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The Instant Oral History of the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
By
Abram Brown
,
Annie Goldsmith
,
Margaux MacColl
,
Arielle Pardes
,
Nick Wingfield
and
Kaya Yurieff
· March 17, 2023 11:26 AM PDT ·
2 comments
On a cosmic level, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was a mere blip. The murmurs about trouble began last Wednesday, the panic spread via group texts and Twitter threads on Thursday, the bank went under on Friday, the government got its act together on Saturday, and on Sunday every current and former customer of SVB could breathe a cautious...
On a cosmic level, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was a mere blip. The murmurs about trouble...
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media/telecom
The News Business Is in Crisis—but Not The New York Times Co.
By
Abram Brown
· March 11, 2023 6:00 AM PST ·
9 comments
Meredith Kopit Levien exists in a perpetual yo-yo motion. Most weeks, the CEO of The New York Times Co. spends three days in New York—“sometimes more if needed”—where a pied-à-terre gives her easy access to the company’s landmark Eighth Avenue headquarters. The rest of the time she spends in Washington, D.C.,...
Meredith Kopit Levien exists in a perpetual yo-yo motion. Most weeks, the CEO of The New York...
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venture capital
Josh Kushner’s Budding Empire
By
Kate Clark
and
Abram Brown
· Feb. 24, 2023 6:00 AM PST ·
16 comments
As summer turned to fall last year, Josh Kushner and his Thrive Capital offered a shiny new perk to some of the firm’s portfolio companies: How about a one-on-one meeting with Bob Iger, the 71-year-old former Disney CEO turned freshly minted Thrive venture partner? Eric Glyman, CEO and co-founder of Ramp, a New York–based credit card...
As summer turned to fall last year, Josh Kushner and his Thrive Capital offered a shiny new perk...
‘We All Have One Big Dream’: How Ukraine’s Tech Companies Evolved to Survive a Year of War
By
Flora Tsapovsky
· Feb. 17, 2023 9:00 AM PST ·
6 comments
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‘We All Have One Big Dream’: How Ukraine’s Tech Companies Evolved to Survive a Year of War
By
Flora Tsapovsky
· Feb. 17, 2023 9:00 AM PST ·
6 comments
For an average startup founder, dealing with the unexpected and unknown is an everyday reality. But in February 2022, the Ukrainian tech community encountered a disruption of unfathomable proportions. Nearly overnight, reality flipped the table on investors’ meetings, funding rounds and expansion plans, turning leaders’ focus away...
For an average startup founder, dealing with the unexpected and unknown is an everyday reality....
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Tales from the Shredder: How a Quarter-Million Fired Tech Workers Are Picking Up the Pieces
By
Arielle Pardes
· Feb. 10, 2023 9:30 AM PST ·
3 comments
On a brisk Wednesday in December, Pakin Wirojwatanakul made his usual commute to the downtown San Francisco office of fintech startup Plaid. But when he arrived, the front desk security guard told him to go home. Puzzled, he left the office and reversed his commute. Then he received a cryptic text from a friend: “Are you safe?”...
On a brisk Wednesday in December, Pakin Wirojwatanakul made his usual commute to the downtown San...
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culture
The Supplement Stacks: All the Pills, Powders and Potions Filling Tech’s Kitchen Counters
By
Annie Goldsmith
and
Margaux MacColl
· Feb. 3, 2023 9:00 AM PST ·
7 comments
When Courtney Reum wakes up in his Los Angeles home, it’s time to freeze, shake and dangle upside down. The co-founder of venture firm M13 takes a dip in his cold plunge—shocking his system awake—before stepping onto his Bulletproof vibration plate, which shakes him, getting his blood flowing. His morning routine crescendos...
When Courtney Reum wakes up in his Los Angeles home, it’s time to freeze, shake and dangle...
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policy
TikTok’s Last Stand: Can an Army of Lobbyists Quell a Washington Uprising?
By
Nancy Scola
· Jan. 27, 2023 9:00 AM PST ·
4 comments
There’s perhaps no one in Washington who distrusts TikTok quite as much as Brendan Carr. Carr, a 44-year-old Donald Trump appointee to the Federal Communications Commission, has spent much of the last year going around cable news and elsewhere calling for the hugely popular short-video app to be restricted, if not banned, over its ties to...
There’s perhaps no one in Washington who distrusts TikTok quite as much as Brendan Carr. ...
