Is Gavin Newsom already attracting donors for 2028? Netflix co-founder donates $2M into redistricting campaignNetflix co-founder Reed Hastings gave $2 million for California’s redistricting plan. The campaign, called Proposition 50, could change Hou...
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz joins $100 million effort to shape AI regulationThe group, called Leading the Future, plans to target what it sees as unnecessary regulation and support “policies that unlock the transfor...
OpenAI co-founder Brockman, other Silicon Valley big shots to launch pro-AI PAC network to oppose AI regulations in 2026 midterm pollsSilicon Valley heavyweights, including Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI's Greg Brockman, are launching 'Leading the Future,' a super-PAC netw...
‘One of tech’s biggest contributors’: Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook condole death of former YouTube CEO WojcickiWojcicki was named the CEO of YouTube in 2014. She introduced new forms of ads and helped steer its growth by launching a streaming televis...
Tech investors are the latest to Zoom for Kamala HarrisThe latest affinity group to organize behind Kamala Harris on Wednesday represented the lowly millionaire and billionaire investors of Sili...
More than 100 Silicon Valley investors pledge to support Kamala HarrisThe moves are perhaps the most public pushback to right-wing venture capitalists and executives whom some tech leaders see as dominating po...
White House reveals press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre violated Hatch Act, here’s what it meansThe US Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) announced on Tuesday that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre violated the Hatch Act....
Airbnb valuation reaches $100 billion in trading debut surgeSan Francisco-based Airbnb’s fully diluted valuation is even higher, around $100 billion including employee stock options and restricted st...
How Airbnb's CEO succumbed to an IPO he resistedAirbnb officially reached technology unicorn status in 2011, when it crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold. As Airbnb raised more mone...
How author Michael Wolff got into the White House for his tell-all book on TrumpNearly everyone who spoke with Wolff thought someone else in the White House had approved their participation.
Uber cofounder taking over stumbling social media company StumbleUponCamp, Geoff Smith, and Justin LaFrance started the content website in 2001 as they were finishing up their postgraduate studies in Canada.
How you can become a successful angel investorEverybody with any money is exploring angel investing. Over half-a-dozen angels tell ET what it takes to be successful while investing in s...
Startup Corridor: Taking Indian entrepreneurs to Silicon ValleyLauding the initiative, Infy co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said, "It will give exposure to young startups in our country."
Silicon Valley's Y Combinator to mentor Indian startups TapToLearn & PlivoTo be picked by Y Combinator means an almost certain path to success. Set up in 2005, it has backed over 460 start-ups, including Scribd.
Interview Street first Indian company to be chosen for an incubation programme at Y CombinatorA two-year-old Bangalore start-up,Interview Street, is the first Indian company to be chosen for an incubation programme at Y Combinator.
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