Here’s the problem with Hollywood hating on Netflix...
There's a massive, massive difference between Netflix and other disruptive forces like Uber and Napster.
Uber's Emil Michael was apparently too awful, even for Donald Trump
A trove of leaked Trump Administration documents obtained by Axios shows that Michael was once considered as a potential candidate for Donald Trump's Secretary of Transportation. But there were a few, uh, "red flags."
A Unicorn with a Soul: Zipline’s Unbelievable Comeback Accelerates with a new $190m Round
“If you are willing to endure any amount of pain and not give up, it’s really hard for someone else to kill you.”
Who is REALLY responsible for Uber's failed IPO? Uber.
At what point does the Valley in-crowd stop making excuses for this company?
The Assholistocracy
In both Britain and America, the levers of power are now in the hands of men (mostly men) who, when faced with anything resembling a moral decision, appear to ask themselves only one question: What would a total fucking asshole do?
We shouldn't be skeptical or amused at Zuckerberg's "pivot to privacy" memo. We should be disgusted
Shame on us if he lies to our face every single time.
Are toxic masculinity deniers the new climate change deniers?
Over the last few months the data has begun to stack up...
Finally, the big dogs are coming to the public stock market
High valuations + big losses = uncertainty over how investors will react.
Sheryl Sandberg is practicing what she preached
The problem isn’t that Sandberg is getting called out for betraying what she told us she stood for. The problem is that male CEOs and COOs in tech don’t get called out for it.
October has brought an autumn of discontent for tech
With two days to go in the month, the Nasdaq Composite has fallen 13%. Apple is down 7%, Facebook down 12%, Alphabet down 15%, Amazon down 23%, and Netflix down 25%.
Move fast and break human lives
Blistering new documentary “The Bleeding Edge” shows how much tech and healthcare investing have in common after all.
The bias hidden inside "consensus"
For women and people of color to succeed in this industry, the things the industry has taken for granted as positives might also have to change.
Engineers are fixing Silicon Valley
If the past decade gave us the “cult of the founder” – where investors, users and employees, were forced to bend to the whims of the Kalanicks and Dorseys no matter how much evil they did – perhaps the next decade will be remembered for the resurgence and reiteration of the cult of the engineers.