Published Articles (2019)

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2019

December

2019-12-25: Best Articles I Wrote (2019 Edition) (Homepage)
2019-12-25: Best Books I Read (2019 Edition) (Homepage)
2019-12-22: Best Articles I Read (2019 Edition) (Homepage)
2019-12-21: Should you pay $50K for your pitch deck? Yes, why the hell not? (TechCrunch)
2019-12-21: TikTok’s national security scrutiny tightens as U.S. Navy reportedly bans popular social app (TechCrunch)
2019-12-18: The 48-hour meeting rule (Extra Crunch)
2019-12-15: With $4B food delivery acquisition, Korea poised to enter upper tier of startup hubs (TechCrunch)
2019-12-11: Refocusing on relocation, Jobbatical launches new offices in Spain and Germany (TechCrunch)
2019-12-09: How to avoid the startup trap of the parasitic consultant (Extra Crunch)
2019-12-08: In wake of Shutterstock’s Chinese censorship, American companies need to relearn American values (TechCrunch)
2019-12-03: Gift Guide: 12 must-read books for 2019 as recommended by Extra Crunch readers (TechCrunch)
2019-12-03: Gift Guide: TechCrunch writers recommend their favorite reads from 2019 (TechCrunch)

November

2019-11-19: The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip (TechCrunch)
2019-11-15: Takeaways from Nvidia’s latest quarterly earnings (Extra Crunch)
2019-11-15: Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA with $53M in series A funding (TechCrunch)
2019-11-11: A16Z-backed Shift.org announces veterans hiring pipeline partnership with Better.com (TechCrunch)
2019-11-09: Can America ever rebuild its neighborhoods and communities? (TechCrunch)

October

2019-10-29: Where top VCs are investing in cybersecurity (Extra Crunch)
2019-10-29: The future of cybersecurity VC investing with Lightspeed’s Arif Janmohamed (Extra Crunch)
2019-10-25: From the NBA to Sequoia to TikTok and more, a week of national security concerns with China (TechCrunch)
2019-10-23: Ghost CMS adds open-source subscription and membership options (TechCrunch)
2019-10-22: Don’t wait to plan your exit, even if it’s years away (Extra Crunch)
2019-10-17: ‘Cloud kitchens’ is an oxymoron (TechCrunch)
2019-10-17: How to radically change finance through startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin (TechCrunch)
2019-10-15: Product lessons from building our subscription service Extra Crunch (TechCrunch)
2019-10-07: The NBA should learn from Google China (TechCrunch)
2019-10-06: Top VCs in Edtech, Dropbox, first mover advantage, India’s Netflix, scooters, and more (Extra Crunch)

September

2019-09-28: WeWork proves that (venture) capitalism works (TechCrunch)
2019-09-28: How to become a VC, Amazon’s voice play, Peloton stock, Facebook’s new VR environment and more (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-26: Summer wants to vanquish student loans for borrowers, and now has $10M to do it (TechCrunch)
2019-09-26: Paro raises $10 million series B to offer corporate finance expertise on demand (TechCrunch)
2019-09-26: Tribe leads $12M Series A into Teampay to make managing employee expenses painless (TechCrunch)
2019-09-25: Vannevar Labs comes out of stealth to bring best-in-class AI tech to national security agencies (TechCrunch)
2019-09-25: How to sell a startup for a $1B, Automattic, WeWork craziness, Kobalt, Netflix, Blackstone, and ClimateTech (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-25: ZenBusiness raises $10m to help founders launch and grow “worry-free” (TechCrunch)
2019-09-25: Fractional home ownership startup Divvy raises $43m series B to build a path from rent to purchase (TechCrunch)
2019-09-24: Fundbox raises $176 million Series C to build ‘Visa’ for B2B payments (TechCrunch)
2019-09-18: Startup growth hacks, high-frequency trading, startup security, privacy, and Adobe (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-14: SexTech, Kobalt, sales efficiency, philanthropy and ethics, Brexit, and startup growth tactics (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-11: The weird things after closing a venture round, iPhone 11, AI ad errors, and Cloud Foundry (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-07: What top enterprise VCs are thinking, using data effectively, ethics, Light, and Flipkart (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-07: Joi Ito resigns as MIT Media Lab head in wake of Jeffrey Epstein reporting (TechCrunch)
2019-09-07: After Epstein, it’s time for the Valley to find a moral view on capital (TechCrunch)
2019-09-06: Why Box is one of the most underappreciated companies (TechCrunch)
2019-09-06: Discover the Extra Crunch stage at Disrupt SF this October (TechCrunch)
2019-09-04: Top EC articles in August, Apple privacy woes, autonomous delivery robotics Starship, and Zhihu (Extra Crunch)

