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Google Missed The Boat On Buying Twitter. “Hasn’t Been Interested Since They Committed To Google+” -Fred Wilson
techcrunch.com 1 week, 2 days agoGoogle got the chance to buy Twitter, but the search giant passed, says Michael Arrington. “Google hasn’t been interested in buying Twitter since they committed themselves to Google+” says Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures founder and former Twitter board member, in his fireside chat this morning with Arrington at the TechCrunch Disrupt New York conference . Now Google+ is widely seen as a ghost town, and not buying Twitter could be a mistake that haunts Mountain View for years to come. Wilson has one of t
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Sexism In The Venture Business? Sequoia’s Greg McAdoo Says VC Industry Is A “Meritocracy”
techcrunch.com 1 week agoJust a day after a gender discrimination suit was filed against one of Silicon Valley’s most storied firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , an all-male panel of VCs at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference said that sexism isn’t that much of an issue in the industry. “This business is a meritocracy by and large,” said Greg McAdoo, who is a partner at Sequoia Capital, noting that the firm has female partners. “I have no doubt that there are pockets of issues, because in humanity you’re going to have that.” He
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