When Alexander Gallego started his first company in 2014, he approached it with the same determination he’d used to learn English as a teenager, or to navigate the admissions process as a...

Ishan Bhaidani had been patient for over a month, waiting for blood in the water. Now was his moment. It was the late hours of Nov. 7 and he was in his home office in San Antonio, Texas, staring at...

Elon Musk made his first speaking appearance in Aaron Neyer’s dream life one night in mid-November. Neyer, a developer relations engineer at Google, dreamt that he was inside Twitter’s San...

Mike Cessario, co-founder and CEO of canned water company Liquid Death, arrived in Palm Desert, Calif., sporting a Slayer hoodie, designer stubble and the effortless chill of a movie star. He had...

When we launched the InformationWeekend one year ago, we couldn’t have predicted the dramatic twists and turns of the last 52 weeks—and especially not the last week. We promised, as Jon wrote in...

Like fitness trackers and Pelotons, electric-powered bikes, boards and scooters are now a Silicon Valley mainstay—and one per family may no longer suffice. With the marketplace filling with new and...

When George Sivulka was 12, he was building lasers that could light fires. At 16 he had an internship at NASA. By 22, he was hanging out with Peter Thiel, talking for hours about artificial...

Another day, another fallen crypto titan. But this one has shocked the system more than most. This week, all of Silicon Valley watched with mouths agape as blockchain golden boy Sam Bankman-Fried...

A few months ago, Matt Levine, Bloomberg’s ascendant tech and finance columnist, schlepped from his home in Westchester County into New York with his wife and three small children to have weekend...

Days after Elon Musk fired half of Twitter’s workforce last Friday, one employee who escaped the cuts started receiving LinkedIn messages. The employee, a veteran engineer, said he received 40...

Kathryn Minshew, founder of online jobs marketplace The Muse, has basically been on a nationwide tour for the past month. Traveling from her home in New York’s East Village, she’s turned up in...

On October 27, new Twitter owner Elon Musk posted his third-most-liked tweet ever: “The bird is freed.” (No. 1 was his infamous putting-cocaine-back-into-Coke joke. No. 2 was his free-speech bear...

Running his fingers through his halo of dark hair while bouncing like a kid with the right answer, Tarek Mansour explained the derivation of his company’s name. “Kel shi” is Lebanese Arabic for...