Valleywag guy Nick Douglas gone — Will Wired snag him?
We were wondering why Valleywag, the Silicon Valley gossip site some people hate and others love, wasn’t reading as witty as usual. We saw author Nick Douglas (pictured here) at Web 2.0 last week — suggesting he was back from vacation — but the site’s posts remained distant.
Now we have confirmation he is gone, with editor Nick Denton (pictured below) taking over, and posting the following:
Nick Douglas, the kid we plucked from college to… Continue Reading
Silicon Valley & the Industry of Cool
Forbes’ Erika Brown has a good summary of how Silicon Valley has turned into a mini Hollywood.
She recounts the escapades of Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founders of Yelp, the local social site for reviews of bars and restaurants, who hold parties (see pic) with inebriated young women hanging over them, including a “Yelp Elite” mixer at the San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art ending in a girls-only kissing orgy. When asked where they… Continue Reading
San Francisco firm to buy Ford’s Land Rover?
A San Francisco private equity firm Citron Capital has made a bid to buy Ford’s Land Rover unit. We first heard this from a source, who said they’d confirmed it with someone in the upper ranks of Ford.
We’re seeing a general expansion of the Bay Area’s money mandate. First it was venture capital. Then private equity firms started moving here, or were created from scratch, like Silver Lake, and then Elevation Partners. Elevation is is… Continue Reading