by Adre's IT | 28 January, 2023 | adobe photoshop, Adre's IT Blog, Alex Song, Fintech, Hiring, Peter Wang, real estate agents, Startups, the realreal
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak took the mic to talk through breaking news, retrospective...
by Adre's IT | 27 January, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, Hardware, Hydrogen, symbio, The Nielsen Company, the realreal
Before they were robots, they were “androids” or “automatons.” The word “robot†is commonly accepted as having arrived in English through — of all places — a Czech play. “R.U.R.” made its public debut in Prague 102 years...
by Adre's IT | 26 January, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, CapitalG, Hiring, investors, Lawrence Coburn, Marty Walsh, Mojito, tech recruitment, the realreal
Layoffs continue to spread across the crypto job market amid macroeconomic volatility and bearish market sentiments, but there are still plenty of startups looking to hire fresh talent. Crypto firms like Coinbase and Crypto.com have cut employees in recent weeks,...
by Adre's IT | 26 January, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, curation, the realreal
Last week, we learned Google’s in-house R&D group, Area 120, had been severely impacted by the broader Google workforce reduction, impacting teams working on some of Google’s more experimental ideas. However, we understand now that at least three Area...
by Adre's IT | 26 January, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Brit Morin, CapitalG, Hiring, real estate agents, startup prices, Startups, the realreal
Startups went on a hiring spree in 2021 as VC cash flowed and the job market was hot. But many overindulged in the talent pool and then had to make large cuts and layoffs in 2022. The worst for startups is likely still to come. This isn’t a pattern that...
by Adre's IT | 25 January, 2023 | ad tech, Adre's IT Blog, adult products, autonomous vehicles, the downside of high valuations, the realreal, Transportation
Waymo, the self-driving technology unit under Alphabet, quietly laid off workers Monday, according to The Information and several posts on LinkedIn and Blind. The cuts at the autonomous vehicle company follow a swell of layoffs at Alphabet and Google late last week....
