Aileen Lee is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. She partners at the earliest stages with enterprise and consumer-oriented startup teams to build products customers love, and to help teams […]
OpenAI hosts a dev day, TechCrunch reviews the M3 iMac and MacBook Pro, and Bumble gets a new CEO
Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering the past week (or so) in tech industry happenings. This week marked OpenAI’s first-ever dev conference, […]
TC+ Roundup: Know your goals before taking the plunge
“The lure of entrepreneurship is undeniable,” writes resident pitch expert Haje Jan Kamps. But starting a company is also a hard road, and the decision to go for […]
Tech layoffs return with a vengeance, Gaza internet collapses and Apple hosts a Halloween event
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past week in happenings around the tech sphere. Winter’s finally arrived, judging by the NYC […]
TC+ Roundup: Breaking up is hard to do
Good morning, everyone! It’s Friday! Today I’m thinking about planning for the future. We plan for rain, we plan our meals for the week, and we even make […]
Charting the last 10 years of the unicorn era
Do you know how many unicorns there were when Aileen Lee crowned them with this now-ubiquitous nickname in her 2013 TechCrunch column? Only 39. And at the time, […]
10 years since the term ‘unicorn’ was coined, we’ve almost come full circle
Ten years ago today, Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee penned a column for TechCrunch that brought the term “unicorn” into the world. Defined at the time as “U.S.-based software […]