Startup growth — revenue milestones, user metrics, expansion moves, and scale-up strategies.
From restaurant guides to payments, here’s how TikTok is building a super app
TikTok announced this week that it is adding an in-app restaurant guide called "Must Eat," drawing on more than 40 million posts and comments to compi…
Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel's stock plummeted 28% on Friday after the chip giant reported a weaker-than-expected outlook for the fourth quarter, erasing $12 billion from th…
Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the platform will move to "a logged-in-only experience," according to a shareholder letter released today abou…
Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
Over one quarter of people lie to doctors to get antibiotics they likely don't need, according to two studies published Friday in JAMA Network Open. R…
Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Fujifilm announced Thursday it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase magnetic tape production capacity fivefold, measured…
Amazon reported booming cloud revenue but otherwise missed expectations
Amazon reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday, missing analyst expectations for total revenue and earnings per share. The company's free cash flo…
Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
Alphabet reported Q3 2026 revenue of nearly $128 billion with net income exceeding $26 billion, but the stock price dropped almost 12 percent followin…
Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn ‘tens of billions of dollars’
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on Thursday that Prime Video has emerged as a profitable business with a revenue run rate in the tens of billions of dollar…
Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprise customers
Databricks co-founder Ali Ghodsi has built one of the fastest-growing data platforms by mastering a counterintuitive playbook for enterprise sales: le…
VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product-market fit
Rahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman Mail, joined venture capitalists from Iconiq Capital and Sapphire Ventures to outline concrete markers of product-m…
Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports say
Microsoft extended voluntary buyout offers to approximately 60,000 employees across the company, according to reports from multiple outlets. The move …
Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers
# Startups Don't Need Viral Moments to Build Sustainable Customer Bases The obsession with virality has warped how founders think about growth. At Te…
AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says
Apollo Global Management's chief economist delivered a blunt assessment of artificial intelligence's return on investment for corporate America: it's …
PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
# PHP-ocalypse: How Two Critical Web Bugs Nearly Broke the Internet Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the server-side scripting language that powe…
Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years
Lucid Motors has reduced electric vehicle production to its lowest level in nearly two years, according to reporting from TechCrunch. The company is i…
Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related
Instinct is scaling rapidly as a travel-focused payments and booking platform, with its founder revealing that over half of all transactions on the ne…
Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds
Aurora's autonomous trucking ambitions hit a new milestone in confidence. The self-driving truck company's CFO recently defended the company's plan to…
Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ Brandon Sorbom and Helion’s David Kirtley on bringing fusion to the grid at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Commonwealth Fusion Systems' Chief Technology Officer Brandon Sorbom and Helion Energy's Chief Executive David Kirtley will appear together at TechCru…
Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Blue Cross Blue Shield has quantified an emerging healthcare paradox: artificial intelligence tools adopted to streamline hospital operations are inst…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari on how to create viral growth and capitalize on it
# Cal AI's Zach Yadegari Will Discuss Viral Growth Strategies at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Zach Yadegari, founder of Cal AI, takes the stage at TechCru…
Tech Layoffs Outpace 2025 As Big Companies Shift Spending To AI
Tech layoffs are accelerating across the industry, with U.S. companies cutting 94,046 jobs from January through August, a 16.8% jump compared to 80,48…
Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows
Waymo's autonomous vehicle deployment is accelerating at a pace that outstrips typical fleet rollouts. The company expanded its Texas operations by 49…
Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors convened at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to confront a problem that separates theory from practice in artificial intel…
20 minutes with the CEO of ElevenLabs, now reportedly valued at $22B
ElevenLabs, the AI voice synthesis startup that generates spoken audio for customer service interactions, customer support chatbots, and digital assis…
Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off
Lovable, the AI-powered app development platform, has crossed $600 million in annualized revenue, marking a significant milestone for the company as "…