Liz Gannes

Recent Posts by Liz Gannes

Video Calling Start-Up Tango Gets $40M More

Eighteen months after it launched, Tango, the start-up competitor to Skype and Apple FaceTime, now has 45 million total users, with more than 10 percent of them active on a daily basis. Tango has been even more successful at attracting dollars; it just closed a Series C round from investors including Qualcomm Ventures and Access Industries, bringing the company to nearly $100 million raised.


Latest Video

View all videos »

Search »

The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer