While many in Silicon Valley might prefer to forget about investor Mike Rothenberg roughly four years after his young venture firm began to implode, his story is still being written, and the latest chapter doesn’t bode well for the 36-year-old. While Rothenberg earlier tangled with the Securities & Exchange Commission and lost, it was a…
Boeing has fired its CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, for his role in the ongoing 737 Max crisis. The company is not paying him a severance package, but he will still leave with millions in compensation. Muilenburg’s golden parachute is a sad irony for those who lost relatives in Boeing crashes. In an apparent effort to save…
Nearly three years ago, TechCrunch reported on suspected fraud committed by Mike Rothenberg, a self-described “millennial venture capitalist” who’d made a name for himself not only by eponymously branding his venture firm but for spending lavishly to woo startup founders, including on Napa Valley wine tours, at luxury boxes at Golden State Warriors games and,…
