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All articles from this personal site as well as other locations like TechCrunch.

Below, check out my 2020 articles. Click through to 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013 and prior pages.

2020

September

2020-09-25: Postmates cuts losses in Q2 as it heads towards tie-up with Uber (TechCrunch)
2020-09-24: NUVIA raises $240M from Mithril to make climate-ready enterprise chips (TechCrunch)
2020-09-24: Valar triples down on Petal, leading $55M Series C round into the credit card disruptor (TechCrunch)
2020-09-23: TikTok files for injunction against pending Trump app ban (TechCrunch)
2020-09-23: Extra Crunch Live: Join Index Ventures VCs Nina Achadjian and Sarah Cannon Sept 29 at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT on the future of startup investing (TechCrunch)
2020-09-23: Palantir publishes 2020 revenue guidance of $1.05B, will trade starting Sept 30th (TechCrunch)
2020-09-22: We’re updating The TechCrunch List soon. Founders, send in your recommendations of the most helpful lead VCs (TechCrunch)
2020-09-22: Gangster Capitalism, more Palantir discussion, and reading recs (Homepage)
2020-09-21: In its 5th filing with the SEC, Palantir finally admits it is not a democracy (TechCrunch)
2020-09-21: Following TechCrunch reporting, Palantir rapidly removes language allowing founders to “unilaterally adjust their total voting power” (TechCrunch)
2020-09-21: ByteDance says it will own a majority of TikTok. Oracle says ByteDance will own 0%. WTF is this deal? (TechCrunch)
2020-09-21: Illumina buying cancer-screening spinout Grail in blockbuster $8B biotech deal (TechCrunch)
2020-09-20: Trump administration’s WeChat ban is blocked by U.S. district court (TechCrunch)
2020-09-20: Gangster capitalism and the American theft of Chinese innovation (TechCrunch)
2020-09-18: In the WeChat, TikTok U.S. shut down order, TikTok gets Nov 12 stay, keeping it up through the US election and Oracle dealmaking (TechCrunch)
2020-09-18: In its 4th revision to the SEC, Palantir tries to explain what the hell is going on (TechCrunch)
2020-09-18: Chamath launches SPAC, SPAC, and SPAC as he SPACs the World with SPACs (TechCrunch)
2020-09-17: Schools are closing their doors, but OpenDoor isn’t (TechCrunch)
2020-09-17: TikTok rumors beg the question: Did Trump solve anything? (TechCrunch)
2020-09-15: Kleiner prints gold with Desktop Metal, netting a roughly 10x return (TechCrunch)
2020-09-14: GoodRx offers founders $500M, nets $100M investment from Silver Lake, and makes quiet acquisition before IPO (TechCrunch)
2020-09-14: As it heads for IPO, Palantir hires a chief accountant and gets approval from NYSE to trade (TechCrunch)
2020-09-13: Learn how to build a sales team at Disrupt 2020 (TechCrunch)
2020-09-13: Nvidia confirms $40B purchase of Arm, bringing together two chip giants (TechCrunch)
2020-09-12: “A New World Begins” and the meaning of the French Revolution (Homepage)
2020-09-12: SoftBank could make, gasp, a profit on its expected sale of Arm for $40B (TechCrunch)
2020-09-10: Warren Buffett invests in an unprofitable business (TechCrunch)
2020-09-09: Palantir insiders are accelerating their stock sales as direct listing looms (Extra Crunch)
2020-09-08: Post-Labor Day writing updates and article recommendations (Homepage)
2020-09-05: “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts” is about the tension between humanity and raw data (Homepage)
2020-09-04: 3 views on the future of geographic-focused funds (Extra Crunch)
2020-09-04: Edtech is the new SaaS (TechCrunch)
2020-09-03: In amended filing, Palantir admits it won’t have independent board governance for up to a year (TechCrunch)

