Kevin Hartz, co-founder and former CEO of Eventbrite, has quietly stepped down as a partner with venture capital firm Founders Fund. Neither he nor a firm spokesperson has yet returned a request for comment.
Short stay: Hartz joined Founders Fund in late 2016, several months after turning the reins at Eventbrite over to co-founder and wife Julia Hartz. He previously had made angel investments in such companies as Airbnb, Trulia and Uber.
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If you want to understand the rhetorical roots of Trump's Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore, go back and watch Tucker Carlson's monologues for the past six weeks.
Between the lines: Trump — or rather his speechwriter Stephen Miller — framed the president's opposition to the Black Lives Matter protest movement using the same imagery Carlson has been laying out night after night on Fox.
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The news media has largely moved on, but foreign government officials remain fixated on John Bolton's memoir, "The Room Where It Happened."
Why it matters: Bolton's detailed inside-the-Oval revelations have raised the blood pressure of allies who were already stressed about President Trump's unreliability.