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Technology reporter . Formerly . Mountain climber in my spare time. heather.somerville@wsj.com/ . DM for Signal #

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    14 hours ago

    For , we'll take all the good news we can. Lack of transmission of virus in 4 pregnancies to the newborns (1st report on this important question)

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    Mar 14

    Coronavirus scenes from Silicon Valley: staff can't figure out how to log in remotely to secret projects. offices look like a crime scene, with equipment ripped out and snack bars raided. employees are hoarding string cheese.

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    Mar 12

    San Francisco embarcadero metro station basically empty at 9:30am on a thursday

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    Feb 17

    ok because everyone is asking, this is , it still isn’t fixed and we are stranded three hours from home 🙃

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    Feb 15

    Uber 5 years ago, explicitly: Uber will decrease traffic congestion Reality today: Uber/Lyft add to traffic congestion Read my story on this window into Silicon Valley tunnel vision / inability to see bad efffects that are obvious in hindsight

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  6. Feb 7

    New ⁦⁩ Vision Fund was supposed to be a record $108 billion, but after a series of debacles (ie ⁦⁩) it could end up being less than half that, with nearly all the cash coming from SoftBank itself From ⁦⁦⁩

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    Feb 2

    Here is a link to our story, which I’m proud to have my name on alongside the singular

    The Wall Street Journal just published an article about me and Bridgewater that is filled with intentional factual errors. You can read about my account of what's happening here:
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    Jan 10

    Bill Maris, who founded Google Ventures but left in 2016: "David Drummond is the reason I left Google. I simply could not work with him any longer. We have very, very different ideas about how to treat people, and this was a long time coming."

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    Jan 10

    Most likely outcome for Casper. It goes public. Then gets bought by private equity, which has been doing "the sleep economy" for decades. Then it goes broke. And gets sold to another private equity firm. Then it gets sold to another private equity firm.

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    Jan 9

    SoftBank-backed delivery app Rappi lays off 6% of workforce: statement

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  11. Jan 9

    This is 100% false — unless the funding round that is/was supposed to close by January already fell apart “Kraus also refuted rumors that Lime is actively raising a new round of funding despite months of ongoing rumors that the company was running out of cash ...”

    Scooter Sunset. Lime ending operations in numerous cities that have good weather for scooters (San Diego, Phoenix, Rio)
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  12. Jan 7

    Hello Twitter. I am on maternity leave for the next several months, back in the saddle late summer. Likely just in time for the final fireworks of the SoftBank Vision Fund implosion. If you know me, feel free to drop me a line along the way. Happy New Year.

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    Jan 6

    2020 off to a great start for Softbank startups

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  14. 27 Dec 2019

    Get your free delivery and $3 organic skincare products while you can. VC subsidies for consumer tech companies are falling out of favor. Remember the collapse of ? More of that to come. Big test will be exits for &

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    27 Dec 2019

    Yanai was a rare voice of dissent inside SoftBank’s boardroom. His departure comes as some shareholders and banks are getting anxious about Masa...

    SoftBank says Uniqlo founder Yanai to resign as external board member
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    27 Dec 2019

    Tech Face New Investor Mandate: Over

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    26 Dec 2019

    Airbnb employees in charge of user safety have wanted to do more to police the platform over the years - and have been overruled. In time for your holiday plans, our investigation into the Silicon Valley giant

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    24 Dec 2019

    Chinese government - central and local - shifts from lending to private EV start-ups to owning them directly.

    The Huzhou Wuxing District Government appears set to acquire a majority stake in heavily financed Shanghai-based electric vehicle start-up Youxia Motors, according to reports out of China.
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    23 Dec 2019

    Silicon Valley at your service

    NEW: For a while, Juul was offering to pay schools to teach its anti-vaping curriculum. A Stanford professor says Juul stole PowerPoint slides from her, down to the image and word, in its attempt to get into classrooms.
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  20. 24 Dec 2019

    End of an era for as co-founder steps down from the board he handily controlled (w/ allies) for years. But you can’t ever take the TK out of Uber. So much of what the company is today is rooted in TK’s ambition, ego, smarts & selfishness.

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