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Libertarian, futurist, billionaire: a profile of Peter Thiel.
Libertarian, futurist, billionaire: a profile of Peter Thiel.
George Packer New Yorker Nov 2011 35min Permalink
Living and working in the tech world.
Anna Wiener n+1 Apr 2016 25min Permalink
The difficult business of spending money well.
Michael Hobbes Huffington Post Highline Feb 2016 25min Permalink
Google and Tesla are spending billions to develop driverless technology. George Hotz used an Acura.
Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2015 15min Permalink
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.
Monica Potts The New Republic Dec 2015 15min Permalink
Why are so many teenagers killing themselves in Palo Alto?
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Nov 2015 35min Permalink
A love triangle between two married professors and the dean goes public.
David Margolick Vanity Fair Oct 2015 30min Permalink
There are two roles to play in the new world of on-demand everything: royalty or servant.
Lauren Smiley Matter Mar 2015 10min Permalink
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.”
Adam Lashinsky, Katie Benner Fortune Oct 2012 15min Permalink
On a 16-year-old Silicon Valley wunderkind.
Benjamin Wallace New York Dec 2014 15min Permalink
On an African-American entrepreneur and race in Silicon Valley.
J.J. McCorvey Fast Company Nov 2014 30min 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
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jun 2014 25min Permalink
The laundry wars of Silicon Valley.
Jessica Pressler New York May 2014 20min 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
What remains of the past’s cutting edge.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Jul 2013 10min Permalink
A startup’s plan to launch a fleet of cheap, small, ultra-efficient imaging satellites and revolutionize data collection.
David Samuels Wired Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The autopsy of a once-dominant site.
On the relationship between Stanford and Silicon Valley.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Apr 2012 30min Permalink
He was fired from the company he helped create, YouSendIt. Then the cyberattacks started.
How an industry that couldn’t miss did just that.
Juliet Eilperin Wired Feb 2012 25min Permalink
Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon.
Farhad Manjoo Fast Company Oct 2011 30min Permalink
In Silicon Valley, up all night coding in the dorms with the aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs of tomorrow.
Christopher Beam New York Sep 2011 15min Permalink
A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Sep 2011 20min Permalink