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Bankers Get Creative Amid Dealmaking Lull

By Cory Weinberg and Ann Gehan · Sep 23, 2024 8:30am PDT
Startup investors have been scurrying lately to come up with new ways to turn their investments into cash, given that the conventional paths to cashing out—the startup goes public or gets acquired by a bigger tech firm—are much harder to pull off nowadays. Some investors are hoping private equity firms snap up their companies. Others are trying... Startup investors have been scurrying lately to come up with new ways to turn their investments...
Steve Jobs in 2008. Photo by Bloomberg.
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Hear Steve Jobs, at the Dawn of App Store, Predict the Future of Mobile

By Nick Wingfield · Jul 25, 2018 7:00am PDT · 5 comments
In the summer of 2008, I got an unusual invitation: Steve Jobs, then Apple’s chief executive officer, wanted me, then a Wall Street Journal reporter, to come to Apple headquarters to hear how well a fledgling online service for the iPhone—the App Store—did in its first month in business. Even more unusual, he allowed me to... In the summer of 2008, I got an unusual invitation: Steve Jobs, then Apple’s chief...