Influence
Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
When Amazon was in trouble back in 2001, Jeff Bezos called professor and Good to Great author Jim Collins — and became his best student ever.
According to some, the financing round for the question-and-answer platform speaks to the high valuation for virtually everything these days in the tech sector.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes believes it’s time to break up the company he helped start — and says Mark Zuckerberg’s power is “unprecedented and un-American.”
Harris has attracted controversy through his writings about religion, particularly Islam, since 9/11.
Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn watches a lot of TV and he says Netflix has sucked him into watching less of everything else.
“It will always come back to bite you.”
A tough, new enforcement regime is becoming a geopolitical minefield for venture capitalists and startups.
It’s a hard, hard fall.
Plus: Why space will be a “trillion-dollar business.”
The social network you love — or hate — needs a radical reboot.
The $3 billion to $5 billion fine Facebook says it expects from the FTC probably won’t be enough to change its behavior.
Well, probably.
On the latest Recode Decode, Kapor Klein says we need to “take a deep hard look at the BS notion of meritocracy.”
DST, the venture capital firm founded by Yuri Milner, is expected to lead the deal.
Hempel joined the site’s editorial team this year after 17 years at magazines like Businessweek, Fortune, and Wired.
Who is next?
Twitter is using technology to catch more bad tweets.
Silicon Valley wants people with experience. US immigration services want people with grad degrees.
All 335 PBS stations use federal funding, but the ones that depend on it are largely in Trump country.
Even though they “want to see themselves as gods,” most tech leaders aren’t doing anything about climate change. Why?
Ray Dalio’s 7,500-word missive reflects a new reality for the world’s wealthiest people in 2019.
The new CEO of All Raise, Pam Kostka, will have to keep attention on a problem that some in Silicon Valley want to slink away from.
AI Now Institute founders Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker explain everything you need to know on the latest Recode Decode.
How exactly will she spend her money?
A much-hyped football league — or a much-hyped tech company — has failed spectacularly.
“Aging is not a disease, otherwise living would be a disease, but you can’t make money off satisfaction,” Applewhite says.
Remember when Silicon Valley’s giants scoffed at regulation? Now they see it as a protective shield.
Lyft’s IPO gives regular folks the chance to make or lose a fortune.
This story tells you a lot about how Silicon Valley really works.
McGlashan’s argument, boiled down, is essentially: I didn’t do anything illegal ... yet.
Hamilton and Davis spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher at South By Southwest earlier this month.
Nobody at Facebook actually did anything with your password. As far as we know.
Vestager spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South By Southwest.
Two important Facebook execs left the company after disagreements with Zuckerberg.
Everyone wants a low-cost SUV.
“The way the world works these days is unbelievable.”
Lee Fixel epitomized how attractive private tech investing has become to New York finance.
Chris Cox, Facebook’s powerful product boss is out. So is WhatsApp boss Chris Daniels.
Facebook blamed the issue on a “server configuration change.”