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Allie Garfinkle is a senior writer and editor at Fortune, where she runs Term Sheet—the flagship weekday dealmaking newsletter—and leads coverage of private capital, investors, and startups. She writes longform features—her first Fortune cover story profiled AI pioneer Demis Hassabis’s Isomorphic Labs—and co-chairs the Brainstorm conference series. The host of the Term Sheet podcast, she’s also been a frequent moderator at major conferences like SXSW and regular contributor to the BBC. Before Fortune, Allie covered Amazon, Google, and Meta at Yahoo Finance and helped produce Emmy-nominated PBS Frontline documentaries, including Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover and The Power of the Fed. She holds degrees from The University of Chicago and NYU and is based in New York.

In the AI boom, incumbents are better positioned to compete with startups than in previous cycles, VCs say at Goldman Sachs Communacopia
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In the AI boom, incumbents are better positioned to compete with startups than in previous cycles, VCs say at Goldman Sachs Communacopia
By Allie GarfinkleSeptember 11, 2024
What Sam’s Grill, the VC lunch spot of the 1950s, can tell us about today
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What Sam’s Grill, the VC lunch spot of the 1950s, can tell us about today
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Why Nanowear cofounder Venk Varadan isn’t chasing venture capital
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Why Nanowear cofounder Venk Varadan isn’t chasing venture capital
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Why Paul Graham’s ‘founder mode’ became a rallying cry
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Why Paul Graham’s ‘founder mode’ became a rallying cry
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Exclusive: Laravel, an open source startup in Arkansas founded by Taylor Otwell, raises $57 million from Accel
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Exclusive: Laravel, an open source startup in Arkansas founded by Taylor Otwell, raises $57 million from Accel
By Allie GarfinkleSeptember 5, 2024
VCs invested $1.2 billion in insurtechs in Q2 2024, according to PitchBook
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VCs invested $1.2 billion in insurtechs in Q2 2024, according to PitchBook
By Allie GarfinkleSeptember 4, 2024
How tech’s booms and busts have evolved over time—and how they’ve stayed the same, according to Venrock’s Ethan Batraski
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How tech’s booms and busts have evolved over time—and how they’ve stayed the same, according to Venrock’s Ethan Batraski
By Allie GarfinkleSeptember 3, 2024
Exclusive: Ambience Healthcare’s AI technology launches at John Muir Health
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Mike Lynch leaves a complex, still-unfolding legacy
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What IPO readiness really looks like
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Global VC funding in media, entertainment, and gaming is up 58% for the first half of 2024, says Crunchbase
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Global VC funding in media, entertainment, and gaming is up 58% for the first half of 2024, says Crunchbase
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 22, 2024
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Why Meter’s Varanasi brothers have to think beyond internet infrastructure to excel
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 21, 2024
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Meter cofounders Sunil and Anil Varanasi are brothers, partners, and competitors—who play on the same team
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 21, 2024
AMD’s ZT acquisition marks a new chapter in the chip maker’s chase of Nvidia
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AMD’s ZT acquisition marks a new chapter in the chip maker’s chase of Nvidia
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 20, 2024
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Why Silicon Valley falls prey to ‘charisma distortion,’ according to investor and Google X founding member Tom Chi
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 19, 2024
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