\'The idea that we go back to normal the moment we lift restrictions is unlikely, fanciful, even\' Scott Bade 9 hours Scott Bade Contributor Scott Bade is a former speechwriter for Mike Bloomberg and co-author of \"More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First.\" More posts by this contributor Let’s give tech philanthropists the benefit of More

Atlassian announced today that it was acquiring Halp, an early stage startup that enables companies to build integrated help desk ticketing and automated answers inside Slack. The companies did not disclose the purchase price.It was a big day for Halp, which also announced its second product today called Halp More

“I just think change unfairly favors the startup, the nimble small company,” says Roelof Botha.The Sequoia partner, whose portfolio includes Unity, 23andMe, Instagram, Instacart, Xoom and YouTube, says he’s hopeful about the opportunities this pandemic has created for companies across a variety of sectors, including healthcare, cloud computing, social and More

When Zoom started having security issues in March, they turned to former Facebook and Yahoo! Security executive Alex Stamos, who signed on as a consultant to work directly with CEO Eric Yuan.The goal was to build a more cohesive security strategy for the fast-growing company. One of the recommendations More

During the waning days of the first dot-com boom, some of the biggest names in venture capital invested in marketplaces and directories whose sole function was to consolidate information and foster transparency in industries that had remained opaque for decades.The thesis was that thousands of small businesses were making specialized More

Rish Joshi Contributor Rish is an entrepreneur and investor. Previously, he was a VC at Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), co-founded a fintech startup building an analytics platform for SEC filings and worked on deep-learning research as a graduate student in computer science at MIT. More posts by this contributor The future of deep-reinforcement More