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Tech Could Use More Susan Wojcickis

Tech Could Use More Susan Wojcickis

As the CEO of Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, Susan Wojcicki was no stranger to controversy. She once said that trying to manage a platform struggling with misinformation and vile behavior meant that “everybody is angry at you all the time.”But after learning that she had died last week at age 56 after a two-year battle with lung cancer, the firestorm I keep coming back to had nothing to do with the business she ran. It took place during a period in 2015 when interviewers at tech conferences couldn’t seem to stop asking Wojcicki about her kids. The CEO had five of…
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British Startups Just Can’t Seem to Scale

British Startups Just Can’t Seem to Scale

This is part of a series on what 14 years of Tory rule have delivered for Britain’s economy, society and standing in the world. The challenges awaiting the next government are numerous. Britain takes a third of all the money flowing from venture capital investors into Europe and has done so almost consistently for the last 14 years. Its ecosystem has thrived independent of Conservative Party policies, thanks in part to its wealth of English speakers and world-class universities. Even Brexit failed to stop talented engineers from taking jobs at British tech firms, many of whom count around a third…
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