This VC's best advice for building a founding team: This season on Build Mode, we're diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team. To kick off season two, Isabelle Johannessen is joined by Yuri Sagalov, managing director at General Catalyst and former founder, YC partner, and seed investor at Wayfinder Ventures. Sagalov has worked with hundreds of pre-seed and seed-stage companies and has seen firsthand the best (and worst) ways to hire in the early days. Read More |
The boys' club no one was supposed to write about: Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that's been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men, at the upper echelons of tech, quietly raising up their own networks the way powerful people have always done. Read More |
Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025: Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous years. Read More |
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Sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer information: The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including order details and customer service inquiries. Read More |
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An AI data center boom is fueling Redwood's energy storage business: Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company. Read More |
Toyota contracts seven Agility humanoid robots for Canadian factory: The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger. Read More |
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New York hits the brakes on robotaxi expansion plan: The governor of New York pulled a robotaxi expansion proposal that was viewed as a win for Waymo. Read More |
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