No One Wants to Admit It, but Reddit Can't Be Saved
It’s looking more and more like Ellen Pao was, in some sense, set up to fail by her male board of directors. Her predecessor Yishan Wong says it. A top Reddit engineer said it right after quitting . It...
View ArticleHere's What a Party for Elite White iPhone Daters Looks Like
Have you heard of “The League”? It’s like Tinder, but for white people people who fancy themselves “elite” and aspire to white collar crime. Business Insider, a website run by an actual white collar...
View ArticleHere Are the Internal Documents that Prove Uber Is a Money Loser
Uber, Silicon Valley’s prized amoral unicorn, is presumed to be a financial titan and a sure-thing IPO in the near future. Which may be true. But one thing that’s frequently missing from the...
View ArticleSnapchat Lost a Ton of Money Last Year
In 2013, teenage attention-pit Snapchat turned down a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook, which is only not an insane and arrogant decision if you’re going to reap so much profit that you’re...
View ArticleBurning Man Riddled with Brutal Pest Infestation
Burning Man, favorite summertime gathering place for Silicon Valley’s VC-funded shirtless mollybros , is combating a large-scale pest infestation at Blackrock City, Nevada. Crawling over every surface...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Trend Watch: Growing a Beard to Mask Pure Evil
In a past age, the American robber baron class would combat bad publicity by building a library or calling in the Pinkertons. Today, Silicon Valley’s captains of industry convince people they’re not a...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Banded Together To Protect Abusive CEO Before Company's IPO
In April of 2014, Gurbaksh Chahal was fired as the CEO of the tech company RadiumOne, amid fallout from a domestic violence case. Chahal had managed to escape felony charges despite being caught on...
View ArticleWhy Apple Decided to Block Ads on the Same Day It Started Pushing a News App
Well that’s quite a coincidence. The very same day Apple turned its News app into a mandatory blob on your home screen, it also rolled out ad blocking capabilities in iOS 9. Read more...
View ArticleA Strike May Park San Francisco's Tech Buses
San Francisco’s tech workers may be looking for a new ride to work if their shuttle bus drivers go on strike over contract negotiations. At a meeting yesterday in San Leandro, leaders of the Teamsters...
View ArticleWhite People Control All the Power in Silicon Valley
A new report finds that Silicon Valley’s power structure, the conduits that determine which technologies will shape the fabric of society, is comprised of a representative mix of the people who use...
View ArticleTwitter CEO Offers Employees a Bold Peek Into Their Jobless Futures
Twitter plans to lay off eight percent of its workforce, the bearded Machiavellian at its helm announced in a memo to the company today. Those 336 workers who will be going home without their jobs can...
View ArticleThe Extremely Shitty Way One Man Learned He'd Been Fired From Twitter
This morning, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced he’s laying off 336 employees, but would do so “with the utmost respect for each and every person.” Also this morning, Twitter engineer...
View ArticleTwitter Is So Hopelessly White Its Only Black Engineering Boss Just Quit in...
Leslie Miley was “the only African-American in [engineering] leadership” at Twitter, a company that employs thousands, and owes much of its success to adoption by non-white users. Then he quit, as he...
View ArticleR.I.P. Valleywag, 2006-2015
Here lies Valleywag, a Silicon Valley gossip and news site launched in 2006 by Gawker Media and decommissioned in 2015. Its editors and writers over the years included Nick Douglas, Nick Denton, Owen...
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