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Venture capital firm GV, backed by Google parent Alphabet Inc, has hired Michael McBride from software firm GitLab as its latest general partner to focus on open-source and AI startups, the firm told Reuters.McBride served as the chief revenue officer for five years at GitLab, an open-source developer tools maker in GV's portfolio that went public in late 2021.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product…

This tender and humane work by the prize-winning American author of The Good Lord Bird and Deacon King Kong is an uplifting tale of kindness and community. James McBride’s latest novel opens in 1972 with the discovery of a skeleton in a well. It is a mystery to be solved and pivotal to his plot, but we don’t revisit the scene until the final pages.Set in the 1920s and 30s, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store follows the fortunes of a group of Jewish immigrants and African Americans who live together on Chicken Hill in…

My earliest reading memoryBeing taught by my father. I was three and it was a Ladybird book. I remember climbing over the back of the sofa shouting that as I could already talk, what was the point of learning to read? And he sat there, very patiently explaining that while talking has its uses, reading is thinking. Forty-two years later, he still hasn’t been proved wrong.My favourite book growing upLM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. I read it when I was eight, the summer my father was dying, and the girl who disappears…

Image via HBO Danny McBride was asked to do Ye-face—by Ye himself! During a Hollywood Reporter comedy actor roundtable, McBride revealed that the eccentric rapper traveled all the way to his house in South Carolina to ask if he would play him in a biopic: “One time, I did get a phone call from Kanye West, and, this is real, he came to my house in South Carolina and wanted me to play him in a movie . . . flew to South Carolina. I took him out on a boat for the day, and he said that he wanted to do a movie of his…