TechCrunch disrupt

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares  · 5 Oct 2015  · 232pp  · 63,846 words

needle, attending meetups and events is a prime way to do so. Tech startups in phase II can take advantage of larger tech conferences like TechCrunch Disrupt, Launch Conference, and SXSW to build on their existing traction. Twitter launched nine months before SXSW in 2007 and was seeing decent amounts of traction

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, 91 targeting blogs, 3, 25, 29, 31, 42–47, 209 Mint and Noah Kagan, 42–45 tactics, 46–47 targets, 47 TechCrunch, 3, 48–51 TechCrunch Disrupt, 184 TechShop SF, 188 term sheets, 143–44 testing channels. See traction testing testing SEM, 66–68, 73 Thiel, Peter, 19–20 tiered payout programs

How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

by Billy Gallagher  · 13 Feb 2018  · 359pp  · 96,019 words

just as much on its technical progress as it did on Evan’s evolving view of wearable technology. In September 2013, Evan spoke at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, when Google Glass was near the height of its hype; he said Snapchat was not even considering building an app for Google Glass, saying

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

by Brad Stone  · 30 Jan 2017  · 373pp  · 112,822 words

a higher and higher elevation.” In May, Chesky met fellow traveler Travis Kalanick for the first time. At a conference in New York City called TechCrunch Disrupt, Chesky and Kalanick were invited to appear onstage together in a panel discussion titled “Disrupting Offline Businesses.” Chesky had been an Uber fan since Ryan

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few cars on the road. Kochman was under a mountain of pressure. Kalanick wanted to unveil Uber’s second city to the broader public at TechCrunch Disrupt in June, where he was set to make that joint appearance with Brian Chesky. Kochman hired two employees, one to oversee driver operations and another

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, co-founder and chief operating officer of Lyft, left, and Logan Green, co-founder and chief executive officer of Lyft, have a laugh at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 conference in San Francisco on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. TechCrunch, which runs from Sept. 9 through 11, features leaders from various technology fields

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Wei and President Jean Liu at a company party in February, 2016. (Courtesy of Zhang Wei / Didi) Brian Chesky and Travis Kalanick on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in May 2011 with moderator Erick Schonfeld. (Joe Corrigan/Getty Images for AOL) Brian Chesky and Travis Kalanick appearing together at the

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TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City, May 2011. (Charles Eshelman/Getty Images for AOL) Acknowledgments Writing a book about one fast-growing and secretive technology juggernaut

How to Build a Billion Dollar App: Discover the Secrets of the Most Successful Entrepreneurs of Our Time

by George Berkowski  · 3 Sep 2014  · 468pp  · 124,573 words

apps that other people are building. TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCES. No matter which city you live in, you’ll find a handful of great technology conferences. From TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, San Francisco and Berlin, to LeWeb in Paris, to DLD in Berlin and Web Summit in Dublin, there are countless conferences in

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there will be one almost every week for you to attend, which means you have no excuse for not getting out there and meeting people! TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT HACKATHON. A hackathon is where developers (and designers and people with ideas) all get together and build something functional – a website, an app – in a

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.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p70-97.pdf. 6 Aileen Lee, 2 November 2013, op. cit. 7 To find out more about the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, visit www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2013. 8 Anthony Ha, ‘Tristan O’Tierney, Square’s Co-Founder and Early iOS Engineer, Leaves for Destinations Unknown’, article on

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–61 located in one place 193–4 marketing 262–6, 342–4 marketing engineering 344–5 product development and engineering 357–63 ‘two-pizza’ 374 TechCrunch Disrupt 97, 99 technology conferences 97–8, 202, 312–13 Techstars 159, 160, 168 Tencent 307 Tencent QQ 226 term sheets 168, 169, 170, 243–4

Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

by Sarah Kessler  · 11 Jun 2018  · 246pp  · 68,392 words

world, including Managed by Q’s Dan Teran, packed themselves into a warehouse event space just off of New York City’s FDR Highway for TechCrunch Disrupt. Half trade show, half Shark Tank–style pitch competition, Disrupt is a tri-annual startup conference where startups with names such as Happification, Binary Mango

