The Secret IRS Files
How billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay so little in income tax compared to their massive wealth—sometimes, even nothing.
How billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay so little in income tax compared to their massive wealth—sometimes, even nothing.
Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen, Paul Kiel ProPublica Jun 2021 30min Permalink
The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity.
Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent staff Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO.
Casey Newton The Verge Oct 2019 Permalink
A co-founder makes the case for government intervention.
Chris Hughes New York Times May 2019 25min Permalink
Inside Facebooks war on hate speech.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Vanity Fair Feb 2019 25min Permalink
The reality of Silicon Valley is that it’s commerce by any means necessary. And the reality of Sandberg is that she’s excellent at it.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Dec 2018 25min Permalink
On the lengths Mark Zuckberberg and Sheryl Sandberg have gone to protect their power.
Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg, Jack Nicas New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink
A profile.
Evan Osnos New Yorker Sep 2018 55min Permalink
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Nicholas Thompson, Fred Vogelstein Wired Feb 2018 40min Permalink
An interview with a Funny or Die writer after the entire editorial team was laid off.
Sarah Aswell, Matt Klinman Splitsider Feb 2018 15min Permalink
Examining the future of the massive social media site.
A critique of Facebook.
John Lanchester London Review of Books Aug 2017 35min Permalink
Making sense of the CEO’s very public tour of America, which feels like a political campaign minus the politics.
Nitasha Tiku Buzzfeed Apr 2017 20min Permalink
The social network positioned its plan to bring the internet to millions of Indians as a gift. The country saw a catch.
Rahul Bhatia The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink
The difficult business of spending money well.
Michael Hobbes Huffington Post Highline Feb 2016 25min Permalink
“There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.’
Kevin Roose New York Oct 2014 25min Permalink
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.
Dale Russakoff New Yorker May 2014 45min Permalink
A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, savvy CEO.
Henry Blodget New York May 2012 20min Permalink
TheFacebook, as it was then called, had just reached 1.5 million users:
In the end, Zuckerberg says, quarrels over money rarely come up because money is not their priority. “We’re in a really interesting place because if you look at the assets we have, we’re fucking rich,” Zuckerberg adds. “But if you look at like the cash and the amount of money we have to live with, we’re dirt poor. All the stuff we own is tied up in random assets” like servers and the company itself. “Living like we do now, it’s, like, not that big of a deal for us. We’re not like, Aw man, I wish I had a million dollars now. Because, like, we kind of like living like college students and being dirty. It’s fun."
Kevin J. Feeney The Harvard Crimson Feb 2005 20min Permalink
On Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and the gender dynamics of Silicon Valley.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Jul 2011 35min Permalink
The difference between a social network and a movie about a social network, and what it says about the Facebook generation.
Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Nov 2010 20min Permalink
A 2006 profile of Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook opened from a college-only site to a public social network.
John Cassidy New Yorker May 2006 30min Permalink
The writer (Aaron Sorkin), director (David Fincher), and actors (Jesse Eisenberg & Justin Timberlake) of The Social Network on dramatizing the real story of a 20 year old into “the Citizen Kane of John Hughes movies.”
Mark Harris New York Sep 2010 25min Permalink
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, on the eve of the release of The Social Network, believed to be a deeply unflattering portrait of him and the genesis of his company.
Jose Antonio Vargas New Yorker Sep 2010 25min Permalink