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Alex Webb

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EinR @nttventurecap. @StanfordGSB grad. 13 years with Bloomberg News, Opinion, TV, Radio and Originals in the U.S., Germany and U.K.

Palo Alto, CA
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Alex Webb
3 months
Excited to see what @elliot_nell_ & @kevinsekniqi are building here. Real, tangible hardware to fuel the energy transition and, eventually, extra-terrestrial existence... https://t.co/nkIvHRdKpF
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Alex Webb
5 months
Some news of a personal nature: I've joined @nttventurecap as executive-in-residence. Really excited to take all I've learned in 13 years covering @business and @technology at @Bloomberg and in my year at @StanfordGSB to identify and partner with category-defining startups.
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Alex Webb
6 months
Little Clippy grew up. It filled out.
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theverge.com
Copilot Appearance is live now
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Yegor Denisov-Blanch
6 months
🧵How many software engineers secretly work 2+ jobs? My research group at Stanford has access to private code repos covering 100K+ engineers at ~1,000 companies: ~0.5% of the world’s developers. Our data shows that 4.1% of software engineers are working 2+ jobs.
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Alex Webb
1 year
At the end of the academic year, I’m hoping I can apply some of what I’ve learned in over a decade as a financial journalist at the coalface of the industries I’ve been covering. If you’re in this neck of the woods and have time for a coffee, do hit me up! ENDS/
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Alex Webb
1 year
As for what’s next: I’ve headed back to the West Coast to become a Sloan Fellow at @StanfordGSB. It’s a full-time, one-year, accelerated masters of science in management, and I’m blown away by my amazing classmates. 9/
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Alex Webb
1 year
And finally to @bbgoriginals, where, under the auspices of @abarden, we made some videos of which I’m really proud. This quick turn after the failed OpenAI coup is an example of one that came together nicely. 8/
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Alex Webb
1 year
Or when I made use of my undergraduate modern languages degree for this pretentious column looking at Facebook from the perspective of Goethe. Thanks @ThereseRaphael1 for editing this into coherence. 7/
bloomberg.com
Like the subject of “The Sorcerer's Apprentice,” he can’t control his magic.
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Alex Webb
1 year
Breaking the news that Apple planned to put an electrocardiogram in the Watch. Not visible in the web version, but I believe @mhbergen had an assist credit on this one. 5/
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bloomberg.com
Apple Inc. is developing an advanced heart-monitoring feature for future versions of its smartwatch, part of a broader push by the company to turn what was once a luxury fashion accessory into a...
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Alex Webb
1 year
After moving out west to San Francisco, this deep dive with the legendary @markgurman on the first time that @Apple tamped back its carmaking plans. Editing from, if I recall correctly, @alistairmbarr. 4/
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bloomberg.com
Apple Inc. has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people...
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Alex Webb
1 year
A few story highlights: This scoop with the great @DavidWelch47, which was the first time anyone had shown that the faked test results in the dieselgate scandal were administered from Germany. The story took billions off VW’s market cap. 3/
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bloomberg.com
Volkswagen AG executives in Germany controlled the key aspects of emissions tests whose results the carmaker now admits were faked, according to three people familiar with the company’s U.S. operat...
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Alex Webb
1 year
It was an incredibly rewarding and formative stint, working with generous and impressive people. @cullenang & Chad Thomas took a risk on a graduate fresh out of journalism school and have, I’m sure, long since lived to regret it. 🤪 2/
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Alex Webb
1 year
Something in the way of personal news: after 13 years in Frankfurt, Munich, San Francisco and London, I decided in June to leave the only job I’ve ever had and venture out into the world beyond Bloomberg. 1/
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Alex Webb
2 years
That's an interesting wrinkle because Apple, in recent years, has managed to grow revenue even as unit sales slowed. That was at least in part because it was convincing people to buy more expensive handsets. Let's see if that has been affected.
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Alex Webb
2 years
This is kinda wild. Google paid Apple $20bn in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari. That’s just over a quarter of Apple’s $78bn in services revenue that year, and presumably an even greater proportion of profit. https://t.co/LBi5iZVtCd
bloomberg.com
Alphabet Inc. paid Apple Inc. $20 billion in 2022 for Google to be the default search engine in the Safari browser, according to newly unsealed court documents in the Justice Department’s antitrust...
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Alex Webb
2 years
This is quite a lede from @kielporter... https://t.co/eVaNqcwkal
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