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Bloomberg reporter covering @wealth and Silicon Valley. Ex-Protocol, Forbes, Business Insider, Gigaom, & Wired. Atlanta native, IU Hoosier.
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My first Forbes cover story: meet the invisible guiding force behind some of Silicon Valley's most important diversity initiatives so far.
@alexrkonrad
and I have the exclusive story on All Raise, a group of 36 top women in VC changing their industry
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A year ago, I was that person ugly crying in an airport as I found out mid-layover I lost my job and Protocol was shutting down.
Today, I published my first story for Bloomberg Businessweek and love how much I'm learning on my new beat. It was a hard journey, but I'm grateful.
I've always said Protocol was on the rollercoaster journey of a startup. From launch in Feb 2020, layoffs months later, to astounding rebound and growth, followed by an acquisition by Axel Springer — we'd done it all.
Now it's the end of that journey: Protocol is shutting down.
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Sequoia’s invisible hand: How
@roelofbotha
became one of the most powerful people in venture capital
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Uber not letting go of its flying taxi plans, despite all the other drama in its business. This time, it's heading for Los Angeles with a vision of UberAir covered skies ahead of the Olympics:
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I've finally completed the pandemic trifecta: had a baby, got vaccinated and moved from San Francisco*.
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I keep thinking about this chart and how the biggest players in "venture capital" are not really venture capital firms at all.
(source: )
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I've always said Protocol was on the rollercoaster journey of a startup. From launch in Feb 2020, layoffs months later, to astounding rebound and growth, followed by an acquisition by Axel Springer — we'd done it all.
Now it's the end of that journey: Protocol is shutting down.
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Some personal news, as they say:
I’m thrilled to be joining the team at
@protocol_media
to cover Silicon Valley.
As someone who has focused on startups in her reporting, it’s exciting to be joining on the ground floor of something new.
We’re excited to announce that
@bizcarson
,
@LAHepler
,
@mcwm
, and
@jank0
are joining the Protocol team!
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Male CEO of a company dealing with sexism in workplace takes over women's lactation room for his own meditation
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Andreessen Horowitz is blowing up the venture capital model again.
This time, it’s by re-registering its entire firm as financial advisors so it can take riskier bets — and renouncing its status as a venture capital firm entirely.
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That moment when you realize you are not in the income bracket of an average FT reader
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Exclusive: Notion recently did a tender offer, allowing employees to sell shares to Sequoia & Index at its previous $10.3 billion valuation. It's also added the Flowdash team during a summer of M&A.
More on how Notion is leaning in during a downturn:
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Oh hi Twitter! 👋 I’m back after three weeks unplugged in Antarctica and Argentina
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Can Sequoia legend Michael Moritz fix San Francisco?
Like many, he's been "fed up" with the city. But unlike most, he's put hundreds of millions - and years of his own time and work - into trying to make it better (or at least his definition of it anyway)
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My toddler has been telling her preschool that I take a boat to work and work with fish.
Her teachers thought I was some cool marine biologist, so I had to break the news that I just take the ferry to work and there's a fish tank at my office so I work "with fish" in a sense.
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Which company is the next Unicorn? I'm excited to unveil Forbes' list of Next Billion Dollar Startups, including:
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@Amplitude_HQ
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@anduriltech
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@auth0
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@away
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@Braze
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@Cloud9
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@couchbase
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@coursera
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@FlywireCo
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@honey
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We are very lucky that the hackers settled on a bitcoin scam instead of starting a world war. 🙏
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I appreciate a startup founder that’s honest about his first market: rich people!
#YCdemoday
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Alex Konrad
@alexrkonrad
and I have been lucky to shadow these women through the planning meetings, the working group sessions, and at their events. The result is a historic cover for
@Forbes
-- Thanks for reading!
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Today in weird things PR people send me: a piece of knitted avocado toast
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New from me: Meet the Palantir Pack.
It's not just a byproduct of the PayPal Mafia. Palantir alumni have formed their own network by following the Palantir playbook of going after big problems, putting in the hard work and adding highly technical talent
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I asked
@rklau
what shocked him about joining the government after 13+ years at Google. His answer shocked me: "I think the shock is the pace at which we execute; it's at least as blistering as anything I've ever experienced at Google."
