A few days later, he got a surprise call from Mr. Grove. The Hungarian-born executive, then Intel’s president who later wrote the management book “Only the Paranoid Survive,” had built […]
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Back to news homeWhy Is Silicon Valley Still Waiting for the Next Big Thing?
In the fall of 2019, Google told the world it had reached “quantum supremacy.”It was a significant scientific milestone that some compared to the first flight at Kitty Hawk. Harnessing […]
Tech Start-Ups Reach a New Peak of Froth
Astonishing data for 2021 tell the story. U.S. start-ups raised $330 billion, nearly double 2020’s record haul of $167 billion, according to PitchBook, which tracks private financing. More tech start-ups […]
Why Silicon Valley Can’t Escape Elizabeth Holmes
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In 2016, start-up founders sang, “Theranos doesn’t represent, we are better,” in a holiday video created by the venture capital firm First Round Capital.Over the next […]
The Epic Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes
Tech Nation’s host, Moira Gunn, has a master’s degree in computer science and a doctor of philosophy in mechanical engineering, but she was dazzled. “How old are you, Elizabeth?” she […]
Jury in Elizabeth Holmes Trial Ends Fourth Day of Deliberations
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jurors ended a fourth day of deliberations without a verdict on Monday in the fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood testing […]
Elizabeth Holmes Trial Exposes Investors’ Lack of Due Diligence
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In 2014, Dan Mosley, a lawyer and power broker among wealthy families, asked the entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes for audited financial statements of Theranos, her blood testing […]
Are Tesla and Texas a Perfect Match? It’s Questionable.
Tesla’s move from Silicon Valley to Texas makes sense in many ways: The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, and the conservative lawmakers who run the state share a libertarian philosophy, […]
She’s the Investor Guru for Online Creators
Cody Ko, a YouTube star with 5.7 million subscribers, found himself in a pickle in May. Two different start-ups wanted to give him stock, and he was concerned that they […]
Even Your Allergist Is Now Investing in Start-Ups
In London, Ivy Mukherjee, 28, a product designer, and Shashwat Shukla, 30, a private equity investor, also started putting money into start-ups together this year to learn new skills and […]