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Y Combinator group partner Surbhi Sarna says work-life balance is a misnomer

How one medical device founder-turned-investor kept all the balls in the air at once.

01.02.2025 6

Jessica Mathews

5 Tesla takeaways as shares ‘become completely divorced from the fundamentals’

Tesla’s last quarter disappointed some analysts—but Elon Musk’s lofty promises for the year head are helping buoy the EV stock.

31.01.2025 50

Jessica Mathews

Elon Musk says Tesla paid robotaxi service launching in Austin in June

Tesla is moving quickly to try to play catch-up to its main competition: Alphabet's Waymo.

30.01.2025 5

Jessica Mathews

GM says its EV business has become ‘variable profit positive’— but experts say the automaker is still a ways out before it starts making money on electric cars

The company sold 189,000 EVs to dealerships in 2024—less than it had projected.

30.01.2025 4

Jessica Mathews

RTX now has a $218 billion backlog for its commercial aircraft and defense products

The aerospace and defense contractor said it was benefitting by an uptick in defense spending from NATO countries and other allies.

29.01.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

Elon Musk’s xAI is buying equipment—and getting a tax break—for an X data center in Atlanta, documents show

It's the first step that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has taken into Georgia, and is the latest indication of the interconnectedness...

24.01.2025 5

Jessica Mathews

Steve Davis was Elon Musk’s chief cost-cutter at X and the Boring Company. DOGE might be his next big project

Former coworkers describe Davis's ruthless focus on efficiency, which could be perfect for cutting government bloat.

21.01.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

The future of funding: Why more firms are writing checks to Black women

The Fearless Fund closed its first $25 million fund to invest capital in startups founded by women of color.

10.01.2025 30

Jessica Mathews

xAI could have power problems in Memphis

AI companies have electricity needs regional power systems may struggle to support.

09.01.2025 7

Jessica Mathews

Memphis warns it may not be able to power Elon Musk’s lofty ‘Colossus’ supercomputer expansion plans

“We are dealing with the physical realities of what our utility system can provide," the CEO of the city's utility provider said in a city meeting...

08.01.2025 20

Jessica Mathews

Inside Robinhood’s effort to retain employees of its $300 million acquisition with ‘exploding offers’

While Robinhood’s acquisition of TradePMR won’t close until next year, the fintech is rolling out plans ahead of time.

19.12.2024 4

Jessica Mathews

Why Kleiner Perkins’s Leigh Marie Braswell says AI agents ‘don’t work’

AI agents may replace humans in the future, but three VCs say we’re still a ways out from that reality.

12.12.2024 7

Jessica Mathews

With General Motors pulling the plug on Cruise, every American automaker except Tesla has called it quits on robotaxis

Automakers like Ford Motors and Volkswagen had also once made big, billion-dollar bets on the future of ridehail—only to walk back those plans...

12.12.2024 5

Jessica Mathews

General Motors to stop funding its Cruise robotaxi business

The automaker said it would combine Cruise’s and GM’s technical teams.

11.12.2024 5

Jessica Mathews

How strength training startup Ladder plans to more than double users of its app in a year

The startup has accused Peloton of making a copycat product to try to compete in the space.

10.12.2024 3

Jessica Mathews

How Peter Thiel’s network of right-wing techies is infiltrating Donald Trump’s White House

With David Sacks as “AI and Crypto Czar” and Elon Musk as co-head of DOGE, Thiel’s network has become closely tied to the new Trump administration...

08.12.2024 4

Jessica Mathews

Inside Elon Musk’s plans for a private pre-school in Texas, which just got a permit to open and where children will learn to sweep, draw, and explore

Ad Astra — Latin for "to the stars" — just received its initial permit, and can now open its doors in Bastrop, Texas, near Elon Musk’s companies...

21.11.2024 50

Jessica Mathews

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is back, revolutionizing warfare with a $14 billion startup. And this time he wants you to like him

“I realized too late that my reputation is actually very important,” Luckey told Fortune.

20.11.2024 3

Jessica Mathews

Welcome to Elontown, USA: an unlikely Texas home base for Musk’s business empire

New jobs and developments are booming, but locals have been left to guess how their community fits into the billionaire’s plans.

18.11.2024 3

Jessica Mathews

Canoo tested its electric delivery vans for Walmart without airbags despite employees raising red flags, sources say

“Everybody in the building—everybody in the company—knew that there was a safety issue,” one former employee says.

12.11.2024 10

Jessica Mathews

Exclusive: Thrive Capital has invested in more than a dozen other VC firms from its growth fund, emails show

The firm’s eighth growth fund has made investments into VCs including Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang and Not Boring newsletter writer Packy McCormick.

11.11.2024 9

Jessica Mathews

Goldman Sachs-backed Simbe raises $50M in Series C funding to bolster retail robot business

Simbe is now working with 29 retail brands.

24.10.2024 20

Jessica Mathews

Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi service is already on San Francisco roads in tests for employees

The company shared more details about the ride-hailing service it plans to launch commercially next year.

24.10.2024 10

Jessica Mathews

Nasdaq Private Market CEO says only 25 of 1,200 unicorns are actively trading on the secondaries market

The secondaries market is hot right now—for some.

17.10.2024 2

Jessica Mathews

What to make of the major milestone at drone startup Matternet, which helps UPS deliver packages

2023 is shaping up to be a big year for drone technology.

17.10.2024 2

Jessica Mathews

Andreessen Horowitz defense tech investor Katherine Boyle says ‘Ukraine changed everything’

If more young people in tech don’t start working with the Department of Defense, “we are going to lose the battle of the future,” she said.

15.10.2024 1

Jessica Mathews

Why Elon Musk’s Cybercab robotaxi vision is likely still several years away

The sleek “Cybercab” wowed guests at Tesla's special event last week, but industry experts say expect to see them out and about any time soon.

15.10.2024 2

Jessica Mathews

Elon Musk’s underground transit system in Las Vegas is a magnet to trespassers and confused drivers who have to be escorted out

Individuals have wandered into the stations or tunnels to take photos, skateboard, or sleep.

08.10.2024 40

Jessica Mathews

IT’S OFFICIAL: OpenAI is worth $157 billion

The AI startup is grappling with a wave of high-level exits and internal debate about its business objectives, but it has not dampened investors...

02.10.2024 2

Jessica Mathews

Kara Swisher, Silicon Valley’s longtime chronicler, has a warning about the tech elite’s new political clout and its support of J.D. Vance — ‘they’re not here to save you’

“This sort of explicit grab for power has worked really nicely,” she said.

18.07.2024 2

Jessica Mathews

Zoox CEO says robotaxis are still several years away from the ‘holy grail’ of the business: New York City

Aicha Evans, the CEO of the Amazon owned self-driving car company, says robotaxis are perfect for the Big Apple. But dealing with snow requires...

18.07.2024 2

Jessica Mathews

The CEO of Wiz, reportedly exploring a $23B acquisition with Alphabet, says cybersecurity consolidation is ‘truly in its infancy’

Assaf Rappaport, Wiz CEO and cofounder, declined to talk about whether his own company was in talks with the tech giant.

16.07.2024 10

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