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Drew Angerer/Getty Images Dropbox filed to go public on Friday, revealing CEO Drew Houston’s salary for the first time. Houston took home about $ 110 million in cash and stock in 2017. He stands to make a lot more, thanks to an incentive system tied to Dropbox’s share price: If Dropbox shares hit $ 60, […]
Neo, a venture fund paired with an invite-only network, isn’t a tech incubator, but it aims to catalyze startups like one https://media.wired.com/photos/5a5026ad5b265051c4785043/master/pass/Neo-FeatureArt-176636511.jpg Feed: All Latest
GUEST: Most articles written about startup scenes outside of the coasts use the phrase “the next Silicon Valley.” As in, St. Louis or Pittsburgh is poised to be the “next Silicon Valley.” But do these cities really want to be the next Silicon Valley? It’s a serious question. While the Bay Area is known for […]
All over Silicon Valley and elsewhere, executives follow weird revitalization fads. They think the code of aging can be hacked and death made optional. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a21d3f54e3ee55eabce297d/master/pass/0118-WI-APANTI-01_sq.jpg Feed: All Latest
Layla Sabourian, founder of ed-tech startup Chef Koochooloo, wasn’t surprised when a sexism scandal hit Silicon Valley this past summer, with many of her female peers not only speaking out about bad behavior from investors but also naming them. Amid the swirl of revelations, though, she spotted an opportunity for change. Sabourian had heard horror […]
Getty Images Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s CEO, Meg Whitman, is stepping down in February. She will be replaced by Antonio Neri, the current president of HPE. Whitman, who joined HPE’s predecessor, Hewlett-Packard, in 2011, was recently identified as being in the running to be the CEO of Uber, though she ultimately did not get that job. […]
Josh Edelson/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the last year, many venture capitalists and tech CEOs have stepped down due to sexual harassment allegations. Ellen Pao believes the toxic work culture in Silicon Valley is due to the power imbalance between people working in tech and venture capitalists. She also believes that the venture capitalists set […]
It’s now been one year since the 2016 election, which, if you believe the steady drumbeat of news articles in the months that followed, served as a “wake-up call” for Silicon Valley that it was failing to connect with the rest of the country. In that year, Silicon Valley hasn’t magically hired thousands of laid-off […]
Jaimie Trueblood/HBO Millennials are close to constituting a majority of the tech workforce while older industry vets struggle to find work. The new study by job search website Indeed exposes ageism in Silicon Valley. The tech industry’s prejudice against older folks is alive and well — though that doesn’t mean millennials have its easy. According […]
Melia Robinson The hottest way to lose weight these days involves eating whatever you want — on some days. On others, you don’t eat at all. As strange as it sounds, the diet — known as intermittent fasting — has a lot of scientific backing. Large studies have found it to be just as reliable for weight […]
