A friend called her maternity leave a 'holiday.' It made her realize just how much she got wrong about it, too.

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Samira Shihab, a founder and mom of three, holding her newborn baby.

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It seems Peter Thiel's fund timed a reported $200 million crypto spending spree perfectly

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Peter Thiel at a crypto conference.

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Marcelo Claure and Paul Judge bought SoftBank's diversity fund. Now they're trying to raise $200 million for it.

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Marcelo Claure and Paul Judge of the Open Opportunity Fund.

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Homes made in factories were supposed to save us from the housing crisis, but the companies that make them are failing

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A crane taking four 15-foot-wide by 60-foot-long modular home segments and stacking them one on top of the other to make a new duplex in Aurora, Colorado.

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Cactos builds energy storage systems with old Tesla batteries. It just raised $28.5 million with this 24-slide pitch deck.

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The Cactos team stand alongside battery storage units.

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Startup founders will face an 'unprecedented' crisis of mental health this year, VCs predict

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"It feels as though we are in the early stages of an unprecedented founder mental health crisis," predicts Brad Svrluga from Primary.

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The most important and influential venture capitalists in the US

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From left: Brad Svrluga of Primary; Chris Lyons of Andreessen Horowitz; Jesse Draper of Halogen Ventures; Sarah Liu of Fifth Wall

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Here are 10 of the biggest startups that shut down as part of an industry-wide 'mass extinction event'

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Over 3,000 startups shut down in 2023 after a drastic pullback in venture capital funding.

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The venture capital funding crunch will continue in 2024, but it won't be as bad

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Money under lock

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Pet owners will freeze their dying animals to one day bring them back to life. Billionaire Peter Thiel is backing the technology to make it happen.

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Kai Micah Mills, wearing protective gear for handling cryonics equipment, flashes a thumbs up in a selfie.

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