Startups
Exhausted Founder Finally Achieves Work-Life Balance by Quietly Going Out of Business
DENVER, CO — “I’m sleeping eight hours a night,” said the founder, technically correct and technically unemployed.
Startups
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Word-for-word the same account, down to the betrayal in the parking garage.
Venture Capital
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The edit took 40 minutes and went live during the same meeting in which the question was asked.
Startups
AUSTIN, TX — “The good news is the market is enormous,” said the founder of the market he personally broke.
AI
PALO ALTO, CA — “It read the entire internet and reached a conclusion,” said a stunned researcher.
AI
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Following a leak, investors learned the $400M-valued company’s proprietary technology was 14 words long.
Lifestyle
NOE VALLEY, CA — The 34-year-old’s 4:30 a.m. routine includes red-light therapy, a 96-hour fast, and telling everyone about it.
Startups
PALO ALTO, CA — “We’ve never been healthier,” said the CEO, seated on the floor where a desk used to be.
Venture Capital
MENLO PARK, CA — The 38-year-old, who has spent his entire career writing checks, says he “misses the craft.”
AI
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Citing “a more achievable timeline,” the four-person team announced it would solve general intelligence by Q3.
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Oculus Rift developers today announced a new program to give Bay Area Oculus Rift owners the appearance of a middle class and a social safety net. “We worked with Pokemon and Google Maps to let people wear their Oculus headsets in San Francisco and they can walk through the Tenderloin
Rueben Kushner the founder and CTO of spinout.io cannot discern why prospective customers keep passing on his technology. “Look, the economics are there, our proprietary technology can save companies millions. I don’t know why these f*cking idiots are not buying it. At first I thought it was
With most of the gibberish names taken for existing accelerators, the executive team of The Valley’s latest faux business fostering entity is watching Star Trek: The Next Generation re-runs to find a name. “Amil used to run lunch-and-learns at MIT’s DeltaV, and Joan successfully bankrupted