August

2020-08-31: Capchase raises $4.6M to deliver fast cash to SaaS companies (TechCrunch)
2020-08-29: Walmart-exclusive TrillerTok will run on Azure, or Oracle, or something (TechCrunch)
2020-08-29: Palantir, China, plus the future of startups and neighborhoods (Homepage)
2020-08-27: Walmart expresses interest in TikTok, teaming up with Microsoft (TechCrunch)
2020-08-27: A faster, easier, cheaper way of going public (TechCrunch)
2020-08-25: Everyone filed to go public Monday (TechCrunch)
2020-08-24: Sequoia strikes gold with Unity’s IPO filing (TechCrunch)
2020-08-24: Sutter Hill strikes ice-cold, $2.5B return with Snowflake’s IPO filing (TechCrunch)
2020-08-24: Meet the anti-antitrust startup club (Extra Crunch)
2020-08-21: No parties allowed at the Airbnb IPO (TechCrunch)
2020-08-21: Palantir targeting 3 class voting structure according to leaked S-1, giving founders 49.999999% control in perpetuity (TechCrunch)
2020-08-21: How one founder leveraged debt to drive early growth and avoid dilution (Extra Crunch)
2020-08-21: Leaked Palantir S-1 shows company has 125 customers after 17 years (TechCrunch)
2020-08-21: Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019 (TechCrunch)
2020-08-21: In unique approach, Palantir will have a lockup period after its direct listing (TechCrunch)
2020-08-18: If Oracle buys TikTok I’ll go to Danny’s house and eat his annoying Stanford sweatshirt (TechCrunch)
2020-08-14: “Self-driving money,” the shortsightedness of day trading, and product thoughts from Wealthfront’s Andy Rachleff (Extra Crunch)
2020-08-14: Looking at how Gen Z has changed fundraising (TechCrunch)
2020-08-13: How to get what you want in a term sheet (Extra Crunch)
2020-08-12: Conduit launches to help founders find actually useful angels and VCs (TechCrunch)
2020-08-11: Join Extra Crunch Live today for a fintech extravaganza with Wealthfront’s Andy Rachleff at 1pm EDT / 10am PDT (TechCrunch)
2020-08-10: Creators need better community tools. Circle wants to fill the gap (TechCrunch)
2020-08-10: Trump administration announces major midband spectrum auction for 5G (TechCrunch)
2020-08-10: Beware bankers talking TikTok (TechCrunch)
2020-08-07: The rules of VC are being broken (TechCrunch)
2020-08-07: Hear how working from home is changing startups and investing at Disrupt 2020 (TechCrunch)
2020-08-05: Datafold is solving the chaos of data engineering (TechCrunch)
2020-08-05: Extra Crunch Live: Join Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff August 11 at 1pm EDT / 10am PDT about the future of investing and fintech (TechCrunch)
2020-08-04: YC-backed Statiq wants to bootstrap India’s EV charging network (TechCrunch)
2020-08-04: Facebook doubles down on work-from-office with massive NYC lease near Penn Station (TechCrunch)
2020-08-03: SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade (Extra Crunch)
2020-08-03: “Made in America” is on (government) life support, and the prognosis isn’t good (TechCrunch)
2020-08-03: What Microsoft should demand in exchange for its “payment” to the U.S. government for TikTok (TechCrunch)

