedly by @TechCrunch @Cookie here's more examples 🧵

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

10 years

AngelPad didn’t set out to be the anti Y Combinator, but that’s what it’s become. A look at the outfit on Demo Day http://t.co/cbkVQq9KUu

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 years

Big deal. Congrats @sarahtavel

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

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Benchmark just hired Sarah Tavel, the first female general partner in the firm's history by @cookie

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

10 years

Mitch Kapor on that Dropcam acquisition and on data collection more broadly http://t.co/a4To4xui62

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 years

Social Capital is now investing in startups sight unseen.

Social Capital has started investing in startups, sight unseen | TechCrunch

There's little question that former Facebook executive and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya thoroughly enjoys challenging the way that startups are funded. Because he has the hot hand, so to...

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

4 years

friends/strangers, just an fyi if you're online and have kids or are a magic fan. we just watched an hour-long zoom show hosted by @Justin_Willman and it was a sheer joy. highly recommend. next show is at 3 pm PST. (and justin, if you see this, thank you!)

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 years

another week of camp. another night of wondering how to delicately answer the question: "where can we put this?"

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

10 years

Hunter Walk on the importance of long-term thinking, inside Homebrew and w/in startups http://t.co/KQ6MO49i5J

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

5 years

Someone just stopped me on the street to say, “You run like a man.” [Pause.] “That is good!” He was so happy with himself for conveying this.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

fun: square backer @glennsolomon chatted w us in studio to talk ipos, mutual funds, and related stories of the week

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

Confused About the Market? These Four Top Investors Will Set You Straight At Disrupt (excited about this) http://t.co/0au25QtNvJ

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

6 years

thank you again for hosting! very fun night. was not expecting the kaorake wind-down.:)

NEA

@NEA

6 years

Packed house at the @StrictlyVC event at NEA SF! Excited for an awesome lineup featuring: @Hacker0x01 @CadreRE @brandless @YesVCSF @RobinhoodApp

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

10 years

Bubba Murarka of DFJ: “We’re Underinvested as an Industry in Android”. In today’s StrictlyVC http://t.co/rpuQ71GYPl

Bubba Murarka: “We’re Underinvested as an Industry in Android”

DFJ’s newest managing director, Bubba Murarka, knows a thing or two about mobile. He has numerous bets on mobile companies, both personal and professional; he blogs and closely follows the wr…

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 years

honored! amazing company to be in.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

11 years

The Part-Time VC: Does Semil Shah represent the next phase of early-stage investing? http://t.co/KifmHpFNrL

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

flightcar may sound like a wind-down. but investors who just gave it $20.7 million say its story is just beginning. http://t.co/hVGa19Udk8

Employees Deplane From Flightcar As It Undergoes Major "Restructuring" | TechCrunch

Imagine a young startup where two of three founders are pushed out the door. Imagine that this same startup parts ways with its COO, its SVP of Finance,

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

8 years

great interview w nikesh arora about what happened at softbank

One of the world's highest-paid executives explains why he suddenly resigned

And what he'll do next.

fortune.com

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

8 years

and we have a website! @semil

StrictlyVC INSIDER Series 6 - Splash

Mark your calendar! StrictlyVC's sixth(!) INSIDER Series event takes place Wednesday evening, February 8, at the elegant Autodesk Gallery at 1 Market Street in San Francisco. If you want to mingle...

strictlyvcinsiderseries6.splashthat.com

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

8 years

peter thiel is having quite a month. first founders fund raised a giant fund; now mithril has, too.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 years

“Uber should be scared of SoftBank funding Lyft. They better take [the money].”

What SoftBank really wants | TechCrunch

Some in Silicon Valley aren’t quite sure what to make of SoftBank and its massive, roughly $100 billion Vision Fund. At times, they say privately, it looks like a drunken gunslinger, firing off...

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

6 years

on an EFFING CLOUD. GO CAVS!!

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

you know you’re getting old when suddenly, you question why all the vcs and startups left sunny, leafy, clean palo alto for sf.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

8 years

yikes, that went downhill fast. great reporting, @danprimack

Dan Primack

@danprimack

8 years

ICYMI: Harvard-linked VC fund goes up in smoke and acrimony

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

5 years

curious to see what he does next. "i have no plans to sit in retirement, that's for sure," he says.

