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  1. the top line
    Why Do Food Delivery Companies Lose Money?One common theory is that they are planning to raise their prices someday. I think something else is going on.
    By Josh Barro
  2. just asking questions
    A Leading Silicon Valley Investor Talks Coronavirus Fears and Solutions“This is not the time for dithering,” says the Silicon Valley investor and NBA-team owner.
    By Jebediah Reed
  3. ranking
    Big Tech’s Most Powerful Apostates, RankedSelf-criticism is suddenly huge in Silicon Valley. But not all critiques are created equal.
    By Max Read
  4. politics
    Big Tech’s Big Divorce From DemocratsInside the collapsed marriage of Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  5. the economy
    Bill Protecting ‘Gig Workers’ Close to Enactment in CaliforniaEmployers may no longer be able to call their workers contractors, but they’re threatening a ballot initiative to restore “flexibility.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. ipos
    Slack Is a Boring Company. That’s Why Its Stock Was Exciting.Maybe other tech companies can adopt its unorthodox strategy of “selling a service for money.”
    By Max Read
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    Why Can’t Tech Companies Do the ‘Right’ Thing the First Time?After initially saying it would do nothing, YouTube announced it was demonetizing Steven Crowder for videos hurling slurs at a journalist.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Tech Companies Are Sorry Only When They Get CaughtGoogle gave $150,000 in free ads to an anti-abortion organization that falsely advertised crisis pregnancy centers as real abortion providers.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  9. technology
    Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Break Up Big Tech Is Extremely Aggressive. Good.Intelligencer tech writers Max Read and Brian Feldman react to Elizabeth Warren’s aggressive proposal to break up Silicon Valley megaplatforms
    By Brian Feldman and Max Read
  10. life in pixels
    Who Pays for Silicon Valley’s Hidden Costs?Magically convenient services and devices are often subsidized by exploitative labor arrangements.
    By Max Read
  11. labor
    This Is Why Oakland’s Teachers Are on StrikeIt’s not just about wages. It’s about the ramifications of extreme income inequality in the Bay Area.
    By Sarah Jones
  12. just asking questions
    Shoshana Zuboff Talks Surveillance Capitalism’s Threat to DemocracyThe Harvard Business School professor discusses what she believes is a new mode of capitalism being ushered in by Silicon Valley.
    By Noah Kulwin
  13. just asking questions
    Ex-Facebook Manager Mark Luckie on Silicon Valley’s ‘Black People Problem’The former Facebook and Twitter employee discusses his blockbuster memo and what Silicon Valley should do to solve its problems with inclusion.
    By Noah Kulwin
  14. technology
    Why Silicon Valley Finds It Hard to Say No to Saudi Arabian DollarsThere’s too much at stake for the tech industry to forswear the Kingdom’s money piles altogether.
    By Noah Kulwin
  15. The Reporter Who Took Down a UnicornHow John Carreyrou battled corporate surveillance and intimidation to expose a multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley start-up as a fraud.
    By Yashar Ali
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    ‘F*ck Them. We Need a Law’: A Legendary Programmer Takes on Silicon ValleyA conversation with legendary programmer Richard Stallman on the real meaning of “privacy rights” and why he only ever uses cash.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    Jaron Lanier Q&A: ‘We Won, and We Turned Into Assholes’Tech pioneer Jaron Lanier discusses the sinking feeling you get when you’re quoted by Mark Zuckerberg, and everything else bad about the internet.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    Q&A With Ellen Pao on Reddit, Facebook, and the Future of the InternetEllen Pao, former Reddit CEO, discusses Reddit’s focus on growth, Facebook’s homogeneity, and whether anything can be changed.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    Selling Crack to Children: Inside the Silicon Valley Grift Machine“Without rampant, unchecked fraud, I came to realize, the entire digital media business would collapse.”
    By Corey Pein
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    An Apology for the Internet — From the Architects Who Built ItEven those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    What If Silicon Valley Cured Cancer?You’d never see the benefits.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Silicon Valley ‘Sex Party’ Host Identity RevealedSteve Jurvetson, who recently left the venture-capital firm he co-founded amid sexual-harassment allegations, reportedly hosted the scandalous event.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    The Pro-Antitrust Congressman From Monopoly-Friendly Silicon ValleyRising Democratic star Ro Khanna is one of the loudest voices on antitrust — while coming from one of the most monopoly-friendly districts in the U.S.