July

2020-07-31: The iron rule of founder compensation is dead (TechCrunch)
2020-07-30: NYC pre-seed powerhouse Notation has a new fund and a new community for founders (TechCrunch)
2020-07-30: We’ve updated The TechCrunch List with 116 new VCs ready to write first and lead checks into startups (TechCrunch)
2020-07-27: Equity Shot: All about the Qualtrics IPO (TechCrunch)
2020-07-27: Nebraska and Iowa win advanced wireless testbed grants for rural broadband (TechCrunch)
2020-07-26: SAP will spin out its $8B spin-in Qualtrics acquisition (TechCrunch)
2020-07-24: The 3% gap in no-code (TechCrunch)
2020-07-22: Go SPAC yourself (TechCrunch)
2020-07-18: The dual PhD problem of today’s startups (TechCrunch)
2020-07-17: Give us your seed round and we will send back double (TechCrunch)
2020-07-16: Why certain VC investors earn great “Founder NPS” scores (Extra Crunch)
2020-07-16: The TechCrunch List FAQ (TechCrunch)
2020-07-16: With 600+ more founder recommendations, the second revision of The TechCrunch List is coming next week (TechCrunch)
2020-07-14: Announcing The TechCrunch List, a founder-friendly directory of first check and lead VCs (TechCrunch)
2020-07-14: The VCs who founders love the most (Extra Crunch)
2020-07-14: The TechCrunch List (TechCrunch)
2020-07-14: NS1 nets $40M “true coronavirus fundraise” amidst surging customer demand (TechCrunch)
2020-07-12: Venture Capital’s Red Flags (City Journal)
2020-07-10: Silicon Valley is built on immigrant innovation (TechCrunch)
2020-07-09: Join Extra Crunch Live today for SaaS! SaaS! SaaS! with Emergence Capital’s Jason Green at 2 pm EDT/11 am PDT (TechCrunch)
2020-07-09: Hear from James Alonso and Adam Zagaris how to draw up your first contracts at Early Stage (TechCrunch)
2020-07-08: Hear how to manage your enterprise infrastructure from Sam Pullara at TechCrunch Early Stage (TechCrunch)
2020-07-07: Quaestor is reinventing business metric collaboration for the startup party round era (TechCrunch)
2020-07-06: Four views: is edtech changing how we learn? (Extra Crunch)
2020-07-03: When life gives you lemons, print money with Lemonade (TechCrunch)
2020-07-01: After grinding investigation, Luckin Coffee confirms $300 million revenue fraud (TechCrunch)

June

2020-06-30: R&D tax credits are due July 15th. Neo.tax wants to help startups apply, and raised $3M to do it (TechCrunch)
2020-06-30: Summit raises $2.2B across two megafunds, and pulls in ex-CEO of SoulCycle as newest investor (TechCrunch)
2020-06-28: Four views: How will the work visa ban affect tech and which changes will last? (Extra Crunch)
2020-06-26: The way to win is to lose the most money the fastest (TechCrunch)
2020-06-26: Volcker Rule reforms expand options for raising VC funds (Extra Crunch)
2020-06-26: Luckin Coffee will unluckin’ly delist from Nasdaq following fraud allegations (TechCrunch)
2020-06-26: YC to cut the size of its investment in future YC startups (TechCrunch)
2020-06-26: Luckin Coffee’s board is forcing out its chairman (also, chairman is forcing out the rest of the board) (TechCrunch)
2020-06-26: YC-backed Tango Builder wants to use aerospace engineering to build a house (TechCrunch)
2020-06-25: Atmos wants to make building a house a one-click effort (TechCrunch)
2020-06-24: China’s GPS competitor is now fully launched (TechCrunch)
2020-06-24: Raising VC is tough. Submit your investors today to our first-check database, The TechCrunch List (TechCrunch)
2020-06-23: Luckin Coffee discloses that the Nasdaq really wants it gone (TechCrunch)
2020-06-19: It’s not just about e-mail, stupid (TechCrunch)
2020-06-18: Who’s writing first checks into startups? (TechCrunch)
2020-06-18: How we’re rebuilding the VC industry (Extra Crunch)
2020-06-17: Extra Crunch Live: Join Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz today at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT for a live discussion on leadership in the era of COVID-19 (Extra Crunch)
2020-06-15: Free money for startups? It’s possible with MainStreet’s platform for economic development incentives (TechCrunch)
2020-06-12: Take Facebook money and get cloned (TechCrunch)
2020-06-12: 3 perspectives on the future of SF and NYC as startup hubs (Extra Crunch)
2020-06-10: Pinwheel is the API platform for income verification that every fintech and neobank needs (TechCrunch)
2020-06-09: Can a startup repair the winner-takes-all talent economy? With $8.5M, Pando wants to find out (TechCrunch)
2020-06-09: Bipartisan Senate investigation urges more aggressive action against Chinese telecoms (TechCrunch)
2020-06-09: Stop with the Vroom and gloom on Wall Street (TechCrunch)
2020-06-09: How can startups reinvent real estate? Learn how at TechCrunch Disrupt (TechCrunch)
2020-06-08: Startup dilution done right: Lemonade IPO edition (Extra Crunch)
2020-06-05: Join Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz for a live Q&A: June 17 at 2pm EST/11am PDT/6 pm GMT (TechCrunch)
2020-06-05: A message from the Equity crew (TechCrunch)

