Mike Maples, Jr. is Founder and General Partner of Floodgate, Floodgate is a seed investing firm that has made investments in firms like Twitter, Demandforce and Lyft. He was #12 on the 2018 “Midas List” of top venture capitalists.
Ruthy Hope Slatis couldn't believe what she was hearing. She'd been hired by a temp agency outside Boston for a vague job: transcribing audio files for Amazon.com Inc. For $12 an hour, she and her fellow contractors, or “data…
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Alexei Koseff and J.D. Morris
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has rejected PG&E Corp.'s proposed reorganization plan, dealing a major blow to the company's efforts to control the outcome of its high-stakes bankruptcy case. Newsom said Friday that the company's plan to settle billions of…
I'm extremely jealous of Nathan Heller's article on the rise of GoFundMe as the health insurance of last—and, increasingly, first—resort in the United States. It's a brilliant piece about the desperation of parents, the false promises…
For the last 20 years, the future of nuclear power has stood in a high bay laboratory tucked away on the Oregon State University campus in the western part of the state. Operated by NuScale Power, an Oregon-based energy startup, this prototype…