Citizen Marc: Why the Andreessen Horowitz Founder Can’t Stop Chasing Dreams of a New Media
By
Abram Brown
· Jan. 20, 2023 9:10 AM PST ·
11 comments
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Citizen Marc: Why the Andreessen Horowitz Founder Can’t Stop Chasing Dreams of a New Media
By
Abram Brown
· Jan. 20, 2023 9:10 AM PST ·
11 comments
The pitch was right up Marc Andreessen’s alley: a fledgling but buzzy digital media startup, which intended not only to produce its own content but to sell its content-management software to other publishers—and, if that worked, to scale its platform to anyone willing to pay. The co-founders? Three men in their 30s, deeply fascinated...
The pitch was right up Marc Andreessen’s alley: a fledgling but buzzy digital media...
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culture
facebook
From Instagram’s First Employee to Tech’s Newest Thriller Writer
By
Annie Goldsmith
· Jan. 13, 2023 9:00 AM PST ·
3 comments
Josh Riedel was getting hit by a bomb cyclone. From his home in San Francisco’s Mission District, the former Instagram manager and first-time novelist found himself in the eye of one of California’s endless storms. Driving through the city near SoMa, he passed cars halfway submerged in murky water, huge limbs torn off trees and other...
Josh Riedel was getting hit by a bomb cyclone. From his home in San Francisco’s Mission...
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venture capital
Josh Wolfe’s War: The Lux Capital Founder Blazes a Controversial Path in Defense Tech
By
Margaux MacColl
· Jan. 6, 2023 9:21 AM PST ·
7 comments
Josh Wolfe arrived at a remote island in the Philippines by inflatable boat, surrounded by men with large guns. It was 2019 and the founding partner of the New York venture firm Lux Capital was on a very strange work trip. Over the course of two weeks, American soldiers escorted Wolfe through the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia and...
Josh Wolfe arrived at a remote island in the Philippines by inflatable boat, surrounded by men...
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startups
ai
The Best Little Unicorn in Texas: Jasper Was Winning the AI Race—Then ChatGPT Blew Up the Whole Game
By
Arielle Pardes
· Dec. 23, 2022 9:15 AM PST ·
26 comments
A few weeks ago, Sam Altman, CEO of artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, logged onto a Zoom call. On the other side of the screen was Dave Rogenmoser, CEO of Jasper, a copywriting startup built on OpenAI’s flagship large-language model, GPT-3. The two companies share a Slack channel, where they trade updates and feedback about GPT-3,...
A few weeks ago, Sam Altman, CEO of artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, logged onto a Zoom...
The Buzz Is Gone: Tech Companies (With a Few Exceptions) Are Reining In Once-Legendary Holiday Parties
By
Arielle Pardes
and
Annie Goldsmith
· Dec. 16, 2022 9:00 AM PST
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culture
The Buzz Is Gone: Tech Companies (With a Few Exceptions) Are Reining In Once-Legendary Holiday Parties
By
Arielle Pardes
and
Annie Goldsmith
· Dec. 16, 2022 9:00 AM PST
On December 8, several thousand Adobe employees and their guests milled around San Francisco’s Chase Center arena for the company’s holiday-slash-40th-anniversary party. Starting at 7 p.m., the Adobe workers and their dates shot hoops in an arcade, received spray-on temporary tattoos, and grabbed drinks and food (tacos, sliders,...
On December 8, several thousand Adobe employees and their guests milled around San...
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startups
The Co-Founders of Eight Sleep Want to Optimize Your Performance (in Bed)
By
Arielle Pardes
· Dec. 9, 2022 10:00 AM PST ·
8 comments
Matteo Franceschetti and Alexandra Zatarain spend their nights in the bed of the future. The king-size canopy bed has gray curtains gathered at the sides and a strip of sensors that captures each sleeper’s heart rate, respiration, temperature and other vitals. It has a light bar that mimics the sunrise and a temperature control in the...
Matteo Franceschetti and Alexandra Zatarain spend their nights in the bed of the future. The...
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The Passion of Cathie Wood: Why the ‘Wackiest Portfolio Manager on Earth’ Isn’t Losing Faith
By
Michelle Celarier
· Dec. 2, 2022 11:00 AM PST ·
4 comments
Cathie Wood was sitting in a phone booth in the New York office of Ark Invest when she heard Tasha Keeney, one of the firm’s analysts, let out a scream—“a happy scream,” Wood recalled. It was Feb. 1, 2019, and Keeney had just received a direct message on Twitter from Elon Musk—the first time the Tesla CEO had...
