by crissly | Jun 12, 2020 | Business, Business / Startups
Air-taxi startup Beta Technologies debuted its new aircraft Friday with a dramatic helicopter airlift of the sleek white model across Lake Champlain from Burlington, Vermont, to Plattsburgh, New York. Code-named Alia, the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL)...
by crissly | May 1, 2020 | Business, Business / Startups
On Friday, front-line workers from Amazon, Instacart, Shipt, Target, and Whole Foods have organized to walk out of their jobs together over demands that their companies provide better pay, benefits, and protections. Some of these workers deliver packages; others...
by crissly | Apr 24, 2020 | Business, Business / Startups
Hundreds of Amazon employees are calling out sick today over the company’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as accusations it retaliated against workers who have spoken out. The protests are being organized by United For Respect, a nonprofit advocating...
by crissly | Apr 18, 2020 | Business, Business / Startups
And so exactly what you said, is what I believe too. And the reason that you’ve come to that conclusion, I’ve come to that conclusion, is that it just seems like it makes sense that whatever we can take care of through great technology, and remotely, we...
by crissly | Apr 15, 2020 | Business, Business / Startups
The novel coronavirus pandemic is punishing some venture backed startups, as lockdown orders jeopardize business plans years in the making. Revenue streams have evaporated overnight, leaving young companies desperate to cut expenses and attract more funding as...
by crissly | Feb 12, 2020 | Backchannel, Business, Business / Startups
“I definitely had this impostor syndrome,” he told me in 2018, reflecting on the Yahoo bid. “I’d surrounded myself with people who I respected as executives, and I felt like they understood some things about building a company. They basically convinced me that I...
