Silicon Valley

What an ‘Airbnbopoly’ Game Says About Silicon Valley’s Standoff With Lina Khan

What an ‘Airbnbopoly’ Game Says About Silicon Valley’s Standoff With Lina Khan

Mickey Vernon

Four years ago, one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ top donors—the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman—celebrated the IPO of ...

A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot

A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot

Mickey Vernon

Eric Lander is a Big Science heavyweight. A geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician, he led the International Human Genome Project ...

Inside one of the first all-female hacker houses in San Francisco

Inside one of the first all-female hacker houses in San Francisco

John Ray

For Molly Cantillon, living in a hacker house wasn’t just a dream, but a necessity. “I had lived in a ...

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56

Mickey Vernon

The unassuming house on Santa Margarita Avenue in Menlo Park, California, had been empty for only a couple of years ...

Marc Andreessen Once Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for Kids

Marc Andreessen Once Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for Kids

Mickey Vernon

In his polarizing “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen listed a number of enemies to technological progress. Among ...

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

Mickey Vernon

Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the ...

The Frustrating Reality of Job Hunting: A Programmer’s Journey Through 250 Applications

Arshad Majeed

After landing an interview, Sachdev spent 40 hours scouring job sites for tips, cramming his notebook full of hypothetical questions ...