A few months into his job as chief legal officer of Sonos, Eddie Lazarus was ready to wage war. When Lazarus joined the audio hardware company in late 2018, it was facing growing competition from...

At 7 a.m. on August 22, 2022, Yaron Inger woke up to find his business irrevocably changed. The co-founder and chief technology officer of Lightricks, which develops Facetune and other popular...

“I’m just putting my face on!” yelled the voice around the corner. Bari Weiss—former New York Times Op-Ed staff editor and writer and current founder of the controversy-courting new media company...

Like many of the 12,000 workers laid off by Google last Friday, Zac Bowling didn’t see it coming. The software engineer, who had worked at the tech giant since May 2015, was building what Google...

“I always bring an umbrella and sunglasses—hope for the best, plan for the worst,” said Alice Globus, who is building her career on the same philosophy. Globus is the New York–based chief financial...

Out of the 13 million Diablo II players, Lightspeed Venture Partners investor Moritz Baier-Lentz was No. 1. During his peak gamer years—2001 to 2005—Baier-Lentz was playing the action role-playing...

Athletes wear lucky socks. Children have their favorite stuffies. But tech founders? Their most prized workplace possessions run an exceptionally wide gamut, ranging from the idiosyncratic (a...