{"id":91728,"date":"2026-07-25T14:43:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/is-the-1-7b-a-bet-on-atoms-itself-or-just-on-travis-kalanicks-name\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:43:47","slug":"is-the-1-7b-a-bet-on-atoms-itself-or-just-on-travis-kalanicks-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/is-the-1-7b-a-bet-on-atoms-itself-or-just-on-travis-kalanicks-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the $1.7B a Bet on Atoms Itself, or Just on Travis Kalanick’s Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A startup hitting unicorn status used to be a sign of its legitimacy as an actual business.<\/p>\n

But with $1.7B raised for Travis Kalanick’s nascent Atoms, the Equity podcast crew asks whether this is proof of a great idea or just proof that his name sells: http:\/\/spr.ly\/6057BEt1qf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A startup hitting unicorn status used to be a sign of its legitimacy as an actual business. But with $1.7B raised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}