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These YC founders pivoted 5 times before building a social app that nabbed 300K users and over $1M ARR in 6 months

A couple of months ago, the founders behind YC-backed social app Candle were in “pivot hell,” cycling through more than a dozen ideas after joining Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, while the clock on their seed money ticked down. Alex Ruber, previously an engineer at Apple, and Parth Chopra, formerly an engineer at Asana and … Read more

Startups and founders could be hardest hit by $100,000 H-1B visas

U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to place $100,000 fees on H-1B visa applications will disproportionately harm America’s startup space, founders and venture capitalists told CNBC this week. H-1B visas — which allow companies to temporarily hire foreign workers in skilled occupations such as IT, healthcare and engineering — were already difficult to secure for U.S. startups, … Read more

YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram are tech giants—but some of their founders cashed out early

To sell or not to sell. That’s the major dilemma founders around the world face: Once they’ve started to get big enough to attract the attention of buyers, they face the decision of whether to cash out now, or use the compliment as fuel to go even bigger. While it may seem like a no-brainer … Read more

The founders of 01A share their playbook at Disrupt 2025

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, we’re bringing to the Builders Stage three people who helped shape the modern internet. On October 28, Adam Bain, Dick Costolo, and David Fischer — now at 01 Advisors — will sit down for an exclusive fireside chat on what it takes to build, scale, and fund startups in today’s ever-shifting … Read more

Opendoor brings back its founders plus a new CEO from Shopify—who could earn $2.8 billion if he sends the stock soaring

Opendoor Technologies is going all in on new CEO Kaz Netjatian with an aggressive compensation package that could see him clear $2.78 billion and own nearly 12% of the company. But he’ll have to more than triple the share price at a real estate technology company some have deemed a buzzy meme stock. In the … Read more

Mistakes, not unicorns, build founders who are ready to lead

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. In venture capital, especially in web3, we spend too much time talking about spectacular outcomes and not enough time on the quiet ones. Extremes dominate the headlines: billion-dollar implosions like the collapse … Read more

A tech founder’s son spurned the Ivy League because its ‘unfun, judgey and biased against white boys’—he’s one of many heading South for college instead

Trevor Traina, a tech entrepreneur from San Francisco, attended Princeton University before pursuing advanced degrees from Oxford and UC Berkeley. His son Robby (not his real name) is a varsity athlete with a 4.0 grade point average who is off to college this year—and wants nothing to do with his father’s alma maters or, for … Read more

I’m rooting for female founders’ comebacks. And for the end of branding women, from girlboss to tradwife and all the way down

It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time when the term “girlboss” was aspirational. I was a rising young tech executive at the time, so inspired by the movement that I became a part of it, setting off to start my own company and a powerful community of female founders on the side. … Read more

Canva’s billionaire founders are minting overnight millionaires with employee share sale

Some past and present Canva employees will soon be overnight millionaires after the design-software maker launched an employee share sale valuing the company at $42 billion this week. The Sydney-based company, cofounded by Australian billionaire couple Cliff Obrecht and Melanie Perkins, said its employee share sale is “already significantly oversubscribed,” attributing the demand to investor … Read more

These Gen Z and millennial founders dropped out of college, took $200,000 from Peter Thiel, and have now built companies worth over $100 billion

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel will give you $200,000. He only asks that you have a great idea and fully commit to it—and the $26 billion tech entrepreneur thinks the only way for young, aspiring entrepreneurs to go all-in is by dropping out of college. Since 2011, the Thiel Fellowship has been equipping young people with … Read more

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