This week in Business Twitter: Tesla officially accepts Bitcoin, Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, and Andrew Chen on Austin Y Combinator saw a whopping 350 startups for its latest Demo Day. Meanwhile, a16z partner Andrew Chen thinks Austin would have a long way to go to replace Silicon Valley. Ivan De Luce 3.26.21 9:00 PM People
This week in Business Twitter: Elon’s eggplant emoji, Vlad Tenev meets Dave Portnoy, and Chamath is skeptical about Coinbase Elon Musk made fun of Peter Schiff’s critique of Bitcoin by sending him an eggplant emoji. Meanwhile, Vlad Tenev sat down to chat with one of his biggest haters: Dave Portnoy. Ivan De Luce 2.26.21 6:00 PM People
Bitcoin reaches record high after Tesla announces $1.5 billion investment Tesla also said it would accept Bitcoin as payment from customers, signalling a further shift towards legitimacy for the crypto industry. Ivan De Luce 2.8.21 3:07 PM Crypto
A toilet paper CEO who drowned his company with an ill-fated expansion is now in even deeper sh*t A judge greenlit a bankruptcy trustee’s case against Jeffrey Schoen, potentially making him liable for tens of millions of dollars in damages. Christie Smythe 3.18.22 9:02 PM Markets
Why Sam Altman says it’s the ‘best time in a long time' to move to Silicon Valley The former president of Y Combinator and current CEO of OpenAI tweeted about how San Francisco is still full of “competent, optimistic people in one place.” Ivan De Luce 12.23.20 8:55 PM People
Eight startup CEOs to watch for in 2021 We examined the CEOs of top startups who saw huge growth in the markets or are planning to make their public debuts next year, including Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield and Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke. Ivan De Luce 12.23.20 12:00 PM People
Tesla is getting bigger in Texas Everything's bigger in Texas, they say. That applies to Tesla, now, too. Jon Marino 7.27.20 7:34 PM Markets
No one knows who’s on the hook if a DAO gets sued Believers say DAOs are the future of work, but it’s not clear who gets held accountable if something goes wrong. Doug Bailey 3.16.22 4:37 PM Crypto