May

2020-05-29: Tech talent is flocking to smaller cities, but investors aren’t (TechCrunch)
2020-05-27: LeverEdge wants to get you and your friends a volume discount on student loans (TechCrunch)
2020-05-27: Canada court finds against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on double criminality; extradition trial to continue (TechCrunch)
2020-05-27: Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg shares his COVID-19 strategy and tactics (Extra Crunch)
2020-05-26: Equity Morning: Remote work startup fundings galore, plus a major court decision (TechCrunch)
2020-05-22: Clubhouse proves that time is a flat circle (TechCrunch)
2020-05-22: 3 views on the life and death of college towns, remote work and the future of startup hubs (Extra Crunch)
2020-05-21: Spruce is eliminating the drudgery of real estate, and has $29M more from Scale to makes sales easy (TechCrunch)
2020-05-20: What to do when your VC writes your startup off (Extra Crunch)
2020-05-19: Following Luckin Coffee scandal, Nasdaq ready to tighten rules on IPO listings (TechCrunch)
2020-05-18: Arm’s financials and the blurring future of the semiconductor sector (Extra Crunch)
2020-05-18: The first Vision Fund is officially done investing (and spent $100M every day of its existence) (TechCrunch)
2020-05-18: Work From Home is dead, long live Work From Anywhere (TechCrunch)
2020-05-18: As Jack Ma and SoftBank part ways, the open and globalized era of tech comes even closer to an end (TechCrunch)
2020-05-15: What’s up with tiny checks at giant valuations? (TechCrunch)
2020-05-15: Three views on the future of work, coffee shops, and neighborhoods in a post pandemic world (Extra Crunch)
2020-05-15: U.S.-China trade enters new era after overnight Huawei, Foxconn, and TSMC announcements (TechCrunch)
2020-05-13: AngelList massively improves comparing VC fund performance with new metrics and calculator (TechCrunch)
2020-05-12: Trillions are at stake in the retirement wars, and Vise nets $14.5M from Sequoia to manage it (TechCrunch)
2020-05-10: Is it better to be a private or public company right now? (TechCrunch)
2020-05-07: Extra Crunch Live: Join Hunter Walk for our live chat right now (Extra Crunch)
2020-05-04: Competing with Disney+ and Quibi, Supreme Court launches streaming service (TechCrunch)
2020-05-02: Equity Shot: 1% is the new “growth” (TechCrunch)
2020-05-01: There is money in design tools, but do designers have a target on their backs? (TechCrunch)

