startups
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WeWork, Former CEO Adam Neumann Accused Of Rampant Pregnancy And Gender Discrimination
WeWork and its chief investor, SoftBank, recently paid out WeWork co-founder and self-declared candidate for “President of the World” Adam Neumann to the tune of $US1.7 ($2) billion just to get his arse out the door amid the company’s disastrous collapse. And he’s left quite a mess behind, with a proposed class-action complaint brought by…
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High On His Own Supply: WeWork CEO Reportedly Wants To Be ‘President Of The World’
A new profile of the freewheeling CEO of WeWork reads like a loosely adapted episode of Silicon Valley.
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Pop! Goes The Uber
Things haven’t been going so hot for Uber, which is burning through billions of dollars a year with no fleet of driverless taxis in sight to stop it. Now, the party is really over: According to a report in Crunchbase News, Uber has decided to stop buying hundreds of thousands of dollars in celebratory balloons…
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Nice Bones You Got There, Shame If A Startup Was To Start Renting Out Pogo Sticks
Good news for anyone who’s ever wanted to mix the inherent danger of the trampoline with the thrill of getting nowhere slowly, while simultaneously wondering whether their skeletons should be in more shards. Sweden-based startup Cangoroo is planning to “deploy hundreds of pogo sticks” to “select cities” in the U.S. and elsewhere, CBS San Francisco…