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Reid Hoffman is backing a new kind of venture model: sending partners, not cash, into startups
Started by
@dan_portillo
, Greylock’s former head of talent, Sweat Equity Ventures puts its team to work inside the startups in exchange for common stock.
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Giant blue light from this plane/rocket/ship over San Francisco. Lit up the sky.
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NEWS: Brandless is halting all of its operations today and 70 people are losing their jobs
It becomes the first SoftBank Vision Fund company to close:
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My dog got mad about being left alone and ate an entire loaf of bread while I was at work, so at least I know he takes after me when it comes to eating his feelings
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A milestone for a16z: Andreessen Horowitz Launches $300 Million Crypto Fund Co-Led By Its First Female General Partner via
@forbes
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This Shervin Pishevar statement on Benchmark is .... uh.. something else.
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A new most hated PR trend: offering an “exclusive” that’s really just an exclusive investor conversation or an exclusive anecdote. Either offer an exclusive on the news or don’t bother trying to mislead me.
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We lost a very talented colleague last week,
@BlakeSchmidt
, a few days shy of his 40th birthday. He was a reporting tour-de-force who traveled the globe for Bloomberg.
His last piece, published Friday, is on Eric Schmidt's fortune influencing AI policy
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Some personal news... After 2+ years and 1,000+ stories, today is my last day at Business Insider.
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There are days that make you fall in love with San Francisco all over again. Today is one of them.
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Uber's founders in 2008 thought the best-case scenario for what they were calling UberCab was to hit $1 billion in revenue. Their "more realistic success scenario"? Reach 5% of the top U.S. cities and generate $20 million in profits.
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My mom just sent me a 500-word email, titled "Breaking up is hard to do...."
It was all about our family cell phone plan.
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A VC Fund Backed By Kevin Durant And Diddy Will Donate Its Profits To 11 Charities Improving Diversity In Tech via
@forbes
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Exclusive: IAC Invests $14 Million In An App That Makes It Easier to Find Temp Work Straight From Your Phone via
@forbes
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My newest cover story for
@Forbes
: Old Unicorn, New Tricks: Airbnb Has A Sky-High Valuation. Here's Its Audacious Plan To Earn It
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PSA for your pandemic holidays: Emergen-C makes a great base for a mimosa
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Take a moment to dig into this list of the top 50 women in tech. These technologists are inspiring in so many ways:
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I’m doing my first in-person meetings in San Francisco today and already stood in line at a fancy coffee place behind a venture firm intern talking about how their fund is behind on their crypto strategy. Nature is healing.
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This is sadly not my first rodeo with being in a newsroom that suddenly shuts down, but it doesn't sting any less. I plan to take the next few weeks to process before I look ahead to what's next. Thank you, as always, for reading. 🫡
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Wow - this is an incredible letter from Sequoia on coronavirus.
"We suggest you question every assumption about your business"
including: headcount, cash runway, fundraising, sales forecasts
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It's crazy timing to join in the middle of the SVB failure and the fallout from it, but I'm excited to get started! Please send all story tips to bcarson28
@bloomberg
.net.
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Rest easy, my Sarah Bear. You were fierce and loyal to those you loved, and we’re forever blessed to have been your people for 14 of your 16 years. I hope there’s lots of pinecones and puppuccinnos across the rainbow bridge.
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All Raise’s goal: increase the number of women funded from 15% to 25% in five years, and double the percentage of women decision-makers and check-writers at venture firms in 10 years.
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All Raise has been meeting in secret for months to increase the # of female founder and funders in tech. 800 women signed up for 80 slots at the first 2 meetings of Female Founders Office Hours; nearly 700 startup founders signed up for Founders For Change
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This week on Pipeline: A new "mafia"? Mapping the alumni of Square
Plus, get to know
@a16z
's
@illscience
who really misses the cassette tape and had my editor saying "This is fascinating!" multiple times in the comments.
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* no, not to Miami. To the East Bay, like most people moving out of SF.
Now it's time to redownload Twitter on my phone, and mass delete the thousands of emails in my inbox from the last three months. I'm excited to be back at Protocol and writing again!
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Yes, you read that correctly:
Airbnb is buying HotelTonight, a hotel booking business.
