Ray Kurzweil’s predictions about technological advancements have intrigued—and unnerved—people for decades. At 76, he’s still quite up to the task and threw out a whopper within minutes of sitting...

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...

Ozempic be damned. Silicon Valley is holding on tight to its love of the personal trainer. These are people like Matt Dixon, a San Francisco–based trainer and former professional triathlete whose...

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...

A little more than a year ago, few people in San Francisco could have foreseen Daniel Lurie running away with the mayor’s race: Lurie, a Levi Strauss heir who founded an anti-poverty nonprofit,...

“I haven’t been hung over in seven years,” said Jahaan Ansari, the bearded, muscled co-founder of Gainful, a New York–based startup. Ansari may be in that fortunate position partly because he has...

Shortly after 2 a.m. on a Saturday in a midtown Manhattan sports bar packed with Aussies, Dr. Tom Oxley was feeling stunned. The underdog Brisbane Lions, his longtime favorite Australian rules...