Sequoia's managing partner Roelof Botha noted that there are currently 3,000 venture firms in the United States, while there were just 1,000 when he joined Sequoia 20 years ago.
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Venture capital is not an asset class, says Sequoia's Roelof Botha | TechCrunch
Sequoia's managing partner Roelof Botha noted that there are currently 3,000 venture firms in the United States, while there were just 1,000 w...
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Teller says X has a 2% hit rate, which means that most of the things the company tries don't work out, and that's okay.
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CEO of Alphabet's X, Astro Teller, on what makes a moonshot | TechCrunch
Teller says X has a 2% hit rate, which means that most of the things the company tries don't work out, and that's okay.
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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that, in a few years, we should be working a 3-4 day workweek because of AI.
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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says AI will shorten our workweek | TechCrunch
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that, in a few years, we should be working a three- to four-day workweek because of AI.
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Sequoia's managing partner Roelof Botha defended his colleague's controversial comments that sparked an online backlash, arguing that the VC firm needs "spiky" people.
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Roelof Botha explains why Sequoia supports Shaun Maguire after COO quit | TechCrunch
Sequoia's managing partner Roelof Botha defended his colleague's controversial comments that sparked an online backlash, arguing that the...
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Pytho AI wants to compress mission planning from days to mere minutes.
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Defense startup Pytho AI wants to turbocharge military mission planning and it will show off its tech at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Pytho AI wants to compress mission planning from days to mere minutes.
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Even before a building accepts its first occupant, it has racked up a steep carbon debt. Worldwide, the materials and construction required to erect buildings contributes 11% of global carbon emissions, according to the World Green Building Council. Some places have begun experimenting with multistory timber buildings, and while they’ve recently reached new heights, timber […]
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Strong by Form will show its ultralight engineered wood at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Strong by Form has designed a structural floor piece that can span longer distances than existing engineered wood, making it a replacement for stee...
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MacroCycle's approach to recycling dramatically reduces the amount of energy needed to produce new material, potentially lowering costs to the point where it could compete with virgin plastic.
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MacroCycle found a shortcut for plastic recycling — catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
MacroCycle's approach to recycling dramatically reduces the amount of energy needed to produce new material, potentially lowering costs to the...
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Mbodi users prompt the software with natural language and its cluster of AI agents works to make train easier.
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Mbodi will show how it can train a robot using AI agents at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Mbodi users prompt the software with natural language, and its cluster of AI agents works to make training easier.
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Kevin Damoa came face-to-face with the challenges and dangers of moving freight from road to rail as a 17-year-old U.S. Army enlistee tasked with loading tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles onto the railroad. It was — as the mechanical engineer and founder of Glīd Technologies puts it — the beginning of his love story with […]
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Glīd is building an autonomous shortcut to move freight from road to rail — catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Damoa pinpointed the problem: the complex, multi-step process moving a container from a ship to a freight train. He founded Glīd Technologies to t...
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Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana believes the robotaxi company can increase road safety by reaching scale.
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Waymo's co-CEO on the challenge of scaling robotaxis safely | TechCrunch
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana believes the robotaxi company can increase road safety by reaching scale.
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