Kate Rooney (@kr00ney) 's Twitter Profile
Kate Rooney

@kr00ney

@CNBC in San Francisco. Covering Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, gen AI ... and retail investors, with the occasional meme stock.

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ā€œInvestors were most excited when they saw that over half of every dollar that Ramp puts into payroll goes into R&D. That's just really different. It's what drives the experience where customers today feel that every year they use Ramp it's getting dramatically better. It

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YC is now in its 20th year of operation, having created over $800B in new startup market value. Thanks Kate Rooney for coming to YC Demo Day and for having me on CNBC! cnbc.com/video/2025/03/…

YC is now in its 20th year of operation, having created over $800B in new startup market value. 

Thanks <a href="/Kr00ney/">Kate Rooney</a> for coming to YC Demo Day and for having me on CNBC! 

cnbc.com/video/2025/03/…
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Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to "vibe coding" (@kr00ney / CNBC) cnbc.com/2025/03/15/y-c… techmeme.com/250315/p17#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

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.Alfred Lin joined Cobot founder and CEO Brad Porter and CNBC's Kate Rooney for a conversation about the future of robotics at #HumanX2025. Cobot is bridging digital and physical worlds, helping humans do what we do best - be human.

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Robinhood announcing some major changes to appeal to a more mature crowd. Kate Rooney reports on the new $HOOD features: cnbc.com/video/2025/03/…

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Feels like one of the most popular acronyms in Silicon Valley right now is SPV šŸ’ø Investors are warning of hidden fees, unclear rules about ownership, and FOMO-driven marketing. More on the rise, and the risks CNBC h/t Forge AngelList cnbc.com/2025/03/27/sil…

Feels like one of the most popular acronyms in Silicon Valley right now is SPV šŸ’ø

Investors are warning of hidden fees, unclear rules about ownership, and FOMO-driven marketing. More on the rise, and the risks <a href="/CNBC/">CNBC</a> 

h/t <a href="/ForgeGlobal/">Forge</a> <a href="/AngelList/">AngelList</a> 
cnbc.com/2025/03/27/sil…
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Robinhood launched a bunch of new products this week, including wealth management and private banking. Plus an AI assistant. Chatted with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about all of the above.. applying subscription services to banking (modeled after Amazon Prime, Costco), AI's

Robinhood launched a bunch of new products this week, including wealth management and private banking. Plus an AI assistant. 

Chatted with <a href="/RobinhoodApp/">Robinhood</a> CEO <a href="/vladtenev/">Vlad Tenev</a> about all of the above.. applying subscription services to banking (modeled after Amazon Prime, Costco), AI's
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Our partner, mmurph, spoke with Kate Rooney on CNBC about the acceleration we're seeing in tech dealmaking this year! While Google's $32B Wiz acquisition grabbed headlines, Matt points out that smaller deals are happening much faster than 2024. Watch the full conversation to

Our partner, <a href="/mmurph/">mmurph</a>, spoke with <a href="/Kr00ney/">Kate Rooney</a> on <a href="/CNBC/">CNBC</a> about the acceleration we're seeing in tech dealmaking this year! 

While Google's $32B Wiz acquisition grabbed headlines, Matt points out that smaller deals are happening much faster than 2024.

Watch the full conversation to
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OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record 🚨 The Softbank-led deal values the AI company at $300B ChatGPT now has 500M weekly users, up from 400M a month ago Reporting with Hayden Field CNBC cnbc.com/2025/03/31/ope…

CNBC Events (@cnbcevents) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEXT WEEK šŸ‘‰ļø joanna strober of Midi Health and fridababy Founder & CEO talk with Kate Rooney about the importance of investing in women’s health and challenging the misconceptions that surround fertility, postpartum and menopause. #CNBCChangemakers MORE: bit.ly/4hMMDyG

NEXT WEEK šŸ‘‰ļø <a href="/joannastrober/">joanna strober</a> of <a href="/midihealth/">Midi Health</a> and <a href="/fridababy/">fridababy</a> Founder &amp; CEO talk with <a href="/Kr00ney/">Kate Rooney</a> about the importance of investing in women’s health and challenging the misconceptions that surround fertility, postpartum and menopause. #CNBCChangemakers

MORE: bit.ly/4hMMDyG
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Plaid announced a new funding Thursday round that values the fintech startup at $6 billion, roughly half of its peak price four years ago. Sat down with CEO Zachary Perret who says Plaid plans on going public (just not yet). Chatted about "fintech spring" market multiples and

Plaid announced a new funding Thursday round that values the fintech startup at $6 billion, roughly half of its peak price four years ago. 

Sat down with CEO <a href="/zachperret/">Zachary Perret</a> who says Plaid plans on going public (just not yet). Chatted about "fintech spring" market multiples and
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GC’s Marc Bhargava is driving our AI-enabled roll-ups to scale AI to millions of end consumers. We’re not just backing AI-native software companies. We’re helping them scale quickly by acquiring traditional businesses in their industries. By combining applied AI with established

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I had a nice conversation with Kate Rooney about Sierra, AI agents, and demand for AI applications in the face of global economic uncertainty cnbc.com/video/2025/04/…

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Sat down with Bret Taylor , co-founder of Sierra and chairman of OpenAI’s board, at CNBC's San Francisco bureau this week šŸŒ‰ Fascinating convo about: - New deal with Minted šŸŽ„ - The boom in AI agents and how to build a moat - Potential pullback in enterprise IT spending (how AI