Elon Musk has been pitching cheap tunnels from The Boring Company to big names

Enlarge / Plans for a potential tunnel connecting Sydney, Australia, to the West. (credit: Jeremy Buckingham) Elon Musk—CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company—has been pitching his new tunnel-boring capabilities to curious elected officials as well as the director of CERN (the organization that owns and operates the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland). Just […]

Jays continue pitching purge, send Loup to Phillies, Axford to Dodgers

The Toronto Blue Jays traded two relief pitchers for prospects before Tuesday's non-waiver trade deadline, sending long-serving left-hander Aaron Loup to the Philadelphia Phillies and Canadian right-hander John Axford to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 30-year-old Loup, the longest-tenured Blue Jay before the trade, was dealt for minor-league right-handed pitcher Jacob Waguespack. Axford, 35, was […]

The Sharkification of Investor Pitching Spreads Outside Silicon Valley

It was an early morning in March 2015 and frighteningly cold, with whiplash winds treacherous even by the standards of central Vermont’s Mad River Valley. From their perch at Sugarbush Resort, Christine Dodson and Sascha Mayer plotted their plan of attack. The two co-founders were looking to raise money for Mamava, an early-stage startup that […]