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Enterprise

“Against All Odds: Urvashi Barooah’s Venture Success Story”

When Urvashi Barooah applied to MBA programs in 2015, she focused her applications around her dream of becoming a venture capitalist. She got rejected from every school, and was told she was being unrealistic about her prospects in the venture industry, but she didn’t let that deter her. She landed a spot at Wharton and said she catered all of her classes and extra cirriculars around learning everything she could about the venture industry. While growing up with entrepreneur parents didn’t introduce Barooah to venture capital, she thinks her upbringing makes her a better VC. “I started my journey in venture four years ago and knew nothing,” Barooah said.

Ava Patel
June 10, 2024

Startups

“A16z Elevates Jennifer Li to Co-Lead $1.25B Infrastructure Fund Development”

Powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is promoting Jennifer Li to general partner after six years at the firm. She’s being tapped to help invest the new $1.25 billion Infrastructure fund managed by longtime a16z general partner Martin Casado. The Infrastructure fund is part of the fresh $7.2 billion that the Silicon Valley VC giant just raised. Li has been an investing partner on the Infrastructure team for a while, which means she was already writing checks and taking board seats. Plus she’s one of only four GPs on the Infrastructure team.

Dylan Williams
April 19, 2024
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Media & Entertainment

“Discover the Shocking Truth in Reesa Teesa’s ‘Who Did I Marry?’ TikToks: A Captivating Audio Experience”

TikTok’s latest viral superstar is Reesa Teesa, a Georgia woman who posted 50 videos — just under 10 minutes long apiece — chronicling her tumultuous relationship with her ex-husband. But Reesa’s videos marked the first time that I went for a walk while listening to TikToks, my phone tucked away in my pocket. “The series, ‘who the f— did I marry,’ is not something that you have to sit down and hold your phone and watch,” Reesa said in a TikTok on Wednesday. But Reesa is taking advantage of TikTok’s playlist feature, which transitions from one video to the next in order. When we watch Reesa do mundane things in her TikTok “audiobook,” she subtly signals to us that no matter how bad things got with her ex-husband, she’s still standing.