Venture capitalist David Lee was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma 24 years ago when he was a graduate Student at Stanford. Rhett Krawitt’s acute lymphoblastic leukemia was discovered eight years ago when he was just a toddler. Both are now cancer-free. Lee has a thriving investment career in Los Angeles and Krawitt is a Bay Area […]

Security is tight at this brick building on the western edge of Berlin. Inside, a sign warns: “Everybody without a badge is a potential spy!” Spread over five floors, hundreds of men and women sit in rows of six scanning their computer screens. All have signed nondisclosure agreements. Four trauma specialists are at their disposal […]

A group of about 30 engineers sipped coffee and tapped out notes on their laptops, while a charismatic Google employee named Michael “Mig” Gerard whipped through a presentation on how to best apply machine learning, a trendy sub-field of A.I. in which software programs get “smarter” at solving problems over time as they receive more […]

Krishna Yeshwant, a doctor and investor with GV, Alphabet‘s venture firm, takes a lot of meetings with entrepreneurs that have lofty goals to fix health care. But different patients have different needs. So to help entrepreneurs empathize with their users, he came up with a simple, foursquare box that he’ll scrawl on a napkin, in […]

Jack Dorsey has become one of the most influential techology entrepreneurs in the world, joining the ranks of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. He boasts the unique distinction of running not just one but two major companies, Square and Twitter. The dual role has earned Dorsey a net worth more than $4 billion, according to […]

Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recommended on Friday that investors vote against Tesla directors Antonio Gracias and James Murdoch, increasing pressure on the car maker over their roles on its board. ISS also backed two shareholder proposals to be voted on at the company’s annual meeting set for June 5, including one that would […]

A group of people that makes apps has banded together to ask Apple to allow more free trials and better revenue from the App Store. The cadre calls itself the “The Developers Union,” according to its website, and includes over 100 people as of Friday afternoon. The group doesn’t have dues and says it’s a […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A funny as Lord Carpenter Rover of Sunnyside might sound, please don’t reply to a Facebook prompt asking you to create your royal wedding guest name using details from your past. Facebook is always awash in sharable quizzes and prompts (remember ‘Tell us your first 10 rock concerts‘ last year?) and this […]

Former head of J.P. Morgan’s blockchain arm is no longer on Wall Street. But the former insider says major banks like her former employer could get into the cryptocurrency business imminently. “I think it’s coming sooner than people probably think,” Amber Baldet, Former head of J.P. Morgan’s blockchain arm told CNBC’s “Power Lunch” Friday. “But […]

Square customers are treating the payment company’s Cash app more like a bank account than the company intended, CEO Jack Dorsey said this week. While that wasn’t a goal, he said Square plans to capitalize on the trend. “People are using this as their primary banking account, and in some case it’s their only bank […]