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No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market |
The players sometimes change. I sat down with four of Benchmark’s partners three years ago, and three of those individuals are no longer with the…
Even Benchmark thinks AI is eroding the venture pact against backing rivals |
For decades, the unwritten rule of venture capital was that a firm doesn’t back two companies that compete head-on. But speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier…
After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action |
When the call came, Tarini Padmanabhuni’s grandfather believed he was talking to his brother. The voice on the other end of the line said he’d…
ElevenLabs' CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they're talking to a bot |
ElevenLabs builds the voice layer of AI, the models that turn text into speech that sounds human. Most people encounter it when they’re talking with…
A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline |
Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so compelling that bigger outfits bought them. Putnam,…
Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play |
Collaborative Fund, the 15-year-old, New York-based generalist venture firm that has roughly $1 billion under management and which made early bets on Lyft, Reddit, Sweetgreen,…
Musk's faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem |
Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself. On Saturday, Musk confirmed…
'We're not doing 30 bets a year': Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z |
It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed pretty abruptly a dozen years ago, when…