Exclusive: OpenAI Projected at Least 220 Million People Will Pay for ChatGPT by 2030Save 25% per year for 2 years

The Information
Sign inSubscribe

    Data Tools

    • About Pro
    • The Next GPs 2025
    • The Rising Stars of AI Research
    • Leaders of the AI Shopping Revolution
    • Enterprise Software Startup Takeover List
    • Org Charts
    • Sports Tech Owners Database
    • The Information 50 2025
    • Generative AI Takeover List
    • Generative AI Database
    • AI Chip Database
    • AI Data Center Database
    • Cloud Database
    • Creator Economy Database
    • Tech IPO Tracker
    • Tech Sentiment Tracker
    • Sports Rights Database
    • Tesla Diaspora Database
    • Gigafactory Database
    • Pro Newsletter

    Special Projects

    • The Information 50 Database
    • VC Diversity Index
    • Enterprise Tech Powerlist
  • Org Charts
  • Tech
  • Finance
  • Weekend
  • Events
  • TITV
    • Directory

      Search, find and engage with others who are serious about tech and business.

    • Forum

      Follow and be a part of discussions about tech, finance and media.

    • Brand Partnerships

      Premium advertising opportunities for brands

    • Group Subscriptions

      Team access to our exclusive tech news

    • Newsletters

      Journalists who break and shape the news, in your inbox

    • Video

      Catch up on conversations with global leaders in tech, media and finance

    • Partner Content

      Explore our recent partner collaborations

      XFacebookLinkedInThreadsInstagram
    • Help & Support
    • RSS Feed
    • Careers
  • About Pro
  • The Next GPs 2025
  • The Rising Stars of AI Research
  • Leaders of the AI Shopping Revolution
  • Enterprise Software Startup Takeover List
  • Org Charts
  • Sports Tech Owners Database
  • The Information 50 2025
  • Generative AI Takeover List
  • Generative AI Database
  • AI Chip Database
  • AI Data Center Database
  • Cloud Database
  • Creator Economy Database
  • Tech IPO Tracker
  • Tech Sentiment Tracker
  • Sports Rights Database
  • Tesla Diaspora Database
  • Gigafactory Database
  • Pro Newsletter

SPECIAL PROJECTS

  • The Information 50 Database
  • VC Diversity Index
  • Enterprise Tech Powerlist
Deep Research
TITV
Tech
Finance
Weekend
Events
Newsletters
  • Directory

    Search, find and engage with others who are serious about tech and business.

  • Forum

    Follow and be a part of discussions about tech, finance and media.

  • Brand Partnerships

    Premium advertising opportunities for brands

  • Group Subscriptions

    Team access to our exclusive tech news

  • Newsletters

    Journalists who break and shape the news, in your inbox

  • Video

    Catch up on conversations with global leaders in tech, media and finance

  • Partner Content

    Explore our recent partner collaborations

Subscribe
  • Sign in
  • Search
  • Opinion
  • Venture Capital
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Startups
  • Market Research
    XFacebookLinkedInThreadsInstagram
  • Help & Support
  • RSS Feed
  • Careers

Answer tough business questions, faster than ever. Ask

Photograph by Dave Zahrobsky. Art by Haejin Park.
Photograph by Dave Zahrobsky. Art by Haejin Park.
The Big Read

The Inside Story of a Scorched-Earth Breakup Between Two Founder Friends

Two health-tech co-founders went from biking buddies to the bitterest of enemies. Now competing lawsuits, accusations of racism, and claims of theft, plagiarism, kickbacks and fraud reveal the blurry lines crossed on the way to unicorn status.

By
Janice Min
[email protected]
Social Studies

Redwood Trees and NFTs: Silicon Valley’s Holiday Gifting Arms Race Is Back

Each December, a few lucky individuals come home to a hefty package from Laurene Powell Jobs. The sustainable wooden crate, plopped on doorsteps in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, has...

By
Annie Goldsmith
[email protected]
Art by Haejin Park
Decamped

CEO Phil Libin Moved to Bentonville, Arkansas at Random—Now, He’s Planting Roots

Editor’s Note: In this week’s“Decamped,” catchingup with Phil Libin, CEO of video communication company mmhmm and former CEO of Evernote, about the realities of leaving San Francisco for...

By
Annie Goldsmith
[email protected]
Art Credit: Vinnie Neuberg
Sneak Previews

Coming Soon: Every Tech Scandal Under the Sun

Hollywood’s interest in real-life Silicon Valley stories is a tale of two Aaron Sorkin scripts. The best of times came in 2010 with “The Social Network,” which garnered eight Academy Award...

By
Josh Duboff
[email protected]
Art by Mike Sullivan. Images by Bloomberg, AP, Shutterstock.
Get the Weekend in Your Inbox
Every Friday, hear from our editors about the latest trends, obsessions and intersections capturing Silicon Valley’s attention (and wallets) when the work stops.
Gift Hunting

The Information’s Top Tech-Adjacent Gifts for 2021

In honor of Black Friday, The Information Weekend brings you our most unique, useful and tech-friendly gift ideas to inspire your holiday haul.

By
The Information Staff
[email protected]
Parentverse

Should You Start Concealing Your Children’s Faces on Social Media?

Welcome to the first installment of Parentverse, TI Weekend’s new advice column for tech-savvy parents raising kids in a tech-dependent world. As a mother of two boys, ages 6 and 2, I have sought...

By
Emily Dreyfuss
[email protected]
Art by Haejin Park. Photo by iStock.com/Renphoto. Stickers by Giphy.
Market Research

Livestream Shopping Is a Messy, Maddening Experience (for Now)

Holiday gift buying is hell. It always has been, and likely always will be, an anxiety-fueled decision tree that no machine-learning algorithmcan solve. However, another e-commerce paradigm has...

By
Janet Ozzard
[email protected]
Illustration by Jesus Escudero.
Art by Haejin Park. Photo of Altman by Getty.
Art by Haejin Park. Photo of Altman by Getty.
The Big Read

The Eternal Sunshine of Sam Altman

The most connected millennial in Silicon Valley is staking his fortune—and his reputation—on sci-fi moonshots in artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion and crypto. But can his optimism survive tech’s winter of discontent?

By
Jon Steinberg
[email protected]
Social Studies

Celebrity Kids Thought They Found a Safe Space on TikTok—Then the Knives Came Out

Sam Williams, an education coordinator for London’s Theatre Royal Windsor, joined TikTok as a casual lockdown activity. The 24-year-old posted his first video with his grandmother in late March...

By
Annie Goldsmith
[email protected]
Screenshots via TikTok. Art by Mike Sullivan.
Market Research

To Taste the Bleeding Edge of Coffee Culture, Just Add Water

Before he was TikTok-famous as Your Korean Dad, Nick Cho was specialty-coffee-famous as the co-founder of San Francisco’s Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters. Here, he assesses the new Silicon Valley...

By
Nicholas Cho
[email protected]
Photos by Christa B. Allen
Decamped

Finished With San Francisco, a Founder Falls in Love With San Juan

This is “Decamped,” a new series in whichwe catch up with tech executiveswho’ve left major citiesfor less conventional locales.This week’s founderisGillian Morris, 35, founder of discount travel...

By
Annie Goldsmith
[email protected]
Art Credit: Vinnie Neuberg
<< First < Prev 52 53