Kevin McLaughlin
Subscriber since 2016
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Kevin joined The Information in 2016 after 11 years covering enterprise technology and cloud computing at CRN, a technology trade industry publication. Previously, he was a technical writer for France Telecom’s R&D division and a reporter at Business 2.0, a magazine that covered the rise (and fall) of the first dot-com era. He started his career at The Bangkok Post, a Thailand-based English language daily newspaper serving Southeast Asia. Kevin attended Colgate University and lives with his wife and two young children in Berkeley, Calif. You can reach him at [email protected].
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Nvidia is No. 1. Should It Be?
Posted byAmir Efrati
I'm curious what people here think about Nvidia becoming the world's most valuable company by market cap. AI computing is real, the data center and power investments the top tech giants are making for AI computing are real, but is there a problematic gap between those hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and the revenue (or big savings) being generated fr...The Information
Adobe-Figma: what gives?
Posted byAmir Efrati
I'm all out of superlatives to describe the incredible $20B price tag for Figma. Do any Figma and/or Adobe users think this is a wise deal at 50/60+ ARR?The Information
American VCs & LPs making bank in China -- OK or not OK?
Posted byAmir Efrati
I wanted to give some context for our exclusive report about Sequoia Capital's China arm having (very quietly) employed the daughter of one of the most powerful political bureaucrats in China. There's a growing U.S. political movement to stop some cross-border investments and commerce involving China, given the shared geopolitical animosity between the two. It's...The Information
DataRobot CEO Resigns After Furor Over Undisclosed Secondary Stock Sale. Will the Practice Change?
Posted byAmir Efrati
The debate about secondary stock sales doesn't seem to be peaking, given how many founders and non-founders (in DataRobot's case, short-tenured execs) cashed out quietly last year when valuations were generous. What other shoes will drop? Who else in tech startup land cashed out didn't let long-tenured employees do the same?The Information