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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens explains why tech companies are moving to the city on TechCrunch Live

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens sat down with TechCrunch to help open our first TechCrunch Live event dedicated to the city and spoke with us about the rapidly growing tech landscape. Atlanta is home to many buzzy industries, including fintech and SaaS, and is also the abode for many investors looking to back the startups in…

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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens sat down with TechCrunch to help open our first TechCrunch Live event dedicated to the city and spoke with us about the rapidly growing tech landscape.

Atlanta is home to many buzzy industries, including fintech and SaaS, and is also the abode for many investors looking to back the startups in the city. Some well-known unicorns from the city include Calendy, FullStory, and Kabbage. Atlanta startups raised around $1.65 billion, according to Pitchbook, the second-highest amount of funding allocated to the city in recent years. With that, it makes sense why even the Atlanta Hawks and record label Quality Control have set up funds and investment portfolios.

Dickens was born and raised in Atlanta and had an extensive background in tech before becoming mayor. He said it has been “phenomenal to watch this city grow from a southern jewel with charm to now an international city, one of the epicenters of the tech ecosystem,” before giving a slight nod to all the companies who are moving in: Microsoft, Porsche, to name a few.

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What to Actually Buy During Memorial Day Sales

There’s a storm of sales out there this weekend, but which items are actually a good deal and which should you wait on? Our deals and commerce expert Adrian Marlow shares a few Memorial Day sale shopping tips. #sale #deals #shopping #shoppingtips

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There’s a storm of sales out there this weekend, but which items are actually a good deal and which should you wait on? Our deals and commerce expert Adrian Marlow shares a few Memorial Day sale shopping tips.

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A proposed AI ‘kill switch’ and why it’s rough out there for VCs | Equity Podcast

This episode of Equity digs into the news that Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet is leaving the company, two funding deals, and how tech giants made commitments to the safe development of their AI models, including a potential “kill switch. Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance…

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This episode of Equity digs into the news that Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet is leaving the company, two funding deals, and how tech giants made commitments to the safe development of their AI models, including a potential “kill switch.

Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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Why is Meta’s AI council made up entirely of white men? | TechCrunch Minute

Meta announced a new advisory group that’s supposed to help guide the company’s decision making around AI and other new tech. The group consists of four business executives, including Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke. Every single member of the council is a white man — which suggests a relatively…

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Meta announced a new advisory group that’s supposed to help guide the company’s decision making around AI and other new tech. The group consists of four business executives, including Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke. Every single member of the council is a white man — which suggests a relatively narrow, blinkered view of who gets to have a say in the direction of AI at one of the biggest and most important tech companies in the world.

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