August

2019-08-30: Fitbit, Andela, AfricaTech, startups and Brexit, plus content moderation (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-28: Building brands on Amazon, investing in customer success, quantum computing, and virtual reality (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-27: How to move from VP of Sales to CRO with leading exec recruiter David Ives (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-24: Y Combinator Demo Day, revenue-based VC funding, Pivotal, Dell, Tumblr, WeWork, and more (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-22: A $44m series B Drop in the bucket for millennial loyalty (TechCrunch)
2019-08-19: The five technical challenges Cerebras overcame in building the first trillion transistor chip (TechCrunch)
2019-08-16: Voyage’s driverless future, ghost work, B2B growth strategies, and Black Hat takeaways (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-14: WeWork S-1, building marketplaces, improving content marketing, and the demise of Tumblr (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-14: WeWork’s S-1 misses these three key points (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-12: How young VCs bootstrap new venture firms (TechCrunch)
2019-08-10: Kobalt, Apple and smartwatches, Hadoop, customer support, and social work and AI (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-07: Morty raises $8.5M series A to help first-time homebuyers secure their mortgages (TechCrunch)
2019-08-07: HealthTech VCs, fundraising in August, reducing churn, North, and co-ops as startups (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-07: How to fundraise in August (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-04: Series A(ggregate) (TechCrunch)
2019-08-03: Pro rata rights, immigration, the sharing economy, AWS, Ray Dalio, and China’s smartphones (Extra Crunch)

July

2019-07-31: Dreading 10x engineers, virtual beings, the fate of Netflix, and Salesforce’s acquisition (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-30: Catalyst raises $15M from Accel to transform data-driven customer success (TechCrunch)
2019-07-27: Spacetech growth, the future of micromobility, and how to solve the hell of open offices (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-26: Why the hell is Robinhood worth $7.6B? (TechCrunch)
2019-07-26: Fintech decacorn Nubank raises $400M led by TCV (TechCrunch)
2019-07-24: Fintech mega rounds, Gogoro scooters, Waymo, Shift, Microsoft, and employee engagement (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-24: SMB payroll startup Gusto raises $200m series D, plans R&D expansion to NYC (TechCrunch)
2019-07-24: Why do media companies struggle to produce anything of value? (TechCrunch)
2019-07-23: From liberal arts PhD to pre-IPO startup CEO with Shift’s Toby Russell (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-23: Embedded finance, or why fintech mega VC rounds have become so common (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-20: US national security, climate change, startup HR, and launching in the Midwest (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-17: VidCon, seed-stage dilution, advertising, privacy, and building a career in design (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-13: Is blitzscaling killing early employee equity opportunities? (TechCrunch)
2019-07-13: W(hy)TF are Japan and South Korea in a trade war? (TechCrunch)
2019-07-13: Roblox EC-1, immigration requirements doubling, grief in the workplace, and cannabis startups (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-12: The IPO window that never closes (TechCrunch)
2019-07-10: Cars-as-a-service, Alibaba and ridehailing, mental health, and the future of financial services (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-03: Book Review: Will & Ariel Durant’s The Lessons of History (Homepage)
2019-07-03: Colonna call, timing a VC pitch, WeChat, patents, and growth (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-02: Fast Forward raises new war chest to fight Silicon Valley’s inequality machine (TechCrunch)

