Billy Gallagher

Billy Gallagher is a former TechCrunch staffer whose first book “HOW TO TURN DOWN A BILLION DOLLARS: The Snapchat Story by Billy Gallagher” is on sale now. Gallagher previously worked as an analyst at Khosla Ventures.

Latest from Billy Gallagher

Media & Entertainment

How Reggie Brown invented Snapchat
Billy Gallagher

Feb 10, 2018
Startups

Zero To One: How Blake Masters Went From Being Peter Thiel’s Student To Co-Author
Billy Gallagher

Sep 16, 2014

Startups

Mashr Resurrects A Tinder Experiment To Make You A Matchmaker
Billy Gallagher

Sep 1, 2014
Media & Entertainment

The Pac-12 Networks Are Going Live On YouTube Internationally
Billy Gallagher

Aug 20, 2014
Startups

Spiral Hopes To Nail Location-Based Communities
Billy Gallagher

Aug 13, 2014
Startups

Hired Now Helps Tech Companies Find Executives
Billy Gallagher

Aug 7, 2014

Startups

Meet HelloWorld, An Easier Way To Share Your Location With Friends
Billy Gallagher

Aug 3, 2014
A Tale Of Two Patents: Why Facebook Can’t Clone Snapchat
Billy Gallagher

Jun 22, 2014
Yahoo News Digest Comes To Android
Billy Gallagher

May 8, 2014
Marissa Mayer Explains Yahoo’s New Video Strategy
Billy Gallagher

May 7, 2014

Codeanywhere, The Google Docs For Developers, Rocks Startup Alley At Disrupt NY
Billy Gallagher

May 6, 2014
Startups

Sedicii Aims To Better Protect Your Passwords And Information
Billy Gallagher

May 6, 2014
Comcast CEO Neil Smit Says Improving Customer Service Is His Top Priority
Billy Gallagher

May 6, 2014
Startups

Tom Hadfield Is Trying To Make Fetch Happen To Improve Mobile Shopping
Billy Gallagher

May 5, 2014

Hired Raises $15M Series A At Valuation Around $60M
Billy Gallagher

Mar 24, 2014
Apply Now To Write For TechCrunch This Summer As A Paid Intern
Billy Gallagher

Mar 13, 2014
Startups

Facebook’s WhatsApp Acquisition Leaves Snapchat Hanging
Billy Gallagher

Feb 19, 2014
Startups

Daric, A New Peer To Peer Lending Platform, Will Go Live Next Week
Billy Gallagher

Nov 23, 2013

Startups

DoorDash Raises $2.4M To Improve Food Delivery
Billy Gallagher

Sep 30, 2013
NFL MVP Adrian Peterson Launches Fitness Training App
Billy Gallagher

Sep 20, 2013
DeveloperAuction Rebrands As Hired.com To Make Recruiting Suck Less For Everyone
Billy Gallagher

Sep 17, 2013
Silicon Valley Luminaries Got Grilled On The NSA At Disrupt, Here’s How They Responded
Billy Gallagher

Sep 14, 2013

Zuckerberg Says The “Government Blew It” On The NSA Scandal
Billy Gallagher

Sep 11, 2013
Zuckerberg Says He Was Too Afraid Of Taking Facebook Public
Billy Gallagher

Sep 11, 2013
Yahoo Monthly Active Users Are Up 20% To 800M, Including 350M On Mobile, Says Marissa Mayer
Billy Gallagher

Sep 11, 2013
Health Tech Panelists Say VC Interest In The Sector Is Tentative But Growing
Billy Gallagher

Eliza Brooke

Sep 11, 2013

Facebook Closes At All-Time High Of $45.05 Before Zuckerberg’s Disrupt Interview
Billy Gallagher

Sep 11, 2013
Kleiner Perkins Has Invested In A Stealth Startup To Improve Battery Power By 300%, Says Moore’s Law Is Running Out Of Steam
Billy Gallagher

Ingrid Lunden

Sep 11, 2013
Enterprise

Sequoia Made $400M From Meraki’s Sale To Cisco, Says Key To Enterprise Investing Is To Stand Back But Stay Committed
Ingrid Lunden

Billy Gallagher

Sep 10, 2013
What’s Ahead For Snapchat? CEO Evan Spiegel Drops Clues In Disrupt Talk
Billy Gallagher

Sep 9, 2013