Soon after a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records last month, the former president headed uptown to a restaurant, where a dinner party awaited him. Trump, who appeared unfazed by the conviction, walked in with a smile on his face, greeted by about 20 supporters ...

After 15 years as a high-end wedding planner in California, Ashley Smith often feels like she has seen and heard it all. That’s why she especially enjoys when a tech founder or a venture capitalist calls her up: They often have a vision that challenges her. “Silicon Valley–type clients have seen ...

Founders usually create startups to make money for themselves and their investors—or to change the world and protect humanity, as some of them say in their more grandiose moments. For Aleph Alpha, an artificial intelligence startup in Germany, those things mattered too, but its founders had ...

It’s early June, which means the kids are getting excited for months of uninterrupted summer playtime and pursuits. That begs the question: Why should they get to have all the fun? For many of those kids, a portion of that happens at summer camp. (And we had suggestions about those camps a few ...

A few weeks ago, at a former jellybean factory in Emeryville, California, I tasted what may be the future of food: the lab-grown, or cultured, meat produced by Prolific Machines, a four-year-old startup that has been operating in secret while it develops its technology. “Last night, I worried ...

You’re a successful founder or C-suite exec at the pinnacle of your career, looking to climb one more mountain: the bestseller list. Whether you want to write a book to share the lessons you’ve learned, launch a personal platform or cement your legacy, a great ghostwriter—one who can channel ...

The popular image of Ken Griffin is that of a master manipulator of financial markets, the bogeyman of a generation of memestockers who spin conspiracy theories about his company, Citadel Securities, interfering with their ability to trade shares of GameStop. But two decades ago, when his hedge ...

“A lot of times men don’t really realize what they’re capable of pulling off,” Andrew Weitz was saying over the phone. “But the game has changed these days and if they don’t keep up with fashion, they’re going to get left behind.” Weitz knows of what he speaks, being a noted men’s style ...

From the U.S. Open to Art Basel, to the conclaves of Sun Valley and Cannes, the summer months are rife with networking opportunities. They’re also hot, sticky and known for air conditioning set to full blast. Throw in frequent travel and the sheer range of dress codes, and the question of what ...

The world has changed a lot in the last four years, and for better or for worse, that has greatly impacted our travel plans. For several summers since 2020, we found our vacations foiled—whether it was travel restrictions, the closures of our favorite hotels, or, ultimately, catching up on a ...

During a pivotal scene of “Very Bad Company,” a new satirical novel involving a tech billionaire, a dead body and many bruised egos, a startup’s executives dine at Carbone in Miami, where they receive important news calligraphed inside folded origami animals that cost $5,000 each. I ...

France’s most famous meet-and-greet resort has downed a triple espresso martini. Over the past 12 months, Cannes has been upgraded with enough new clubs, bars and hotels to satiate all the celebrities, movie moguls, global creatives and CEOs jetting in for the Cannes film festival happening ...

Last summer, more than a hundred people crowded into the brightly lit basement of a Lululemon store in Manhattan at the invitation of Lacework, a cybersecurity unicorn. By all appearances, the startup seemed to enjoy an enviable position, with an $8.3 billion valuation and an assortment of ...

On the bottom floor of a luxury high-rise in San Francisco’s SOMA district—a few blocks away from Slack’s headquarters—a newly relocated counter spot sends out puffy milk toast with toro and golden osetra caviar. It sears blackthroat sea perch and tops it with onion jam. Welcome to Akikos, where ...

On Oct. 17, several executives in tech contacted Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha, all making the same simple demand: Fire Shaun Maguire. Maguire, a 38-year-old partner at Sequoia, had spent the past 10 days posting fierce defenses of Israel on X (the social media platform he had ...

Everyone in Silicon Valley is on something these days. In all, the global supplement industry is expected to surpass $192 billion in 2024, driven by web ads, podcast hosts and word-of-mouth recommendations. There are the time-tested basics, like creatine and protein powders, as well as a ...

Up on the roof above corporate headquarters, Will Ahmed eyed the weather as April wind and rain swirled. “We’re going to make this a surgical strike,” he said, and off we trotted toward two giant baths filled with 42-degree water. We slid in, dunking our heads beneath the surface—and were ...

For quite some time, Jeff Lawson has kept up a running joke among friends and family. “Bezos bought The Post, Benioff bought Time—well, Jeff Lawson is going to buy The Onion,” said Lawson, billionaire founder of Twilio, an unsexy enterprise software company that he ran until a recent series of ...

When Molly Martell, vice president of brand at San Francisco venture capital firm Headline, was tasked with revamping the company’s offices in 2021, she sought out a design that “felt like the antidote to Zoom” and could fulfill a mandate for a “cozy” space that wasn’t “cold, gridded boxes,” she ...

Just south of the vast Imperial Palace in downtown Tokyo lies the Kasumigaseki district, with blocks of offices constructed mostly during the last century when the country rose as one of the world’s largest economic powers after World War II. Much of the Japanese government does its work here: A ...