StrictlyVC

@StrictlyVC

5 years

Chewy founder Ryan Cohen on the company's fast-approaching IPO: "It's like seeing my baby graduate"

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

interviewer to reid hoffman at brainstorm conf: why is linkedin so confusing, still? hoffman: we’re working on it. next question.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 years

yep.

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@Cookie

7 years

this bootstrapped 600-person, online mattress co. in utah says it's profitable and "looking for the right partner."

Purple, a Utah mattress startup you've probably never heard of, is on track to unicorndom |...

Nearly 1,000 miles from Silicon Valley and just west of Utah's Great Salt Lake, in practically the middle of nowhere, is the tranquil Grantsville, population 9,617. There, in a warehouse the size of...

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

3 years

Please note that if you received an email purportedly from us about a voicemail or otherwise looking for information, it was not us (which you probably figured out but in case not) and you should definitely delete this. 🎉🎉

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

James Currier and Stan Chudnovsky go public w their new incubator, NFX Guild (and here are their first 16 cos): http://t.co/CiTtJV7APO

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 years

Softbank will not fund self-driving car company Zoox "in this lifetime" says a source close to the company.

What SoftBank really wants | TechCrunch

Some in Silicon Valley aren’t quite sure what to make of SoftBank and its massive, roughly $100 billion Vision Fund. At times, they say privately, it looks like a drunken gunslinger, firing off...

techcrunch.com

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

11 years

hi, all, in today's strictlyvc: vcs are starting to think more creatively about how to use angellist (baby steps). http://t.co/HDOdMKds39

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

10 years

in strictlyvc, great insights from @jeff on life as a micro vc. you'll have "bad news after bad news after bad news…" http://t.co/9ReWQ3xoLX

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

7 years

svc has nice sponsors. (thank you, @studioscience ).

Studio Science

@StudioScience

7 years

We’re sponsoring one of our favorite reads this week, the @StrictlyVC newsletter:

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

10 years

crazy. moving. RT @BuzzFeed : WhatsApp’s Jan Koum signed the $19 billion deal on the door of his old welfare office http://t.co/4l8hU7y9uM

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@Cookie

8 years

What happens to the SEC under Donald Trump is a question mark, but it still wants to talk with whistleblowers.

Seen enough? Here's how to get the SEC's attention | TechCrunch

McKessy left the agency in late July to join the Washington office of the whistleblower law firm Phillips & Cohen. He was in San Francisco this week,

techcrunch.com

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

8 years

need a hotel room for an hour or so? seed-funded recharge has you covered

Recharge lets you book a hotel room -- for minutes at a time | TechCrunch

Call it on-demand on steroids. A 10-month-old San Francisco company called Recharge has developed an app that enables users to book a stay in hotel for

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

6 years

❤️

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

11 years

After 7+ great years at Thomson Reuters I'm on to a new adventure after Aug. 19! Will miss my colleagues. Thrilled, tho. (Details coming.)

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@Cookie

10 years

don’t believe @usv had disclosed the size of the series a it led for @eshares . was told “oversubscribed” round closed at around $7M.

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@Cookie

8 years

another bombshell case in silicon valley . . .

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

8 years

Longtime VC Michael Goguen was just hit with an explosive lawsuit by @cookie

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@Cookie

8 years

Well, that was fast; Samsung just acquired Viv.

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@Cookie

8 years

i’m reaaaallllly going to enjoy this while it lasts. GO CAVS.

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@Cookie

8 years

good thing people like working at uber. they can’t go anywhere.

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

8 years

Handcuffed to Uber by @cookie

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

9 years

haha: "10 Under 10”

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@Cookie

8 years

i learned a TON from this interview, about wish, but also about e-commerce and doing business in china.

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

8 years

The hot e-commerce app Wish has "hundreds of millions of users" (plus other fascinating stats) by @cookie

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@Cookie

11 months

@om @jlanzone @panzer @arrington @TechCrunch thank you, om!

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

8 years

so much paperwork! we're going to be okay, everyone.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

8 years

that’s a lot of moolah.

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

8 years

Venture firm Accel Partners just raised $2 billion from its investors by @cookie

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@Cookie

7 years

finally. great news:

Uber adds tipping | TechCrunch

After years of refusing to add a tipping option for drivers, Uber is finally adding tips to its app as part of an outreach program to riders and passengers. The company is extending this olive branch...

techcrunch.com

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

6 years

me, too! lots to discuss. really looking forward to this.

