How Carrots Became The New Junk Food
An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.
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How YouTube's Global Platform Is Redefining the Entertainment Business
How YouTube went from ubiquitous to profitable; and where it goes next.
At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment
How the media company failed to create “a safe and inclusive workplace” for women.
Corporate Counterinsurgency
Indigenous water protectors face off with an oil company and police over a Minnesota pipeline.
The Last Days of MF Global
“Jon Corzine had never had anything to do with the futures business, had never run a public company, and hadn’t worked on Wall Street for a decade. His time there had ended badly. But by any reasonable standard, the former Goldman chief seemed almost embarrassingly overqualified. Says Flowers: ‘It seemed like we had more CEO than company.’”
Hua Hsu writes for The New Yorker and is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific.
“I remember, as a kid, my dad telling me that when he moved to the United States he subscribed to The New Yorker, and then he canceled it after a month because he had no idea what any of it was about. You know, at the time, it certainly wasn’t a magazine for a Chinese immigrant fresh off the boat—or off the plane, rather—in the early 70s. And I always think about that. I always think, ‘I want my dad to understand even though he’s not that interested in Dr.Dre.’ I still think, ‘I want him to be able to glean something from this.’”
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Patagonia's Philosopher-King
How Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious, anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful clothing company.
The Great Pot Monopoly Mystery
The mysterious business interests trying to patent strains and turn their company into the Monsanto of legal marijuana.
Felix Salmon, "Fusion Money," and Floating Upward
The story of one journalist’s giant salary and why his company could no longer pay it.
Inside Google's Civil War
On labor organizing at a Silicon Valley giant and what happens when a company loses touch with its motto of “don’t be evil.”
When SimCity Got Serious: The Story of Maxis Business Simulations
After the massive success of SimCity, the company behind the game began building private simulations for corporations.
Cash Driven
Big banks entrusted money to an armored truck company GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.
Drew Brees Has a Dream He'd Like to Sell You
It’s a multilevel marketing company called AdvoCare. Or maybe it’s a pyramid scheme.
This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You
What happens after your goofy little company gets swallowed by Amazon.
Chipotle Eats Itself
Chipotle once fed the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia every day. Then the E. coli outbreak happened.
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Inside the Hack of the Century
What really happened at Sony Pictures during the cyberattack – and questions about whether the company should have seen it coming.
John Mackey: The Conscious Capitalist
A profile of the Whole Foods CEO, who, despite a rash of problems with his company, firmly believes he’s seen the future of American business.
Univision Is A Fucking Mess
A deep dive into what ails the media company.
Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.
The Water Crises Aren’t Coming—They’re Here
The symptoms are here: multiyear droughts, large-scale crop failures, a major city—Cape Town—on the verge of going dry, increasing outbreaks of violence, fears of full-scale water wars. The big question: How do we keep the water flowing?
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer at the New York Times and the author of Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel.
“As a profile writer, the skill I have is getting in the room and staying in the room until someone is like, ‘Why is this bitch still in the room? Get her out of there!’ It’s a journalistic skill that is not a fluffy skill. There are people who are always actively trying to prevent your story, prevent you from seeing it, from seeing the things that would be good to see. There’s a lot of convincing, comforting and listening going on. And there’s a lot of dealing with the fact that somebody in the middle of talking to you can suddenly decide that you are the worst. Those things are very tense and it’s a specific skill that I have that can defray all those things. Or it lets me stay.”
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The Siege of Herbalife
Activist investor Bill Ackman set out to destroy the multilevel marketing company. But did he wind up helping it succeed instead?
The Mysterious Story of the Battery Startup that Promised GM a 200-Mile Electric Car
How an up-and-coming company went bust.
A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
He was fired from the company he helped create, YouSendIt. Then the cyberattacks started.
Genius Idea
Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?
