A VC and a labor leader walk into a workers’ rights debate…
Nick Hanauer and David Rolf are an unlikely pair of troublemakers. Hanauer is a Seattle venture capitalist and was the […]
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Field Notes
“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has
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The hidden costs of the on-demand economy
Despite what economists like to think, people do not always make rational economic decisions. That’s nowhere more apparent than in
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Press:Here August 23: Munchery, Tripping.com, and HackerOne
The lovely folks at NBC Bay Area invited me back to Press:Here, Silicon Valley’s answer to “Meet the Press.” I
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How Tile went from crowdfunding to 2M units sold in two years
Tile makes a deceptively simple gadget: a rounded square of white plastic, about the size of a poker chip, that
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My take on Alphabet Inc. (video)
CCTV reporter Mark Niu interviewed me and included my somewhat skeptical take on Google’s new corporate structure — Alphabet Inc.
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How Trello and couples counseling helped make this startup a self-managing success
Jessica Mah has been starting companies since she was 13. As a teenager, she built websites for small businesses, and
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How Matt Mullenweg built WordPress into a giant platform powering 1/4 of the Web (podcast)
In this week’s podcast, I talk with Matt Mullenweg, who created WordPress as an open-source blogging platform twelve years ago
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Social media will ‘trump’ tonight’s GOP debate winner
If you’re like most politically minded Americans, you’ll be grabbing some popcorn and sitting down to watch the first Republican
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Microsoft strikes a humble pose, and hopes to earn a shot at redemption
With the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft is telegraphing an attitude one doesn’t often see in companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars: Humility.