On this episode of Recode Decode, Tynan talks about overcoming investors’ skepticism in order to start her online framing company. On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Framebridge CEO Susan Tynan joined Kara in Washington, D.C., to talk about the challenges of starting an online framing company, being a startup in the [...]

Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself? And other tough questions. On a recent episode of Recode Decode, Y Combinator president Sam Altman joined Recode’s Kara Swisher at the San Francisco bar Manny’s for a live discussion about the state of tech. Their conversation, moderated by the bar’s owner Manny Yekutiel, touched on the diversity of Silicon [...]

Vishal Shah has been promoted to lead all of Instagram’s product efforts. Instagram has filled one of its most important executive vacancies in an effort to piece together a leadership team that was largely dismantled throughout 2018. Vishal Shah, a product executive who oversaw Instagram’s shopping efforts, ad products and its IGTV video service, has [...]

Airbnb and Slack are considering direct listings. Postmates, with JPMorgan’s help, is plotting the more traditional route. When Spotify decided to sell its shares in an IPO directly to regular people rather than to a pre-chosen group of its bankers’ friends — in a move known as a direct listing — it portended an inflection [...]

The practice is still prevalent across the tech industry despite recent criticism and some limitations on its use in cases of sexual harassment. Last month, when 20,000 Google employees walked out of work, their first demand was an end to a practice that prevents workers from taking their employer to court over issues like sexual [...]