Chamath Palihapitiya Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Silicon Valley venture firm Social Capital, let go more than six members of his staff,...
Smarkets CEO Jason Trost lets employees pick how much they want to get paid. Smarkets London-based betting startup Smarkets lets employees pick how much they want...
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Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch Former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee has invested in 13 companies that have attained billion dollar valuations. Among his portfolio companies’...
Visitors walk past a logo for Amazon China at the Beijing International Book Fair in Beijing on Aug. 23, 2017.AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Some of Amazon’s online...
Levi Bernard for Business Insider There are three of us, cramped inside a dusty Toyota that’s packed to the gills along with a triad of busted...
Levi Bernard for Business Insider Over the course of nine days, Black Rock City, Nevada, is overtaken by 70,000 people to become Burning Man, one of...
AP Images Ashton Kutcher is a prodigious tech investor: He has a stake in companies like Uber and Airbnb, and has funded many more through his...
Brian Ach/Getty Electric scooter companies like Lime, Bird, and Spin faced regulatory issues after introducing their pay-as-you-go scooter services to the streets of San Francisco earlier...