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Google’s CEO could face tough questions on Capitol Hill about the company's data practices

by Erika Beras
Dec 11, 2018
Privacy, money and data promise to all be topics of discussion.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O 2018 Conference at Shoreline Amphitheater on May 8, 2018 in Mountain View, California.
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Investing while foreign-born: The advantages of being an immigrant venture capitalist

by Nina Roberts
Dec 6, 2018
Immigrants comprise 13.2 percent of the U.S. population, yet 20.6 percent of the country’s entrepreneurs are immigrants, according to a 2016 report from the New American Economy.
Co-founders of One Way Venture in Boston, Semyon Dukach and Eveline Buchatskiy.
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on today's entrepreneurs

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Dec 4, 2018
There's "more of a wokeness to these founders," he says.
"I think that now is a better time than it's ever been if you have a hobby, if you have a passion, and you're building a following on Instagram ... to potentially turn into something that could be a real business," Alexis Ohanian says.
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Is Netflix personalization making you feel *seen* ... or profiled?

by Kai Ryssdal and Phoebe Unterman
Oct 26, 2018
If you’ve got a Netflix account, you know the company tries real hard to personalize pretty much everything. But a recent Twitter thread by the writer Stacia Brown revealed what felt like racial profiling on her Netflix feed. Netflix says that it doesn’t collect demographic information, and all personalized recommendations come from a consumer’s viewing […]
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Is Netflix personalization making you feel *seen* ... or profiled?

by Kai Ryssdal and Phoebe Unterman
Oct 26, 2018
If you’ve got a Netflix account, you know the company tries real hard to personalize pretty much everything. But a recent Twitter thread by the writer Stacia Brown revealed what felt like racial profiling on her Netflix feed. Netflix says that it doesn’t collect demographic information, and all personalized recommendations come from a consumer’s viewing […]
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Are narcissistic CEOs bad for business?

by Molly Wood
Oct 15, 2018
Chief executives high on the narcissism scale may interview well, but flail long term.
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Private money rules Silicon Valley, so where does that leave Wall Street?

by Molly Wood
Sep 20, 2018
Private funding, like venture capital, can now grow companies as big as an IPO can. Small investors might get a slice, too.
Pedestrians walk by a sign outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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Venture capitalism: Investing today in the companies of tomorrow

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Aug 29, 2018
"We are looking at companies and technology well before everyone else recognizes what it is and where it's going," Ann Miura-Ko says.
“You'll find actually great entrepreneurs out there ... who don't fit the exact profile that everyone believes is the great startup founder,” says Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner of Floodgate. Above, she speaks at the 2018 Makers Conference in Los Angeles.
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Backyard chickens have been hip for a while, but building them a $20,000 coop takes the trend to a whole new level

by Laura Newberry
Jul 16, 2018
Backyard chicken keeping has taken off in the Bay Area as residents seek ways to disconnect from technology. Most people spend $1,000 or less on their birds and coops, but a wealthier subset of chicken owners have really gotten into it, in some cases sinking $20,000 or more into fancy heritage chickens and ornate homes […]
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Is the e-scooter craze more bubble than business?

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
Jun 21, 2018
A look at the tangled investment web that’s fueling so-called micro-mobility.
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