Is the chicken-suit wearing contestant from 'The Bachelorette' really a venture capitalist? One journalist investigated and says the evidence just doesn't add up

Pitchbook reporter Dana Olsen investigated the purported job of 'Bachelorette' and 'Bachelor in Paradise' contestant David Ravitz. If he's really a VC, where's the proof?

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Is the chicken-suit wearing contestant from 'The Bachelorette' really a venture capitalist? One journalist investigated and says the evidence just doesn't add up Pitchbook reporter Dana Olsen investigated the purported job of 'Bachelorette' and 'Bachelor in Paradise' contestant David Ravitz. If he's really a VC, where's the proof? Read More »

Sonos will attempt to avoid the same fate suffered by fellow hardware companies FitBit and GoPro, whose share prices have dropped 80% since they went public Sonos' fellow consumer hardware companies also had promising IPO results, and yet their company shares have since dropped 80% due to declining sales. Read More »

A CEO who sold his company for $800 million has helped build four $1 billion companies — here's why he thinks investors should get in early on one of tech's unsexy, neglected markets BI PRIME: Bryan Johnson, who sold his company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million in 2013, has created a fund called OS Fund to invest in "deep tech" companies centered on the area of science and technology. Already, he's helped build four companies valued at $1 billion or more. Read More »

An internal email shows how Facebook used a 'psychological trick' to get teens to try a new product An internal memo obtained by BuzzFeed shows how a group of Facebook staffers became 'obsessed' with finding ways to attract high schoolers to a new product — and landed on a 'psychological trick' that worked. Read More »

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Amazon is addressing one of the most irritating things about Alexa, and it could be critical to maintaining dominance over Google Amazon's Alexa voice assistant will soon be able to memorize a question it can't answer and then come back to you once it's fetched an adequate response. The new Answer Updates is being rolled out over the coming days. Read More »

There's no longer an excuse for late Android updates: If this tiny smartphone company can support Android P on the same day as Google, so can everyone else The Essential Phone got the latest version of Android P before everyone else except Google itself — there's no longer any excuse for late Android updates. Read More »

One of the best-selling games of 2018 is nearly five years old — and the makers say 'there's plenty more content to come' The "Grand Theft Auto" series has always been popular, but "Grand Theft Auto 5" is a phenomenon that's nearing 100 million units sold. Read More »

Chinese state media tentatively welcomed Google back to China, then deleted all trace of its invite Chinese state media ran a commentary welcoming Google back to China as long as it played by Chinese rules, but it appeared to be deleted the next day. The post followed reports that Google was planning to relaunch a search service in mainland China, complete with government censorship. Read More »

The hypocrisy of the Alex Jones purge shows Facebook is morally spineless "We believe banning [Alex Jones' InfoWars] would be contrary to the basic principles of free speech," Facebook said when asked by CNN's Oliver Darcy why InfoWars still had a presence on the site after it stated it would clamp down on fake news in mid-July. Read More »

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