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Abe Brown and Arielle Pardes Accelerate Tech-Culture Coverage for The Information Weekend

By The Information Staff · Sept. 7, 2022 9:53 AM PDT · 1 comment

We are thrilled to announce the addition of two veteran reporters to The Information’s rapidly growing Weekend section. Abe Brown will be covering the nexus of power, technology and wealth as a senior reporter, and Arielle Pardes will be leading coverage of Silicon Valley people and culture as a reporter. Abe arrives at The Information... We are thrilled to announce the addition of two veteran reporters to The Information’s...

‘He's Making Up a World He Wants to Attack’: Vivek Ramaswamy and the Making of an Anti-ESG Culture Warrior

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‘He's Making Up a World He Wants to Attack’: Vivek Ramaswamy and the Making of an Anti-ESG Culture Warrior

By Jon Steinberg · Aug. 6, 2022 8:00 AM PDT

Hi, welcome to your Weekend! On Friday morning, just minutes after we published this week’s cover story, I saw a New York Times headline that echoed one of our piece’s theses: “How Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Public Office Against Climate Action.”Both the Times investigation, by David Gelles, and our own, by veteran business... Hi, welcome to your Weekend! On Friday morning, just minutes after we published this week’s...

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To Taste the Bleeding Edge of Coffee Culture, Just Add Water

By Nicholas Cho · Nov. 19, 2021 11:30 AM PST · 1 comment

Before he was TikTok-famous as Your Korean Dad, Nick Cho was specialty-coffee-famous as the co-founder of San Francisco’s Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters. Here, he assesses the new Silicon Valley caffeine obsession: highbrow instant coffees. “Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken,” wrote sci-fi writer Robert... Before he was TikTok-famous as Your Korean Dad, Nick Cho was specialty-coffee-famous as the...

Amazon's new CEO Andy Jassy. Photo by Bloomberg

The Danger Posed by AWS’ Paper Pushing Culture

By Martin Peers · July 12, 2021 5:00 PM PDT

Amazon's new CEO Andy Jassy. Photo by Bloomberg

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The Danger Posed by AWS’ Paper Pushing Culture

By Martin Peers · July 12, 2021 5:00 PM PDT

If you want to understand the biggest threat facing Amazon today—and no, it's not new FTC chair Lina Khan—check out The Information’s story today about the bureaucratic creep at Amazon Web Services. One former AWS salesperson told our reporter, Kevin McLaughlin, that at AWS he was spending around 70% of his work hours on paperwork, including... If you want to understand the biggest threat facing Amazon today—and no, it's not new FTC chair...

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The Tech and Media Culture War That Isn’t

By Jessica E. Lessin · July 4, 2020 7:46 AM PDT · 1 comment

Reporters, tech investors and executives like to think they are at the center of the world. And this week, based on conversations on Twitter, it briefly felt like they were. For months, a handful of outspoken venture capitalists have been attacking journalists for 1) downplaying coronavirus earlier this year and 2) just generally being... Reporters, tech investors and executives like to think they are at the center of the world. And...

A protest by Google employees last year over the company's handling of harassment charges against former executives. Photo by Bloomberg.

Google Discourages Culture Fit in Hiring With ‘Googleyness’ Update

By Nick Bastone · Oct. 31, 2019 11:23 AM PDT · 1 comment

When Google interviews job candidates, it has long considered a handful of attributes, including the applicants’ leadership, knowledge about the roles they are applying for and “general cognitive ability.” But in a move little noticed outside the company, Google has clarified the definition of the most sacred of those... When Google interviews job candidates, it has long considered a handful of attributes, including...

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