Julie Bort

Julie Bort

Editor at Large, Tech

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I'm Business Insider's Editor at Large for our Tech team.

I love investigating stories and shedding light on the tech industry's most amazing people.

Here's a small sample of some of my work.

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.

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