Uncanny Valley
Living and working in the tech world.
Silicon Valley
How Mark Zuckerberg Should Give Away $45 Billion
The difficult business of spending money well.
The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage.
Google and Tesla are spending billions to develop driverless technology. George Hotz used an Acura.
Dispossessed in the Land of Dreams
Suzan Russaw is 70 years old. She lived in affordable Palo Alto housing for decades. Then, in 2013, she was forced to move into her car. On the new homeless of Silicon Valley.
The Silicon Valley Suicides
Why are so many teenagers killing themselves in Palo Alto?
Inside Stanford Business School’s Spiraling Sex Scandal
A love triangle between two married professors and the dean goes public.
The Shut-In Economy
There are two roles to play in the new world of on-demand everything: royalty or servant.
A Tale of Money, Sex and Power: The Ellen Pao and Buddy Fletcher Affair
How Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr., an openly gay hedge fund star, came to marry Ellen Pao, a partner at a powerful Silicon Valley firm, before they “went to war with their elite worlds.”
The Bitcoin Boy
On a 16-year-old Silicon Valley wunderkind.
Tristan Walker: The Visible Man
On an African-American entrepreneur and race in Silicon Valley.
In Conversation: Marc Andreessen
“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.’
The Disruption Machine
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
"Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry"
The laundry wars of Silicon Valley.
No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush
The dark side of startup life in Silicon Valley.
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Saving eBay
How a small team of 20-somethings helped spark a $50 billion turnaround.
Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History
What remains of the past’s cutting edge.
The Watchers
A startup’s plan to launch a fleet of cheap, small, ultra-efficient imaging satellites and revolutionize data collection.
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
The autopsy of a once-dominant site.
Get Rich U.
On the relationship between Stanford and Silicon Valley.
A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
He was fired from the company he helped create, YouSendIt. Then the cyberattacks started.
Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust
How an industry that couldn’t miss did just that.
The Great Tech War Of 2012
Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon.
Bubble Boys
In Silicon Valley, up all night coding in the dorms with the aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs of tomorrow.
Better, Faster, Stronger
A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.
The Viral Me
A tech neophyte looks for answers in Silicon Valley, “the last place in America where people are this optimistic.”
