When news of the global financial crisis began to hit Silicon Valley in the spring of 2008, venture capital firms felt the reverberations. But no firm felt the pressure more intensely than SVB Financial Group, a financial services company with a roster of venture capitalists who had been making big investments in startup companies for… Continue reading A $500 million term sheet in 12 hours: How Rippling struck a deal as SVB was melting down
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Gas, Slay, what’s next? Fire?
In the past decade, the term “gaslighting” has become increasingly popular, but very few people know what it actually means. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which one individual deliberately attempts to make another feel confused, doubtful, or insecure—to the point that they… Continue reading Gas, Slay, what’s next? Fire?