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The Other Tech Bubble Silicon Valley techies still think they're the good guys. They're not. [WIRED 2017]
The Hustlers Fueling the Crypto-World's Marketing Machine [WIRED, 2018]
"Crypto-Genius" James Altucher Debates Bitcoin [WIRED, 2018]
I Feel Everything Soul-searching at TED's inspiration assembly line [WIRED, 2018]
Henry The Sexbot Wants to Know All Your Hopes and Dreams [WIRED, 2018]
Crypto-Mania Fuels Hype and Fear at Venture Firms [WIRED, 2017]
Is Your Startup Stalled? Pivot to Crypto! [WIRED, 2017]
How Corporate America Sells Success in the 21st Century "Premium cocktails, Instagrammable activations, and inspiring moments you won’t forget!" [Fortune, 2017]
The Ugly Unethical Underside of Silicon Valley As the list of startup scandals grows, it’s time to ask whether entrepreneurs are taking “fake it till you make it” too far. [Fortune, 2016]
How Airbnb Pulled Off a Coup in Cuba A new tourism market has become a test case and a PR bonanza for the home-share startup. [Fortune, 2016]
Driven in the Valley: The Startup Founders Fueling GM’s Future Cruise Automation sold to GM for $1 billion; now its founders are racing to bring a self-driving car to the masses. [Fortune 40 under 40 issue, 2016]
Some Assembly Required Silicon Valley and Detroit are in a race to create our driverless future. And for the first time ever, the car may take a backseat. [Fortune cover story, 2016]
The Smart Sting of Samantha Bee [Fortune Most Powerful Women Issue, 2016]
Fixing Twitter How the media-juggernaut-turned-train-wreck is getting back on track after a rough two years. [Fortune, 2016]
Meet the Tech Industry’s China Fixer [Fortune, 2015]
How Facebook's Video-Traffic Explosion Is Shaking Up The Advertising World [Fortune 500 issue, 2015]
A Tip For Startups: Don't Go Public Without Profits [Los Angeles Times, 2015]
Big Ambitions Don't Make Losses Any Less [Los Angeles Times, 2015]
The Trouble With Back-Ends Why publishers can't publish on the web [Adweek, 2011]
Talent Wars Agencies are battling Silicon Valley for the best people. Here's how they can win [Adweek cover story, 2012]
Bloggers Mean Business They’re not the future of fashion magazines—they’re the future of fashion branding [Adweek, 2011]
Streaming Music Has a Problem—It’s a Huge Success Pandora, Spotify and others need revenue—and where they want to get it from is ruffling feathers [Adweek cover story, 2012]
How Casper Flipped the Mattress Industry Casper CEO Philip Krim and his cofounders have turned mattresses, a humdrum household item, into a breakout brand. [Fortune 40 under 40 issue, 2017]
Columns
"Boom With a View" ran in every issue of Fortune from 2015 to 2017.
More Columns + Reporting
Is the tech industry doomed to be hated?
When Unicorns Companies Want More Than Cash [Fortune, 2015]
Silicon Valley's Single Degree of Separation [Fortune, 2014]
How to Invest in the Internet of Things [Fortune Investor's Guide, 2014]
Wearable Tech, Meet Blue Collar Jobs [Fortune, 2014]
The Enfant Terrible of the Back Office Zenefits has been has been banned, demonized, and sued—and it’s still going [Fortune, 2015]
Meal kits are the new daily deals
The slow death of a startup darling
Where did Dick Costolo go wrong? Employees loved him. The board loved him. He charmed the media, and even Wall Street, for a brief honeymoon. Why did investors turn on Twitter’s CEO?
