Chris Wanstrath, Ben Uretsky, John Collison, Matthew Panzarino John Collison, the Co-Founder of Stripe, Ben Uretsky, the CEO of DigitalOcean, and Chris Wanstrath, the Co-Founder and CEO of Github joined TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino on day to of TechCrunch Disrupt New York. This panel, entitled "Rise Of The Developer Tools," was one of the best [...]
This year at SXSWedu there was a lot of buzz in the Google lounge about a new product coming down the pike. Thousands of teachers were already using Google Docs as part of Google Apps For Education as their own free LMS (learning management system). Teachers were adapting Google Apps For Education in the ways [...]
Pokorny, Lee, and Constine On Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Josh Constine - a journalist for TechCrunch - had a chat with David Lee and Brian Pokorny. Lee and Pokorny are Co-founders and Managing Partners at SV Angel, a San Francisco based Angel Investor firm. The chat covered a huge range of topics, and shed [...]
On day two of TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Ryan Lawler - TechCrunch Journalist - had a chat with Comcast CEO Neil Smit. Though expectations were pretty low, Smit managed to dodge every single question that had any sort of significance and reduce the whole interview into a sort-of PSA for Comcast. It should be pointed out [...]
Typing. It is a skill that everyone needs. Yet it is one of the most gut-wrenchingly boring and tedious things to learn. Back in my day, there were some pretty awful programs to teach you to type - Mario Teaches Typing is the only one I can recall off the top of my head. There [...]
There were a ton of great interviews and talks during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt New York. However, our favorite was, easily, the chat that TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino had with Brendan Iribe, CEO of Oculus VR. The talk covered many topics, including the acquisition by Facebook, the future of Oculus and virtual reality as a whole. Facebook [...]
Yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, there were a ton of interesting talks and interviews. On of the most interesting was Ryan Lawler's chat with Shane Smith, the Co-Founder and CEO of Vice. This chat was interesting for a number of different reasons. Firstly, Vice is rapidly becoming a major media empire. I really had [...]
If you said Kickstarter you would be correct. Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler has been on a bit of a conference and press run lately. Just a few weeks ago he was in Charleston South Carolina for the Dig South festival, sharing a stage with TechCrunch East Coast Editor, John Biggs. Monday, he was also with [...]
TechCrunch Disrupt New York kicked off Monday. There were a ton of great sessions and talks yesterday. That said, the talk from Hosain Rahman, the founder and CEO of Jawbone really stood out, for a few different reasons. Rahman went through many different aspects of Jawbone, being a CEO and more broadly being an entrepreneur, as [...]
Today is the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt New York. There are tons of things going on today, but one of the first things that we got to see was a demo of Coin. Coin, if you aren't aware, is a company that is taking a pretty unique approach to payments. According to their website: [...]
