Cory Weinberg

Stephanie Kwok, 62, a Cambodian refugee who built a prosperous livelihood in the Los Angeles area with her husband and three sons, died unexpectedly on January 5. She soon would have been my mother-in-law. I have been learning more about her story: medium.com/@coryweinberg/…

Smart #dealmaker from @coryweinberg on the venture investors who are now helping portfolio co's find buyers. “We, as an industry, have an inventory problem,” says one. theinformation.com/articles/the-v…

The Information reporter, @CoryWeinberg shares his take on the upcoming @figma IPO. "Anyone who looks at the business is like, 'This is a great company.'" But as Figma gears up to go public, the real debate is: “Are we looking too much backwards at Figma's business and not…

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New column w/ @coryweinberg on speed & greed theinformation.com/articles/speed…

Britain’s first and only emo band @LosCampesinos (whom I’ve seen live six times) turned down $60K to license (almost certainly You! Me! Dancing!) for an Airbnb commercial.

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Excited to launch a new daily tech video show @theinformation TITV at 1 pm ET today / 10 am PT with @akashpasricha. I'll be interviewing Mark Zuckerberg at the bottom of the hour and asking him about his AI hiring blitz and what's next. See you on the stream at…

Weekend: The Big Read As blockbuster Figma IPO approaches, CEO Dylan Field bounces back from Adobe fiasco. Read more from @coryweinberg 👇 theinformation.com/articles/figma…

28 days later but the monkeys are infected with passive aggression instead of rage

“A lot of the early OpenAI people have achieved financial independence already. At some point, people are seeing a $25 million offer, and they’re just like, ‘Well, after tax it’s half that.’” new from me, inside the AI talent draft: theinformation.com/articles/insid…

$1 billion plus in revenue. No investors. What a story. @steph_palazzolo @coryweinberg theinformation.com/articles/littl…

It's the data labeling startup you've never heard of—but it has over $1B in revenue, is profitable, and...did it all without investors? @coryweinberg & I get into Surge AI, the Scale competitor that surged ahead of it while staying out of the limelight: theinformation.com/articles/littl…

Scoop updated from @KalleyHuang and @coryweinberg on Meta's talks to hire Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman for AI efforts. Talks include a potential $1b+ buyout of their venture fund NFDG theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

first thing I've read that makes meta scale deal make sense by @KalleyHuang @coryweinberg theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Scoop on Meta/Scale deal deets: - Meta investing >$14B in Scale, owning 49% of the startup. - Alex Wang and other top Scale people going to Meta. - Scale shareholders get paid Questions: - What's Scale's future look like? - Was this Zuck's top choice? theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

tuesday morning reading for Meta employees theinformation.com/articles/fame-…

Digging into Chime's VC winners & losers w/ @coryweinberg theinformation.com/articles/chime…

Long-short funds Get that Bag Today

New filing shows Chime IPO range valuing it at $10.7B, at the midpoint on a fully-diluted basis. That's down from $25B in 2021. The 2 founders own ~9% of the company but have >70% of the voting power. VC firm Cathay is selling $100M in the offering. theinformation.com/briefings/chim…

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