Two weeks ago, things turned dire in Hampton Roads, Va. A hurricane slammed into the main shipyard, one of the country’s most important naval bases, raising questions about the impact of climate change and the future of military contracting in the area. In the disaster’s wake, politicians, union ...

So you’ve sold your company, hit it big in crypto or maybe discovered that a long-promised trust fund has more in it than expected. How do you give some of it away? And who can help—especially if you don’t want to go the stuffy old-money route and etch your name onto some hard surface at ...

Few things matter more to Jack Altman than bedtime with the Altman siblings:the two-year-old daughter and four-year-old son he shares with his wife, Julia, who is pregnant with their third child. “Childhood is such a short period. Maybe you get 10 years where your kids want nothing more than to ...

“I had hoped women-only events might be unnecessary by now,” said Joanna Coles, director of the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation and Hearst Magazines’ former chief content officer. “But given there are near total bans of abortion in 24 states, IVF and birth control are now threatened, the ...

Last December, mayhem seemed to hit an all-time high at Art Basel Miami Beach, the art world’s annual Floridian bacchanal. Traffic choked the streets. No one could get a cellphone signal. And the media seemed more interested in covering the onslaught of celebrity and fashion-brand parties— ...

Private jets are a common enough sight over Driggs, Idaho, a hamlet 30 miles west of the exclusive resort town of Jackson Hole, Wyo. But one weekend a few months ago, so many chartered flights and luxury SUVs arrived in the small town that the mayor began to receive calls from residents asking ...

On March 19, the 70-person staff of Inflection, an artificial intelligence startup that had raised $1.5 billion in less than two years, was summoned to a Hyatt hotel auditorium near the company’s Palo Alto, Calif., offices. Moments before, they’d received some shocking news: Microsoft would pay ...

School will be out for the summer before you know it, presenting an annual problem: how to keep kids engaged and challenged during summer vacation—a tall task throughout the year but exponentially harder during the break. That leads to another seasonal predicament: picking the right summer camp. ...

Reddit’s long-awaited coming-out party is over. After more than doubling to a high of $74.90 in the days after its public debut, the stock is now trading at a still-respectable $47 or so. The man who turned down the music is 35-year-old Andrew Freedman, a partner at Stamford, Conn.–based Hedgeye ...

Last Wednesday, the hottest invite in El Segundo, Calif., was to a get-together at El Segundo Brewing on Main Street, which sits in the shadow of a sprawling Chevron refinery. Founders Fund hosted the happy hour, gathering some of the startup founders that have recently flocked to El Segundo to ...

“We’re not trying to bring back Prohibition—or judge anyone,” promised Bill Shufelt, leading me through a taste test of the non-alcoholic beer from his seven-year-old Athletic Brewing, recently valued at nearly a half-billion dollars. That money has afforded some fine products: To my immense ...

When Skims co-founders Kim Kardashian and Jens Grede were recently considering where to put their very first physical store, they knew right away that New York and Los Angeles wouldn’t work well. Their retail unicorn had previously held pop-up shops in those cities, and they had attracted ...

Find the right lawyer and they can fill many roles: advisor, defender—let’s be real—therapist. In recent decades, the white-shoe law firms that once mostly catered to—and chased—blue-chip industrial companies, conglomerates and banks have set up practices targeting startups, and as Silicon ...

At some point during the second half of this year, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, will stuff his feet into a pair of cowboy boots and, if everything goes as planned, watch as a rocket made by his space startup, Blue Origin, blasts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The boots ...

After filling a cap table with prestige names and an Atherton basement with Screaming Eagle, what does a busy mogul on the rise acquire next? Increasingly these days, a chief of staff. Long a staple in government and the military, the chief of staff role has lately become a faddish fixture in ...

Twice in the last month, Mark Farrell, the Thayer Ventures co-founder, former San Francisco mayor and surprise front-runner in November’s mayoral race, has found himself confronting a familiar scene: thieves pilfering items from his local Walgreens as he shopped, undeterred by the shop’s ...

A month ago, Greg Pilon, a 44-year-old visual effects artist on such films as “Deadpool 2,” thought he heard the tick-tock of a doomsday clock for his industry. What set the gears in motion? His initial glimpse of Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video artificial intelligence tool, unveiled by CEO Sam ...

By Larissa Zimberoff As a GPU is to Nvidia, a strawberry is to Oishii: expensive, deeply coveted—and backed by enormous amounts of capital and technology. New Jersey–based Oishii (pronounced oy-shi) operates two vertical farms that rely on robotic sensors, which collect over a million data ...

The inner sanctum of one of Silicon Valley’s most intriguing investorsis a small, bland roomin Los Altos Hills, Calif., filled on a recent morning by little more than a marble-top conference table, a whiteboard and a stack of bagged spicy chili potato chips. The home office belongs to General ...

In 2012, Joe Lonsdale and his co-founder, Zac Bookman, started OpenGov with a fairly straightforward idea. “We thought there’s room for something to really help governments run a lot better,” said Lonsdale, who’s also a venture capitalist and a Palantir co-founder. Since then, they’ve found ...