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Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Uber launched its own self-driving team in 2015. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images That money would have been better spend on food delivery, he told journalist Eric Newcomer.  Uber's sold off its self-driving unit in late 2020 as it grappled with a revenue downturn.   Uber's food-delivery business has been a massive boon for the company as the pandemic sent ride-hailing revenues down the tubes and takeout orders through the ...

One of Uber's earliest investors says the billions it spent on self-driving were a 'waste of money' tlevin@businessinsider.com (Tim Levin) Early Uber investor Bill Gurley said the company "burned" billions of dollars on self-driving tech.  That money would have been better spend on food delivery, he told journalist Eric Newcomer.  Uber's sold off its self-driving unit in late 2020 as it grappled with a revenue downturn.   Popular Searches One early investor in the company, Benchmark's Bill Gurley, says the company should have committed more investment to food delivery that...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Phillip Faraone/Getty; Steve Jennings/Getty This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. An article on how Andreessen Horowitz has eschewed the press and is building its own media site was the talk of the VC world last week. On Monday, a16z announced journalist Maggie Leung has joined as executive editor. But such plans aren't really anything new, VCs say. ...

Despite record-breaking investment in the venture capital industry, the Bay Area saw a sharp decline in angel and seed deals in 2020, according to a report by Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association. In 2020, San Francisco reached only 81.2% of the angel and seed deals it made in 2019. Although it still had more deals than any other city, it recorded a "a 10-year low in proportion of total deal count." This means, compared to other major cities, San Francisco was less dominant than it's been in the last decade. It's easy to attribute this to the pandemic; however, the venture c...

PHOTO: Diego PH on Unsplash Gartner’s annual survey of CIOs is always worth reading. Apart from identifying emerging trends in technology, it also looks at how CIOs are addressing problems in the wider enterprise that are not focused on technology, but which might have technology solutions. This year is no exception and with COVID-19 still running rampant in the U.S. and Europe, CIOs have been faced with the challenge of enabling large numbers of workers to work from home. behind paywall) gathered data from 1,877 CIO respondents in 74 countries and all major industries, representing app...