Tag: tech legends

• The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance

  May 3, 2019

  Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-02/satya-nadella-remade-microsoft-as-world-s-most-valuable-company more ›

• The venture circus

  April 3, 2019

  “If you can’t ride two elephants at the same time, what are you doing at the circus?” https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/02/andreessen-horowitz-is-blowing-up-the-venture-capital-model-again/#47e0d14a7d9f more ›

• Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality

  December 31, 2018

  Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos. Identifying victims of human trafficking. Defeating chess grand masters and expert Dota 2 esports… more ›

• The Friendship That Made Google Huge

  December 4, 2018

  The Friendship That Made Google Huge One day in March of 2000, six of Google’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of… more ›

• Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York

  November 14, 2018

  Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York Amazon will open major new outposts in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City and in New York City, splitting its… more ›

• “Google Was Not a Normal Place”: Brin, Page, and Mayer on the Accidental Birth of the Company that Changed Everything | Vanity Fair

  July 22, 2018

  “Google Was Not a Normal Place”: Brin, Page, and Mayer on the Accidental Birth of the Company that Changed Everything | Vanity Fair In 1996, as the World Wide Web… more ›

• The Unicorn Hunters Where does innovation come…

  May 18, 2018

  The Unicorn Hunters Where does innovation come from? Startups. Where do startups come from? Venture capital. For nearly half a century, this has been the conventional wisdom of Silicon Valley.… more ›

• ‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to…

  May 1, 2018

  ‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong’ » Over the last few months, Select All has interviewed more than a dozen prominent technology figures… more ›

• Jeff Bezos interview with Axel Springer CEO on…

  April 30, 2018

  Jeff Bezos interview with Axel Springer CEO on Amazon, Trump, Blue Origin, family, regulation – Business Insider more ›

• Marissa Mayer Is Still Here

  April 23, 2018

  Marissa Mayer Is Still Here » Marissa Mayer was celebrated as a savior when she left Google to become chief executive of Yahoo in 2012. A brilliant computer scientist, Ms.… more ›