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  • $75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100

    Justin Kan’s hybrid legal software and law firm startup Atrium is shutting down today after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm, the CEO tells TechCrunch exclusively. The startup has now laid off all its employees, which totaled just over 100. More

    $75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100
  • Google cancels Cloud Next because of coronavirus, goes online-only

    Google today announced that it is canceling the physical part of Cloud Next, its cloud-focused event and its largest annual conference by far with around 30,000 attendees, over concerns around the current spread of COVID-19.Given all of the recent conference cancellations, this announcement doesn’t come as a huge surprise, More

    Google cancels Cloud Next because of coronavirus, goes online-only
  • Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on waitlists, freemium pricing and future

    The “Sent via Superhuman iOS” email signature has become one of the strangest flexes in the tech industry, but its influence is enduring, as the $30 per month invite-only email app continues to shape how a wave of personal productivity startups are building their business and product strategies.I had a chance More

    Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on waitlists, freemium pricing and future products
  • As Block exits, Salesforce forecasts it will surpass $20B in

    When Keith Block joined Salesforce from Oracle in 2013, the CRM giant was already a successful SaaS vendor on a billion dollar quarterly revenue cadence. When the co-CEO announced he was stepping down yesterday, the company reported revenue of $4.9 billion for the quarter.During his tenure, the company’s More

    As Block exits, Salesforce forecasts it will surpass $20B in revenue in FY2021
  • Stonly grabs $3.5 million to make customer support more interactive

    Stonly is building a service for customer support teams so that they can share step-by-step guides to solve the most common issues. The startup just raised a $3.5 million funding round led by Accel with business angels also participating, such as Eventbrite CTO Renaud Visage and PeopleDoc founders Jonathan Benhamou More

    Stonly grabs $3.5 million to make customer support more interactive