Tag: Venture Capital

How a Trash-Talking Crypto Founder Caused a $40 Billion Crash

Do Kwon, a trash-talking entrepreneur from South Korea, called the cryptocurrency he…

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Fear and Loathing Return to Tech Start-Ups

Start-up workers came into 2022 expecting another year of cash-gushing initial public…

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Bolt Built $11 Billion Business With Inflated Metrics and Eager Investors

A Fund-Raising GuruStill, Mr. Breslow has become something of a legend in…

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Gopuff Buys Time for Its 30-Minutes-or-Less Delivery Promise

“Once you can execute, and obviously that’s hard, it wins in the…

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Instacart Cuts Its Valuation by 38 Percent, Citing ‘Turbulence’

Instacart, the grocery delivery start-up, said on Thursday that it was slashing…

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Dreaming of Suitcases in Space

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. — The mission to turn space into the next…

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Anonymity in Crypto Raises Alarm

At work, he makes one exception to the secrecy. On calls with…

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Trump’s Truth Social Is Poised to Join a Crowded Field

For months, former President Donald J. Trump has promoted Truth Social, the…

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Peter Thiel, the Right’s Would-Be Kingmaker

The wine flowed. Donald Trump Jr. mingled with the guests. And Peter…

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