One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but even he doesn’t think it can do what its biggest proponents say it will do. And he (not surprisingly) blames Microsoft. A month after Salesforce’s enormous tech conference, Dreamforce, during which […]
Marc Andreessen’s family plans to build a ‘visionary’ subdivision near the proposed California Forever utopia city
The family of powerhouse venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, one of the investors behind the hoped-for California Forever utopian city in Solano County, California, is planning a substantial community development in the area, TechCrunch has learned. Andreessen is married to Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, whose Silicon Valley real estate mogul father bought land in Solano County decades before his […]
Marc Andreessen, Sequoia again back Kearny Jackson, this time in $65M Fund III
After securing $ 14 million for its second fund in 2023, early-stage VC firm Kearny Jackson is back with a third fund, this time bringing in $ 65 million in capital commitments, including from a number of first-time institutional funds. The bi-coastal Kearny Jackson invests in B2B SaaS and infrastructure as well as fintech infrastructure, […]