How the times have changed...
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PSA: Your company’s executive tweeting in support of US women’s Soccer win is not a PR moment.
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My latest for
@Forbes
with
@Kchaykowski
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Anne Wojcicki raised genetic-testing company, 23andMe, from a wonky wunderkind through a troubled adolescence. Now her $2.5 billion biotech machine is ready to take the next step, combining big data and big pharma.
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Is your company the Next Billion-Dollar Startup?
Applications are now open for US based, venture-backed companies that are future unicorns.
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This is my photo that defines being pregnant in the pandemic: Being alone, in a mask, for another check-up at the hospital, so I could bring new life into what felt like the end of the world.
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Marc Andreessen on being a new dad: "I sit @ work and get these pitches on AI. HI (human intelligence) is still way more impressive than AI"
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Sonder CEO Francis Davidson: “I think in 20 or 30 years people will look back at these downtown, stuffy, kind-of-expensive hotel rooms and be like ‘I can’t believe it was like that." Investors have bought in too, to the tune of $135M
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DoorDash finally gets to join the unicorn club with a $1.4 billion valuation
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'I do not accept him as my leader' — Uber CTO’s anti-Trump email reveals growing tensions
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Flying pet peeve: airlines that require you to watch movies on your phone/laptop, but then don’t provide outlets for charging. Especially when it’s a 5.5 hour flight 😑
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BREAKING: Uber selling its southeast Asia operations to Grab. Uber gets 27.5% stake in Grab
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Oof. Uber hid 2016 data breach and paid off hackers to stay quiet.
57 million people affected. Let that sink in.
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Fun fact: I’ve now been acquired by Axel Springer twice. First at BI, now at Protocol
More on Protocol’s next chapter:
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"Poor Uber, I don’t feel sorry for you because you brought all this on yourself." - Judge Alsup
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Wow, Austin Geidt - Uber's first intern - ends up being the one to ring the bell as Dara Khosrowshahi applauds next to her. She's been there since the beginning:
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She is beauty, she is grace.
She’s also 15 today 💕 Happy birthday to my Bear
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My latest for
@forbes
magazine:
The Right Direction: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers To Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
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Just stuck a lighter into my glass of milk thinking it was a candle. How’s your quarantine brain doing?
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I'm experimenting with something new at
@protocol
: a weekly newsletter/column called Protocol Pipeline focused on the startup and venture capital community. And with the spirit of being a startup, here's the first version (my MVP in startup speak):
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This quote from Uber's HR chief now seems particularly out of touch after 20 employees fired, 215 claims
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This pupper has surgery today to kick cancer. He would appreciate all your pawsitive thoughts 🐶
After tearing through several bags of clothing donations, he knows he’s guilty
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Officially at the age where my friends and I are cheering in group texts when we manage to convince our parents to stay inside
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Lots of people start on Poshmark just selling used clothes, but it’s turning a lot of women (and men!) into their own fashion entrepreneurs. Some have even opened their own brick and mortar stores as a result:
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It's here!
@amyfeldman
and I are proud to present this year's
@Forbes
Next Billion-Dollar Startups
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Twitter's Verification System Is A Mess. It Can Look To Airbnb For How To Do It Right. via
@forbes
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also, hi Twitter. I've been sick for a bit, but feeling better. So send me your news tips and all the VC overheard tweets I missed the last few months.
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By far my favorite image of our AR future from the latest Snapchat patent
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A week in NYC *almost* convinced me I should move there, but then I landed in San Francisco and it’s 70 degrees so yeah, never going to leave.
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Outlook is suddenly taking issue with my name, so going to sign all my emails as Business Carson from now on.
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Today’s daily cover story for
@Forbes
: Inside Minted’s plan to take on Hallmark – and the rest of the retail art world – by handing over design decisions to the crowd:
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Terrible tragic news: Travis Kalanick's mother died in a boating accident, his dad in serious condition. Here's the email to Uber employees:
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Airbnb has had a problem accommodating guests with disabilities, so it acquired the "Airbnb for disabled people" to do a better job.
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My first-ever magazine story for Forbes, on newsstands December 12:
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I am THRILLED to be back in an office. Different coffee, different snacks, meeting co-workers, even missed my first ferry for the commute
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