There are signs that it will be a hot secondaries summer
One of the main reasons we have yet to see a meaningful recovery in late-stage deal activity is the lack of consensus around how startups should be valued. No one wants to pay 2021 prices, but gauging what startups are worth now isn’t easy. However, there are signs that folks
Read moreDesigners hated Figma’s collaborative design tool at first, but grew to love it
Back in 2012 when Dylan Field was a student at Brown University, he came up with the idea of building a browser-based design tool. At the time, design tools were all on the desktop, which meant that designers worked alone, sending files for review to the various stakeholders involved, then
Read moreDid this one feature entice Robinhood to acquire X1?
Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. We’re back after a brief hiatus, with lots of fintech news, including Robinhood’s latest acquisition, Plaid’s newest product and a ChatGPT-powered AI tool that aims to help you save money on bills. Robinhood’s motives When Robinhood announced on
Read moreThe Missing Runbook for Engineering Managers
Photo by Jonathan Chng on UnsplashDespite the technical nature of a Software Engineering Manager’s (EM) work, it is still a leadership position focused on empowering others. During my years at Facebook Reality Labs and WhatsApp, I explored multiple strategies to manage and support teams and ensure we achieved desired results and
Read moreNumbers don’t typically have many prime factors
Suppose you select a 100-digit number at random. How many distinct prime factors do you think it would have? The answer is smaller than you might think: most likely between 5 and 6. The function ω(n) returns the number of distinct prime factors of n [1]. A theorem of Hardy
Read moreOceanGate fires a whistleblower, hackers threaten to leak Reddit data, and Marvel embraces AI art
Hello, lovelies, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech. For many folks, this workweek was a day shorter, thanks to the Juneteenth observance on Monday. But plenty happened. We’ve got coverage on the OceanGate tragedy, and we’ve continued to closely track
Read moreKeep your UI test working when migrating from native Auth0 to WebAuth0 login
How we achieved that without any external libraryPhoto by Sigmund on UnsplashIntroductionsAuth0 is a popular identity and access management platform that provides developers an easy-to-use solution for securing their applications and APIs. With Auth0, developers can quickly add authentication and authorization to their applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.
Read moreMixed Reality App Design Case Study
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Read moreKeeping tabs on dry powder and university spinouts
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. The start of a new season is always a good time to revisit past predictions and look for
Read moreDeal Dive: Caraway shows what else digital health can do
Access to healthcare has long been an issue in the U.S., but the sheer magnitude of the problem became apparent during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous digital health startups stepped in to address the plethora of issues, and for a few quarters, VCs flocked to back them.
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