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I’m Healing From the Tech Layoffs by Playing ‘Going Under’
Beyond the game’s eclectic weapons, we later learn that the monsters are the ghosts of past failed startups. Each startup…
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Bob Metcalfe, The Man Who Discovered Network Effects, Isn’t Sorry
ChatGPT warned me against asking legendary engineer Bob Metcalfe about his 1996 prediction that the internet would collapse. This came…
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Senators Warn the Next US Bank Run Could Be Rigged
Idaho senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee—who also serves on the Intelligence Committee—says he’d be…
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When Colleges Offer Coding Boot Camp, Students Can Get a Raw Deal
It seemed like a match made in heaven. Dominican University of California needed something fresh. The college wanted to offer…
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The Weekend Silicon Valley Stared Into the Abyss
On Friday, March 10, Mike Wheeler, president and chief legal officer of payroll startup Patriot Software, was on a five-day…
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The Ugly Lessons of Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse
At first glance, the Silicon Valley Bank debacle seems to be a cut-and-dried financial caper. The executives running the 16th-largest bank…
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The Silicon Valley Bank Contagion Is Just Beginning
Some people affected by the bank’s collapse will be in much more precarious situations than some of the monied investors…
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Startups Want to Cash In on the US Student Debt Crisis
The pause has allowed people to pay down other debts, save money, and improve credit scores. It has also brought…
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A Native Son of Palo Alto Thinks His Hometown Will Kill Us All
I meet Malcolm Harris, voice of millennials and anti-capitalist crusader, at a Brooklyn coffee shop, suggested by his publicist for a…
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An Apple Store Worker Is the New Face of US Labor Law Reform
The percentage of US workers represented by a union has fallen for decades, down to 10 percent last year. But…
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