April

2020-04-28: Spark fast follows with a $25M Series B round into customer success platform Catalyst (TechCrunch)
2020-04-24: Investors buy The DiPP as accelerators go virtual (TechCrunch)
2020-04-21: A major fintech startup exec is being minted into NYC’s latest VC (TechCrunch)
2020-04-17: All press is good press for Robinhood (TechCrunch)
2020-04-17: Bradley Tusk on starting a company and seed investing in the coronavirus era (Extra Crunch)
2020-04-14: College isn’t free yet, but Savi raises a $6M Series A to assist student loan borrowers find loan forgiveness (TechCrunch)
2020-04-10: So many fintech eggs in so many baskets (TechCrunch)
2020-04-09: Google subsidiary agrees to pursue internet “diversification” in Asia to block China access to U.S. market (TechCrunch)
2020-04-08: Talking venture, B2B and thesis-driven investment with Work-Bench’s Jon Lehr (Extra Crunch)
2020-04-08: Programmable fintech payments startup Sila raises $7.7M seed to wipe out ACH (TechCrunch)
2020-04-07: WeWork sues SoftBank in intensifying crisis over canceled $3B tender offer (TechCrunch)
2020-04-07: Samsung earnings guidance stays upbeat despite global macro crisis (TechCrunch)
2020-04-07: Another major fintech exit as SoFi acquires banking and payments platform Galileo for $1.2B (TechCrunch)
2020-04-07: Securitization platform Cadence surpasses $125M deal volume and raises $4M (TechCrunch)
2020-04-06: Economists haven’t throw out the models yet (but they will) (TechCrunch)
2020-04-06: The U.S. is formalizing Team Telecom rules to restrict foreign ownership of internet and telecom assets (TechCrunch)
2020-04-06: Luckin Coffee’s alleged fraud has some silver linings (and even more bad news too) (TechCrunch)
2020-04-03: Keeping the score on Zoom (TechCrunch)
2020-04-03: Join prolific enterprise/SaaS seed investor Jonathan Lehr April 6 at 2pm EDT for a live conference call (TechCrunch)
2020-04-02: Luckin Coffee’s board initiatives investigation into $300M potential fraud (TechCrunch)
2020-04-02: CIOs are dead tired of dumb tech. Pulse has $6.5M to help them help each other (TechCrunch)

March

2020-03-30: WTF is the denominator effect? (TechCrunch)
2020-03-27: Stripe goes Fast for $20M, D2C tips and tricks and what’s happening to tech internships? (TechCrunch)
2020-03-26: Attorney Sophie Alcorn answers readers’ immigration questions (Extra Crunch)
2020-03-25: Declining ad rates may signal a reset for startup SEM strategies (Extra Crunch)
2020-03-23: Join us live with immigration attorney Sophie Alcorn Tuesday at 1pm PDT (TechCrunch)
2020-03-22: With kids and adults staying at home, are virtual worlds ready for primetime? (TechCrunch)
2020-03-22: Reflections on the PhD I didn’t do (Homepage)
2020-03-21: Wow, what a Q1 (Homepage)
2020-03-20: Raising in a recession (TechCrunch)
2020-03-20: MIT Solve launches global challenge around health security and pandemics (TechCrunch)
2020-03-19: GC’s Niko Bonatsos on Y Combinator, investing in the time of coronavirus, edtech, and more (Extra Crunch)
2020-03-18: Don’t be stupid and hold off on announcing your funding round (TechCrunch)
2020-03-17: Report: China clamps down further on dissent as it expels journalists from NYT, WSJ, and WaPo (TechCrunch)
2020-03-17: SoftBank’s debt outlook turns negative (TechCrunch)
2020-03-17: Join General Catalyst’s Niko Bonatsos on a live WFH conference call tomorrow at 12pm PT (TechCrunch)
2020-03-17: What we’re getting right and wrong about coronavirus and VC investing (Extra Crunch)
2020-03-16: Edtech notches a win as Teachable is acquired by Hotmart (TechCrunch)
2020-03-16: Stock markets halted for unprecedented third time due to coronavirus scare (TechCrunch)
2020-03-16: HashiCorp soars above $5B valuation in new $175M venture round (TechCrunch)
2020-03-16: FAANG stocks diverge in performance as coronavirus reaches critical period (TechCrunch)
2020-03-13: Raising money in a bear market, and what happened with Sequoia and Finix? (TechCrunch)
2020-03-12: Clobbered by coronavirus econ news? Here’s an in-depth, 90-day rewind (TechCrunch)
2020-03-09: The dollars and cents of raising VC during the coronavirus pandemic (Extra Crunch)
2020-03-08: If we could see alternate realities, would we want to take a look? (TechCrunch)
2020-03-07: What is the purpose of belief in a world of innovation? (TechCrunch)
2020-03-07: Stanford cancels classes in response to novel coronavirus outbreak (TechCrunch)
2020-03-06: Kleiner’s new fund, Atrium is kaput and the latest data on seed rounds (TechCrunch)
2020-03-05: South Korea passes one of the world’s first cryptocurrency laws (TechCrunch)
2020-03-04: Oyo layoffs, Airbnb’s delayed IPO and the long-term quandary of investing in travel startups (Extra Crunch)
2020-03-03: Equity Shot: What’s Elliott Management and why is it coming after Twitter and SoftBank? (TechCrunch)
2020-03-03: DocSend’s new pre-seed data shows how many founders you should have and how many investors you should meet (TechCrunch)
2020-03-02: New AngelList dataset sheds light on the signaling risks of seed-stage investments (TechCrunch)

