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The Best New Places for a Tech Holiday Party

By Jemima McEvoy · Oct 18, 2025 6:19am PDT · 2 comments

Many in tech have seen plenty of reasons to celebrate lately—with AI valuations soaring and paydays getting bigger and bigger. And pretty soon it’ll be time to consider the all-important event for tying a ribbon around the year: the holiday party, with the most-prized venues filling up in the next few weeks. The audacious blowouts of the... Many in tech have seen plenty of reasons to celebrate lately—with AI valuations soaring and...

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$500,000 to Find Love? Silicon Valley Upgrades From Dating Apps

By Jemima McEvoy · Sep 20, 2025 6:00am PDT · 2 comments

There’s a big public breakup underway: People are dumping their dating apps. Over the past year, Bumble lost nearly 9% of its paying users, the company reported in its earnings report last month. Match Group, meanwhile, saw about 5% of paying users abandon its flagship apps, including Tinder and Bumble, during the same period. “The companies... There’s a big public breakup underway: People are dumping their dating apps. Over the past year,...

Inside the AI Era’s Favorite Hacker Houses

By Jemima McEvoy · Sep 6, 2025 7:00am PDT

Which hacker house came first? No one’s exactly sure. But what’s certainly clear is that such hostelries have become enduring Silicon Valley staples even as many other rhythms of startup life have significantly shifted. A whole new crop has bubbled up lately as AI fever has taken hold, presenting investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners’... Which hacker house came first? No one’s exactly sure. But what’s certainly clear is that such...

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The Best At-Home Longevity Tests

By Todd Plummer · Aug 9, 2025 6:00am PDT · 2 comments

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The Best At-Home Longevity Tests

By Todd Plummer · Aug 9, 2025 6:00am PDT · 2 comments

Green juices and meditation apps are so 2015. In the quest to live better and healthier, anyone interested in wellness is likely into data-heavy optimization for greater insight on their body’s longevity. And such data is now increasingly easy to accumulate at home with just a few drops of blood or saliva in tests that purport to reveal how fast... Green juices and meditation apps are so 2015. In the quest to live better and healthier, anyone...

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The Best New Startup Accelerators

By Alex Perry · Jul 26, 2025 6:00am PDT · 3 comments

Need a mentor to jolt your thinking—or need to lock yourself away from the world for 20 days? A whole new generation of startup accelerators has proliferated in recent years, each one promising to turbocharge a founder’s ambitions. Many of the best are from the most prominent names in Silicon Valley, including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen... Need a mentor to jolt your thinking—or need to lock yourself away from the world for 20...

From left, Sundar Pichai, Michael Bloomberg, Sam Altman, Ingrid von Ahn, Jason Ballard, Daniel Ek; Images via Getty.

Altman’s Sunglasses, Bezos’ Power Polo: A Tech Mogul’s Guide to Summer Fashion

By Freya Drohan · Jul 19, 2025 6:00am PDT

What do you get when you mix plenty of the world’s most powerful capitalists with a sleepaway camp setup in Idaho? Well, for years, the Sun Valley Conference, hosted by Allen & Co., the ultrasecretive investment bank, was a place to hobnob and perhaps strike a deal. It’s something else now: an honest-to-goodness fashion event, with more and... What do you get when you mix plenty of the world’s most powerful capitalists with a sleepaway...

The Most Rigorous Summer Programs for Silicon Valley’s Next Generation

The Most Rigorous Summer Programs for Silicon Valley’s Next Generation

By Todd Plummer · Jun 28, 2025 6:03am PDT

Summer is here, and so is the crushing pressure of what camps or programs to sign your kid up for in order to impress on college applications. Looking to help your little one become the next Bezos? There’s a camp for that. As it turns out: Play your cards right, and this time of year can be just as fruitful a period for college applications... Summer is here, and so is the crushing pressure of what camps or programs to sign your kid up for...

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Silicon Valley’s Favorite Alternative Energy Drinks

By Ann Gehan · Jun 14, 2025 6:00am PDT · 10 comments

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Silicon Valley’s Favorite Alternative Energy Drinks

By Ann Gehan · Jun 14, 2025 6:00am PDT · 10 comments

In Silicon Valley, cutting back on booze has been in vogue for a while. Now the tech elite is going cold turkey on something else: traditional energy drinks like Red Bull and 5-Hour Energy. That’s led to a fresh wave of beverage startups selling elixirs that purport to give an animating jolt to the system but with starkly different ingredients... In Silicon Valley, cutting back on booze has been in vogue for a while. Now the tech elite is...

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The Fanciest Fitness Memberships That Techies Love

By Alex Perry · May 31, 2025 6:00am PDT · 1 comment

What do thousands of dollars at a fitness center get a person? Amenities like AI-powered weightlifting machines, in-house physicians, meditative sound baths and color-coded, know-it-all orbs. Earning a clean bill of health has never inspired such extravagance. Here are five of the most luxe fitness memberships popular among the technorati and... What do thousands of dollars at a fitness center get a person? Amenities like AI-powered...

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The Exotic Fitness Goals of the Tech Elite

By Nick Wingfield · May 17, 2025 6:00am PDT · 9 comments

When normies want to set lofty fitness goals for themselves, they train for half- or full-marathons. If they’re feeling ambitious, perhaps they shoot for a triathlon or a Tough Mudder. For the type A personalities of tech, though, those events are sometimes warmups, literally, for even more extravagant athletic feats. Last Friday night, for... When normies want to set lofty fitness goals for themselves, they train for half- or...

