Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro joins Emily Chang to talk about the company’s survey which shows more employees are considering quitting their jobs now than in 2021, and that more than half of younger workers are mulling a job change within the next year.
Box CEO Aaron Levie joins Emily Chang after Box’s Investor Day wraps for an exclusive interview to discuss their financial outlook and a new share repurchase program, as well as the pandemic’s impact on the company and the war for talent.
Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Michael Novogratz sees growing demand for cryptocurrencies and says there is “zero chance” Russia can use crypto to circumvent sanctions. Novogratz also maintains his $500,000 forecast for Bitcoin five years out. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller, Kailey Leinz and Sonali Basak on “Bloomberg Crypto.”
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse joins Emily Chang to discuss his “victory” after a court ruled in the favor of his company’s defense against the SEC alleging they had unlawfully sold their XRP tokens. He also weighs in on the role of crypto in the war in Ukraine, and Biden’s crypto executive order.
Cruise CEO and founder Kyle Vogt joins Emily Chang to talk about launching their autonomous cars in San Francisco, where they’re looking to expand next, and how they compare with the competition such as Waymo, Tesla and Zoox.
May.20 — Imran Khan, Verishop chief executive officer and former Snap chief strategy officer, discusses the evolution of e-commerce, how Verishop plans to take on Amazon.com Inc. and the tech IPO landscape with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.”
ClassPass Founder Payal Kadakia speaks with Emily Chang about her new book “LifePass,” her journey as a female entrepreneur and businesswoman, and connected fitness trends in a post-pandemic world.
Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor joins Emily Chang after the company gave a forecast for quarterly and annual revenue that exceeded analysts’ estimates, as the leader in customer relations software further integrates Slack and expands its product line.
On the latest episode of Bloomberg Studio 1.0., Emily Chang speaks with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the heels of his one year anniversary, about Intel’s bold bets to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the United States, and his vision to reshape the competitive landscape of the $500 billion chip industry. ——– Like this video?
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger discusses the company’s plans to spend $20 billion on a chipmaking hub on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, and the efforts to alleviate the supply-chain issues in the semiconductor industry. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.”
Student Jack Sweeney joins Emily Chang to talk about his tracking Russian tycoons. After drawing the ire of Elon Musk with his viral Twitter account “Elon’s Jet,” Sweeney is now tracking the planes of some of Russia’s richest people, as they come under increasing international pressure over the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Affirm Holdings founder and CEO Max Levchin discusses the buy-now, pay-later firm’s second-quarter performance and growth strategy on “Bloomberg Markets.”
Going viral is the dream, but most projects need a little push. Mariusz Gąsiewski, Google’s CEE Mobile Gaming Lead, compares going viral to sightings of the mythical Yeti, the legendary snow creature that allegedly roams the Himalayas. “Many more people are talking about it than really saw it,” he told TechCrunch, noting that viral growth
Vendr, a startup that aims to help its customers buy software products faster and at a lower cost, announced this morning it has acquired Blissfully, a startup that builds SaaS management tooling. Vendr raised a $60 million round led by Tiger last year, making it one of the high-growth software companies that the crossover investor
When Redpanda launched in 2019, company founder and CEO Alexander Gallego thought a startup devoted to modernizing streaming data should have an appropriately nerdy name. He called it Vectorized, while the product he created was known as Redpanda. He soon learned, however, that people loved the name of the product, so he decided the company
The European Union has proposed an interesting addition to its fast updating digital rulebook today: The Data Act slots into an already ambitious digital policy framework with the goal of bringing clarity and fairness around the sharing of (mostly industrial) data generated by connected devices. It won’t be the last word on this either, as
Mark Cuban’s interactive platform Fireside, which helps creators reach audiences through live and virtual shows, is in talks to raise its Series A financing round and plans to make a push into web3 and metaverse in within months, two sources familiar with the matter said. Fireside is engaging with investors to raise about $25 million
Listen in to the first-ever episode of Found Live. We were joined by the mother-daughter duo Jordan Taylor and Edith Cooper who co-founded Medley — a group coaching platform focusing on personal and professional growth. They talked with the Found hosts about navigating a co-founder relationship with your mother or daughter. They discuss how important
Christian Ebersol was working for a health insurance company when he became interested in carbon capture storage and plant-based food. After joining the entrepreneur-in-residence program at OMERS Ventures to figure out where his next move might be in those spaces, he started reading Marl Bittman’s book, “Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable
Enticing people to change their eating habits, especially to try alternative meat products, is a challenge for food tech companies because people want that product to taste, smell and feel like actual meat. Yali Bio is one company that thinks it has cracked that code by focusing on designer fats for plant-based meat and dairy
Last year I covered the launch of Berlin-HQ’d Revent — a new European early-stage with an “impact” focus — it was aimed to launch a €50 million ($60 million) fund to focus on climate tech, health, and well-being, and economic empowerment, backing startups with both “purpose and profit”. It’s now announcing the final close of
Ten game development studios in Africa have come together under one umbrella, the Pan Africa Gaming Group (PAGG), in an effort to unify the continent’s gaming sector, which is currently fragmented. The association is further envisioned to drive the uptake of gaming in the continent, and grow developer talent. The announcement was made today against
Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, February 22, 2022! We are back! Yes, after a lovely long weekend, your entire TechCrunch team is back in the saddle. Which is good because everything appears to be going on at once. So it was perfect that Slack decided that it actually wanted a four-day weekend
Alloy Automation, a Y Combinator graduate focused on connecting different e-commerce tools, announced this morning that it has closed a $20 million Series A led by a16z. The startup characterized the funding event as brisk, a contrast to its 2021 capital event when it was harder for the company to secure funding. TechCrunch covered Alloy’s
After publicly launching in the U.S. this past September, Facebook Reels today is becoming globally available in over 150 countries. The feature, which is a key part of Meta’s response to the TikTok threat, allows creators to share short-form video content on Facebook or cross-post Reels from Instagram in order to reach a broader audience.
The global chat commerce’s total addressable market is worth an estimated $80 billion and is seen as the third big wave of digital commerce after e-commerce and app commerce markets. As the largest digital platform in the world with more users than the internet’s 4.7 billion users, it only makes sense for businesses to communicate
More money for casual job-matching in Europe: Zenjob, a marketplace platform that targets students looking for side jobs in sectors like retail, logistics and hospitality and promises to connect them with employers in need of temporary labor, has closed a $50 million Series D round of funding. It’s just under two years since the Berlin-based
A team at Google is today launching a new product for mobile app developers called Checks which leverages A.I. technology to identify possible privacy and compliance issues within apps, amid a rapidly changing regulatory and policy landscape. The freemium solution will be offered to both Android and iOS app developers of all sizes, who will
Jun.02 — Electronics Art Inc. CEO Andrew Wilson discusses the company’s banner year of 2020 and how the gaming industry has exploded throughout the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. The video game maker is set to debut the latest release of their popular title “Battlefield” and reveal the new cover of “Madden NFL 22” this
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, or Tuesday, Grace and Alex scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. We are a day late here thanks to the American holiday, which means