Alexandra Fine first made waves when she crowdfunded a vibrator on Kickstarter—the 2016 campaign was the platform’s first ever for a sex toy. But Fine’s company, Dame Products, has come a long way...

“Guys this isn’t an ad or anything. I found Nuggs on Instagram a while ago and I’m f***ing addicted.” It was high praise coming from anyone. But when it’s coming from supermodel Bella Hadid in a...

When 19-year-old Jordan Benewiat posted a TikTok on June 24 inviting women to “camp” with her, it got 45,600 views and an outpouring of positive responses. Benewiat, who recently moved from Kansas...

In 2015, when married founders Waqas Ali and Sidra Qasim arrived at Y Combinator, they weren’t yet fluent in English. The pair had traveled from Pakistan, where their handmade leather shoe business...

Lulu Cheng Meservey isn’t your typical corporate flack. The Washington, D.C.-based head of communications for Substack, a digital newsletter platform, Meservey is brash and outspoken online—far...

Welcome back toScreentime,where tech leaders divulge their personal phone habits. To say Matthew Ball is all in on the metaverse would be a meta-understatement. The venture capitalist is wrapping...

Before it collapsed on June 12, crypto lender Celsius Network made irresistible promises:Forget storing your money in a boring old bank—join the “unbanked” by holdingcryptocurrencies while earning...

Once dubbed the “it girl” of venture capital, Li Jin seems to always be in the loop. With her first fund, Atelier Ventures, Jin was one of the earliest investors to bet big on online creators and...

When Nikesh Arora and I met in mid-June near the windswept entrance of his Palo Alto Networks offices in Sunnyvale, Calif., he was feeling a lot less Covid cautious than I was. That’s because the...