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workers had been well documented, they hadn’t been a death sentence. Inc. magazine had recently profiled Handy’s “painful path to profitability.”1 At TechCrunch Disrupt, the stage was cordoned off from the rest of the conference by thick black curtains, but the buzz of optimistic entrepreneurs was still so loud

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labor as being more like temp work. Unlike freelancers, 77% of temp workers say they would rather have a traditional full-time job.6 At TechCrunch Disrupt, Dan and Oisin clutched bottles of conference-branded water and crossed their legs, each resting a foot on a knee. Rather than answer the question

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protections or safety nets provided by law to employees. And all of the misclassification lawsuits in the world aren’t going to change that. At TechCrunch Disrupt, the conversation between Dan and Oisin ultimately turned to this bigger structural problem. As Jon started moving on to the next question, Dan interrupted to

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Jobs Strategy and knolling labor and marketplace mentors New York City office operator assemblies operators (frontline workers) origin and theory of positive touchpoints subcontractors and TechCrunch Disrupt 2017 and worker benefits worker earnings worker equity packages See also Knox, Anthony; Rahmanian, Saman; Schwartz, Emma; Teran, Dan Manjoo, Farhad Mas, Alexandre McDonald’s

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) taxi industry EU regulation and New York Taxi Workers Alliance tips and Uber and US statistics See also Lyft; ride-hailing services; Uber TechCrunch (blog) TechCrunch Disrupt temp workers and agencies early history of earnings freelancers versus injury rate Kelly Services (“Kelly Girls”) Manpower permanent employees versus Silicon Valley and “temp worker

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Universal Basic Income (UBI) UPS Upwork (freelance marketplace) US Department of Labor USA Today venture capital gig economy and Google Ventures Managed by Q and TechCrunch Disrupt and Uber and venture capitalists VentureBeat (blog) Walker, Anthony Walmart Warner, Mark Warren, Elizabeth Washington Post Washio (on-demand laundry startup) WeFuel (on-demand fuel

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang  · 12 Jul 2021  · 372pp  · 100,947 words

sense of humor, had bonded at Google. They were non-techies in an industry that looked down on MBAs and lawyers. For them, Davos, not TechCrunch Disrupt or the Wall Street Journal’s D conference, was the highlight of their year. And both voraciously kept up with the who’s-up-who

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be remembered as an innovator and philanthropist in the mold of Gates, whom he publicly acknowledged as a personal hero in an interview at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in 2013. Internet connectivity was the great bridge to close the gap on global economic inequality, Zuckerberg wrote in the blog. Internet access led

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, 39-42, 47 Swisher, Kara, 29–30, 43, 203–208 Systrom, Kevin, 194, 228–229 Talking Back to Facebook (Steyer), 89, 91 TechCrunch, 64, 65 TechCrunch Disrupt conference, 88, 174 Thiel, Peter Facebook’s board of directors and, 30, 81, 86, 202 Gawker lawsuit and, 202 Zuckerberg and, 25, 29, 31, 206

The Internet Is Not the Answer

by Andrew Keen  · 5 Jan 2015  · 361pp  · 81,068 words

so-called tech bros, who openly treat women as sexual objects and unashamedly develop pornographic products such as the “Titshare” app introduced at the 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt show in San Francisco,45 designed to humiliate their female colleagues. This misogynistic culture extends throughout the Valley, with bias claims surging in 2013 against

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

by Max Chafkin  · 14 Sep 2021  · 524pp  · 130,909 words

the tech industry,” he said at the time. “So, on that, I think it’s a very positive thing.” He started a press push at TechCrunch Disrupt, a widely attended tech conference in San Francisco put on by the news site TechCrunch, a few days before the film’s release. While onstage

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similar disconnect between rhetoric and reality with the Thiel Fellowship, as the lucky teenagers who’d been selected would soon discover. Thiel’s announcement at TechCrunch Disrupt of a major fellowship, for which two dozen people would upend their lives to accept, had not been the product of some sort of deep

