Verkada, a fast-growing Silicon Valley surveillance startup, equips its offices in downtown San Mateo, California, with its own state-of-the-art security cameras. Last year, a sales director on the company's sales team abused their access to these…
Both Sides of the Table
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Mark Suster
– Oct 26, 7:12 AM
Today we're announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can't tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. As with all promotions, the reality is that Kara was already acting as a…
Los Angeles Times
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Laurence Darmiento
– Oct 26, 6:00 AM
A dispute between bond king Bill Gross and his next-door neighbor over a $1-million outdoor sculpture has devolved into police calls to their Laguna Beach mansions, multiple legal actions — and allegations that the billionaire investor…
Austin Russell, the 25-year-old founder and chief executive officer of Luminar Technologies Inc., is set to become one of the youngest self-made billionaires. Russell will hold 104.7 million shares of Luminar after it goes public, a roughly 35%…
Few on Wall Street can do more with a blank check than Bill Foley. At 75, he's the poster child for one of the biggest financial plays of the moment: the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. Over the past four decades the former U.S. Air…