June

2019-06-30: Book Review: Nigel Collett’s A Death in Hong Kong (Homepage)
2019-06-29: What’s up with Lidar, crypto mafias, influencer marketing, Shuttl, and assistive tech (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-26: Vertical market networks, effective startup names, Libra, Carbon, and Sidewalk Labs (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-26: Web3 platform 3Box raises seed to bring back control of user data (TechCrunch)
2019-06-22: Ray Dalio, Niantic, Adobe, Dropbox, remote work, Northzone, and Slack (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-20: Transitioning from engineering to product with Adobe’s Anjul Bhambhri (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-19: Machine learning for everyone startup Intersect Labs launches platform for data analysis (TechCrunch)
2019-06-19: Founder salaries, diversity tactics, fintech roboadvisors, and startups improving mental health (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-18: Two Sigma leads $12m series A for expert knowledge network NewtonX (TechCrunch)
2019-06-17: Decentralized video infrastructure platform Livepeer raises $8m series A (TechCrunch)
2019-06-15: Getting remote work working, A16Z in LatAm, transferring H-1Bs, and Uber Air taxis (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-12: ARM shows SoftBank does tech PE the right way (TechCrunch)
2019-06-12: Do VC associates matter, women’s fertility, online auto marketplaces, and Salesforce + Tableau (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-12: Fundraising 101: Do VC associates matter? (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-08: A16Z interview, 5G, Peloton, handling Big Tech issues, and offering better benefits (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-05: Peloton IPO, VC alternatives, privacy at Apple, and cybersecurity returns (Extra Crunch)

May

2019-05-29: How to trigger FOMO among VCs, plus PMs, SoftBank, and cheese (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-25: Growth, Kubernetes, rocket launches, gender in tech, and more Luckin Coffee (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-22: Getaround, Facebook, AI chips, Nvidia, Africa, and immigration (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-20: U.S. mitigates Huawei ban by offering temporary reprieve (TechCrunch)
2019-05-20: When will customers start buying all those AI chips? (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-20: Why startups need to be careful about export licenses and the Huawei ban (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-20: MIT and U.S. Air Force team up to launch AI accelerator (TechCrunch)
2019-05-18: Immigrant founders, smartphone growth, SEO tactics, SoftBank’s financials, and AR tech (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-17: At this point, SoftBank Group is really just its Vision Fund (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-16: How to see our world in a new light (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-15: Zoom, housing affordability, Mailchimp, Yext, and Uber (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-15: What Uber and Lyft’s investment bankers got right (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-13: The misunderstandings of 18-month-old Luckin’s $500m IPO (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-11: EC-exclusive interview with Tim Cook, Slacklash, and tech inclusion (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-08: Media VC theses, SEO keywords, cosmology, and brand design (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-05: Equity transcribed: New a16z funds, a $200M round and the latest from WeWork and Slack (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-03: Great teams, UBI, data retention policies, and Amazon HQ2 (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-02: A Bounty of Convenience—and, Maybe, Opportunity (City Journal)
2019-05-01: Final Niantic EC-1 lessons, F8 call, Slack, WeWork, and TED (Extra Crunch)

April

2019-04-30: The curious case of Slack’s missing $163 million (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-30: Cushion wants to negotiate bank service fees on your behalf (TechCrunch)
2019-04-29: What we want to know in the We Company (WeWork) S-1 (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-28: The demise and rebirth of the ethical engineer (TechCrunch)
2019-04-27: Sending severed heads, and even more PR DON’Ts (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-27: Bad PR ideas, esports, and the Valley’s talent poaching war (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-24: How to avoid PR disasters, the new web, and who owns Huawei? (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-23: The master list of PR DON’Ts (or how not to piss off the writer covering your startup) (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-23: How to pitch to a (tech) journalist (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-22: Why it’s so hard to know who owns Huawei (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-20: No one knows how to hire, plus brand design and African tech (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-17: Google Cloud, McDonald’s big tech acquisition, and motivating an engineering team (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-13: Niantic EC-1, Part 3 and what the data show are the best fundraising decks (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-10: AI dumbos, Niantic, mobility, design, and Google Next (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-06: Scooters, remote workers, ethics, the future of fintech, etc. (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-04: The future of scooters and media (but not scooter media!) (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-03: Compliance, ethics, and live calls (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-02: April Fools’ Day, rebuilding edtech, and trash fires (Extra Crunch)

