Features & Analysis

• Once High-Flying Software Firms Confront Sluggish Growth (The Information, Aug. 2024)

• Eric Schmidt’s Split With Advisor Reveals Complex Deals With Ex-Girlfriends (The Information, July 2024)

• Why a $14 Billion Startup Is Now Hiring PhD’s to Train AI From Their Living Rooms (The Information, June 2024)

• The Fuzzy Math Behind Scale AI’s Valuation (The Information, July 2024)

• How Investment Banks Are Helping Canva, Stripe, Figma Stay Private (The Information, April 2024)

• The Investors Sitting Out the Latest AI Wave—So Far (The Information, March 2024)

• The Quiet Silicon Valley Insider Complicating Sam Altman’s Return (The Information, Nov. 2023)

• Banks Ran Their Safest IPO Playbooks This Year. It Backfired (The Information, Nov. 2023)

• SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Looks for Investing Redemption (The Information, Sept. 2023)

• ‘Tidal Wave’ of Down Rounds Hits Startups (The Information, Aug. 2023)

• Faded Hype for Real Estate Tech Leaves Cadre, Others Scrambling (The Information, May 2023)

• SVB’s Failure Means ‘Easiest Money’ For Startups Is Gone (The Information, March 2023)

• Why Stripe Is Cheaper Than Adyen (The Information, Feb. 2023)

• The Private Tech Company That Let Employee Stock Grants Evaporate (The Information, Feb. 2023)

• FTX Collapse Tarnishes Sequoia’s Reputation, Prompts Apology (The Information, Nov. 2022)

• Investors Wary of Board Seats at Crypto Startups Due to Legal Risks (The Information, Oct. 2022)

• Can Grindr’s New CEO Sell the Gay Sex App to Wall Street? (The Information, Sept. 2022)

• So Your Startup Died. What Do You Do With All That Swag? (The Information, June 2022)

• SPAC Boom Helps Tech Founders Cement Control (The Information, June 2021)

• Recent IPOs Yield Huge Equity Grants for Founders (The Information, May 2021)

• Laid-Off Airbnb Employees Lost Mountain of Canceled Stock (The Information, Dec. 2020)

• Airbnb’s Biggest IPO Winners (The Information, Dec. 2020)

• Airbnb Wrestles With House Party Problem Ahead of IPO (The Information, Sept. 2020)

• Can Brian Chesky Save Airbnb? (The Information, April 2020)

• How SoftBank-Backed Hotel Chain Oyo Lost Its Way in the U.S. (The Information, Feb. 2020)

• SoftBank’s Latest Real Estate Headache: Setbacks at Katerra (The Information, Oct. 2019)

• At Fast-Growing WeWork, an HR Department in Turmoil (The Information, Sept. 2019)

• How Telegram Offers Way Around Public Records Laws (The Information, March 2016)

• Inside Facebook’s Campaign to Convince You It Cares (The Information, Jan. 2016)

• For Transgender Students, Business Schools Are a Transition (The New York Times, Feb. 2015)

Scoops

• Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz Say They Plan to Donate to Trump PAC (The Information, July 2024)

• Cloud Computing Startup CoreWeave Prepares for 2025 IPO (The Information, May 2024)

• Anduril Seeks $12.5 Billion Valuation After Doubling Revenue (The Information, May 2024)

• StubHub Plans Summer IPO in New Test of Market (The Information, April 2024)

• Cameo Valuation Plunges at Least 90% in ‘Cramdown’ Funding Round (The Information, March 2024)

• How a Legacy Media Company Dwarfed Venture Capitalists’ Returns on Reddit (The Information, March 2024)

• Figma Grew Fast Even as Executives Failed to Clinch Adobe Deal (The Information, Dec. 2023)

• How Anduril Is Pushing VC’s Push Into Defense Tech (The Information, Oct. 2023)

• Instacart’s Secret Deals With Grocery Giants (The Information, Sept. 2023)

• Inside Databricks’ Contrarian Playbook: Burn $1.5 Billion to Buy Big Growth (The Information, Sept. 2023)

• Arm’s IPO Pitch: Don’t Worry, Growth Is Coming (The Information, Sept. 2023)

• SpaceX Forecasts Doubling Revenue to $8 Billion (The Information, July 2023)

• Liquid Death Hires Goldman Sachs, Aiming for 2024 IPO (The Information, July 2023)

• Growth Wanes at Instacart, Gopuff (The Information, June 2023)

• SeatGeek Files Confidentially to Go Public (The Information, April 2023)

• Stripe Cuts Valuation Target After Facing Fundraising Hurdles (The Information, Feb. 2022)

• Inside Stripe’s $55 Billion Pitch to Investors (The Information, Feb. 2022)

• Stripe Burned Through More than $55 Billion in Cash Last Year (The Information, Feb. 2022)

• Reddit Aims for Second Half IPO as Market’s Gears Quietly Turn (The Information, Feb. 2022)

• Stripe Plans to Go Public in Next Year or Make a Deal to Resolve Employee Stock Squeeze (The Information, Jan. 2022)

• Databricks Discussing Summer 2023 Public Listing (The Information, Dec. 2022)

• Bankman-Fried Spun His Spending Spree, and Investors Let It Slide (The Information, Nov. 2022)

• VCs Consider Suing Bankman-Fried (The Information, Nov. 2022)

• Bankrupt Startup That Blew $2 Billion From SoftBank Sues Ex-CEO, Board Directors Over ‘Self-Dealing’ (The Information, 2022)

• SoftBank-Backed Katerra to Shut Down (The Information, June 2021)

• Gopuff Revenue Triples, but Growing Competition to Test Expansion (The Information, April 2021)

• Airbnb Used Facebook and Twitter to Weed Out Hate Groups (The Information, Jan. 2021)

• Tech CEOs Are Saying Goodbye to San Francisco (The Information, Nov. 2020)

• Airbnb to Cut 25% of Work Force (The Information, May 2020)

• Lime’s Valuation May Fall 80% in Emergency Fundraising (The Information, March 2020)

• SoftBank’s Secret $750 Million Investment in GoPuff (The Information, Jan. 2020)

• Airbnb Lost $100 Million in Q2 (The Information, Nov. 2019)

• WeWork, Bankers Have Discussed Laying Off One-Third of Workforce (The Information, Sept. 2019)

• At Airbnb, Tensions Bubble Between Chesky and Tosi (The Information, Jan. 2018)

• Sidewalk Labs Chose Toronto Despite Pushback From Larry Page (The Information, Oct. 2017)

• Sharing Decline Blurs Instagram’s Picture (The Information, June 2016)