February

2020-02-29: Why you can’t overlook the small details in the pursuit of innovation (TechCrunch)
2020-02-28: Coronavirus corrections and the rise of remote work (TechCrunch)
2020-02-27: With better recall of our photos and videos, will our ability to forgive disappear? (TechCrunch)
2020-02-25: Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position (TechCrunch)
2020-02-25: Startup malaise, startup ambition (TechCrunch)
2020-02-24: The Plaid “mafia” begins with John Whitfield joining student loan fintech startup Summer (TechCrunch)
2020-02-24: ProtoPie helps designers translate their work to engineering without the hassles (TechCrunch)
2020-02-23: How do we connect a child to technology? (TechCrunch)
2020-02-21: Equity is not always the answer (TechCrunch)
2020-02-19: Equity Shot: What’s going on with Tesla’s stock price? (TechCrunch)
2020-02-16: With the development of generalized AI, what’s the meaning of a person? (TechCrunch)
2020-02-15: Can we debate free will versus destiny in four pages? (TechCrunch)
2020-02-14: The six strategic stages of seed fundraising in 2020 (Extra Crunch)
2020-02-14: Big meditation money, new VC funds, and how do you value Airbnb? (TechCrunch)
2020-02-13: The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering (TechCrunch)
2020-02-13: Catching up on China’s tech influence operations in America (TechCrunch)
2020-02-13: Shutterstock founder and CEO Jon Oringer steps down after 16 years (TechCrunch)
2020-02-13: Trump administration aims to protect GPS with new exec order (TechCrunch)
2020-02-13: Nvidia’s Q4 financials look to brighter skies with strong quarterly revenue growth (TechCrunch)
2020-02-11: Equal Ventures raises debut $56M fund to double down on thesis-driven seed (TechCrunch)
2020-02-07: Why is One Medical worth more than Casper? (TechCrunch)
2020-02-05: YouTube has seen soaring growth in South Korea (TechCrunch)
2020-02-03: Jenfi wants to solve small business lending in Southeast Asia (TechCrunch)

January

2020-01-31: How to blow through capital at an incredible rate (TechCrunch)
2020-01-29: What is our meaning in life in a world of technology? (TechCrunch)
2020-01-28: Free Agency wants to give every tech worker a career and salary boost (TechCrunch)
2020-01-24: Samasource CEO Leila Janah passes away at 37 (TechCrunch)
2020-01-24: Why Front’s Series C matters, the latest on Lambda and The Athletic makes media look good (TechCrunch)
2020-01-22: Can a time machine offer us the meaning of life? (TechCrunch)
2020-01-21: Lame LPs, founder referenceability, and the future of VC signaling (TechCrunch)
2020-01-17: The paradox of 2020 VC is that the largest funds are doing the smallest rounds (TechCrunch)
2020-01-17: We’ve gone Plaid # (TechCrunch)
2020-01-16: VCs are just tired (TechCrunch)
2020-01-14: Reading Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (TechCrunch)
2020-01-14: Don’t be a selfless startup (Extra Crunch)
2020-01-10: Lucky coffee, unicorn stumbles and Sam Altman’s YC wager (TechCrunch)
2020-01-07: Join us for the TechCrunch 2020 book club, starting next week (TechCrunch)
2020-01-02: Google has little choice to be evil or not in today’s fractured internet (TechCrunch)