{"id":91851,"date":"2026-07-29T14:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/did-investors-pay-a-1-7b-pemium-to-declare-travis-is-back\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:45:17","slug":"did-investors-pay-a-1-7b-pemium-to-declare-travis-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/did-investors-pay-a-1-7b-pemium-to-declare-travis-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Investors Pay a $1.7B Pemium to Declare “Travis Is Back?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup just raised $1.7B with Uber, and Andreessen Horowitz among its big investors.<\/p>\n

Equity digs into whether all this excitement is actually about the business…or about its backers paying a premium to be first to declare “Travis is back.” http:\/\/spr.ly\/6053BEt1Kv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup just raised $1.7B with Uber, and Andreessen Horowitz among its big investors. Equity digs into whether all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91867,"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-91851","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\/91851","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=91851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}