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Scoop: Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner are making a play for the NBA.
The pair have hired bankers and discussed a bid, via Thrive Eternal, for a majority stake in the league’s Las Vegas expansion team.
Natasha Mascarenhas
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Natasha Mascarenhas
@nmasc_
I write about venture capital & the circles that run Silicon Valley for Bloomberg @technology. Find me on Signal at +1 925 271 0912.
San Francisco
Joined November 2015
- Scoop: Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are back at Anthropic, two weeks after joining Cursor. 🤯🤯🤯 theinformation.com/briefings/anth…
- Replying to @DominicMadori and @TechCrunchi am so excited to work w u
- Some massive OpenAI personnel shifts -Greg Brockman, co-founder, is taking a leave of absence -John Schulman, co-founder, is heading to Anthropic -Peter Deng, product leader is leaving @theinformation @steph_palazzolo @jon_victor_
- Updated our Windsurf/Google story with new deal details: - Employees with vested shares will receive cash – Employees who joined less than 12 months ago are not vested and won’t get payouts under current terms – Windsurf negotiated to keep $100M+ on its balance sheet; company
- Scoop: Elad Gil is raising a $1.5 billion fund, which if closed would be one of the largest hauls for a solo GP. More in Dealmaker today!
- scoop: vercel has crossed $200 million in arr as customers like openai, runway, granola & more flock to its web development/hosting service
- Got married to my best friend last month. It was magic ♥️
- FTC Chair Lina Khan kicks off her talk at Y Combinator HQ in downtown San Francisco. It’s the second time she’s spoken at the accelerator’s HQ, and third time she’s at a YC event, in the past twelve months. Starts w/ a shout out to @garrytan for advocating for “little tech”
- Mercor co-founder and Cursor co-founder have both left their companies this month
- Scoop: Jack Altman has raised $150 million for a new, early stage fund to back B2B enterprise startups and more — continuing a fundraising spree
- Some (!!!) news: today is my first day as a vc/tech reporter for @crunchbasenews. Super excited to join this talented team and be back in San Francisco. Say hello: [email protected]
