Valleywag
- R.I.P. Valleywag, 2006-2015
Thursday - 12/31/2015 - 12:55 PMHere 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 Thomas, Ryan Tate, Nitasha Tiku, and Sam Biddle.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Extremely Shitty Way One Man Learned He'd Been Fired From Twitter
Tuesday - 10/13/2015 - 11:20 AMThis 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 Bart Teeuwisse woke up, checked his phone, and learned that he’d been laid off through iOS notificati
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Apple Decided to Block Ads on the Same Day It Started Pushing a News App
Thursday - 09/17/2015 - 02:50 PMWell 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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Burning Man Riddled with Brutal Pest Infestation
Wednesday - 08/19/2015 - 01:39 PMBurning Man, favorite summertime gathering place for Silicon Valley’s VC-funded shirtless mollybros
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, is combating a large-scale pest infestation at its popup city, Blackrock City, Nevada. - Here's What a Party for Elite White iPhone Daters Looks Like
Monday - 08/03/2015 - 01:10 PMHave you heard of “The League”? It’s like Tinder, but for white people people who fancy themselves “elite” and aspire to white collar crime.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Did Reddit's Former CEO Just Reveal a "Long Con" to Sabotage the Site?
Sunday - 07/12/2015 - 01:25 PMAfter Reddit’s surrender to white supremacy this week, users and observers alike have been trying to figure out how exactly we got to this nadir. How could something so popular get so much wrong, over and over again?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reddit In Chaos After Allegedly Firing AMA Coordinator Victoria Taylor
Thursday - 07/02/2015 - 09:55 PMIf you tried to visit r/IAmA (one of Reddit’s biggest subs) recently, you were probably greeted by the image above.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jay Z's Troubled Music Service Tidal Loses Another CEO
Tuesday - 06/23/2015 - 11:25 AMThe latest boss of Jay Z’s floundering music streaming service Tidal has already washed out. Read more...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Salute to AOL's Tim Armstrong, a Real Shitty Boss
Tuesday - 05/12/2015 - 02:05 PMIn May 2011, Tim Armstrong spent a day at work barefoot
to raise awareness about barefoot children, instead of just donating money to barefoot children to buy them shoes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Which Tech Company Retracted An Employee's 'Weaponized' Interview?
Wednesday - 04/15/2015 - 09:30 AMSan Francisco's tech boom has radically altered the city's landscape — Teslas and tech worker shuttles prowl incessantly through the streets and the guy sitting next to you at dinner is invariably pitching his app.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Twitter CEO Offers Employees a Bold Peek Into Their Jobless Futures
Tuesday - 10/13/2015 - 10:41 AMTwitter plans to lay off eight percent of its workforce, the bearded Machiavellian
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at its helm announced in a memo to the company today. - White People Control All the Power in Silicon Valley
Tuesday - 10/06/2015 - 03:00 PMA 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 them.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Silicon Valley Trend Watch: Growing a Beard to Mask Pure Evil
Tuesday - 09/08/2015 - 03:27 PMIn 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 horror-show money vampires simply by growing cool beards.Read more...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Snapchat Lost a Ton of Money Last Year
Wednesday - 08/19/2015 - 10:30 AMIn 2013, teenage attention-pit Snapchat turned down a $3 billion
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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 eventually worth more than that. - Was Ellen Pao Set Up? Former Reddit CEO Unleashes on Founders
Monday - 07/13/2015 - 01:57 PMThe story so far: Reddit already despised recently ousted CEO Ellen Pao, and the firing of community liaison Victoria Taylor was the final screwup that did her in. But what if the whole time, she was taking the heat for someone else’s mistake?http://gawker.com/did-reddits-fo...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Misogynist Tantrum Officially Drives Ellen Pao from Reddit (Updating)
Friday - 07/10/2015 - 05:26 PMAfter spending the last few months turning Reddit into a virtual guillotine
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for its widely-despised CEO Ellen Pao, it looks like redditors are finally getting their wish. - Inspiring: A Full 0.56% of Facebook's 2013 Hires Were Black
Friday - 06/26/2015 - 10:50 AMLove Facebook or hate Facebook, you’ve got to respect the company’s commitment to inspiring everyone else in America to do worse. Read more...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Everything Really Hit Rock Bottom': How Nasty Gal's Culture Went Nasty
Wednesday - 06/17/2015 - 11:30 AM“Be a nice person at work,” Sophia Amoruso writes in her 2014 book #GIRLBOSS, a combination memoir and self-help book for hungry millennial feminists looking to get ahead in life and business.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How Elon Musk Almost Sold Tesla To Google For $11 Billion
Monday - 04/20/2015 - 12:46 PMIn early 2013 Tesla was in dire straits. The automaker was struggling to take orders, produce, and deliver the first batch of Model S sedans, and those that did roll out of the factory were of dubious build quality at best.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Silicon Valley Is Becoming a Documentary About Silicon Valley
Monday - 04/13/2015 - 04:05 PMAccuracy is the best thing about Silicon Valley
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. Anyone who's spent any time in the Bay Area tech scene will wince at how well the show's writers have nailed the culture of nerd despair and hubris.
- Twitter Is So Hopelessly White Its Only Black Engineering Boss Just Quit in Protest
Wednesday - 11/04/2015 - 04:40 PMLeslie 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 explains in a new blog post, because the company is absolutely brain-dead on race.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Strike May Park San Francisco's Tech Buses
Sunday - 10/04/2015 - 02:00 PMSan 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 Local 853 advised members to be prepared for a strike if there’s no progress on the contract proposal that the union approved and sent to Compass Transportation back in August.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Silicon Valley Banded Together To Protect Abusive CEO Before Company's IPO
Thursday - 09/10/2015 - 01:58 PMIn 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 camera striking his girlfriend over 100 times, according to prosecutors.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here Are the Internal Documents that Prove Uber Is a Money Loser
Wednesday - 08/05/2015 - 01:07 PMUber, Silicon Valley’s prized amoral unicorn, is presumed to be a financial titan and a sure-thing IPO in the near future.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No One Wants to Admit It, but Reddit Can't Be Saved
Tuesday - 07/14/2015 - 04:18 PMIt’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
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. - Fired Reddit Administrator Victoria Taylor Finally Breaks Her Silence
Wednesday - 07/08/2015 - 07:14 PMAfter Reddit effectively consumed itself this weekend
over the firing of beloved AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor, redditors have been clawing at themselves for a chance to hear Taylor’s side of things.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 31 Flavors of Bullshit: Your Horror Stories of Working At a Startup
Wednesday - 07/01/2015 - 10:00 AMWe asked for your nightmare tales of startup employment. Did you ever deliver—sending narratives of woe, scams, drugs, psychotic managers, drinking at your desk and more hookers than a venture capitalist could handle.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- All the Trash Verizon Now Owns
Tuesday - 05/12/2015 - 03:23 PMAOL Desktop for PC 9.7 Read more...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Resort Where David Goldberg Died Deletes Treadmill Photo From Its Site
Wednesday - 05/06/2015 - 04:20 PMAfter days of silence and misreporting
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, the Mexican resort where Sheryl Sandberg’s late husband allegedly died
in a treadmill exercise - Homeless Silicon Valley Couple Triumphs Against All Odds
Thursday - 04/09/2015 - 10:45 AMPrerna Gupta and her husband Parag Chordia own a company that makes iPhone apps. Their most famous app is Songify, which made them very rich—so rich that they faced every rich person's nightmare: they began to struggle with the meaning of possessions and money.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share