Who Funds the Future?
Inside the mind of Marc Andreessen.
Inside the mind of Marc Andreessen.
Tad Friend New Yorker May 2015 55min Permalink
Uber says its drivers can earn as much as $90,000. The author decided to fact-check that number the only way she could: by becoming a driver herself.
Emily Guendelsberger Philadelphia City Paper May 2015 25min Permalink
The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.
Nicholas Carlson New York Times Magazine Dec 2014 20min Permalink
Superstar coders, like actors and athletes, now have agents.
Lizzie Widdicombe New Yorker Nov 2014 25min Permalink
The grim world of outsourced content moderation.
Adrian Chen Wired Oct 2014 15min Permalink
The on and offline search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity nude photo hacking scandal.
Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed Oct 2014 15min Permalink
“The idea for Handybook occurred to me when I was studying at Harvard. It was so hard to find a reliable cleaning service to tidy my apartment! You know?”
Amanda Tomas The Billfold Oct 2014 10min Permalink
The Wikipedia origin story.
Walter Isaacson The Daily Beast Oct 2014 20min Permalink
On Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Flickr and now Slack, a wildly popular, difficult-to-describe messaging service that has 38,000 paying subscribers just a few months after launching.
On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Jul 2014 Permalink
The 50,000-word story of Microsoft’s antitrust case.
John Heilemann Wired Nov 2000 3h10min Permalink
What happens after your goofy little company gets swallowed by Amazon.
Tim Rogers D Magazine Jun 2014 15min Permalink
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jun 2014 25min Permalink
Ted Nelson's Xanadu project began in 1960 and was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. It didn't go that way.
Update: The software was finally, quietly released in April.
Privacy, memory, data and advertising—how the modern web has become a Ponzi scheme and how we might be able to fix it.
Maciej Cegłowski Idle Words May 2014 Permalink
The laundry wars of Silicon Valley.
Jessica Pressler New York May 2014 20min Permalink
How the Google co-founder, forced out of a leadership role in 2001, came back to run the company 10 years later.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Apr 2014 40min Permalink
The dark side of startup life in Silicon Valley.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus Wired Apr 2014 40min Permalink
How a small team of 20-somethings helped spark a $50 billion turnaround.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Feb 2014 25min Permalink
A post-acquisition profile of Tumblr’s David Karp.
Molly Young New York Sep 2013 15min Permalink
How a group of serial entrepreneurs with an already impressive string of hits changed the way the world talks.
Toivo Tänavsuu Eesti Ekspress Jul 2013 25min Permalink
A 22,000-word profile of the Yahoo CEO.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Aug 2013 1h30min Permalink
The story of a lead squandered.
Kurt Eichenwald Vanity Fair Aug 2012 30min Permalink
A startup’s rocky search for profitability.
Austin Carr Fast Company Sep 2013 20min Permalink
The emerging political consciousness of Silicon Valley.
George Packer New Yorker May 2013 40min Permalink