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, 119, 154, 276, 285 Swisher, Kara, 125 Taft Club, 203 TaskRabbit, 189, 190 Tate, John, 354n Tea Party, viii, 24, 178, 179, 184 TechCrunch, 160 TechCrunch Disrupt, 160, 164, 169 Tech Workers Coalition, 267–68, 286 Tenet, George, 116 Terrill, Ashley, 229, 233 terrorism, 111–14, 116, 119, 142, 154 Al Qaeda

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

by Rob Copeland  · 7 Nov 2023  · 412pp  · 122,655 words

a bestselling, self-help hedge fund guru. Invitations rained in for speaking engagements worldwide—not all focused on finance, either. He spoke at the sprawling TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco about technology, of all topics, perhaps surprisingly given the continued fallibility of PriOS, and signed copies of his book for a

Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think

by James Vlahos  · 1 Mar 2019  · 392pp  · 108,745 words

a driving route—complete with a detour to the closest wine store. Onscreen, Viv shows the directions and lists suitable wines by price. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in May, Kittlaus took the stage to publicly demonstrate Viv for the first time. When it came to making bold claims, he didn’t

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, interview with author, April 23, 2018. 279 “This is a race”: Dag Kittlaus, “Beyond Siri: The World Premiere of Viv with Dag Kittlaus,” presentation at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, May 9, 2016. 280 “bumbling” and “embarrassing”: Geoffrey Fowler, “Siri, already bumbling, just got less intelligent on the HomePod,” Washington Post, February 14

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–65, 68 telephone invented, 68–69 Westinghouse and, 70 talking toys, 69, 169–82, 229–30, 234–35 Tamagotchi, 191 Tay, 109 Taylor, Jen, 120 TechCrunch Disrupt conference (2016), 55 Teddy Ruxpin, 170 teraphim, 64 Tess (therapist chatbot), 246 text-based interactions, 51–52, 56–57 ticket bots, 58 Tiny Multi-User

Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil

by Hamish McKenzie  · 30 Sep 2017  · 307pp  · 90,634 words

Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths From the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

by Reid Hoffman, June Cohen and Deron Triff  · 14 Oct 2021  · 309pp  · 96,168 words

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians

by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman  · 21 Mar 2017  · 441pp  · 113,244 words

The Startup Way: Making Entrepreneurship a Fundamental Discipline of Every Enterprise

by Eric Ries  · 15 Mar 2017  · 406pp  · 105,602 words

Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

by Dan Lyons  · 22 Oct 2018  · 252pp  · 78,780 words

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

by Felix Gillette and John Koblin  · 1 Nov 2022  · 575pp  · 140,384 words

Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy

by Jeremias Prassl  · 7 May 2018  · 491pp  · 77,650 words

I Hate the Internet: A Novel

by Jarett Kobek  · 3 Nov 2016  · 302pp  · 74,350 words

Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global

by Rebecca Fannin  · 2 Sep 2019  · 269pp  · 70,543 words

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

by Nancy Jo Sales  · 23 Feb 2016  · 487pp  · 147,238 words

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott  · 4 Jul 2022  · 308pp  · 85,850 words

Amazon: How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer Will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce

by Natalie Berg and Miya Knights  · 28 Jan 2019  · 404pp  · 95,163 words

Makers at Work: Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time

by Steven Osborn  · 17 Sep 2013  · 310pp  · 34,482 words

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

by Meredith Broussard  · 19 Apr 2018  · 245pp  · 83,272 words

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

by Yancey Strickler  · 29 Oct 2019  · 254pp  · 61,387 words

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas  · 27 Aug 2018  · 296pp  · 98,018 words

Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It.

by Mitch Joel  · 20 May 2013  · 260pp  · 76,223 words

Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content

by Sara Wachter-Boettcher  · 28 Nov 2012  · 245pp  · 68,420 words

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man

by Luke Harding  · 7 Feb 2014  · 266pp  · 80,018 words

Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber

by Susan Fowler  · 18 Feb 2020  · 205pp  · 71,872 words

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

by Reeves Wiedeman  · 19 Oct 2020  · 303pp  · 100,516 words

The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley  · 10 Jun 2013

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel  · 17 Oct 2022  · 370pp  · 112,809 words