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Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t care
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Startups Weekly: A much-needed unicorn IPO update
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Equity Shot: Pinterest and Zoom file to go public
In the latest Equity Shot, Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm take a closer look at Pinterest and Zoom's IPO filings.
This is how much money Pinterest execs made last year
Silicon Valley is known for its massive wealth. When these companies file to go public, we all finally get to know how much money these executives take home each year, and the millions they’ll t
Pinterest drops its IPO filing
The visual search engine will go public on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "PINS."
Flight-hailing startup BlackBird raises $10 million to replace driving with flying
The origin story of BlackBird, a startup that links travelers to planes and commercial pilots through an app, didn’t begin with air travel. It was prompted by car sickness. BlackBird CEO and fou
Airbnb agrees to acquire last-minute hotel-booking app HotelTonight
Airbnb to purchase HotelTonight, a hotel-booking app last valued at $463 million.
Podcasts, smart speakers soar as social media stalls, based on new survey
The 2019 edition of a popular annual survey shows usage of social media by Americans is stalling while ownership of smart speakers and tablets has soared over the last year, as has consumer engagement
Airbnb, Automattic and Pinterest top rank of most acquisitive unicorns
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Startups Weekly: Flexport, Clutter and SoftBank’s blood money
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Pinstagram? Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature
Instagram is threatening to attack Pinterest just as it files to go public the same way the Facebook-owned app did to Snapchat. Code buried in Instagram for Android shows the company has prototyped an
Daily Crunch: Pinterest files to go public
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Pinterest and Lyft move closer to IPO, and LPs question the Vision Fund’s investment strategy
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. What a week. It had looked a bit quiet with just a few big rounds t
Pinterest files confidentially to go public
The visual search engine has confidentially submitted paperwork to the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering slated for later this year, the WSJ reports.
Ambitious Singapore startup Delegate wants to bring its event booking platform to the US
It’s not often that you hear about a startup from Singapore with ambitions to expand to the U.S, but that’s exactly the goal for event booking service Delegate. Founded in August 2015, th
How students are founding, funding and joining startups
Young founders who want to start companies while still in school have an increasing number of resources to tap into that exist just for them.
Spotify, eBay set standard for fertility benefits, study finds
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Startups Weekly: Even Gwyneth Paltrow had a hard time raising VC
This week in startups: Celebrities mingle with VCs at the Upfront Summit, Pinterest preps banks for IPO and Sam Altman has a grand new idea.
Pinterest puts an IPO on its pinboard, hiring Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to lead an offering this year
Pinterest, the nearly nine-year-old, San Francisco-based site known for the images and links that its users post about everything from wedding to beauty trends, has hired Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Ch