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Tech's Proudest Workforce No Longer
By
Jon Steinberg
· July 15, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.The problems that have afflicted Google over the past 12 months are not unique to the search giant or its parent company Alphabet. The entire tech industry has been in correction mode after the hyper-growth years of 2020-2021, with more than 218,000 jobs slashed thus far in 2023, according to Layoffs.fyi.But Google’s...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.The problems that have afflicted Google over the past 12 months are...
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startups
culture
An AI Company and Its Fanatical Following
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Jon Steinberg
· July 8, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Since we launched our Weekend section in November 2021, we’ve been near-obsessive chroniclers of the generative AI boom. Our very first cover story, written by yours truly, was on Sam Altman and his optimistic vision for OpenAI. We followed that up with reports on how AI image generators would disrupt the...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Since we launched our Weekend section in November 2021, we’ve been...
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startups
venture capital
A Mogul Smackdown We Could Get Behind
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Jon Steinberg
· July 1, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It should be pretty clear by now what a lame idea the whole Mark Zuckerberg vs. Elon Musk cage match was. The spectacle of two middle-aged men working out their self-esteem issues by beating on each other was not worthy of their companies—or our time. But a pitch from the producers of the Discovery show “BattleBots”...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It should be pretty clear by now what a lame idea the whole Mark...
Adobe Flies Towards Generative AI
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Jon Steinberg
· June 24, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
The Weekend
culture
ai
Adobe Flies Towards Generative AI
By
Jon Steinberg
· June 24, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.For about 11 months after OpenAI released its text-to-image generator Dall-E 2 in April 2022, many of us wondered when Adobe would come to market with a rival product, which could be neatly integrated into design programs like Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere. The wait felt long, especially considering how...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.For about 11 months after OpenAI released its text-to-image generator...
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culture
amazon
Inside the CEO Switch at Twitch
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Jon Steinberg
· June 17, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.On Wednesday night, while editing Annie’s thoroughly delightful cover story on new Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, I hopped over to Clancy’s Twitch page, just to see if he was livestreaming. To my surprise and delight, he was.Almost two hours into a four-and-a-half hour jam session and open-mic night, the CEO sat facing...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.On Wednesday night, while editing Annie’s thoroughly delightful cover...
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culture
venture capital
Why We Must Love A Moonshot
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Jon Steinberg
· June 10, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Jon, our intrepid Weekender in Chief, is out. I’m happily subbing for him. Indeed, I feel particularly energized this week after spotting something I haven’t seen in what feels like for-ev-er: an actually audacious piece of technology—that might never take off. I’m talking, of course, about Apple’s newly debuted...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Jon, our intrepid Weekender in Chief, is out. I’m happily subbing for...
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culture
ai
Live from SF, It’s Tech Week
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Jon Steinberg
· June 3, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It was the boom-iest of times, it was the doom-iest of times. At least that’s how it feels right now in Dickensian San Francisco, where AI companies are setting up shop on every avenue, while fentanyl dealers are hanging out in every alley. I joke—but seriously, it’s wild out here. No fewer than 17 of the 35 startups...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It was the boom-iest of times, it was the doom-iest of times. At...
The Short Seller Who Told Us So
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Jon Steinberg
· May 27, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
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ai
e-commerce
The Short Seller Who Told Us So
By
Jon Steinberg
· May 27, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Wall Street short sellers are not everyone’s cup of tea. That goes double for a lifelong contrarian like Marc Cohodes, who sees himself as an anti-fraud vigilante fighting for the little guys—while also being a loudmouth bully on Twitter. Nobody knows this better than veteran finance journalist Michelle Celarier,...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Wall Street short sellers are not everyone’s cup of tea. That goes...
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startups
culture
The Great Pickleball Gold Rush
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Jon Steinberg
· May 20, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Not everyone can be Josh Harris, the private equity mogul who just dropped $6 billion to purchase the NFL’s Washington Commanders. Most people who want a piece of a pro sports franchise have to start a little lower. Enter pickleball. A sport you probably hadn’t heard of before it became a thing around five...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Not everyone can be Josh Harris, the private equity mogul who just...
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startups
culture
The Hero’s Journey of Marissa Mayer
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Jon Steinberg
· May 13, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Marissa Mayer has been a mainstay of tech journalism for almost two decades, ever since she was anointed the glamorous geek goddess of Google back in its “don’t be evil” days. She’s had quite a ride since then, becoming Yahoo CEO in 2012, bumping along in the role for five acquisition-heavy years, then selling the...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Marissa Mayer has been a mainstay of tech journalism for almost two...
