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I fight for the user. Editor-At-Large . Send me news tips & crazy rants via DM or josh at techcrunch

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 Dec 2018

    THREAD: After writing hundreds of articles about about apps this year, here’s my wishlist of feature launches like Twitter DM search & Uber “Quiet Ride”. First up, Instagram... 1/

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Electric vehicle chargers, AR for soldiers, and the Costco of weed were amongst our favorites from YC Demo Day 1

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Arlan & Backstage won't quit despite fundraising set back. LPs will learn she has access to underpriced talent

    2/ ☔️100+ companies invested in ☔️$50mil+ raised by portfolio in 2018 ☔️4-City Accelerator ☔️$7m+ raised via equity/rev ☔️raising $36mil for Black women ...in *this* body! Grew a lot, built a ton, had some L’s, scaled back, would do it all again. ...and just getting started.
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  4. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    "At a time when developers are becoming increasingly suspicious of Facebook, treating them better so they keep building bonus experiences is a smart move for Twitter."

    Twitter cracks down on API abuse, will charge B2B devs by
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  5. 5 hours ago

    Twitter wants to prevent having its own Cambridge Analytica while making sure it gets paid for its data. Here's our exclusive decyphering of Twitter's plaform changes

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  6. 6 hours ago

    Patreon couldn't survive charging all creators 5% so it's upping its rates without screwing its early loyalists

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  7. 8 hours ago

    Instagram Shopping checkout brings a new revenue stream in payment fees + will boost ad spend

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  8. 16 hours ago

    Take the pulse of Silicon Valley by skimming through Y Combinator’s newest startups

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  9. 21 hours ago

    Y Combinator’s spacious new SF Demo Day venue sadly makes it easy to spot unwanted founders in team t-shirts aimlessly wandering in search of funding

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  10. 22 hours ago

    Welcome to Ychella, the startup accelerator festival complete with experiences like “jet packs” and “unwanted investor convos”

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  11. Mar 16

    “I know you’re all over 21, but do you still know how to jump?” 17-year old Billie Eilish asks her crowd

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  12. Mar 16

    On Amazon Prime: “Send me what I want, before I want it, in as many boxes as possible!” -Daily Show’s at

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  13. Mar 16

    Property tech fight! Zeus scores $24M to challenge Sonder ($130M raised) & Domio ($66M)

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  14. Mar 15

    The next big property tech opportunity after vacation rentals gets a Series A from Initialized’s

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  15. Mar 15

    Best part of SXSW: Guy gets added to group chat with someone who owes him money from 2012, shames him hard in the thread while everyone watches like

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  16. Mar 15

    PropertyTech is red-hot. Zeus quietly climbed to a $40M run rate stealing corporate housing from Airbnb

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  17. Mar 15

    Instagram's founders tell me about the importance of social app competition to expressing prismatic identity

    1:26
    . Founders and stopped by 2019 for an Interactive Keynote. Watch some of the highlights from their conversation with 's here.
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  18. Mar 14

    Spotify’s counterargument should be “we contribute a popular service that makes iPhones appealing to Apple’s customers”

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  19. Mar 14

    Few startups left here but Uber Eats won with fresh food & concerts like Khalid

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  20. Mar 14

    Why would Facebook execs be mad about encryption? Because it hides child abusers just as well as political dissidents. My investigation:

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  21. Mar 14

    Facebook's Cox writes that "we will need leaders who are excited to see the new direction through." Zuck writes that new WhatsApp head "Will [Cathcart] . . . believes deeply in providing end-to-end encryption". Is that what drove out Cox?

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