Once the Wild, Wild West (or, really, just a fancy ski destination), the state of Wyoming is now a popular relocation destination for tech and venture capital entrepreneurs lured there by wide open...

Should we buy this town?” The tweet, accompanied by a link to a Zillow listing for a $4.7 million abandoned ghost town in Colorado, was almost certainly a joke—but then again, maybe not. The...

In this week’s Decamped, we chat with Wesley Chan, a former general partner (and current board partner)at Felicis Ventures and the founder of Google Analytics and Google Voice. In August 2020, he...

Within the dark caverns and crevices of Twitter, there is a singular sunny corner: the lair of the non-fungible token influencer. Their tweets are littered with optimistic acronyms: LFG for “let’s...

Kira Vaden was compulsively refreshing eBay, watching prices rise and fall on one specific product: “vintage” iPod Shuffles from the late aughts. Vaden, a 23-year-old Starbucks barista from Peoria,...

For 17 emotional weeks, the Elizabeth Holmes trial had all the makings of a primo soap opera: heartache, drama, sex, lies, twists, turns and one helluva femme fatale. We had main characters:...

A new year is a cause for reflection—and for resuming this column, which I intend to write regularly, but not every week. You may recall I took a break to have my third child. All is well—and...

In this week’s “Decamped,” we chat with Madison Campbell, co-founder and CEO of Leda Health, a startup that gives sexual assault survivors free self-administered examination kits. Campbell recently...

As the BART doors slid open, Danielle Baskin thought to herself, “Ohhh, shit.” The train car was packed with art connoisseurs wearing sparkly dresses, blue tuxedos and at least one chicken mask. It...