Margaux MacColl
Tech and Government Reporter at The San Francisco Standard
Senior Reporter at @techcrunch / Previously @theinformation, @thisisinsider / [email protected]
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1 week ago |
sfstandard.com | Margaux MacColl
By Margaux MacCollPublished Apr. 11, 2025 • 12:47pmOn Sunday, as the stock market appeared ready to tumble amid President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, Nikita Bier did what he does best: trolling. The tech entrepreneur, who famously sold two shockingly similar apps to Meta and Discord, posted to X a picture of the predicted stock freefall. “SELL EVERYTHING!” he wrote.
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2 weeks ago |
sfstandard.com | Margaux MacColl
Chrissy McGarry says she’s the victim of a company that took the worst traits of Silicon Valley and the military and combined them. Chrissy McGarry remembers the night at South by Southwest as the flash of lightning before the storm. It was March 2023, and McGarry, COO of the defense tech startup Second Front Systems, had gone to a bar with colleagues, including Tyler Sweatt, then the company’s chief revenue officer.
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1 month ago |
sfstandard.com | Margaux MacColl
More than 108,000 workers have been axed by the Trump administration, and Roger Lee is tallying every one of them. For five years, Layoffs.fyi creator Roger Lee has kept a watchful eye over Silicon Valley, maintaining a much-studied database of layoffs at tech companies. But the biggest startup-style firings these days aren’t happening in San Francisco; they’re in Washington, D.C., where Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is taking a chainsaw to the federal government.
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2 months ago |
techcrunch.com | Mary Ann Azevedo |Theresa Loconsolo |Kirsten Korosec |Margaux MacColl
“The fintech market is hot again,” said Sheel Mohnot, fintech investor and founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). “And we are going to see some more exits in the near future.” According to recent reports, fintech funding is on the rise, with global investment hitting $60 billion in the first half of the year alone, marking a significant rebound from the previous year’s dip.
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2 months ago |
msn.com | Margaux MacColl
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