startups
Watch the Moment that CEO of Delivery Startup Enjoy Fires Hundreds of People
The unceremonious Zoom meeting bookends a company that recently said it had 'hope' it could pay employees what they were owed.
Delivery Startup Enjoy Tells Workers It Has ‘Hope’ It Can Pay Them
Workers at the startup, founded by a former Apple executive, are panicked and worried, according to internal Slack chats obtained by Motherboard.
LAPD Emails Reveal Fallout of Citizen’s Botched Manhunt
After Citizen's CEO Andrew Frame offered a $30,000 bounty on the wrong person, LAPD officers said they would no longer work with Citizen.
Tech Startup Cans Founder Who Preaches COVID Vaccine Is a Jewish Tool to Euthanize Americans
The Utah-based, Silicon Valley-backed company asked founder David Bateman to resign soon after the comments surfaced.
Better CEO 'Taking Time Off Effective Immediately': Email
The company has also hired an outside firm to “do a leadership and cultural assessment."
United to Buy Supersonic Jet From Startup With Model Plane That Hasn't Flown
Startups, of course, always deliver on their promises.
When the Promise of 'Creative Diversity' Fails to Deliver
Gen Z creatives of colour say that the workplace is still just as pale, stale and male as ever.
Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People
A company called Civvl says evicting people is the "FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19."
Startup of the Week: A Folding Phone By Pablo Escobar's Holding Company
The phone is being sold by models, guns, and cash.
Procrastinating Pay Pigs: You Can Get Dommed Into Doing Your Work for $40
Focused, a new startup based in San Francisco, offers "hosts" in a co-working space to keep you accountable and on-task.
An Indian Company Wants to Pay You Rs 1 Lakh to Sleep for 9 Hours Every Day For 100 Days
You can quite literally do this job with your eyes closed.
I Don't 'Get' Peloton, the Cultish £2,000 Exercise Bike
Pay all that money to, er, virtually high-five another Peloton user in Exeter.