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Square 'Has The Talent That Google Had Prior To Its IPO'
It's no secret in Silicon Valley that Square employees have a singularly high opinion of themselves and their company.Maybe it's even deserved!Someone who appears to be a Square employee—they use "we"...
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ZOOM! Xoom Shares Up 59% After Market Debut, Kicking Off A Year Of IPOs (XMCM)
Xoom, a payments company focused on international money transfers, saw its shares jump 59 percent to $25.49 from its offering price of $16 in its debut on the Nasdaq market.The San Jose Mercury News...
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Keith Rabois Is Silicon Valley's Hottest Commodity Right Now
One of tech's wealthiest workaholics is weighing his options.Keith Rabois, who stepped down as COO of Square in the wake of a sex scandal last month, is being courted by Airbnb for a top operating job,...
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Another Top Executive Has Left Square
Jared Fliesler, Square's vice president of user acquisition and business operations, has left the mobile-payments company, several people have confirmed to Business Insider.Fliesler recently told us...
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Keith Rabois Is Joining Khosla Ventures (YELP, XMCM)
Former Square COO and prolific angel investor Keith Rabois is joining Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's top-tier venture-capital firms.Khosla, a firm founded by former Kleiner Perkins partner...
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Here's Who Will Become Filthy Rich If Square Is Really Worth $3.25 Billion
A state filing in Alaska by Square, the San Francisco-based mobile-payments startup, has given us a rare look at a private company's ownership.Square first reported its ownership to Alaska in 2011. But...
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Former Square COO Keith Rabois Has Started A Foursquare-Bashing War On Twitter*
Keith Rabois, former Square COO, prolific angel investor and new partner at venture firm Khosla Ventures, has been bashing another hot tech company, Foursquare, on Twitter this weekend.This prompted...
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Buddy Media Founder Michael Lazerow: Keith Rabois Has 'Never Been Relevant To...
Many of the biggest names in Silicon Valley are angry at former Square COO Keith Rabois for nasty comments he tweeted about another hot company, Foursquare, this weekend.Buddy Media cofounder Michael...
View ArticleFormer PayPal Exec: This Is The 'John Sculley Era' Of PayPal And It Should...
Keith Rabois, a former PayPal exec and current venture capitalist, told Bloomberg that he thinks that eBay and PayPal are better apart.Rabois, part of the famed group of early employees called the...
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Top Venture Capitalist Keith Rabois Shares His 8 Principles For Building A...
Keith Rabois, a successful venture capitalist at Khosla Ventures and former PayPal and Square exec, tweeted out his eight principles for building a successful company. For anyone out there working on a...
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This Is A Startup Founder's #1 Job
Keith Rabois, former Square, LinkedIn and PayPal executive, is a partner at Khosla Ventures. He recently led an investment in an application, Sup, and its vision sounds a little bit ahead of its time....
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Former PayPal Exec: eBay Should Just Rebrand As PayPal
Following an Information report that eBay could spin off PayPal as soon as next year, Keith Rabois, a former PayPal exec and current venture capitalist, told Bloomberg that he definitely thinks that...
View ArticleFormer Square Executive Keith Rabois Used Twitter To Attack The Reporter Who...
Earlier today, Bank Innovation published a report that PayPal was in early but "intense" talks to buy the mobile payments startup Square.Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey called the report "false"...
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Top Silicon Valley investor Keith Rabois: Software will replace doctors and...
According to Keith Rabois, a Khosla Ventures partner and former executive at LinkedIn, PayPal, and Square, areas that require human expert judgment, like healthcare and law, are most likely to see...
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It’s ‘virtually impossible’ to raise funding if you don’t have ‘extraordinary...
For startups, it's getting tougher to raise money in Silicon Valley right now, according to Keith Rabois, a Khosla Ventures partner and former executive at LinkedIn, PayPal, and Square.The investor...
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Silicon Valley insiders can't agree on whether the tech market has crashed or...
Is the tech-startup market cratering, or is all the hand-wringing much ado about nothing?Apparently even those closest to the action can't seem to agree.Venture capitalists, startup executives, and...
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Silicon Valley veteran Keith Rabois: The easy money isn't gone, but the price...
Keith Rabois has lived through several boom-bust cycles in Silicon Valley. He began his career as an executive at PayPal, which went public in February 2002 as the dot-com bubble was deflating, and was...
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The 23 most powerful LGBTQ+ people in tech
Tim Cook is arguably the most prominent LGBTQ+ person in tech, but he isn't the only one.There are LGBTQ+ identifying individuals in prominent roles as venture capitalists, diversity in tech advocates,...
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I tried Barry’s Bootcamp, the intense fitness class that's become a hub of VC...
Lee Edwards, a partner at early-stage venture firm Root Ventures, tweeted Thursday "The 3 B's of venture deals: Barry's, The Battery, and Burning Man."The first B is Barry's Bootcamp, an intense...
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The 'PayPal Mafia' formed in the early 2000s, and includes everyone from Elon...
Since working at PayPal in the early 2000s, these 23 entrepreneurs have all gone on to impact Silicon Valley and the startup world by founding companies and backing new ventures.Known for their...
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