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Ashlee Vance

Tech

The Forgotten Legend of Silicon Valley’s Flying Saucer Man

Alexander Weygers and his Discopter.

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Nov 2018 Permalink

Science

This Armada of Saildrones Could Conquer the Ocean

Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Business May 2018 15min Permalink

Business

How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup

Inside Stripe’s battle to upend the online payments world.

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Vance on the Longform Podcast

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2017 25min Permalink

Tech

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.

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Ashlee Vance on the Longform Podcast

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2015 15min Permalink

How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor

Lowell Wood helped bring down the Soviet Union, has created what could be the first concussion-free football helmet, and has regular brainstorming sessions with Bill Gates. He also drives a 20-year-old Toyota with 300,000 miles on it.

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2015 15min Permalink

Business Tech

Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla

When Elon Musk went to Russia to buy some rockets.

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Excerpted from Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.

Ashlee Vance Businessweek May 2015 35min Permalink

Arts Business

Multiplayer Game 'Eve Online' Cultivates a Most Devoted Following

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

Ashlee Vance Businessweek Apr 2013 10min Permalink

Politics Tech

Cyber Weapons: The New Arms Race

Around the world, governments and corporations are in a race for code that can protect, spy, and destroy—hacks some secretive startups are more than happy to sell.

Ashlee Vance, Michael Riley Businessweek Jul 2011 15min Permalink

Tech

This Tech Bubble Is Different

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”

Ashlee Vance Businessweek Apr 2011 Permalink