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Art by Clark Miller.

Rise of the Bro-Casters

By Taylor Lorenz · Nov 23, 2024 5:00am PST · 22 comments

About a year ago, Sean Kelly, then 26, decided to launch yet another business. Previously, he’d fooled around running a small drop-shipping company as a Rutgers University undergrad. Later he sold face masks and other personal protective equipment during the pandemic’s early days. Neither enterprise had really gone anywhere, and so... About a year ago, Sean Kelly, then 26, decided to launch yet another business. Previously,...

Art by Clark Miller.

How the Media Missed the Rise of the New Tech Right

By Julia Black · Nov 8, 2024 10:15am PST · 16 comments

In 2022, I got a tip about Elon Musk, who even as recently as that was misunderstood—and underestimated—by the media: He had embarked on a mission to singlehandedly try to repopulate the Earth with his children, a source told me, passing along a quiet rumor going around Austin. It led me to a shocking discovery. He had fathered twins... In 2022, I got a tip about Elon Musk, who even as recently as that was misunderstood—and...

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Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Has Some Serious Plans for The Onion

By Abram Brown · Apr 27, 2024 6:00am PDT · 9 comments

For quite some time, Jeff Lawson has kept up a running joke among friends and family. “Bezos bought The Post, Benioff bought Time—well, Jeff Lawson is going to buy The Onion,” said Lawson, billionaire founder of Twilio, an unsexy enterprise software company that he ran until a recent series of battles with activist investors... For quite some time, Jeff Lawson has kept up a running joke among friends and family....