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Both Sides of the Table
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Mark Suster
– Oct 17, 2019, 8:33 AM
I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I…
The New York Times
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Alex Williams
– Oct 17, 2019, 2:00 AM
“Billionaires should not exist,” Senator Bernie Sanders said last month. And, at the Democratic presidential debate this week, he said that the wealth disparity in America is “a moral and economic outrage.”…
ProPublica
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Justin Elliott
– Oct 17, 2019, 2:00 AM
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Last fall, Intuit's longtime CEO Brad Smith embarked…
Photo: Noah Berger for Bloomberg via Getty Images Yahoo announced on Wednesday that it is winding down its long-running Yahoo Groups site. As of October 21, users will no longer be able to post new content to the site, and on December 14 Yahoo will…
Climate change. Flawed algorithms. Deadly diseases. Tech monopolies. We are facing many existential challenges that need to be tackled head-on before it's too late. Many of these problems are of our own making, consequences of our relentless push…
The Washington Post
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Sherrilyn Ifill
– Oct 17, 2019, 3:49 PM
Sherrilyn Ifill is the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In a speech Thursday at Georgetown University, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg invoked Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Black Lives Matter and the…