When Andrew Gounardes needed help rallying support for two social media bills he’d introduced in the New York State Senate earlier this year, he knew who to call: Mothers Against Media Addiction. The New York-based nonprofit parental advocacy group had caught Gounardes’ attention even before it ...

On the night of Sept. 21, a group of Black entrepreneurs, investors and Congressional Black Caucus members navigated a labyrinth of gated security to reach a megamansion with views of the Las Vegas Strip. Their hosts: venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, his wife Felicia and Rep. Steven Horsford, ...

Amid a roomful of Silicon Valley elite this week, a Clinton made a rousing call to action by recounting a tragedy: the story of Amanda Zurawski, a young Texan woman left infertile after a botched abortion procedure. “This is what we’re doing to women in America,” said Chelsea Clinton, daughter ...

In 2015, many San Franciscans were furious with startups like Airbnb as they depleted the city’s housing supply and pushed rent in the city to some of the highest levels in the country. Mark Farrell—a venture capitalist then serving as a city supervisor and now a leading candidate in San ...

There wasn’t any one thing that led to the slow death of Girls in Tech, a standard-bearer nonprofit that provided Silicon Valley women with the kind of mentorship and training opportunities that men took for granted. First, the pandemic struck, and donors shifted their attention to health and ...

You’ve seen them everywhere—and have probably even dodged a couple while crossing Market Street in San Francisco or Fifth Avenue in New York. Electric bikes have become a de rigueur mode of transportation for the office-going set, affording even those who routinely skip leg day at the gym the ...

Last fall, Satyajeet Salgar, the director of product management and user experience at Google AI, was huddled outside his kids’ Palo Alto, Calif., elementary school with a group of parents who were there for a class performance. The parents began talking about their kids’ favorite shows, and the ...

Shortly after Libby Liu joined Whistleblower Aid as CEO in spring 2021, the legal nonprofit got a new client: Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager who, with the organization’s help, would soon become quite famous (or infamous—depending on your point of view). Founded in 2017, ...

As early morning darkness still covered the Mediterranean, Ron Conway’s phone started to blow up. The billionaire venture capitalist was asleep on a yacht off the Italian coast. But six time zones away in Atlanta, President Joe Biden was self-immolating in a live TV debate against former ...

When I met Mariam Naficy last week, she couldn’t wait to show me her new jewelry. She had designed the earrings she was wearing herself. And her bracelet. And her ring for good measure. Technically, Naficy—whose keen eye for e-commerce trends led her to found the early online makeup retailer ...

Penny Lane, a Boykin spaniel living in the East Bay, is a bolter. It comes naturally to her: The Boykin, which is the state dog of South Carolina, was bred to fetch game during a hunt. “We live in the suburbs, so there’s some retrieving to be done, but not as much as one wishes,” said Penny’s ...

“You’ve been here before?” asked the guard at the gate, a pistol fastened to his belt. I shook my head no. “If you go past the red Tesla,” the guard said, waving my Uber through, “you’ve gone too far.” After a few minutes of Texas shrubland, we arrived at Joe Lonsdale’s back door, where another ...

I set up a Google Alert on my name so long ago that I’d almost forgotten about it. It occasionally sends me stories about people in faraway places who share my first and last names. But the alert I received in mid-August was different. When I opened the email, I realized that this was really ...

White for summer is nothing new, but 2024 embraced the hue at a whole new level. From sandals to sun hats and everything in between, shades of white dominated the most stylish wardrobes over the past three months. And, no, we’re not about to tell you to put away all those whites with Labor Day ...

In early January, Marty Sharpe thought he’d get a few dozen teachers to show up to his professional development course on using generative artificial intelligence in the classroom. After all, it was an optional workday after the two-week winter break at the Catawba County Schools in North ...

Paul Graham’s essay on founder mode captured the imagination of Silicon Valley this weekend by clearly articulating the magic we witness in many founder-driven companies. As someone who spent a decade working under a generational founder at Meta Platforms and now sits on the board of two ...

Konrad Kay and Mickey Down were out at a party near the end of 2023 when they received word from HBO that their show, “Industry,” would move from its home on Monday evenings to the television industry’s premier time slot: 9 p.m. on Sunday, a position HBO had previously given to the likes of “ ...

A few months ago, a user from Chongquing, China, posted a video to Chinese social media platform Weibo, which has more than half a billion active users. The grainy 26-second clip appears to have been filmed on a primitive camcorder: We see a barrage of rockets ascend from a small vessel into a ...

Jake Bullock, a former Bain consultant in San Francisco turned cannabis entrepreneur, has bet tens of millions in venture capital on his bold vision for making drinks that get you just a little bit high. “I hope one day you’ll walk into a Costco and you’ll see the liquor, the wine and the beer, ...

On January 17,@murder_ink_bmore, a Baltimore-based Instagram account with 240,000 followers, posted what it said was a voice recording of Eric Eiswert, principal of Pikesville High School outside Baltimore, denigrating Black students and faculty as well as Jews. “Iseriously don’t understand why ...