Next Tuesday, Californians will vote on Proposition 40, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the state’s billionaires. It would apply only to people whose primary residence was in California as of Jan. 1, 2026, so several of the state’s wealthiest residents have packed up and shipped out to avoid the extra tax. One
Anthropic is ready for Wall Street. The company behind Claude filed its public S-1 paperwork on Monday, revealing its plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ANT and setting the stage for an enormous IPO. Anthropic’s filing pulls back the curtain on the financials that have made it one of the fastest-growing
Some were born to lead. But many are just “accidental managers.” Take Dustin Moskovitz. The millennial cofounded Facebook with his Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, and went on to become the company’s first CTO before leaving to found Asana, a project management platform, in 2008. Again, Moskovitz led the startup (this time as CEO), taking the
At 9 p.m. on a recent Friday night, Max Harding had just returned from a barefoot run in the woods. The eccentric 20-year-old Californian was back in a large barn in rural Pennsylvania — still barefoot — alternatively working on his startup and asking me about the point of life. Though not an especially adept
As soon as they had sex on July 27, Bryan Johnson tells me, he knew his cofounder and girlfriend, Kate Tolo, was hours away from getting her period. Normally, the couple has sex two to three times a week, most often between 3 and 5 p.m. “Too close to Bryan’s bedtime” — 8:30 p.m. —
Everything’s fine! Take it from the cofounder of Palantir. In an X post on Saturday, Joe Lonsdale brushed aside the salient worry that advanced AI systems could cause mass human extinction, a concern that numerous engineers and leaders from frontier AI labs have raised in recent days and weeks. “The world is going to be alright,
