4 Years In

matjohnson, Here's what's trending on Twitter this week.         Jennifer 8. Lee @jenny8lee In just 4 years since startingoperations in SF, @Uber has grown to a $17 billion valuation, raising $1.2 billion. blog.uber.com/4years 06 Jun 4 Years In We have some exciting news to share this morning. We have just closed a financing round with some of the leading investors in the world, raising $1.2B of primary capital at a $17B pre-money valuation. The total raise… 11 Related tweets MG Siegler @parislemon Last answer is just the best. businessweek.com/articles/2014-… 07 Jun Q&A: Travis Kalanick on Uber's New $17 Billion Valuation The CEO talks about how his startup will use its latest funding, car service rival Lyft, and the VCs that missed out 7 Related tweets Claire Cain Miller @clairecm Career tip from @UpshotNYT: Go into medicine or tech, not housing & print media. Or just open a vintage clothing shop nytimes.com/interactive/20… 05 Jun How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts Five years since the end of the Great Recession, the private sector has finally regained the nine million jobs it lost. But not all industries recovered equally. 5 Related tweets Lane Becker @monstro "I like to say that traditional restaurant reservations are predicated on two people lying to each other." website.alinearestaurant.com/site/2014/06/t… 06 Jun Tickets for Restaurants Alinea is not a restaurant...at least, not in a conventional sense. 5 Related tweets CIA @CIA We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet. 06 Jun 2 Favorites U.S. Dept of Defense @DeptofDefense Welcome to twitter @CIA! Although we've never "officially" met, I hear we run in the same circles. 07 Jun 1 Retweet Tony Esposito @TonyEsposito Interview with Wealthfront CEO - automated investing platform. This will be the Charles Schwab of Generation Y bit.ly/SmIrtV 07 Jun 1 Retweet Tom Read @traread I never realized that the Chicago Bulls logo flipped upside-down looks like a robot reading the bible... pic.twitter.com/jrOJNiUmjH 06 Jun 1 Retweet Don't miss out. Stay up to date on what's happening. Go to Twitter Forgot your Twitter password? Get instructions on how to reset it. You can also change your email digest frequency or unsubscribe from these emails. Need help? If you received this message in error and did not sign up for Twitter, click not my account. Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St., Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103