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culture
venture capital
Taking Stock of Sequoia’s Miserable Year
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Jon Steinberg
· May 6, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.You won't find many venture investors who are shedding tears for Roelof Botha. As only the fourth person to lead Sequoia Capital over the past 51 years, Botha now occupies a seat at the very highest echelons of the trade. But despite his lofty perch, little has gone easy for Botha since he was handed the reins...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.You won't find many venture investors who are shedding tears for...
Revenge of the Social Media Clones
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Jon Steinberg
· April 29, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
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startups
ai
Revenge of the Social Media Clones
By
Jon Steinberg
· April 29, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.While we wait around for another bank to collapse (First Republic, we hardly knew ye), the opposite is happening in social media. A thousand new apps are blooming! With Bluesky and Lemon8 and Mastodon and T2 soaking up attention, it feels like 2008 again in the Valley—except that all the coding is being done by GPTs...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.While we wait around for another bank to collapse (First Republic, we...
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culture
ai
A Steady Hand in Choppy Seas
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Jon Steinberg
· April 22, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.There are a lot of moments I love in Margaux’s latest cover story—an intimate portrait of TikTok chief operating officer V Pappas. Among them is a small detail about the signage found outside TikTok’s Los Angeles office. As visitors approach the building, they’re told to go left if they want to access the company...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.There are a lot of moments I love in Margaux’s latest cover...
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startups
culture
Why Parker Conrad Won’t Read This
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Jon Steinberg
· April 15, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.While I hope everyone carves out some time this weekend to read Abe’s fascinating cover story about the tech hero-turned-villain-turned-hero-again Parker Conrad, there’s one person I know will not be reading it: Conrad himself.As the Rippling CEO admitted to Abe during a lengthy interview in Vermont earlier this...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.While I hope everyone carves out some time this weekend to read Abe’s...
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startups
culture
Crime Data vs. Lived Reality
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Jon Steinberg
· April 8, 2023 7:00 AM PDT ·
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend. This week, Annie brings us the story of a family-run startup arming young women with a new kind of safety device: The Birdie. Invented by two sisters whose children had been sexually assaulted, the emergency alarm attaches easily to bags or belt loops and screeches like a smoke detector when it’s activated....
Hi, welcome to your Weekend. This week, Annie brings us the story of a family-run startup...
Fear and Longing in the AI Wars
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Jon Steinberg
· April 1, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
The Weekend
culture
ai
Fear and Longing in the AI Wars
By
Jon Steinberg
· April 1, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend! This is Abe filling in for Jon, who returns as Weekender-in-Chief next Saturday.If the cars, brain implants and spaceships don’t pan out, Elon Musk has a promising future as a fear-monger. His was the leading name attached to a widely discussed open letter published this week that urged a halt in artificial...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend! This is Abe filling in for Jon, who returns as...
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culture
venture capital
How (and Where) VCs Take Their Coffee
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Jon Steinberg
· March 25, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!We all have our spot: The one cafe within a 5-minute walk (or a 10-minute drive, if you work in L.A.), where you can grab a quick meeting, sidle up to an acquaintance or eavesdrop on a stranger. It’s the kind of place where you feel like you’re being productive, even when you’re really procrastinating. My...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!We all have our spot: The one cafe within a 5-minute walk (or a...
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ai
markets
The Best of Times (for AI), the Worst of Times (for Your Bank)
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Jon Steinberg
· March 18, 2023 8:14 AM PDT ·
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Deep breath, everyone. The last 10 days have been a doozy. First came the Great Regional Bank Panic of 2023, which essentially wiped out the previous weekend for anyone operating in the startup ecosystem. In the cover story below, our team recorded the stories of two dozen tech leaders, including...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Deep breath, everyone. The last 10 days have been a doozy. First came...
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startups
ai
How to Run a Modern Media Company: Bank Crash Edition
By
Jon Steinberg
· March 11, 2023 7:17 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!I do not envy news media executives, who have difficult jobs in the best of times. This week was not the best of times, as our CEO Jessica Lessin could tell you. While captaining a newsroom going full-throttle to cover the cataclysmic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Jessica was also scrambling to ensure that The...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!I do not envy news media executives, who have difficult jobs in the...
It's Wunderkind Week
By
Jon Steinberg
· March 4, 2023 7:00 AM PST
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startups
culture
It's Wunderkind Week
By
Jon Steinberg
· March 4, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Ever since Covid lockdowns began three years ago, young people have seemed a bit adrift. I see it at home with my two daughters, 13 and 11, who still can’t break some of the annoying screen habits they formed during the pandemic. I see it with their public school peers in San Francisco, many of whom are still climbing...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Ever since Covid lockdowns began three years ago, young people have...
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