LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman helped fund the suit accusing Donald Trump of rapeReid Hoffman, the cofounder of LinkedIn and a harsh critic of former President Donald Trump, has helped pay for a lawsuit by E Jean Carroll...
14 Apr, 2023, 02.12 PM IST
Jack Dorsey, Peter Thiel said to be behind Elon Musk's Twitter takeover: WSJ reportBoth Musk and Dorsey believed that Twitter would be better off as a privately held company, according to former Twitter executives. They al...
30 Apr, 2022, 02.27 PM IST
India CEO mafia: Techies with a social heartSome are beginning to call it the ‘India Mafia’, like the PayPal Mafia. The latter was used to describe the many former PayPal employees an...
03 Feb, 2020, 10.44 AM IST
Facebook readies secretive blockchain currency for India with ex-PayPal recruitsThe blockchain group is developing a stablecoin, a type of digital currency pegged to the US dollar or a basket of currencies, making it le...
09 May, 2019, 09.38 AM IST
Burrp founding team look beyond acquisition by BookMyShowThe deal was finalised at Rs 6.7 lakh, a pittance compared to Rs 4.25 crore that founders Deap Ubhi and Anand Jain priced the company when ...
05 Jul, 2017, 10.56 AM IST
Innovative ideas will continue to get funded even as entrepreneurs hunker down to seek out paths to profitsSome of the valuation exuberance in the past moved the focus away from value differentiation and demonstrating sustainable business metrics...
02 Jan, 2017, 01.45 AM IST
The Trump Presidency: Peter Thiel's biggest winSacca, along with Mark Cuban, were amongst the most strident supporters of Hillary Clinton. It is also fair to assume that Thiel will not f...
10 Nov, 2016, 08.05 AM IST
ClearTax raises $2 million from FF Angel and Sequoia Capital“We have taken the long route, and now we are extremely excited to have some of the biggest thought leaders and investors on board as our p...
26 May, 2016, 10.45 AM IST
ClearTax raises Rs 8.6 crore seed funding from Silicon Valley investorsClearTax has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from a group of prominent Silicon Valley investors, a list that includes PayPal cofounder ...
26 Apr, 2016, 03.08 PM IST
‘TFS Mafia’ community starts consumer companies of their own, stay in touch to help themselvesThese new startup founders can regularly be found meeting in cafes around Bengaluru's Koramangala area, sharing progress & making introduct...
13 Jul, 2015, 10.25 AM IST
Ex-execs from Sun Microsystems are driving a revolution in startup world of both India & Silicon ValleyThe former Sun engineers are middle-aged, primarily working on enterprise software and, hence, barely in the limelight.
29 Jun, 2015, 04.40 PM IST
E-commerce entrepreneurs turn to angel investing, ploughing personal wealth into startupsTOI first wrote about the trend in June last year, highlighting how these new-gen internet entrepreneurs are investing capital and offering...
03 Jan, 2015, 12.02 PM IST
Meet the PayPal mafia, the richest group of men in Silicon ValleyThe company founded by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk has spawned three billionaires, many, many millionaires, and generation-defining companies.
22 Sep, 2014, 02.42 PM IST
Mobile ad firm InMobi spawns 40 startups ranging from tech, crowdsourcing to health managementInMobi goes as far as to offer paid sabbaticals to employees to test their ideas and sometimes the founders even invest in some of the vent...
08 Jul, 2014, 04.33 PM IST
Facebook director Peter Thiel stock sale tops $1 billion as lock-up time endsThiel, a venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager, had already generated $640.1 million in sales during the initial public offering.
22 Aug, 2012, 06.00 AM IST
Facebook director Peter Thiel gets more flexibility to sell sharesThiel, who sold more than 16 mn shares in the company’s IPO, has given himself added flexibility to sell more of his holdings.
16 Aug, 2012, 11.20 AM IST
- Facebook’s early employees give up stable jobs
Facebook, the most successful start-up of the last decade, is only six years old, and an initial public offering is still a way off.
04 Nov, 2010, 03.07 AM IST