Are You a Disruptor or a Destructor? A Complete Guide to Innovation for Today’s Leaders
Two sides to the innovation coin will make or break your business. Understand disruptive and destructive innovation before attempting to shake up the market.
The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why this battery company is pivoting to AI Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has either died or is going to die. It’s kind of…
Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Are Meeting in Washington. It Could Shape AI’s Trajectory — and Life as We Know It — Forever.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is hosting some of tech’s most influential leaders as lawmakers consider regulation.
MobileCoin, which powers Signal’s anonymous crypto payments, appoints new CEO
MobileCoin, the startup known for building Signal’s crypto payments feature, has appointed a new CEO as it works on expanding its encrypted money transfer service to global users in need of a more modern remittance solution. Sara Drakeley is taking the helm as MobileCoin’s new chief executive officer. Replacing her previous role as the firm’s […]
This startup has 12 co-founders
For the most part, founding teams are small, tight and have a unified vision as to where they’re going.
72 hours left for last-chance savings to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Now, hear this! You have only 72 hours left to fight inflation on prices to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. The startup world’s big tent kicks off next week and runs September 19–21. Tick tock: Buy your pass by September 15 at 11:59 p.m. PDT and save up to $400. That’s 20 Jacksons for one small action. […]
Superorganism wants to be the conservationist on the cap table
The earth has seen a 69% decline in wildlife populations over the last 50 years. In the same amount of time, carbon emissions have increased by 90%. And while many venture firms have been created to fund the startups tackling the rise in carbon, the same couldn’t be said about biodiversity. Until now. Superorganism launched […]
Alza emerges from stealth to offer affordable and inclusive financial tools to immigrants
Arturo Villanueva spent over four years on Stripe’s financial partnerships team, where he led partnerships with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and regional banks across Latin America, struck strategic deals with JPMorgan Chase, Wells-Fargo, and Bank of America in the U.S., and the underlying infrastructure partners for the fintech giant’s cross-border payouts product, allowing Stripe to […]
Investing in holistic innovation
For many organizations, innovation is focused on a few strategically prioritized initiatives and often is incremental by design. Change and the surprises it brings can be a grudgingly accepted necessity. Savvy companies, however, acknowledge that innovation must also be part of a firm’s strategy and deployed through every department. The value of most companies in…
Spotify’s new Showcase tool lets artists pay to promote their music in the Home feed
Spotify this week launched a new tool called Showcase that allows artists to promote their work directly in the streaming app’s revamped Home feed introduced earlier this year. With Showcase, artists can create a mobile card that they can use to introduce their music, including new and catalog releases, which then appears as a sponsored […]
What’s more venture capital than space lasers?
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, in which we sit down with a guest, talk about their work and unpack the rest. This week, we have something […]