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The nomination of Vance on Monday signals both the rise of Silicon Valley and the looming Republican intraparty confrontation over the state’s hand in the economy.
The rise and fall of another American economic powerhouse–Detroit–can help explain how regional reputations change over time. Subscribe to the Design newsletter.
When the high and mighty of Silicon Valley assumed their privileged perch at the swearing-in of President Trump, it was an ostentatious show of wealth and power unlike any before. "You could go ...
Adam Bowen and James Monsees — the focus of the Netflix docuseries “Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul” — originally set out to make the world a better place. I had to remind myself of ...
Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore were already well-known figures in the nascent tech sector when they founded Intel after ...
In recent years a plethora of books have been published about the rise of Silicon Valley’s tech giants. Some are filled with breathless cheerleading for the titans of cyber-capitalism, some are ...
The fall of Silicon Valley Bank could lead to the rise of zombies. The bank’s implosion exacerbates cracks that had already been forming in venture funding and that will linger for at least two ...
Soon after Jeff Goodell turned 20, he left a job at then-fledgling Apple Computer and headed east, away from his hometown of Sunnyvale, California. On his way to the opposite coast, Goodell ...
Opinion: Human capital is the only way to transform private capital into massive profits. And Silicon Valley is where both are in abundance.
Regardless, there is no denying the remarkable ascendance of Silicon Valley and its tech leaders, in a single generation, from a collection of indifferent and often politically naive entrepreneurs ...