Carta bet big on its 'Nasdaq for private markets.' It all came crashing down with a single post on LinkedIn.

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Carta CEO Henry Ward
Carta CEO Henry Ward

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A former Google manager says the tech giant is rife with fiefdoms and the 'creeping failure' of senior leaders who weren't making tough calls

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Google's office in Mountain View, California.

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A boomer who left the Bay Area to travel around Asia and the Caribbean explains how it's made his life cheaper and more peaceful

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Steve Lopes and his wife Mila
Steve Lopes and his wife Mila have lived in almost a dozen countries.

Steve Lopes

I moved to Silicon Valley and left after 2 years. In my rush to join the bandwagon, I overlooked some crucial aspects.

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$27 billion up in smoke – that's how much cash the 3,200 startups that failed this year had raised, says PitchBook

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Burning pile of money
Some 3,200 startups failed this year, according to PitchBook.

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Silicon Valley has a new version of its beloved 'move fast and break things' mantra

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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DeepMind's cofounder Demis Hassabis is a chess champion who landed funding from Peter Thiel by talking about a key tension in the game

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Hassabis and Thiel
Demis Hassabis used his knowledge of chess to win DeepMind's first major investment from Peter Thiel.

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Silicon Valley agrees that Satya Nadella is winning

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Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is living his best life.

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A former venture capitalist known as Silicon Valley's 'party animal' has been convicted in a $19 million fraud case

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Michael Rothenberg

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Ukraine is thinking more like Silicon Valley to defend itself against Russia's electronic warfare

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The Ukrainian government has made innovating military technologies, such as radios and drones, that can combat Russia's electronic warfare campaign a priority.

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