At his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist routinely lays out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years.” Credit Photograph by Joe Pugliese On a bright October morning, Suhail Doshi drove to Silicon Valley in his parents’ Honda Civic, carrying a laptop with a twelve-slide…

Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner were willing to countenance government intervention when markets failed. Their actions outraged both Republicans and Democrats. Credit Illustrations by Mark Ulriksen FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Let’s don’t be alarmist. The most important week in American…

Waking Up Is Hard to Do In a new monthly series, our correspondent tries to improve every one of his daily routines. First: how to become a morning person By Kevin Roose Illustrations by Giacomo Gambineri Mark Twain once wrote, “I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late—and the…

20th Century Fox I, Robot 's Sonny has the luxury of ignoring Asimov's first law of robotics, but real-life robots might be ethically obligated to harm humans. It happens quickly—more quickly than you, being human, can fully process. A front tire blows, and your autonomous SUV swerves. But rather…

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username A story of how PayPal and GoDaddy allowed the attack and caused me to lose my $50,000 Twitter username. Image by http: [email protected] My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Stolen Thanks to PayPal and GoDaddy I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter.…

Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco’s financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders and firefighter poles, all dented and…

The entrepreneurial zeitgeist today is hard to ignore. Startup America regions have been launched in 32 states. MBAs are flocking to internet startups at an unprecedented clip — faster than…

Owen Freeman IN my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was…

If you’re a billionaire in Silicon Valley, you can wear what you want on your feet. Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, has made numerous public appearances in a hoodie and Adidas slide-on sandals . Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, is not shy about his Vibram FiveFingers barefoot-style…

This is a detailed description of how I use Adobe Lightroom 4 to handle every single photo that I take with my DSLR camera. My iPhone photos are a different story, and I wish they were easier. For now, I’ve been fairly happy with Loom . There’s an excellent write-up about this at The Sweet Setup .…

A lot of things about Facebook have been impressive, even by the Silicon Valley standards. Almost no other Valley company has reached so many people around the world so quickly. Few Valley companies have been considered important forces in causes as disparate as planning a party or a political…

Editor’s note: Aileen Lee is founder of Cowboy Ventures , a seed-stage fund that backs entrepreneurs reinventing work and personal life through software. Previously, she joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 and was also founding CEO of digital media company RMG Networks, backed by KPCB.…

iPHone prototype/ jimabeles FLICKR CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Birth of the iPhone Excerpt from ‘Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products’ One morning in late 2003, just before the launch of the iPod Mini, Apple’s senior vice president of design Jony Ive and his team gathered for a bi-weekly…

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This investigative report reveals that:Shortly after the release of the first iPhone, Verizon asked BlackBerry to create a touchscreen “iPhone killer.” But the result was a flop, so…

The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the…

I didn’t travel anywhere by myself until I was twenty-two. And then I spent a year as an international hobo. Now I travel alone all the time. For work, and for pleasure. There is too much I…

Some four years ago, I started Bingo Card Creator, a business which sells software to teachers.  At the time, my big goal for the future was eventually making perhaps $200 a month, so that I…

Over the past fifteen years, both Apple and Microsoft have invested in Apple, while Microsoft has also invested in itself. Here's a look at how those investments worked out, with particular attention…

By Poornima Gupta and Peter HendersonSAN FRANCISCO Aug 22 (Reuters) - Shortly after signing on as chief operating officer at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg was looking to connect with people in a similar…

TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I…

I’m not a businessman / I’m a business, man! —“Diamonds From Sierra Leone” Last week, the twelfth solo studio album by the rapper Jay-Z, Magna Carta … Holy…

Of all the occupational golden ages to come and go in the twentieth century—for doctors, journalists, ad-men, autoworkers—none lasted longer, felt cushier, and was all in all more…

A funny thing happened on the way to The Matrix Evolution is a nice, big idea. It connotes the glacial pace of an unmeditated act unfolding upon species, concepts, and ecosystems. It certainly…