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Carolyn Ryan was at Gracie Mansion in 2010 for a holiday dinner when she and Michael Barbaro, who was covering City Hall for The New York Times, greeted then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mayor, you of course know Michael Barbaro and his byline, introduced Bloomberg s former press secretary, Stu Loeser, who recalled the exchange to Insider. This is his editor, Carolyn Ryan, who you know from other people s bylines.
Then, as now, Ryan is one of the most influential figures inside The New York Times a polarizing, hard-driving deputy managing editor now supervising the organization s most fraught topic: newsroom culture.
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Venture capital firms are forming blank-check companies at a torrid pace.
They have the potential to buy startups they re already invested in, in order to take them public.
It s not illegal to buy companies where they have an interest, but it raises a potential conflict.
These days, more venture capital firms are either forming their own special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, or having internal conversations about doing so. A SPAC would let them launch a startup onto the public markets, even one from their own portfolios.
Peter Hébert, a founding partner at Lux Capital, whose SPAC started trading on the stock market last fall, said he s had at least 60 phone calls with venture capitalists who are asking if they should jump on the trend.
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Modern Health CEO Alyson Watson runs one of today s hottest startups.
Meanwhile, the cofounder she fired is suing her, their company, and its main investor.
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In September 2019, Erica Johnson was called into a meeting at Kleiner Perkins. Inside, Mamoon Hamid booked a conference room and prepared to have an uncomfortable conversation.
Hamid is one of Kleiner s partners and was the only outside board member in Johnson s mental-health startup, Modern Health.
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Enterprise tech startups are generally stable during economic downturns.
That makes them good places to work in any climate.
We rounded up the rising enterprise startups where we think you d be smart to take a job this year.
If there s one industry you can bet on during an economic downturn, it s enterprise tech.
According to a report from OpenView Venture Partners, enterprise software is virtually recession-proof. That s because companies, whether they re in tech, finance, retail, or virtually any industry, rely on enterprise software to make their businesses run.
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