A month or so ago, Brian Solis wore some flashy bling to dinner with friends in Lake Tahoe: his new Ray-Ban Meta glasses. “I didn’t wear them for them to be a topic of conversation,” said Solis, head of global innovation at ServiceNow, an enterprise software company. “But they were a topic of ...

Sridhar Ramaswamy seldom takes a day off. He prefers to work seven days a week, putting in a “non-small number of hours” on the weekend, he said, usually in the morning before his wife, a dentist, wakes up and then again in the afternoon. “Listen, I’m from India: We’re always very insecure. I ...

Nothing livens up a weekend like change, and I’m very pleased to tell you about some changes here at Weekend, The Information’s weekly magazine section: We’ve added two new reporters, Josh Koehn and Paris Martineau. Josh joins us from The San Francisco Standard to cover tech’s power and ...

Shortly before Canyon Barry shipped out for the Paris Olympics to compete in 33 basketball, his co-workers at L3Harris Technologies, the U.S. defense tech giant, threw him a jubilant send-off. “A nice little ice cream party,” he recalled. For the occasion, the company commissioned custom ...

Matt Calkins sees a parallel between the best board games and the best software. “What I like is efficiency, the simultaneous utilization of the time of everyone at the table,” said Calkins, founder and CEO of Appian, an enterprise software company. “I like a game with high throughput.” Calkins ...

In recent weeks, Democrats have relentlessly blistered Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, using a straightforward message: They’re too weird to hold high office. If Trump and Vance are weird, imagine what the American public might make of Curtis Yarvin, 51, whose far-right thinking ...

After the initial onslaught of Covid-19, 40-year-old Derrick Johnson made a deliberate decision to be more intentional regarding his health. “Both my mother and my father passed early—from lung cancer and a heart attack—and there’s been various cancer deaths in my family,” he said. “I really ...

Stop whatever you’re doing and look up at the sky. Now give Brian O’Toole, CEO of BlackSky Technology, a big smile. One of his company’s 16 state-of-the-art satellites might be passing overhead, ready to take your picture. “The plain-English thing about what we do is we have a satellite flying ...

Look past Crissy Field on the Presidio shoreline, and you might spot Ariel Poler, co-founder of Reveri Health, and some of his friends—10 to 20 small sails dotting the San Francisco Bay, riding a cargo ship’s wake. They’re not kitesurfing or windsurfing: They’re wing foiling. It’s a new water ...

In January, after members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had spent hours grilling tech CEOs about their platforms’ effects on children, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley pounced on Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Hawley, a Republican firebrand and a vocal tech critic, accused Zuckerberg of ...

Democrats with power and money in California are in a Kamala mood. Reid Hoffman, billionaire venture capitalist, has already shifted his attention as a top Joe Biden fundraiser to bringing in cash for the person who has replaced Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate: Vice President ...

A statement leather jacket is arguably one of the most fundamental pieces in any wardrobe. Just ask Jensen Huang. It’s close to impossible to find a photo of the Nvidia CEO from the last decade in anything other than a black classic zip-up or a more lightweight café racer-style jacket. He ...

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they were ready to have children, she’d be willing to conceive using in vitro fertilization. Abraham had lost both his mother and his aunt at a young age to ovarian ...

Picture this: A founder of a buzzy Silicon Valley startup, a top Wall Street executive and the head of a world-changing nonprofit walk into a bar. No, it’s not the setup for a joke. It’s the type of everyday happening that participants in high-profile programs like the Aspen Institute’s Henry ...

While running a half-marathon in Philadelphia a few years ago, Courtney Kitchen noticed another woman near her running roughly her pace: She seemed like she’d make a great training buddy. But there wasn’t an opportune moment for the pair to exchange phone numbers at the race, so later that day, ...

A couple years ago, Rembert Browne, a former journalist turned Twitter editorial director, received the type of phone call many former journalists dream about: Would he like to do some screenwriting? He very much did want to, so he blocked off chunks of time on his corporate calendar as ...

The summer gatherings of the alphas are upon us. This weekend, the annual running of the bulls will commence in Pamplona, Spain. And a couple days later, the media, tech and finance moguls of the world will begin descending in their private jets on Sun Valley, Idaho, for the annual confab hosted ...

A massage, then maybe a dip in the pool? If that’s your idea of a spa day, then this will really get your brain twisted into knots: These days, the coolest, most exclusive spas are downright space age and come complete with amenities like high-definition cameras to assess scalp health, ...

In January 2021, Alexandr Wang’s friends and colleagues gathered for a party at his swank South of Market apartment, which featured a 2,000-foot private terrace with a hot tub and views of the San Francisco skyline. Wang, co-founder and CEO of Scale AI, wanted to mark his birthday with a bang: ...

Modern technology is everywhere, often in various forms of screen time. That makes it a popular scapegoat for the increasing, collective loss of our human connection to the natural world. It’s not just that time spent using technology has replaced time in nature, it’s also that for many nature ...