Cathie Wood was sitting in a phone booth in the New York office of Ark Invest when she heard...
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‘I’m Licking My Chops. I Know It’s Going Down’: The Pissed-Off Crypto Traders Who Predicted—and Profited From—the FTX Implosion
By
Margaux MacColl
· Nov. 25, 2022 7:00 AM PST ·
8 comments
Ishan Bhaidani had been patient for over a month, waiting for blood in the water. Now was his moment. It was the late hours of Nov. 7 and he was in his home office in San Antonio, Texas, staring at a chart on TradingView. The price of the FTT token—the cryptocurrency created by FTX—had been fluctuating oddly on the futures market all...
Ishan Bhaidani had been patient for over a month, waiting for blood in the water. Now was his...
‘Incredible Alpha’: Orlando Bravo Wants to Buy Your Company
By
Abram Brown
· Nov. 18, 2022 9:00 AM PST ·
16 comments
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crypto
‘Incredible Alpha’: Orlando Bravo Wants to Buy Your Company
By
Abram Brown
· Nov. 18, 2022 9:00 AM PST ·
16 comments
A fierce squall struck Puerto Rico one Wednesday in late October, snarling roadways around San Juan and complicating the travel plans of Orlando Bravo, the founder and managing partner of $122 billion private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Bravo, a Puerto Rico native who spends about a quarter of his time on the island, needed to get from the capital...
A fierce squall struck Puerto Rico one Wednesday in late October, snarling roadways around San...
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culture
Tech Goes Cold Turkey: Inside Silicon Valley’s New Temperance Society
By
Annie Goldsmith
· Nov. 11, 2022 9:00 AM PST ·
5 comments
The year was 2008, and at Justin Kan’s Y Combinator–funded livestreaming site, Justin.tv, the end of the week meant only one thing: Fine Alcohol Friday. The ritual began when someone—Kan doesn’t remember who—sent a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label to the company offices. “It wasn’t even that good, to be honest,” he recalled. Justin.tv was...
The year was 2008, and at Justin Kan’s Y Combinator–funded livestreaming site, Justin.tv, the end...
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venture capital
Ohanian in Paradise: Still Nursing Old Wounds From Reddit, the Former Founder Chases a New Legacy
By
Abram Brown
· Nov. 4, 2022 9:00 AM PDT ·
13 comments
A while back, Alexis Ohanian, the Reddit co-founder and venture capitalist, and his wife Serena Williams, the tennis legend and angel investor, reached a compromise. They’d been working under the same roof during the pandemic, Ohanian running his venture shop, Seven Seven Six, and Williams overseeing her growing empire of endorsements,...
A while back, Alexis Ohanian, the Reddit co-founder and venture capitalist, and his wife Serena...
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ai
‘This Time Is Really, Really Different’: The Early Adopter’s Guide to the Ingenious, Uncanny, Slightly Scary World of Generative AI
By
Margaux MacColl
· Oct. 28, 2022 9:27 AM PDT ·
7 comments
Martin Erlic, who runs an olive oil business in Croatia, used AI text-generating startup Jasper to write his dream sci-fi novel. Architect Nuno Fontarra turns to AI image software Midjourney to dream up whimsical buildings that inspire his real-life designs. And in moments of emotional turmoil, Serena, a physicist in Texas, asksthe artificially...
Martin Erlic, who runs an olive oil business in Croatia, used AI text-generating startup Jasper...
Jeff Lawson’s Great Leap: Can the Twilio CEO Fix His Company and His Country at the Same Time?
By
Abram Brown
· Oct. 21, 2022 9:00 AM PDT ·
11 comments
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enterprise
Jeff Lawson’s Great Leap: Can the Twilio CEO Fix His Company and His Country at the Same Time?
By
Abram Brown
· Oct. 21, 2022 9:00 AM PDT ·
11 comments
One afternoon toward the end of September, Jeff Lawson’s household was turned upside down: Barack Obama was coming to visit. At their glassy, modernist home high above San Francisco’s Dolores Park, Lawson and his wife Erica shuffled around the furniture to make room for the former president and their three dozen other guests. Venture capitalist...
One afternoon toward the end of September, Jeff Lawson’s household was turned upside down: Barack...
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