March

2019-03-30: Gaming, crypto, shipping and the multiple future strategies of tech (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-29: The Niantic EC-1 (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-29: Form D filings, logistics, and Niantic (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-28: Crypto 2.0, accessibility, and Apple’s future strategy (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-28: How to delay your Form Ds (or not file them at all) (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-27: New experiments with transcripts, plus game streaming and social platforms (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-23: A week of game streaming and earthquakes (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-22: North Korea’s new website and pro rata rights (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-21: Taxes on VC and electric buses (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-20: Exascale Supercomputers (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-19: Simulations, SAFEs, and China beats America in AI patents (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-19: Patreon’s new fees are surprisingly low (TechCrunch)
2019-03-16: Apple kerfuffles, praise groups, and media layoffs (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-16: Bitcoin, SXSW, NGINX, and grade hacking (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-15: Pi Day wasn’t pleasant for a lot of tech execs (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-14: Can there be too much competition between startups? (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-13: The meaning of Nginx and F5 (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-12: NVIDIA and OpenAI’s capped returns (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-09: Profits, contracts, agrifood, and podcasts (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-08: Who are the next billion users and what do they want? (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-07: Huawei sues America as SoftBank spends more money (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-06: Dragonfly, ethics, and infrastructure spending (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-05: Google employees can’t just walk away from ethical tradeoffs like Dragonfly (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-04: Can predictive analytics be made safe for humans? (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-02: Fertility, India, Steam and Term Sheets (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-01: How far are you willing to go for growth? (Extra Crunch)

February

2019-02-28: Why can’t we build anything? (Part 2) (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-27: Why longer term sheets are better (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-26: India’s entrepreneurial future (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-25: With China tariffs delayed, Beijing faces startup dilemma (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-23: Lawyers, STOs, and robots in the operating rooms (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-22: Can we ever evaluate technical debt? (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-21: Blockchain is solid, in that there is no liquidity (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-21: Trump calls for 6G cellular technology, because why the heck not (TechCrunch)
2019-02-20: Timing and why we’re all VCs (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-19: Why can’t we build anything? (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-16: Extra Crunch Weekly: The Launch (TechCrunch)
2019-02-15: Urban unicorn renewal (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-12: The Patreon EC-1 (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-12: Announcing Extra Crunch (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-04: Equity Shot: All about Slack’s confidential IPO filing (TechCrunch)
2019-02-04: Why no one really quits Google or Facebook (TechCrunch)
2019-02-01: H1-B changes will simplify application process (TechCrunch)

January

2019-01-31: Foxconn is killing a second $9B factory (TechCrunch)
2019-01-30: Foxconn pulls back on its $10 billion dollar factory commitment (TechCrunch)
2019-01-29: Petal raises $30m from Valar to bank the unbanked with credit cards (TechCrunch)
2019-01-29: YC-backed Oxygen raises seed to bring digital banking to freelancers (TechCrunch)
2019-01-28: China’s social credit system won’t tell you what you can do right (TechCrunch)
2019-01-24: Trust & Will closes first electronic will in the US (plus $2m investment) (TechCrunch)
2019-01-23: YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know that the planet is doing okay (TechCrunch)
2019-01-18: Is your time worth more than $0.30 an hour? (TechCrunch)
2019-01-18: University of Virginia announces $120m gift to fund new data science school (TechCrunch)
2019-01-16: YC-backed Upsolve is automating bankruptcy for everyone (TechCrunch)
2019-01-15: How do you fight an algorithm you cannot see? (TechCrunch)
2019-01-14: Geoengineering could solve our climate problems if anyone allowed it (TechCrunch)
2019-01-11: The U.S. continues to hammer Chinese tech (TechCrunch)
2019-01-10: The rise of (societal) resilience tech (TechCrunch)
2019-01-07: Open source monetization startup Tidelift raises $25m series B (TechCrunch)
2019-01-01: Best Articles I Read (2018 Edition) (Homepage)
2019-01-01: Best Articles I Wrote (2018 Edition) (Homepage)