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SILICON VALLEY
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September 29, 2021
Laurene Powell Jobs’ Bizarre Week in the Headlines
An unexpected turn in the spotlight underscores a fundamental truth about one of Silicon Valley’s prolific investors. It can feel like everyone knows Powell Jobs, and no one really knows her at all.
SILICON VALLEY
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September 24, 2021
Sean Parker’s Masterstroke and Larry Ellison’s Summer Fling
Plus: What really happened at “the Google of modern politics” after Reid Hoffman's eight-figure venture capital bailout.
SILICON VALLEY
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September 21, 2021
The Los Altos Shrink Taking Over Washington
Karla Jurvetson spent millions on 2020, plays host to Obama and Steph Curry, and has Schumer on speed dial. Her politics veer more Warren than Biden, and she’s leaving her stamp on the party ... whether they want it or not.
SILICON VALLEY
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September 14, 2021
“It’s Good to Be Wealthy”: Joe Lonsdale, Silicon Valley Apostate
Over the years, the Peter Thiel disciple and Palantir co-founder has emerged as one of the most effective, iconoclastic, and sometimes abrasive defenders of the ultra-rich. And unlike Thiel, as one person who knows them both well put it, Lonsdale has “almost no filter.”
PUCK
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September 12, 2021
Why I Joined Puck
At Puck, we cover Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington, and Wall Street not as separate broadsheets of a newspaper, but as subdivisions of a universe that is one big club.
SILICON VALLEY
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September 2, 2021
“Too Quiet for Comfort”: Did Silicon Valley Botch the Recall?
Fundraisers and donors across the tech industry agree that Silicon Valley has underinvested in the recall—perhaps to Gavin Newsom’s peril.
SILICON VALLEY
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August 25, 2021
The Inevitability of the World’s First Trillionaire
There's no question that unrestricted inequality is dangerous for democracy. It also allows for ambitious actors to take risks that governments cannot.
SILICON VALLEY
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August 17, 2021
The Biggest Story in the Billionaire Philanthropy World
Two strange bedfellows have made a ruckus by pushing the most sweeping change to the rules surrounding nonprofit funding in half a century.
SILICON VALLEY
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August 5, 2021
Can Zuckerberg’s Old Roommate Strong-Arm Washington?
Dustin Moskovitz has been reluctant since the beginning to embrace his power as a fixer. But after Clinton lost, he wised up—and gingerly leaned in.
SILICON VALLEY
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July 22, 2021
The Irony of Pierre Omidyar
The French-born Buddhist is among the most subversive of the Silicon Valley billionaires—and quietly on the cusp of a surprising reemergence.