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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

i will now be whispering "driverless taxis do not run from rage" under my breath every time i see one zip by

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

pour one out for the salesforce ones

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"We were promised Mamala and instead we got Mountainhead." tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-bezos-...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Ok but also: If Mark Zuckerberg is somehow involved, will Jesse Eisenberg will reprise his role? And if so, will his character be confused as to what Eduardo Saverin is doing here??

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

this piece looking back on NYC dining is hitting me so hard with nostalgia, ESPECIALLY this sam sifton riff on the scene at roberta's in 2008 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Sovereignty outran Journalism. at least it wasn’t tyranny 🙃

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

ahaha Quince sells discount gold bars they really do have a dupe of everything

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

honestly perfect headline techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/c...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

which famous white collar criminal will be next in line for a pardon... elizabeth holmes, sam bankman-fried, ryan salame, charlie javice (convicted literally today)... it may be time to update this headline

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Nick Denton reveals that Marc Andreessen was a frequent source for Valleywag www.vanityfair.com/news/story/n...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The distance between the themes of the "Abundance Summit" and its speakers is an interesting look at tech industry branding right now. The themes are AI, longevity & "moonshots." The speakers are Cathie Wood, Travis Kalanick, Arianna Huffington and Anthony Scaramucci

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

the Streisand effect of Facebook putting a gag order on this author sure worked on me, and the library wait list was shockingly short! Excited to dig in

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

we were promised flying cars, we got remote control purses (the RC Car handbag, $295)

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

NEWS: Elizabeth Holmes' appeal has been denied ecf.ca9.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

In 2023 I reported on a crazy situation where Aparna Dhinakaran, the founder of Arize AI, used a fake name and fake "stealth mode" company to try to get information from competitors. Cut to today: The company just raised $70m. Whatta town! www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/t...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today Nikola, the startup that famously rolled a car down a hill in a demo video to show it could drive, and whose founder was sentenced to 4 years in prison for fraud, filed for bankruptcy. Also today: Alef Aeronautics released this video of its flying car taking off and landing on a road.

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

tfw you spent $700 on a device that becomes a brick less than 1 year later because "our business priorities have shifted"

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

oh, ok. more on the doge boys (and apparently 2 female mckinsey consultants) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

bryan johnson now tweeting out detailed data on his teenage son's nighttime erections and comparing himself, seems normal and cool, very hinged

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is the greatest use of this meme I have ever laid eyes on

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Some news: I'm writing a book! It's about start-ups in the 2010s and their rise as a cultural and economic force. Also, interest rates. 🦄

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Crazy story about investors in China forcing founders to repay their funding after their startups fail, forcing them into debt they can never repay www.ft.com/content/38f1...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

usually when a startup sells and shuts down, their domain redirects to the buyer or goes blank. howaboutwe.com, which sold to match in 2014, might be one of the funniest dead startup pages i've encountered in awhile

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

the uk is proposing a trading market for private stocks and its fun for 2 reasons 1. insider trading is legal 2. they named it after my astrological sign 😍 (Private Intermittent Securities Capital Exchange System aka PISCES) via @matt-levine.bsky.social today www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Over the past few years Andreessen Horowitz and others have been expanding in every direction, making Sand Hill Road into the Wall Street of the West. The mega-fund announcements of $5bn, $8bn, etc come every month. Nearly 20 firms are RIAs.

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

You have mega-firms like Andreessen Horowitz, which raised $7.2bn this year and manages $44bn. Many other VC firms have followed this path. On the other, you have Benchmark, which has essentially not changed from its "small is beautiful" equal partnership model since the 90s.

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

this dispatch from the Silicon Valley Humanoid robot conference is delightful if only for the photo of Greg the security robot splayed out on the floor after losing a wrestling match sfstandard.com/2024/12/15/h...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

we are quite a ways from the original protype, which also had no steering wheel and pedals, but also no windshield + gullwing doors

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

i saw one a couple of these Zooxmobiles in the wild last night and they are so silly looking you can't help but point and laugh i can't wait to ride in one

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thinking about this 2019 essay this week. It's about a horrible hiking accident, but I've always been haunted by this one small part on his friend's PTSD, not from his injury, but from his "powerlessness as a perpetual patient in the American medical system." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

the best thing about gift guides is how absurd they are. they don't promote overconsumption because who the hell is buying a $1,457 ping pong table, a $4500 coffee pot or a $9999 cybercasket

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

honestly not a take i expected from the economist!

Screenshot of Economist headline that states: "america's gambling boom should be celebrated"

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

these two headlines basically cancel each other out

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

all i have lying around is this old msft paint masterpiece (hopefully the text shows up)

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

WHO DID THIS??? Well it's kinda management's fault for agreeing to the terms... Maybe they had no other options. Pitchbook shows TPG led the last round.

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

They stated that ServiceTitan had to go public by May 2024 at or above their last round share price, or shares get super diluted. They obviously missed that, so now they're trying to go ASAP to avoid even more dilution. Meritech Capital analysts explain: www.meritechcapital.com/blog/service...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My mind immediately went to this which was not boring at all!

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

These cost $1195 and none of the photos show what they look like on a human body but I’m dying to see them styled with tiny junderwear and maybe a pair of tiny button fly denim knee jorts

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I love y2k style. They’re selling jeans so low rise they start at your shin

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

this little fur slug is scared of rain, water, being wet, and the sound of raindrops. been a rough week

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The other bots they’re offering are pretty harmless and dumb. reminds me of the days when the FB feed was all FarmVille and quizzes

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Pretty shocking to me that Instagram is encouraging users to chat with an AI “therapist” Especially after a character.ai chatbot has been accused of encouraging a teen’s suicide

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Think was right around 2014 when this was thee swag of choice at tech events. I had so many I used them as door prizes at parties

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The company says it has cracked down on US users. It certainly has the ability to -- anecdotally people who had been trading all year from the US via VPN got this message in late October as the platform was coming under scrutiny. Then a few days later it went away!

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

He is trying to spin it as political retaliation. Investigators and a judge who approved the search warrant apparently conspired to go after a small crypto betting market that predicted Trump would win.

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The CEO of Polymarket had his apt raided today and his phones, electronics seized. Bloomberg says the FBI is investigating the platform allowing US based users, which would be a violation of its agreement with the CFTC to only allow international trades. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is a god tier correction. Social media is good again, long live alf hog

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

jack dorsey used one of his companies (payment processor block) to buy one of his friend's companies (jay z's music streamer tidal). tidal made no sense under block. now tidal is having layoffs. and for some reason block employees are forbidden from discussing jay-z. DO NOT MENTION HIS NAME!!

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

the "rainforest spa" is kinda corny too

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