Catherine Bracy
@catherinebracy.com
Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
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A strong and true report from the frontlines of tech accountability journalism by @caseynewton.bsky.social: "I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them." www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse
What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?
www.platformer.news
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
A strong and true report from the frontlines of tech accountability journalism by @caseynewton.bsky.social: "I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them." www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
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Join us on Nov. 18 to hear from leaders on what #OpenAI shift means for philanthropy, governance, and California’s future.
@catherinebracy.com, @techequity.bsky.social | @irvinefdn.bsky.social | @pmanzo.bsky.social, @unitedwaysca.bsky.social | @/latinoprosperity
@catherinebracy.com, @techequity.bsky.social | @irvinefdn.bsky.social | @pmanzo.bsky.social, @unitedwaysca.bsky.social | @/latinoprosperity
OpenAI’s shift from nonprofit to $500B tech giant raises big questions. What’s at stake for the public good? Join the CA Policy Forum on Nov. 18 to discuss.
➡️ Register here: business.calnonprofits.org/ap/Events/Re...
➡️ Register here: business.calnonprofits.org/ap/Events/Re...
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Join us on Nov. 18 to hear from leaders on what #OpenAI shift means for philanthropy, governance, and California’s future.
@catherinebracy.com, @techequity.bsky.social | @irvinefdn.bsky.social | @pmanzo.bsky.social, @unitedwaysca.bsky.social | @/latinoprosperity
@catherinebracy.com, @techequity.bsky.social | @irvinefdn.bsky.social | @pmanzo.bsky.social, @unitedwaysca.bsky.social | @/latinoprosperity
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Did you catch Founder/CEO of TechEquity and author of “World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy” @catherinebracy.com on @thedailyshow.com with @michaelkosta.bsky.social last night?
No worries if you didn’t—here are our top takeaways:
No worries if you didn’t—here are our top takeaways:
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Did you catch Founder/CEO of TechEquity and author of “World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy” @catherinebracy.com on @thedailyshow.com with @michaelkosta.bsky.social last night?
No worries if you didn’t—here are our top takeaways:
No worries if you didn’t—here are our top takeaways:
In a wild turn of events, I’m gonna be on @thedailyshow.com tonight! I hope you’ll tune in and/or (if you’re old like me and can’t stay up late) watch on YouTube later.
TONIGHT: Catch Founder/CEO of TechEquity and author of “World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy” @catherinebracy.com on @thedailyshow.com.
She’ll be talking to @michaelkosta.bsky.social about the state of the modern tech economy and how we can build a more equitable future.
She’ll be talking to @michaelkosta.bsky.social about the state of the modern tech economy and how we can build a more equitable future.
October 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In a wild turn of events, I’m gonna be on @thedailyshow.com tonight! I hope you’ll tune in and/or (if you’re old like me and can’t stay up late) watch on YouTube later.
Case in point: the Windsurf employees have been treated like garbage. If you work(ed) there and want to chat, lemme know. techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/t... Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door | TechCrunch
August 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Case in point: the Windsurf employees have been treated like garbage. If you work(ed) there and want to chat, lemme know. techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/t... Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door | TechCrunch
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Our Founder and CEO @catherinebracy.com went on Paradigm Shock to talk about how venture capital’s dominance in funding tech imposes a narrow, and sometimes reckless, business culture.
August 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Our Founder and CEO @catherinebracy.com went on Paradigm Shock to talk about how venture capital’s dominance in funding tech imposes a narrow, and sometimes reckless, business culture.
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Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.
one thing that keeps happening is Trump taking major steps which impose large, often asymmetric costs on American business, and American business doing fucking nothing in response
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
August 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.
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OpenAI has abandoned its planned transformation to a for-profit, but it’s still making business deals that we have… questions about. @calmatters.org @catherinebracy.com
calmatters.org/commentary/2...
calmatters.org/commentary/2...
Why California's attorney general must continue the investigation into OpenAI | Opinion
With such critical questions still unanswered, the investigation into OpenAI’s structure by the California attorney general must continue.
calmatters.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
OpenAI has abandoned its planned transformation to a for-profit, but it’s still making business deals that we have… questions about. @calmatters.org @catherinebracy.com
calmatters.org/commentary/2...
calmatters.org/commentary/2...
Sean got in the makeup chair and said “give me the full Donald.”
