The head of Slack, Denise Dresser, tells TechCrunch she is shifting the business chat platform into a “work operating system,” specifically by making Slack a hub for AI applications from Salesforce, Adobe, and Anthropic. The company’s CEO sees Slack as more than a place to chat with your coworkers, but do users want that? And […]
BTS’s RM Celebrates Turning 30 With Impactful Birthday Tradition
BTS‘s leader, RM, celebrated his 30th birthday on September 12 with a meaningful philanthropic gesture. BTS’s RM | @rkive/Instagram On his birthday, the BTS member donated a whopping ₩100 million KRW (about $ 74,700 USD) to the “Everyone’s Veterans Dream” fund in support of the “Uniformed Service Appreciation Campaign” organized by the Ministry of Veterans Affairs. […]
Steelers fans already turning on Russell Wilson after preseason debut
Quarterback Russell Wilson made his preseason debut with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday night against the Buffalo Bills and things did not go well. Wilson was originally supposed to get no more than four drives in the game, but he ended up getting five after the first four were ugly, to say the least. Unfortunately […]
Seed VCs are turning to new ‘pro rata’ funds that help them compete with the big firms
Lee Edwards, partner at Root VC, has a saying at his firm that “pro rata rights are earned, not given.” That may be a bit of a stretch since pro rata refers to a term that VCs put in their term sheets that gives them the right to buy more shares in a portfolio company […]
Why companies are turning to internal hackathons
Companies are always looking for an edge, and searching for ways to encourage their employees to innovate. One way to do that is by running an internal hackathon around a theme and having employees attack a problem together. It not only brings in new ideas and new ways to solve problems for the company and […]