Growing up, I didn’t see poker as a game for girls. My dad and brothers played constantly, with the sounds of them placing bets and shuffling cards always in my periphery. But they never invited me to join them. They once let me join a game of Texas Hold ‘Em without fully explaining the rules,
For the first time since 2024, StrictlyVC returns to New York City and we’ll be providing the kind of access you’d expect from a secret event to the entire startup, VC and dealmaking community. For years, StrictlyVC has hosted a series of some of the most interesting nights a VC, founder or dealmaker can spend,
The pattern has now become tiresomely familiar in Nigeria. Many die in a boat accident; officials say regulations must be followed; your calls are ignored; activists say resources are not available; Another tragedy occurs. This time, a search and rescue team is looking for survivors of a capsized wooden canoe in Jigawa State. There were
What’s yellow, fluffy, and has a name that will probably stick in your head? The new television star of the insurance sector. Liberty Mutual worked its way into consumers’ brains over the past decade with a series of ads featuring a hard-to-forget slogan (just repeat the company name several times while singing) along with a
In the face of SpaceX’s historic IPO, the comments from skeptics were strong. Some criticized the company’s initial valuation as too high. Others opposed what they considered fantastic ideas that would take decades to realize. Another popular narrative was that retail investors, who were granted a larger share of shares than usual, would be left
Hugging Face, a platform that hosts AI models and datasets, said its internal datasets and service credentials were compromised in an attack last week. The company disclosed the breach on Friday, but said it was still investigating whether any customer or partner data was stolen during the incident. In a blog post, the company said