Why Facebook should restructure like Google's Alphabet
The case for taking Zynga private
Groupon is a failure, plain and simple
The music industry has irreversibly changed — the labels have not
Stop trying to make F-commerce happen
Buddy Media Turns a Page The company's popular platform for Facebook brand pages faces new rivals [Adweek, 2011]
The Big Apple's Tech Scene Bites Back New York once struggled in the shadows of Silicon Valley. Now a new breed of start-ups is ditching the business model and concentrating on visionary ideas. [BBC, 2013]
RPX and the Complicated Business of Stockpiling Patents for Good, Not Evil [Pando, 2013]
Does Money Taint the Sharing Economy? [Pando, 2013]
Meet Steve Hogan, the Silicon Valley Fixer-Upper [Pando, 2013]
No Pop Equals a Flop? Welcome to the Irrational World of Public Markets, Facebook
Twitter to investors: We are the anti-Facebook
Marissa Mayer has lost the narrative
Bob Pittman doesn’t believe streaming will kill radio. But he’s built a massive streaming service, just in case
How Zuck met Oculus: The story behind Facebook's big bet on virtual reality
A return to hieroglyphics (A Stanley Bing column)
How Ziff Davis survived the death of print
If driverless cars save lives, where will we get organs?
How one lawyer is making a dent in the tech world's gender imbalance
Your app went viral at SXSW. Good luck with that
What you missed at SXSW (Nothing!)
Media + Advertising
An audacious plan to fix the Internet's original sin
SXSW's big, ugly contradiction
How Taboola and Outbrain are battling a bad reputation... and each other
Welcome to the ad business, Verizon AOL’s fastest-growing business is one that few people understand, like, or value.
Teens love YouTube. Do advertisers?
Twitter: Payment to the People
How Primedia Became One of Private Equity’s Oldest Deals
Startups
Waking up with Casper, the Internet mattress company
I went to a hotel room to meet an emotional robot
Meet OLX, the biggest Web company you've never heard of
How to get a $1 billion valuation in just eight months
The beauty of Birchbox It’s not subscription commerce, it’s marketing that women actually pay for
The Gilted Age Ex-Gilt Groupers are running this town
The latest trend in startup names? Regular old human names
The Great Pinterestification: How Pinterest's design legacy might trump the company itself
Big Data Be Damned, The Web Still Needs a Human Touch
The Dreaded Business Model Question and Why Now May Be the Time to Ask It
Edtech startups have great products. Their sales? Not so great
Why French Startups Want an American Touch
Startups (Failure)
Failure (and closure) at a startup funeral
Why startups fail, according to their founders
Can’t raise a Series A? Just sell yourself to Yahoo
Why a taxi app with $100 million in funding failed in the U.S.
Secret is the latest in a line of faddish apps — and we’re burning through fads faster than ever
The rise of the CEO support group
9 Startup ideas that were ahead of their time
The Samwer brothers may have the last laugh on Fab after all
Music startups: your product is probably just a feature
Venture Capital
Ashton Kutcher's smart money friends
Why is venture capital, the industry that funds innovation, so very un-innovative?
Behold, the future of venture capital
Here are the lucky VCs who secretly made money on Twitter’s IPO
Agencies Get Into the V.C. Business, But Why?
Finding founders before they know they're founders
Startup Accelerators
Inside a startup accelerator demo day
Let’s kill the demo day and replace it with a one-year reunion
Dear awesome startups, don’t join an accelerator, unless…
We know accelerators are headed for a shakeout — but do they?
Inside TimeSpace, the New York Times’ new startup accelerator
Techstars NYC is at an inflection point
Steve Blank explains why accelerators should mimic Moneyball
Essays
Private Equity and M&A
Procter & Gamble retains Blackstone to sell Pringles, Folgers, Duracell, sources say [FT.com]
Unilever's Lawry's in second round; Lehman advising [FT.com]
How Has Apollo Management Disappointed Investors? Let Us Count the Ways… (PDF)
Steve Schwarzman is Not Freaking Out (PDF)
It’s a Hot Day But Henry Kravis Has a Cold Heart (JPG)
VC Firms Creep Into Buyout Territory, But Can They Survive the Credit Crunch? (PDF)
Five Things to Know About Debt Today (PDF)
Sun Capital Makes Preferred Commitment From Existing Fund; Writedowns Across Funds of 36% (PDF)
Unemployed Wall Streeter Mildly Famous But Still Unemployed (JPG)