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Hot Takes
This Generative AI Company Doesn’t Want To Be Called A Generative AI Company (2023)
What Happens When Your Femtech Startup Can’t Use Social Media For Marketing? (2022)
New Psychedelic VC Funds Navigate The Ethics Of Growing Industry (2022)
Industry Bottlenecks
Cybersecurity Is In An Arms Race Thanks To AI (2025)
Tech For Immigrants, LGBTQ+ Navigate Trump Hostility (2025)
Accelerators Are Closing Down. It’s Affecting The Startup Ecosystem (2025)
Plant-Based Meat Is Starting To Sour With Consumers (2022)
Venture Cash Is Pouring Into AI that Can Diagnose Diseases. Doctors Aren’t Sure They Can Trust It. (2021)
New-ish Industries
Big Companies Are Failing At Social Commerce. These Startups Are Moving In (2024)
Not Quite Soda, Not Quite Alcohol: A New Boozeless Booze Is Finding Its Market (2023)
Scrambling For An Egg Replacement? Plant-Based Eggs Haven’t Yet Cracked The Market (2023)
Why More Sexual Wellness Startups Are Turned On By Retail (2023)
Interesting Trends
Investors Abandoned Esports. The Fans Are Taking Over (2026)
AI Is Finding A New Home in Prayer Technology (2025)
The Right Wing Is Fueling The Defense Tech Renaissance (2025)
How Hospitality Is — And Isn’t — Using Robotics (2025)
Why Don’t Biotech Startups Want To Be The Next Big Pharma Company? (2023)
Daily Analysis
Shopify Ships Its Logistics Business To Flexport As E-Commerce Loses Its Luster (2023)
This Chart Shows That Unicorn Valuations Are Just In Our Imaginations (2023)
Bionaut Labs Comes Out of Stealth To Reveal a Micro Robotic Treatment for Brain Tumors (2021)
Things They Let Me Write
Why Do Health Care Startups Have The Same Names As My Human Friends? (2023)
Health tech has a higher bar to meet before it hits the market—and it starts with the FDA (2022)
Can technology save restaurants in a post-pandemic world? (2022)
ServiceTitan’s earnings report shows the impact of LA fires (2025)