Gigafund co-founders Luke Nosek and Stephen Oskoui. Art by Clark Miller; Oskoui photo courtesy Gigafund.
Gigafund co-founders Luke Nosek and Stephen Oskoui. Art by Clark Miller; Oskoui photo courtesy Gigafund.
The Big Read

The Elon Musk Investors With Dreams of a New Social Order

At their venture firm, Gigafund, Luke Nosek and Stephen Oskoui seek out founders with transformative visions of the future. What does their vision look like?
The Flexicon

A Is for Adaptogens, B Is for Body Sculpting: A Trending-in-Silicon Valley Health Glossary

Last month, The Information Weekend conducted our first-ever Brain-Body Investment Survey, asking subscribers about their exercise, wellness and beauty practices. The results emphasized Silicon...
Art by Mike Sullivan.
Book Value

The Trouble With Walter: In His Elon Musk Tome, the Writer Shows Us the Perils of Access Journalism

Walter Isaacson is the exotic bird of American letters, a charming and convivial bon vivant and raconteur, the life of many a dinner party, a studious biographer and a generous mentor. He blurbed...
Art by Clark Miller.
Art by Clark Miller.
Art by Clark Miller.
The Big Read

The Instant Oral History of ‘Trench Foot Burning Man’

Tech pros tell their personal survival stories from this year’s mud-stuck (but still epic) desert bacchanal.
The Most Epic

The Venture Capitalist Who Was Attacked by Orcas

Adventurer: James Currier, founding partner at NFX, co-founder of Tickle, Wonderhill, IronPearl Escapades: Long-haul sailing, Himalayan treks, snow camping It was 10:40 p.m. one night this June...
Art by Clark Miller.
The 1:1

The Head of the Anti-Defamation League Wants to Make Peace With Elon Musk

By the time Jonathan Greenblatt jumped on the phone at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time this Wednesday, he had already made the rounds on CNN, CNBC and MSNBC. It had been a high blood pressure day for the...
Art by Clark Miller
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo engaged in a high-wire act of diplomacy during her four-day trip to China. Photo of Raimondo via Getty Images. Collage by Clark Miller.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo engaged in a high-wire act of diplomacy during her four-day trip to China. Photo of Raimondo via Getty Images. Collage by Clark Miller.
The Big Read

‘Excited and Terrified’: On a High-Stakes Trip to China, Gina Raimondo Confronts a Complex Future

From a motorcade speeding through Shanghai, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce talks to Jessica Lessin about AI, TikTok and Beijing’s ‘uninvestible’ present.
The 1:1

Selling a Vision, and a $2 Million Hypercar, at Pebble Beach

The chassis lurking under the skin of most cars is a pretty pedestrian thing—mostly sections of stamped and welded steel perforated with mounting points for the engine, suspension and everything...
Czinger cofounders Lukas Czinger (center) and his father Kevin Czinger. Collage by Clark Miller. Photography courtesy Czinger
Scene and Heard

Inside Silicon Valley’s New Boys Club: The Testosterone-Testing ‘T Party’

Early one Saturday morning in August, a dozen men—a mix of startup  founders, software engineers, designers and one professional Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master—gathered inside a small San...
Midjourney art by Clark Miller
Art by Clark Miller.
Art by Clark Miller.
Subscriber Survey

The Brain-Body Investment Survey: What 500 Subscribers Are Spending to Boost Their Performance

From hyperbaric chambers to red-light therapy, adult surf camps to adaptogenic lattes, here’s how much time and money Information subscribers are allotting to their physical and mental health.
Mogul Studies

Yacht Brinkmanship: Owners of Tech’s Biggest Pleasure Craft Compete to the Ends of the Earth

If you’re Sergey Brin, Evan Spiegel, Jan Koum, Jeff Bezos, Laurene Powell Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Yuri Milner or any one of dozens of other modern-day tech moguls, it’s not enough to just own a yacht....
From left, megayacht owners Jan Koum, Jeff Bezos, Barry Diller, Diane von Furstenberg and Evan Spiegel. Art by Clark Milller
Market Research

Market Research: The AI Boom Expands to the Hair and Makeup Counter

Selin Tyler was frustrated. The director of product marketing and business operations for Dolby Technologies was stuck in what she called “a cycle of trial and error” with her skin. She turned to...