Miguel Helft
Forbes
Oakland, CA, United States
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In Largest Ever Gift To Nature Conservancy, Tech CEO Preserves Pristine Stretch Of California Coast
With a $165 million gift to purchase the Bixby Ranch near Santa Barbara, Esri founders and digital mapping pioneers Jack and Laura Dangermond are ensuring protection for 25,000 acres that are home to sensitive habitats, Native American sites and endangered species. → Read More
Meet Zero Mass Water, Whose Solar Panels Pull Drinking Water From The Air
Using engineered nanomaterials built into its Source devices, the company's aims to provide clean drinking water to millions of people around the world. → Read More
With $30 Million Infusion, Mobile Health Startup Bets On AI To Flag Heart Conditions
AliveCor, led by former Google exec Vic Gundotra, gets new cash infusion from investors, including the Mayo Clinic, and introduces a platform that uses machine-learning algorithms to detect atrial fibrillation and other cardiac symptoms. → Read More
Meet Forward, An Ex-Googler's Plan To Reinvent Health Care With A Dose Of Apple, Netflix And AI
Google veteran Adrian Aoun has raised more than $30 million to create a new kind of tech-enabled medical practice that hopes to deliver better care at lower cost. → Read More
Ancestry.com DNA Database Tops 3M, Sales Rise To $850M Ahead Of Likely 2017 IPO
Ancestry's DNA kit sales have grown hand-in-hand with its core genealogy research subscriptions, putting the profitable company on a path to its second IPO → Read More
How Travis Kalanick Is Building The Ultimate Transportation Machine
While every startup compares itself to Uber, Travis Kalanick is positioning his $68 billion company more like Amazon. From people to freight, if something is in motion he wants to be at the center of it . → Read More
Meet Prelude Fertility, The $200 Million Startup That Wants To Stop The Biological Clock
Serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has raised $200 million to persuade women to freeze their eggs while they're young. Decisions about career, mates and motherhood will never be the same. → Read More
The Wizard Of Apps: How Jeff Lawson Built Twilio Into The Mightiest Unicorn
The hottest stock in America, Twilio, is a company you've never heard of. It uses the cloud to put communications everywhere. → Read More
Everything You Missed At Apple's Big iPhone 7 Reveal
Much is at stake Wednesday as the world's most valuable company unveils its most valuable product. → Read More
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Google's Bold Move To Reinvent Every Device On The Planet
New CEO Sundar Pichai is a brainy product guy who aims to reinvent the world's second-most-valuable company--and pretty much every digital experience--with a heavy dose of artificial intelligence. → Read More
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Remembers Silicon Valley 'Coach' Bill Campbell
Former Intuit CEO Bill Campbell wasn't a gifted coder or product whiz. Google's executive chairman and former CEO, ERIC SCHMIDT, recalls his true gift: knowing how to push and motivate people. → Read More
Ousted Sequoia Partner Says He's Being Extorted In Sex Lawsuit
Michael Goguen, who was ousted from Sequoia las week, says accuser sought to extort him with accusations of sexual abuse after consensual relationship → Read More
Former Tech Exec's New Offering: $199 Flights To Europe From LAX And SFO
Icelandic carrier Wow Air expands its Transatlantic routes to West Coast cities hoping to build on the success of its low-cost Boston and Washington flights → Read More
How John And Patrick Collison Built Stripe Into The PayPal Of The Mobile Era
30 Under 30 alums John and Patrick Collison (still just 25 and 27) have built Stripe into a $5 billion mobile payment juggernaut. Their real goal is to shape the future of digital commerce. → Read More
What Bubble? The Unicorn Boom Has Just Begun
Bubble? Hardly. Yes, many $1 billion startups are overvalued. But when viewed together and weighed against the first dot-com boom, they still represent a blockbuster investing moment. → Read More
All The News From Apple's Special Event
Apple is expected to introduced revamped iPhones, a revamped Apple TV and other goodies at its San Francisco event on Wednesday. Follow the liveblog → Read More
GitHub Raises $250 Million In Round Led By Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital leads one of the largest VC rounds this year into the code-hosting platform for software developers → Read More
Dropbox Is Under Siege
As rivals are firebombing Dropbox, behind the scenes cofounder Arash Ferdowsi works to keep the file-synching upstart humming. → Read More
Dropbox Hires Google, Facebook And Twitter Veteran Todd Jackson As VP Of Product
Jackson brings product management chops to Dropbox as it comes under withering attacks from rivals like Microsoft, Box, Google and Apple → Read More