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The Garden Designers Who Make Silicon Valley Beautiful

By Todd Plummer · May 10, 2025 6:00am PDT

Land is scarce in the Bay Area, which makes a well-designed outdoor space at a Marin cottage or Atherton manse a tremendous status symbol. The perfect allée of heritage olive trees or the right mise-en-scène of native grasses does more than elevate a property’s curb appeal—it telegraphs panache, access and a deep... Land is scarce in the Bay Area, which makes a well-designed outdoor space at a Marin cottage or...

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The Startups Hoping for a ‘MAHA’ Boom

By Ann Gehan · May 3, 2025 6:30am PDT · 3 comments

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The Startups Hoping for a ‘MAHA’ Boom

By Ann Gehan · May 3, 2025 6:30am PDT · 3 comments

A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, and Marty Makary, the new Food and Drug Administration commissioner, announced plans to ban eight commonly used petroleum-based dyes from food products in the U.S. Kennedy envisions far more changes ahead in his crusade to force American food companies to... A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, and Marty...

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Tech’s Favorite Microconferences and Private Summits

By Abram Brown and Sri Muppidi · Apr 26, 2025 6:00am PDT · 10 comments

Nearly anyone who’s anyone agrees: Bigger isn’t better—when it comes to conferences and networking. Indeed, the tech, media and finance elite have increasingly come to prefer an intimate gathering over attending anything giant and sponsored to death. Web Summit, Collision, South by Southwest and pretty much any event thrown by a media... Nearly anyone who’s anyone agrees: Bigger isn’t better—when it comes to conferences and...

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Tech’s Wildest Robot Dreams

By Rocket Drew · Apr 19, 2025 6:00am PDT · 5 comments

The robots are coming! Or so it appears. After decades of speculation about the arrival of robots that get closer to the ones envisioned in science fiction, venture funding to robotics companies has shot up in recent years—hitting $7.2 billion in funding last year, a 30% increase from 2020. Robotics mania is closely linked to the dawn of... The robots are coming! Or so it appears. After decades of speculation about the arrival of robots...

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Silicon Valley’s Favorite Podcasting Gear

By Paris Martineau · Apr 12, 2025 6:00am PDT · 5 comments

When Ed Zitron launched his podcast “Better Offline” in 2024, a gift from the show’s publisher soon arrived at his Las Vegas home: an imposing seven-foot-tall black felt-clad box known as a VocalBooth. “It’s like a foam prison with lights inside it,” said Zitron. “It’s wonderful.” Nowadays, he steps inside the chamber usually once a week to “get... When Ed Zitron launched his podcast “Better Offline” in 2024, a gift from the show’s publisher...

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The Lobbyists Silicon Valley Loves to Hire

By Julia Black · Mar 29, 2025 6:00am PDT

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The Lobbyists Silicon Valley Loves to Hire

By Julia Black · Mar 29, 2025 6:00am PDT

In the second Donald Trump era, the separation between tech and politics appears vanishingly small. “Eight years ago, you’d never see a Tim Cook or Elon Musk in Mar-a-Lago. Now, you see them all the time,” said Brian Ballard, founder of Ballard Partners and one of the top lobbyists recommended to us by industry insiders. Federal lobbying... In the second Donald Trump era, the separation between tech and politics appears vanishingly...

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The Art Advisers Who Help Tech Moguls Buy Masterpieces

By Todd Plummer · Mar 22, 2025 6:00am PDT · 1 comment

Well-chosen art is the ultimate flex. The right Twombly or Basquiat on a wall telegraphs more than just taste: It implies access, wealth and an understanding of very expensive assets and how they appreciate over time. In other words, it’s exactly the type of thing to hang in a bedroom or the front hall of an Atherton manse. But should you go... Well-chosen art is the ultimate flex. The right Twombly or Basquiat on a wall telegraphs more...

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The Most Important Think Tanks for Tech to Know

By Julia Black · Mar 8, 2025 6:00am PST

In the new Trump era, Washington and Silicon Valley are increasingly merged together, with scores of the top tech talent decamping for the capital. And in this upended landscape, a new wave of think tanks has emerged as a critical player. Many of them have direct ties to tech through funding and board members, and all are assembling research and... In the new Trump era, Washington and Silicon Valley are increasingly merged together, with scores...

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The Very Best Sleep and Health Tech for Kids

By Paris Martineau · Mar 1, 2025 6:00am PST · 1 comment

The last decade brought the beginning of the biohacking era, prompting American adults to fill their homes with trackers and smart devices to better study and fine tune their health. It was perhaps inevitable that the same interest would lead to a mound of similar technology aimed at a different target market: kids. In a recently published... The last decade brought the beginning of the biohacking era, prompting American adults to fill...

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The New Snow Toys That Tech Moguls Love

By Annie Goldsmith · Feb 22, 2025 5:00am PST · 1 comment

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The New Snow Toys That Tech Moguls Love

By Annie Goldsmith · Feb 22, 2025 5:00am PST · 1 comment

In between the Crypto Finance Conference and the World Economic Forum last month, a group of investors and founders enjoyed a busy few days in St. Moritz. They networked, and they enjoyed a fireside chat with venture capitalists Bill Tai and Daniel Gutenberg. For play, rather than ski, snowboard or shvitz in a sauna, they snow kited. Snow kiting... In between the Crypto Finance Conference and the World Economic Forum last month, a group of...