The origin story of the most chaotic, brilliant, and star-crossed company in (fictional) Silicon Valley history Continue reading: The Pied Piper Story: How a Music Copyright App Nearly Rebuilt the Int...
from a spam-trap side project to the plumbing of the modern web Continue reading: Cloudflare: The Company That Sits in Front of the Internet...
Pocket is gone, the survivors are excellent, and yet the perfect reading experience still doesn’t exist. Here’s a tour of Matter, Instapaper, Readwise Reader and Raindrop, and a look at what could fin...
How a Brooklyn desk-sharing startup became a $47 billion “tech company,” then collapsed under its own leases, its founder’s deals, and a failed IPO Continue reading: WeWork: From a B...
This is a story about a man who spent five years building the same machine over and over, and then spent a decade fighting the industry that refused to take it. Continue reading: The Dyson Origin Stor...
how LEGO lost its patent, lost its way, and found a moat that couldn’t be molded. Continue reading: Only the Best is Good Enough: The LEGO Story. Part 2: How LEGO Rebuilt Itself...
Prologue: A Carpenter, Three Fires, and a Word Continue reading: Only the Best is Good Enough: The LEGO Story. Part 1...
Picture a university tutoring room in Perth, Western Australia, sometime around 2005. Continue reading: Canva: The Rectangle That Ate the World...
How an Israeli-American physicist who kept getting pushed out of companies built the flash memory underneath the entire mobile era. the story of the substrate nobody sees and everybody needs. Continue...
From Tel Aviv’s Download Valley to a $150B AI engine — the parallel history of AppLovin and ironSource, and why one thrived post-Unity while the other didn’t. Continue reading: Two R...