A startup scribe goes native

For 16 years, I’ve written about startups and the people who found them. I’ve even worked at startups for about half of my career as a reporter and editor — for the past year, at this startup called VentureBeat.

But I’ve never actually been part of a founding team.

That’s changed. Yes, I’m leaving VentureBeat. For a startup.

It was with great surprise that I recently found in my email an offer to become the … Continue Reading

Facebook PR director departs for the startup world

Brandee Barker, who has been Facebook’s director of corporate communications for the past four years, revealed that Wednesday will be her last day at the company. AllThingsDigital broke the news, and Barker also announced her departure on Twitter.

If you don’t write about Facebook for a living, I suspect you may not have heard of Barker, since Mark Zuckerberg and other executives tend to take the company spotlight. The big joke in the AllThingsDigital article … Continue Reading

In totally non-awkward move, VentureBeat's Camille Ricketts joins Tesla Motors

At VentureBeat, we take pride in turning our writers, who are often fresh talents, into sought-after industry experts. Sometimes we do too good a job.

Camille Ricketts, our lead GreenBeat writer, is leaving to take a communications job at Tesla Motors, Silicon Valley’s iconic electric-car startup. In the course of covering the cleantech revolution over the past two years, she realized she couldn’t sit on the sidelines anymore.

It’s hard to think of a company … Continue Reading

Latest list of Top 50 Twitterers is as wrong as the others

At VentureBeat, we take pride in turning our writers, who are often fresh talents, into sought-after industry experts. Sometimes we do too good a job.

Camille Ricketts, our lead GreenBeat writer, is leaving to take a communications job at Tesla Motors, Silicon Valley’s iconic electric-car startup. In the course of covering the cleantech revolution over the past two years, she realized she couldn’t sit on the sidelines anymore.

It’s hard to think of a company … Continue Reading