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Former Pinterest employees describe a traumatic workplace where managers humiliate employees until they cry, Black people feel alienated, and the toxic culture 'eats away at your soul'
Sex, tequila, and a tiger: Employees inside Adam Neumann's WeWork talk about the nonstop party to attain a $100 billion dream and the messy reality that tanked it
Insiders say WeWork's IT is a patchwork of cheap devices and Band-Aid fixes that will take millions to fix
WeWork's toxic phone booths were created in-house by its Powered by We business
70-hour weeks and 'WTF' emails: 42 employees reveal the frenzy of working at Tesla under the 'cult' of Elon Musk
Elon Musk works so many hours at Tesla, employees are constantly finding him asleep under tables and desks
How this woman went from a Pizza Hut employee to a founder of a $4 billion startup
An Oracle insider explains how some salespeople gamed the system to sell more cloud
THE TAKEDOWN OF TRAVIS KALANICK: The untold story of Uber's infighting, backstabbing, and multimillion-dollar exit packages
Microsoft is in talks to buy GitHub, a startup at the center of the software world last valued at $2 billion
The alarming inside story of a failed Google acquisition, and an employee who was hospitalized
Inside Facebook's plan to eat another $350 billion IT market
How a registered sex offender wound up living in an Airbnb hosting unsuspecting guests
A controversial ex-banker is the person who really runs Twitter — and he's gambling the company's future on one risky bet
Secret passages and skipped meals: Oracle's CEO gave us a rare peek at what it really takes to run a $37 billion company
HP told some employees to choose between becoming contractors with no benefits or being fired without severance
'I felt like we were being extorted': Customer says Oracle tried to strong-arm him into a cloud sale
How the queen of Silicon Valley is helping Google go after Amazon's most profitable business
Airbnb host: A guest is squatting in my condo and I can't get him to leave
LIES, BOOZE, AND BILLIONS: How one of the fastest-growing startups in Silicon Valley history raised $580 million then spiraled out of control
GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart — and we have the full inside story
When I'm not writing for Business Insider, I can usually be found on the trails, on my mountain bike, or on my skis, if you know where to look.
The Dell Technologies founder and CEO is a true believer in AI who also enjoys private planes, fancy cars, and summer homes.
We researched startups that have strong founding teams and investor dollars. Here are our top picks to bet your career on in 2024.
Tech
2024-01-19T14:00:01Z
AI startup Zapata makes AI models so much cheaper to use, that car racing company Andretti is taking it public via a SPAC.
Tech
2024-01-10T10:00:01Z
This crypto tech is being hailed as the foil of deep fakes, disinformation and fraud.
Tech
2024-01-01T10:00:01Z
Insider's list of top 10 leaders in AI for healthcare.
Insider asked dozens of top VCs to name one promising AI startup they invested in and one they didn't but were hearing good things about.
Tech
2023-12-27T10:00:01Z
A reckoning in the VC industry is underway. With startup failures and VC-firm layoffs, it's not likely to improve in early 2024.
Tech
2023-12-21T21:13:22Z
The company, which raised more than $80 million, is the latest startup to sell itself at fire sale prices.
Tech
2023-11-22T01:03:01Z
Current employees point to layoffs and a salary freeze this year at Microsoft and wonder why it's promising to match the pay of OpenAI staff.
Tech
2023-11-20T15:04:05Z
Microsoft had no AI backup plan besides OpenAI. By hiring Sam Altman, he's won in every way.
Top fintech investors from QED Investors, Point72 Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures identify the most promising startups for 2023.
Tech
2023-11-01T18:58:13Z
WeWork's financial decline, and likely bankruptcy, may have left some VC firms with losses. The industry hasn't learned a thing from the episode.
Tech
2023-10-31T16:40:06Z
It's exhausting.
Tech
2023-10-21T09:22:01Z
When considering job applicants, Jewish American startup founders and VCs draw a distinction between backing Hamas and concern for Palestinians.
Tech
2023-09-07T17:22:25Z
After quietly leaving Kleiner Perkins nearly two years ago, Schlein sees three new cybersecurity trends he's ready to fund.
Tech
2023-09-05T14:36:07Z
Offices don't automatically boost productivity. CEOs want the company at the center of workers' lives.
Check out investors' top picks for promising fintechs. Behind-the-scenes firms and payment-, risk-, and compliance-related startups dominated this year's list.
Tech
2023-08-24T17:17:53Z
We asked a select group of successful VCs to name the most promising computer security startups so far this year inside and outside their portfolios.
Tech
2023-08-18T21:31:11Z
Cisco CEO says its demonstrating growing relevancy in AI infrastructure market after it "missed" the first cloud boom.
Tech
2023-08-18T16:04:55Z
Cohesity's CEO explains how he's changed tactics for a successful IPO after 20 months of economic uncertainty.
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