Month: June 2021
Google hires former SiriusXM CPO/CTO to lead its Maps team
Almost exactly a year ago, Google announced a couple of leadership changes that saw Prabhakar Raghavan, who joined the company back in 2012, take over the lead of Search, Assistant and Maps. Now, sources familiar with the hiring tell us, the company has hired Christopher Phillips, who was previously the…
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Tinder tested group video chat ahead of Match’s move into social discovery with Hyperconnect deal
As dating app Tinder and its parent company Match explore the future of personal connection through apps, it’s interesting to see what sort of ideas it tested but later discarded. One such experiment was something called “Tinder Mixer,” which had briefly offered Tinder users a way to join group video…
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Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September
Apple employees are being asked to return to the office three days a week starting in early September. Tim Cook sent out an email Wednesday informing staff of the change. “For all that we’ve been able to achieve while many of us have been separated, the truth is that there…
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How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds
David Teten Contributor More posts by this contributor 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs How to attract large investors to your direct investing platform Paulina Symala Contributor Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private…
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You probably shouldn’t eat cicadas if you’re allergic to shellfish
Brood X is back and ready for action. After a 17 year nap, the cicadas of the Eastern US have emerged to scream, mate, and perhaps pick up a fungus that turns them into “horror movie sex bots.” While some people have been dreading the return of the screeching multitudes,…
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Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’
Amazon tells its warehouse employees to think of themselves not as overworked cogs in an enormous, soul-crushing machine, but as “industrial athletes,” and to prepare their bodies for that experience like someone training for a sporting event, according to a pamphlet obtained by Motherboard. The comparison is a troubling euphemism…
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