Fitz Tepper
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Whitney Wolfe Herd doesn’t care what she’s supposed to do
It’s 4:55pm Central Time on a Tuesday at Bumble headquarters in Austin, Texas. Whitney Wolfe Herd, the 28-year-old founder and CEO of the woman-led dating app is showing me around the nearly four-year-old startup’s office before we sit down to talk. Our first stop is the standard startup watering hole, with a few twists. The fridges […] → Read More
Bumble is suing Match Group for $400M for fraudulently obtaining trade secrets
Two weeks ago Match Group (Tinder’s parent company) sued Bumble for patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Bumble has now returned the favor by filing a separate lawsuit accusing Match of multiple improprieties in regards to interactions between the two companies over the past few months. To be clear, this lawsuit isn’t a response to […] → Read More
Morning Brew is a daily business briefing built for millennials
What’s the best way to stay up to date on things happening within your industry? Seasoned finance professionals read the Wall Street Journal. Anyone who wants to work in politics reads The Washington Post. In Silicon Valley we have industry-specific news sites like TechCrunch supplemented by Hacker News and others. But what about young business […] → Read More
Lawyaw uses AI to help lawyers draft documents faster
It’s no secret that much of the legal industry is build on reusable content. Most law firms have their own customized set of standard documents (like NDAs or Wills), but lawyers or associates still have to customize these documents by hand each time a client needs them drafted. Lawyaw, part of YC’s Winter ’18 class, is building […] → Read More
Ben is a chatbot that lets you learn about and buy Bitcoin
It’s generally a given that whenever a new technology takes off people rush into the space to build everything under the sun, and eventually natural selection kicks in and only the truly useful remain. For example, chatbots became trendy last year and we quickly began seeing chatbots for weather, movie recommendations, personal finance, etc. Some of […] → Read More
CryptoKitties raises $12M from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures
CryptoKitties, the virtual collectible kitten game that turned into a viral sensation has raised $12M in funding and will be spun out from Axiom Zen, the Vancouver and San Francisco-based design studio that originally built the game. The round is being led by Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures, both of which have quickly developed a […] → Read More
Bumble responds to Match’s patent lawsuit
Yesterday we reported that Match, the parent company of Tinder, was suing Bumble for patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Specifically, Match alleged that Bumble “copied Tinder’s world-changing, card-swipe-based, mutual opt-in premise” for which a patent was filed in 2013 (before Bumble was founded) but just granted a few months ago. Today Bumble has responded to […] → Read More
Drake and Ninja are playing Fortnite live on Twitch
What do Drake, Ninja the professional esports player, Kim Dotcom, Travis Scott and NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster have in common? They’re all playing Fortnite together right now and live-streaming it on Twitch . Yes, seriously. You can tune in to Ninja’s channel here to check out the action. playing fort nite with @ninja — […] → Read More
FanDuel’s new March Madness game lets casual fans pick teams instead of players
Over the last year or so daily fantasy sports companies like FanDuel and DraftKings have shifted their focus towards building products that are simple enough.. → Read More
Square Cash now supports direct deposits for your paycheck
It seems like each new feature Square adds to its Cash app brings it one step closer to being a de-facto bank account for its users. Case in point, the app.. → Read More
Coinbase is launching its own cryptocurrency index fund
When you're the runaway leader in a growing industry you typically have two opinions: A) Stay in your lane and let other companies pop up to solve the.. → Read More
Mighty has raised $9M to build a CRM for legal and medical funders
What’s better than building a company in a fast growing industry? Building a service provider for all the other companies in that fast growing industry. → Read More
Intelligo is using AI to make background checks relevant again
To realize that the background check industry needs an overhaul look no further than the backlog of 700,000 background checks faced by the federal agency that.. → Read More
Bumble is becoming the LA Clippers’ jersey sponsor
The latest company to sponsor an NBA team by putting a patch on a jersey is...Bumble, the female-led dating and networking app. The company's logo will now be.. → Read More
Bumble is banning guns from profile pictures
Dating app Bumble is joining the dozens of major companies that have decided to take the fight against gun violence into their own hands following a string of.. → Read More
Coinbase has hired LinkedIn’s M&A boss to spearhead new acquisitions
Coinbase is continuing its executive hiring spree as the company has announced that Emilie Choi is joining Coinbase as Vice President of Corporate and.. → Read More
Hexel lets you create an Ethereum token for your community
What if it look like if the majority of newly issued ERC-20 tokens were used for good, instead of scammy ICO evil? One Y Combinator-backed startup that.. → Read More
Alexa has literally lost her voice as users report outages and unresponsiveness
Amazon's Alexa smart assistant seems to be down this morning. We've been hearing reports over the last hour of either delayed responses or just total loss of.. → Read More
Uber co-founder Garrett Camp is creating a new cryptocurrency
Garrett Camp, best known for being a co-founder of Uber and founder of the accelerator/venture fund Expa, is launching his own cryptocurrency. The currency.. → Read More
Amazon Prime Video will now show pay-per-view UFC fights
If you're a UFC fan you'll now have another place to watch fights -- Amazon Prime Video. The online retailers just announced that starting with UFC 222 on.. → Read More