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Bill DeBlasio's Uber targeting is in danger of making NYC a tech joke

This is going to be BIG.

It's also hard to argue that anyone who supports NYC's tech community wouldn't have rather had Uber build their company here versus in San Francisco. Imagine what the NYC tech community would be like had Uber and Airbnb grown up here. Uber employs 3000 people, more than most startups in NYC do, and is only six years old.

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Tunisian enterprise AI startup InstaDeep raises $100M from AI Capital, BioNTech, Google

TechCrunch

They can range from a large shipping company finding ways to efficiently transport thousands of containers to a railway station, with more than 30,000 kilometres of railway, trying to automate scheduling for 10,000 trains. Other examples are the design of advanced therapeutics with silicon and routing components on a printed circuit board.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. And that is what we’ll do.” Now they are partners.

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An inside look at a Ukrainian fintech startup adapting to life during wartime

TechCrunch

Our company created an emergency team, whose main responsibilities were to ensure the accommodation and transportation of our employees from dangerous zones. Thanks to the availability of numerous digital tools and programs, our workflow was not heavily disrupted. The COVID-19 pandemic forced companies to shift to digital.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

” Here is what they told me: Peter Barrett, Playground Global: Why the venture community decided to call in an airstrike on their portfolio companies is quite beyond me. While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. Transporting kids.

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Newsletter: Ukraine crisis: We need new food tech

OurCrowd

Startup of the Week: NeuReality: Slashing AI costs across the board. Artificial intelligence technology is disrupting almost every industry from agriculture to retail to transportation, but it doesn’t come cheap. AI deployment is held back by hardware costs and software complexity.