Tag: venture capital
Connie Chan of Andreessen Horowitz discusses consumer tech’s winners and losers
Last week, I sat down with Connie Chan, a general partner with Andreessen Horowitz who focuses on investing in consumer tech. She joined the firm in 2011 after working at HP in China. From her temporary offices located in a modest skyscraper with unobscured views of San Francisco, we talked…
Read More
Silicon Valley saw itself in Pete Buttigieg. Now he’s out of the race.
Tech’s darling is out. On Sunday, the 38-year-old Democratic presidential contender stepped out of the race, clearing a path for moderates to coalesce around another candidate on the eve of Super Tuesday’s broad contest for delegates. Buttigieg, a previous political unknown, ran a surprisingly successful long-shot presidential campaign, making history…
Read More
Pioneer founder Daniel Gross on bringing remote teams together
‘It’s kind of funny; human bonding happens when there’s another direct task going on, right?’ Lucas Matney @lucasmtny / 8 hours There are plenty of accelerators aiming to sway young startups to join their ranks rather than apply to Y Combinator, but Pioneer‘s sell is a bit different. First off,…
Read More
Public markets fall yet again as venture deal counts appear to slip
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. All around, this has been a tough week. The coronavirus is spreading and worry is running high as infections mount. In economic terms, global markets were repeated declines last night…
Read More
Coronavirus corrections and the rise of remote work
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. What a week. What an insane, heart-stopping, odd, and stuffed week. I’m utterly exhausted. But, in better news, all of that great fodder for podcast and chat, so today’s Equity is pretty ok…
Read More
Hustle Fund’s Elizabeth Yin discusses 2020’s fundraising landscape
‘VCs have gotten quite scared, almost to a fault’ Alex Wilhelm 8 hours On the heels of her conversation-driving Twitter thread on 2020’s venture fundraising climate, Hustle Fund’s Elizabeth Yin converted her thoughts into an op-ed for TechCrunch. In keeping with her expansive thread, we asked her to adapt her…
Read More