Find the right lawyer and they can fill many roles: advisor, defender—let’s be real—therapist. In recent decades, the white-shoe law firms that once mostly catered to—and chased—blue-chip...

Twice in the last month, Mark Farrell, the Thayer Ventures co-founder, former San Francisco mayor and surprise front-runner in November’s mayoral race, has found himself confronting a familiar...

After filling a cap table with prestige names and an Atherton basement with Screaming Eagle, what does a busy mogul on the rise acquire next? Increasingly these days, a chief of staff. Long a...

By Larissa Zimberoff As a GPU is to Nvidia, a strawberry is to Oishii: expensive, deeply coveted—and backed by enormous amounts of capital and technology. New Jersey–based Oishii (pronounced...

In 2012, Joe Lonsdale and his co-founder, Zac Bookman, started OpenGov with a fairly straightforward idea. “We thought there’s room for something to really help governments run a lot better,” said...

One of the finest uses of artificial intelligence is to efficiently summarize an immense amount of information. But why let the bots have all the fun—or do all the work? In that spirit, we’ve taken...

What makes Microsoft’s Satya Nadella such a strong CEO? Should we all talk like spies? And why did bestselling author Charles Duhigg struggle for a time as a New York Times journalist? It was all a...