    By Tess Townsend
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    The Only People in Silicon Valley Asking Ethical Questions Are Improv Comedians“Tech has the capacity to destroy us.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    What It Takes to Get Accepted Into an Elite Apocalypse BunkerIt’s boom times for the bomb-shelter business in Silicon Valley. But you better be able to write a good application essay.
    By Lauren Smiley
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    Silicon Valley Has Gone All-In on A CappellaIt’s Googapella vs. the Vocal Network.
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Tech Exec Allegedly Offered Female Employees Thousands to Lose WeightSocial Finance’s CEO stepped down this week and the company is facing a sexual-harassment lawsuit.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Alt-Right-Friendly Social Network Gab Raises $1 MillionSilicon Valley is cracking down on hate speech but Gab.ai wants no part in that movement.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  29. Report: Peter Thiel Is Souring on TrumpThe venture capitalist was an early passenger on the Trump Train, but it looks like he’s steeling himself for a derailment.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    Don’t Make a Woman Explain to You Why That Anti-Diversity Google Memo Is GarbageA leaked internal document called the wage gap a “myth” and laid out all the reasons men are treated unfairly.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Another Day, Another Apology for Harassment in Silicon ValleyMarc Canter once propositioned Microsoft’s danah boyd for a threesome with him and his wife.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Can Uber Fix Itself When Silicon Valley Won’t?Uber is “20 assholes lighter.” Will that be enough to change its culture?
    By Reeves Wiedeman
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    What Happens When Work Becomes a Nonstop Chat RoomHas Slack made the office more productive? More of a snake pit? More like Tinder?
    By Molly Fischer
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    The Techno-Libertarians Praying for DystopiaThe terrifying future of Dark Transhumanism.
    By Mark O’Connell
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    You Don’t Even Need the $400 Wi-Fi Juicer to Get to the JuiceSilicon Valley innovation has done it again.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Why Silicon Valley Keeps Getting Biotechnology Wrong“Move fast and break things” doesn’t work when those “things” are research procedures, laws of science, and human bodies.
    By Casey Johnston
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    Why Do We Expect Silicon Valley to Reject Trump?It was easy to be a liberal corporation under Obama. Now those values are being tested.
    By Brian Feldman
  38. Trump’s Tech Meeting Disrupted the Norms of Liberal DemocracyTrump promised to cede control of his company to his sons, Eric and Don Jr. Then, he invited them to a policy meeting with Silicon Valley titans.
    By Eric Levitz
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    Silicon Valley Has Already, Accidentally, Created a Muslim RegistryWhen big data gets used for nefarious purposes.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Nootrobox Wants to Hack Your Brain — or At Least Make Adderall ObsoleteInside the Silicon Valley company that aims to chemically enhance your mind.
    By Alex Morris
  41. Watch the Silicon Valley Skit That Opened Google’s Event Today“You can be a qualified industry professional and be a virgin.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  42. ’80s Tech Comedian ‘Saint $ilicon’ Was the Original Silicon ValleyThe former Apple salesman and comedian is now an astrologer.
    By Matt Haber
  43. Why Peter Thiel Wants to Topple Gawker and Elect Donald TrumpPeter Thiel’s crusade against Gawker is more than just a Citizen Kane redux.
    By Park MacDougald
  44. Theranos Voids Two Years of Blood-Test ResultsOn the verge of being banned from the blood business, the company has issued tens of thousands of corrected test reports to doctors and patients.
    By Eric Levitz
  45. Clinton Lets Theranos Throw Her a Fund-raiserNext week, Chelsea Clinton will attend a campaign fund-raiser at Theranos’s Palo Alto headquarters. 
    By Eric Levitz
  46. startups
    The U.S. Government Says Patients at Theranos Lab Are in ‘Immediate Jeopardy’The Silicon Valley lab has ten days to fix the issue.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  47. tech
    Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit From Itself?He co-founded Reddit. Sold Reddit. Watched Reddit grow. Watched Reddit flounder. Watched Reddit mutiny. Now he’s back, to try to pull Reddit back from the brink.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  48. tech
    Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit From Itself?He co-founded Reddit. Sold Reddit. Watched Reddit grow. Watched Reddit flounder. Watched Reddit mutiny. Now he’s back.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  49. career moves
    For Ex-Obama Officials, the Revolving Door Swings Open to Silicon ValleyFormer Obama spokesman Jay Carney joins the list of former staff heading to technology firms.
    By Annie Lowrey
  50. silicon valley
    Can Rap Genius Annotate the World?A capaciously vague ambition that no one, themselves included, is certain they can pull off.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
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