Sean Duffy on Fox: "It's dangerous to ride the subway in New York ... it's just stupid liberals with stupid policies that impact the lives of New Yorkers"
July 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Sean got in the makeup chair and said “give me the full Donald.”
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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The wicked AI regulation ban is dead - the only good news in these times of in times of terrible news is when something terrible doesn't happen apnews.com/article/cong...
Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states
A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S.
apnews.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The wicked AI regulation ban is dead - the only good news in these times of in times of terrible news is when something terrible doesn't happen apnews.com/article/cong...
The revisionist gaslighting here is insane. Breed was a tough-on-crime, pro-developer moderate Dem backed by the establishment (including centrist savior Daniel Lurie!). I guess being brown is good enough to lump them together though.
NY Post is obsessed. The idea that London Breed was like Mamdani or that SF politics is anything like NYC's is just nonsense.
nypost.com/2025/06/27/o...
nypost.com/2025/06/27/o...
Warning to NY: Don’t make the mistake we did in San Francisco by electing Zohran Mamdani
Take heed, New Yorkers, and learn from San Francisco’s mistakes.
nypost.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The revisionist gaslighting here is insane. Breed was a tough-on-crime, pro-developer moderate Dem backed by the establishment (including centrist savior Daniel Lurie!). I guess being brown is good enough to lump them together though.
+1 it made me a lifelong Clive Owen stan
CHILDREN OF MEN is going to place “surprisingly” high on the NYT Best Movies of the Century list (like #7) and it’s going to formally occasion the Strange New Respect that we all know is coming so I just want to say I have been riding for that movie since I was a sophomore in high school
June 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
+1 it made me a lifelong Clive Owen stan
It’s like the domestic version of what he’s done for Left/Center politicians around the world. The Trump political dividend.
Trump is about to give a bunch of other Democratic mayors and governors the same gift he handed to Newsom, if they’re smart enough to take it. (Adams obviously won’t, because Trump bought his complicity.)
June 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
It’s like the domestic version of what he’s done for Left/Center politicians around the world. The Trump political dividend.
Looks like Elon figured out that only Democrats buy his cars.
June 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Looks like Elon figured out that only Democrats buy his cars.
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Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?
June 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?
Helpful to understand that what we’re up against is literally a death cult.
VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid)
ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”
ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”
May 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Helpful to understand that what we’re up against is literally a death cult.
Wherein I reveal my Doomerist tendencies.
May 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Wherein I reveal my Doomerist tendencies.
Good, so we’re all agreed that he’s not immune from prosecution.
REPORTER: On the president's dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president?
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
May 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Good, so we’re all agreed that he’s not immune from prosecution.
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We are going to graduate a generation of workers who can’t do any meaningful work without ChatGPT but then will be shocked when their jobs are completely replaced by AI.
May 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We are going to graduate a generation of workers who can’t do any meaningful work without ChatGPT but then will be shocked when their jobs are completely replaced by AI.
The world is trolling us
As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay.
According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.
According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.
May 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The world is trolling us
This is a pretty big deal. It’s one thing for Starbucks to give up on AI. Hospitality work always seemed more resilient than other sectors. But when fintech companies start giving up on it… fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...
As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver
Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.
fortune.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is a pretty big deal. It’s one thing for Starbucks to give up on AI. Hospitality work always seemed more resilient than other sectors. But when fintech companies start giving up on it… fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...
That about sums it up!!
The tech industry only ever has two positions on any proposed tech regulation:
(1) Don’t regulate us. It’s too early. Our tech is still developing.
(2) Don’t regulate us. It’s too late. Our tech is everywhere.
(1) Don’t regulate us. It’s too early. Our tech is still developing.
(2) Don’t regulate us. It’s too late. Our tech is everywhere.
May 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
That about sums it up!!
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Earlier this week, @catherinebracy.com sat down with @justinhendrix.bsky.social @techpolicypress.bsky.social to discuss how venture capital needs to be innovated for it to actually deliver on its promise of innovation that advances society, not just profits.
www.techpolicy.press/how-venture-...
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How Venture Capital Warps the World | TechPolicy.Press
A conversation with Catherine Bracy, CEO of TechEquity and author of the new book World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy.
www.techpolicy.press
May 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Earlier this week, @catherinebracy.com sat down with @justinhendrix.bsky.social @techpolicypress.bsky.social to discuss how venture capital needs to be innovated for it to actually deliver on its promise of innovation that advances society, not just profits.
www.techpolicy.press/how-venture-...
www.techpolicy.press/how-venture-...