Billy Gallagher
Billy Gallagher is an analyst at Khosla Ventures. He has contributed for TechCrunch since May 2012, covering early-stage startups like Snapchat, DoorDash, Clinkle, and Hired.
Billy graduated from Stanford University in June 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. While at Stanford, Billy was the co-student body president, and the editor in chief of The Stanford Daily.
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Zero To One: How Blake Masters Went From Being Peter Thiel’s Student To Co-Author
In the spring of 2012, Peter Thiel taught a class called CS 183: Startup, at Stanford. One of the students in Thiel’s class, Blake Masters, posted detailed notes on his personal blog that became an instant hit in the tech community. Now, Masters and Thiel have transformed those class notes into a book: “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.” Read More
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Mashr Resurrects A Tinder Experiment To Make You A Matchmaker
In May 2013, Tinder introduced Matchmaker, a way for users of the popular dating app to introduce their Facebook friends to each other. Matchmaker has since been phased out of Tinder, but a new startup, Mashr, is resurrecting the feature as its central thesis. Read More
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The Pac-12 Networks Are Going Live On YouTube Internationally
The Pac-12 conference is launching a live YouTube channel for international fans, featuring 24×7 coverage of the conference’s sports teams. Fans in 27 countries will be able to watch live games, studio shows, and re-broadcasts of games on the Pac-12 Network on YouTube starting on August 26. Read More
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Spiral Hopes To Nail Location-Based Communities
A new app called Spiral could change the way we connect with the people and places around us. The idea is pretty straightforward: users see a newsfeed of posts near them, and can add their own updates, and comment on other people’s posts. Users can adjust their geographic filters to see posts from a larger or smaller radius. Read More
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Hired Now Helps Tech Companies Find Executives
Hired, a startup working to make recruiting more efficient, has expanded to include a category for VPs of engineering and chief technical officers (CTOs). Just months after raising its $15 million Series A round, Hired seems to be growing at a healthy rate. Read More
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Meet HelloWorld, An Easier Way To Share Your Location With Friends
Three years ago, Ernestine Fu was sitting at the iconic Philz coffee shop in Palo Alto studying for her Stanford exams. She tweeted about it, wondering if any of her friends were studying nearby. A few minutes later a stranger who had seen the tweet interrupted her to pitch his company. Talking about it years later, it’s clear this interruption was a turning point for Fu, as she explains… Read More
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A Tale Of Two Patents: Why Facebook Can’t Clone Snapchat
Facebook released Slingshot, its second attempt at an impermanent sharing app, last Tuesday. The app borrows heavily, in concept and features, from Snapchat, as well as smaller startups like Frontback and Look. There’s just one problem: Facebook may be violating Snapchat’s patent, “Single mode visual media capture” that was approved over a year ago. Read More
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Yahoo News Digest Comes To Android
Yahoo’s popular News Digest app is now available on Android, and offers two new editions of content: International and Canada. Previously, the app, which gives readers twice-daily digests of news aggregated from other outlets, had only curated news around United States and United Kingdom interests. Read More
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Marissa Mayer Explains Yahoo’s New Video Strategy
Speaking on stage at Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer explained the strategy behind the company’s new foray into producing original television content. “Can you tell me what Yahoo is?” TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington asked, bringing up the old question of whether Yahoo is a tech or media company. Read More
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Codeanywhere, The Google Docs For Developers, Rocks Startup Alley At Disrupt NY
Codeanywhere, a self-proclaimed Google Docs for coders, wants to become the defacto standard for code development on the go. Co-founders Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukic presented on stage at Disrupt NY today after the audience voted them the best company in Startup Alley. Jukic came up with the idea when he worked as a freelance developer; he didn’t want to have to take his laptop with… Read More
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Sedicii Aims To Better Protect Your Passwords And Information
How many times did you enter a username, password or other details about yourself into a website today? Sedicii, which just launched onstage at Disrupt NY, aims to keep that information safer and more secure. Sedicii uses a mathematical algorithm to verify your information or password without actually sending it to a website for verification. Read More
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Comcast CEO Neil Smit Says Improving Customer Service Is His Top Priority
Comcast Cable President and CEO Neil Smit spoke at Disrupt New York today, discussing his company’s recent deal with Netflix, his thoughts on Aereo, and more. “I think if there’s one thing to disrupt in our business, it’s customer service,” Smit said in response to TechCrunch writer Ryan Lawler mentioning that Comcast was recently voted the worst company in America. Read More
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Tom Hadfield Is Trying To Make Fetch Happen To Improve Mobile Shopping
Fetch, a mobile app that connects users with personal shopping assistants, launched today onstage at Disrupt New York. Users can simply open Fetch and type what you want, record yourself saying what you want, or take a picture. Fetch has trained assistants on the other end who will look at your request, find the best price for the product you want, and order it for you. Read More
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Hired Raises $15M Series A At Valuation Around $60M
Hired, a startup aiming to make hiring employees and finding a job easier and more efficient, has raised a $15 million Series A led by Crosslink and Sierra Ventures with participation from SoftTech and Sherpa Ventures. Crosslink’s Eric Chin and Sierra Ventures’ Tim Guleri will be joining the Hired board Read More
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Apply Now To Write For TechCrunch This Summer As A Paid Intern
Are you obsessed with the startup world? Do you read TechCrunch all the time? Good news! We’re hiring paid interns for this summer. What will you do? Blog, blog, blog away. We’re looking for independent, driven reporters who will kick ass and chase after big startup stories: Interns who will work on everything from short blog posts to long form, investigative stories to video pieces. Read More
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Facebook’s WhatsApp Acquisition Leaves Snapchat Hanging
With Facebook’s massive $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp earlier today, any possible marriage between Facebook and Snapchat appears to be dead. After spending $20 billion on a photo sharing company (Instagram) and messaging company (WhatsApp), can Facebook really justify spending billions more to acquire an ephemeral photo messaging company? Read More
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Daric, A New Peer To Peer Lending Platform, Will Go Live Next Week
Daric, a new peer to peer lending platform, will launch next week as a place for individuals and small businesses to obtain loans, and a place for lenders to see up to 9-10% returns on their investments. Individuals will be able to apply for a loan up to $35,000 and small businesses can apply for a loan up to $50,000 on Daric. According to an SEC filing, the company will offer up to… Read More
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DoorDash Raises $2.4M To Improve Food Delivery
DoorDash has raised a $2.4 million round led by Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois and Charles River Ventures’ Saar Gur. The company, which was in Y Combinator’s summer 2013 batch, delivers food from 70 restaurants in Palo Alto and Mountain View to nearby towns for $6. Read More
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NFL MVP Adrian Peterson Launches Fitness Training App
NFL running back Adrian Peterson has teamed with Driven Apps to release a new fitness and sports training app for aspiring athletes. This is the third time that Driven has paired with a professional athlete to release a branded app; earlier this year, the company produced apps with NBA star Dwayne Wade and pro golfer Ernie Els. Read More
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DeveloperAuction Rebrands As Hired.com To Make Recruiting Suck Less For Everyone
DeveloperAuction, which launched in 2012 to revolutionize the engineer recruiting market, is today rebranding itself as Hired.com, and putting its sights on a much larger target covering designers, data scientists and more. With the company’s new name, it can take on more than Silicon Valley recruiters, as DeveloperAuction seeks to disrupt the worldwide recruiting model for every industry. Read More
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