KEVIN KELLEHER

Fortune • June 24th, 2022

Cybersecurity looks like a safe haven in private finance

“A good half of the art of living is resilience,” the philosopher Alain de Botton once said. For private companies, the same could be said about the art of survival in down markets.

Pando • March 22nd, 2018

Softbank's Vision Fund: A 300-year vision with a case of myopia

For decades, Silicon Valley venture capital has operated on the principle that bigger is not always better. The dot-com bust left seasoned VCs with scars that still serve as a reminder that simply throwing money into emerging technologies isn't...

TIME • June 29th, 2017

How This Startup Founder Triumphed Over His Year of Hell

Any experienced entrepreneur can tell you that two keys to a successful startup are a solid business idea — especially one that solves a big problem for others — and the tenacity to make it work. Kyle Racki hit on the former when he was running a web...

TIME • June 15th, 2017

Silicon Valley's Hot New Snack Was Born in a Prison

Every startup needs a good creation myth. Not many can match Seth Sundberg’s story about his company’s founding. Sundberg left college early, not to write code but to play pro basketball. In time, he transitioned to real estate, managing a mortgage...

VentureBeat • June 15th, 2017

3 Reno startups thriving beyond Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley loves to talk about what makes it special: great universities, a networked VC community, quality of life. But rising rents and crowded freeways have strained that dream, and emerging tech hubs are enticing not only startups but talented...

Pando • February 22nd, 2017

Andreessen was right: Hardware is hard

“Hardware is hard. It's called hardware for a reason.” So said (Pando investor) Marc Andreessen at a PandoMonthly in 2013. He was talking about a mantra that had appeared in Silicon Valley among founders and investors: “Hardware is the new software.”...

Pando • February 3rd, 2017

Post IPO, Snap's appeal may prove as ephemeral as... well... you know

Snap's IPO filing is finally here, along with a reminder to be careful what you wish for. For much of the past year, Snap had been seen as the startup luminary most likely to revive a sleepy market for tech offerings. In 2016, 21 tech companies went...

TIME • November 30th, 2016

Investors Hoping To Ride High On Trailblazing Marijuana IPO

With several states passing measures to legalize marijuana in 2016, the cannabis business looks poised to finally to take off. But for investors, there remains a quandary: How do you find a way to get in on the ground floor of this new growth...

TIME • July 16th, 2016

Hubert Joly Brought Best Buy Back From the Brink

The first to fall under the Amazon steamroller were the bookstores. Then fell the music retailers like Tower Records, back when most people listened to music on CDs. Along the way, the big electronics chains began to find themselves struggling too....

TIME • July 11th, 2016

How Postmates Survived and Thrived Despite the Naysayers

Imitation may be a form of flattery, but in the world of tech startups, it can also be deadly. Solve a common problem and copycats are sure to emerge, often undercutting you with lower prices even at the risk of burning through the piles of cash they...

TIME • March 28th, 2016

Xiaomi Exec: 'We're Playing a Completely Different Game'

In 2013, former Google executive Hugo Barra made a move that stunned Silicon Valley observers: He left his high-ranking job at the search giant’s Android unit to take a post at Xiaomi. At the time, few in the U.S. had heard of the upstart Chinese...

Inc • July 1st, 2015

What 3 Small Businesses Learned From Big Data

Business data has existed for ages. But mostly it just sat hopelessly trapped in handwritten ledgers, filing cabinets, and floppy disks, a precious resource untapped. Software from past decades helped only so much. Many such applications could work...

Pando • March 22nd, 2013

Consider Myspace: What a comeback could look like

The Web does not love second acts. Inexperienced startups with a crazy idea can become overnight stars, but companies that found and then lost success are simply written off as irrelevant. Entrepreneurs can see their credentials strengthened by noble...

Fortune • June 10th, 2011

The checkered past of Groupon's chairman

“Lets start having fun… lets get funky… let’s announce everything… let’s be WILDLY positive in our forecasts… lets take this thing to the extreme… if we get wacked [sic] on the ride down-who gives a shit… THE TIME TO GET RADICAL IS NOW… WE HAVE...

Popular Science • December 1st, 2004

Banking on Biotechnology

Stymied by federal restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research, U.S. institutions are increasingly taking matters into their own hands. This year the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, one of nine privately funded stem-cell research facilities in the...

Popular Science • November 6th, 2003

Engineers Light Up Cancer Research

Here is the future of cancer treatment as Naomi Halas sees it. During a cancer screening, your physician injects a gold-laden liquid into your bloodstream and shines an invisible light over your body for roughly 30 seconds. She turns to a computer...

Popular Science • November 3rd, 2003

Gambling on Gene Therapy

The gateway to the future of gene therapy is a hole 1 inch in diameter. Through the hole -- drilled into the skull of Nathan Klein, a Parkinson's disease patient with a shuffling gait and tremors that couldn't be quieted through conventional treatment...

Wired • April 10th, 2003

Starlight Express

Nanotech's promise is out of this world. Just ask Brad Edwards, who's planning to build a carbon-nanotube elevator that goes 62,000 miles straight up. Of all the revolutionary technologies just ahead, nanotechnology seems the most outlandish....