T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile in $1.35 billion deal

T-Mobile is acquiring Mint Mobile, the budget-friendly wireless provider partially owned by Ryan Reynolds in a deal valued at up to $1.35 billion, the company announced on Wednesday. The... Read more »

Once scammed for ten grand, this VC is building a crypto security vault

One of the barriers to bringing cryptocurrency into the mainstream is the frequency of fraud in the space. Last year alone, over $3.9 billion worth of crypto was “lost”,... Read more »

Fine-dining meals delivered to your home are just an Entrée order away

Meal delivery services can save time, and typically money, but imagine getting a Michelin-star meal delivered to your home. Enter meal delivery startup Entrée. Jon Bell and Jason Weingarten... Read more »

‘Trust is a hard thing to earn’: SVB’s closure could disproportionately affect Black founders

Dakotah Rice, the founder of investing platform Pollit, was sitting on his couch Thursday watching CNBC as he does every morning. Then, his phone started ringing — and didn’t... Read more »

Practice your pitch with Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch Live records live today and tomorrow at 12:00 PDT, and you’re invited to pitch your startup. Called Pitch Practice, it should be self-explanatory. Participants have a chance to... Read more »

Interview with OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: GPT-4 isn’t perfect, but neither are you

OpenAI shipped GPT-4 yesterday, the much-anticipated text-generating AI model, and it’s a curious piece of work. GPT-4 improves upon its predecessor, GPT-3, in key ways, for example giving more factually... Read more »

Grafana acquires Pyroscope and merges it with its Phlare continuous profiling database

Open source observability platform Grafana Labs today announced that it has acquired Pyroscope, the company behind the eponymous open source continuous profiling platform. Founded in 2020, the Y Combinator-backed... Read more »

Quora’s Poe is launching subscriptions to let you chat with GPT-4 powered bot

Yesterday, OpenAI unveiled its new GPT-4 model and competitor Anthropic unveiled its own ChatGPT competitor Claude. Parallelly, Quora announced that its chatbot app Poe will now have a paid... Read more »

Samsung commits $230B for five new chip plants in South Korea

Samsung Electronics said today that it plans to invest approximately $230 billion (300 trillion won) to build five new memory and foundry fabs in South Korea — a big... Read more »

Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway

Healy Jones Contributor Share on Twitter Healy Jones runs financial planning and analysis for Kruze Consulting. Growth at all costs is out — and cutting burn and extending runway... Read more »
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