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

10 years

what's really happening with micro VC funds? we asked michael kim, who has investments in a dozen or so of them http://t.co/cnUCava6lH

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@Cookie

2 months

After raising $100M, AI fintech LoanSnap is being sued, fined, evicted via @techcrunch

After raising $100M, AI fintech LoanSnap is being sued, fined, evicted | TechCrunch

The company has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo.

techcrunch.com

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@Cookie

5 years

@semil @StrictlyVC i hear they are also updating their janky website years after a friend suggested (many times) that they do this.:) (i hear it will not be amazing, but better.)

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Connie Loizos

@Cookie

8 years

@cdouvos @joshk @aweissman thank you all again! great seeing you.

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@Cookie

8 years

don’t worry; you can still read strictlyvc, as well as techcrunch. we’ll let you in.:)

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@StrictlyVC

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A Notice to Readers

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@Cookie

7 years

whoa. if fox news concerns you, watch what's quietly happening to local news channels.

John Oliver

@iamjohnoliver

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Here's our piece from last night on Sinclair Broadcast Group...

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@Cookie

2 months

eek. data giant snowflake is at the center of a recent spate of alleged data thefts. scoop by techcrunch's zack whittaker

Hundreds of Snowflake customer passwords found online are linked to info-stealing malware |...

Snowflake is the latest company in a string of high-profile security incidents and sizable data breaches caused by the lack of MFA.

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@Cookie

8 years

Alphabet, you’ve maybe been nice about this for too long.

Is Tony Fadell In Nest's Way? | TechCrunch

In an article in The Information, Fadell said that he didn't think Dropcam cofounder and CEO Greg Duffy had "earned" the right to report to him directly.

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@Cookie

8 years

12 out of 14, booyah! (it's very uncool, tbh. i have to refrain from asking qs like, "didn't we meet once in 2003?"

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@Cookie

9 years

have always admired my pal @danprimack , but he was truly a force at #fortunetech . was seriously impressed. kudos.

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@Cookie

9 years

i kind of miss the old days, when i didn’t have to worry about accidentally buying gluten-free food.

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@Cookie

8 years

“Then I stir the butter and brown sugar until smooth, add just a *skosh* of vanilla…"

Semil

@semil

8 years

Caption contest.

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5 years

@hunterwalk @danprimack @dkhos I mean, these are questions he should have anticipated and equating that self-driving incident with a gruesome, calculated murder was obvs a massive mistake, but bigger picture, what can he do? (legitimate q.) how does he shake them if they don’t/won’t sell?

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@Cookie

7 years

@jasonlk @alexrkonrad @HarryStebbings always a fun event; thanks for including me.:)

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@Cookie

11 months

@danprimack would say the same of you -- thank you.:)

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@Cookie

8 years

The SEC gets its long-awaited open-and-shut case in Silicon Valley. Probably.

The SEC gets the case it's been waiting for in Silicon Valley | TechCrunch

A stinging series of articles by the Wall Street Journal soon followed, and in recent months, the government agency that oversees U.S. labs has banned

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@Cookie

5 years

@jasonlk credit to @apartovi for the idea, which made immediate sense.:)

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@Cookie

13 years

so, how many angel investors is too many in a deal? http://bit.ly/jr2Wnv cc: @mejosh @pkedrosky and @caterina

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@Cookie

8 years

nothing against these (nice) hbs profs or stanford profs who do the same, but are these policies fair to students?

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

8 years

For HBS students, a case study in what not to do by @cookie

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8 years

pics from thursday night; sorry to readers who couldn’t click through on this a.m.’s newsletter. (i know: fired!)

StrictlyVC

@StrictlyVC

8 years

Okay, those pics again, with a working link (we think!). Much thanks again to everyone who came out; we had fun.:)

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@Cookie

10 years

@semil @joshelman new trend: raise two rounds, then announce it all. recruits don’t care about press. they care about founders and backers.

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@Cookie

7 years

super impressed by what my colleagues did here.

Techmeme

@Techmeme

7 years

Interview with Bahtiyar Duysak, the Twitter contractor who deactivated Trump's account earlier this month, who calls the incident a "mistake" ( @ingridlunden / TechCrunch)

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8 years

kind of the sportscasters to continue to refer to a "potential game seven."

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