Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s health tech company Neuralink labeled itself a “small disadvantaged business” in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration, shortly before a financing round valued the company at $9 billion. Neuralink is developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) system, with the initial aim of helping people…
An engineer working on computer. Master | Moment | Getty Images The tech industry is reeling after a software engineer was exposed as working at several Silicon Valley startups at the same time — and experts say it’s a lesson on hustle culture gone too far. Soham Parekh, a software engineer from Mumbai, went viral…
Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, speaks at the company’s Data and AI Summit in San Francisco on June 11, 2025. Jordan Novet | CNBC Databricks, a data analytics software vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects to generate $3.7 billion in annualized revenue by July, with year-over-year growth of 50%. CFO Dave Conte…
European startup founders are being pressured to embrace China’s toxic “996” work culture on LinkedIn and they’re pushing back. D3sign | Moment | Getty Images The European startup scene was recently shaken by a LinkedIn debate with some venture capitalists applying pressure on founders to embrace a culture of overwork to compete on a global…
Samantha Mui, 34, is the founder of Thirsty Dumpling, a do-it-yourself dumpling-making startup. Courtesy of Samantha Mui Samantha Mui teaches people how to make dumplings for a living, making as much as $10,000 an hour, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. That’s more than what she used to make a month from her corporate job….
