So excited to announce I’m joining The Verge as a senior tech reporter leading the publication’s coverage of AI! theverge.com/2024/4/30/2414…

Everybody cool with this?

Once we start seeing this as another version (imo it’s worse) of the oil company climate denial of the last century, then we can reject it as strongly and develop some coherent environmentalism for the future.

SCOOP from Sarah Perez is also on Threads, Mastodon & Bluesky Screenshots suggest TikTok is circumventing Apple App Store commissions tcrn.ch/4diEpwG - tip Techmeme

Congrats. The first days are the hardest days, don’t you worry anymore.

Any more surprises today? Come on, universe, it's not even 10am yet. I'm sure we can fit at least 20 more in given the pace so far today.

Great story, not surprising: businessinsider.com/bill-gates-sti…

NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $33M Series B led by NEA, taking its total raised to $46.5M, and says the service has ~20K active newsletters (Ingrid / TechCrunch)

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Happy to have seen night two — more of my favorite songs on the back half

i got annus horribilis in an article y'all

NEW: I spent a few months looking into what is happening over at techstars — the story was a wild ride, and even I at times couldn't predict what would happen next

techcrunch.com/2024/04/29/ins…

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve gotten career advice that amounted to “focus on managing up.” I’ve instead focused on making my teams the best they can be and it seems to be mostly paying off. wheresyoured.at/managing-up/

Good story by Dom about the tumult at TechStars. I remember pitching David Cohen at TS Boulder some terrible idea I had at like age 14. It was a great part of the ecosystem there, sad it’s gone.

Deeply reported piece from Dom check it out! Inside the ‘cold war’ at Techstars as CEO Mäelle Gavet hires, fires, fights to force change tcrn.ch/4a3IXUK via @techcrunch

What's really happening under the hood with Techstars 2.0? Dom talked to 30 sources and found out some truly shocking details of what it's been like to work there.

An internal “cold war.” Management shake-ups. An 'autocratic and punishing' culture.

A deep dive into the last few years at TechStars as CEO Mäelle Gavet hires, fires, fights to force change from Dom: tcrn.ch/4a3IXUK

Here's the inside story of what's been going down at one of the top startup accelerators, TechStars - from Dom with lots of editorial spurring and guidance and assistance from Julie Bort - tip Techmeme

a new 'govern yourself accordingly' letter from Paramount shareholders.

side note: I may make this my new email sig

This was a great feature that everybody working in the climate space should read: