Start-up

• Palantir CIO Jim Siders leaves to become head of Thrive Capital's new IT services business - Siders spent more than 12 years at Palantir, recently overseeing its global IT operations, business applications and infrastructure.
• This is the No.1 reason startups fail in the first two years, according to the founder of Europe's largest pre-seed fund - "The number one reason companies typically fail in the first 18 to 24 months is that founders fall out with each other or don't get along," one VC said.