After Mark Zuckerberg’s cautious-looking sip of stout on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s “Cheeky Pint” podcast became a social-media talking point, a new debate has emerged: which tech leaders can actually hold their drink? Soon after Zuckerberg’s much-memed appearance, ETN, a tech podcast, built what it called the “Cheeky Pint Benchmark,” publishing a leaderboard of guests’
It was the day after the Fall Equinox, and we were partying on a rooftop, pulling tarot cards about our love lives. The location might surprise you: a venture capital firm’s office overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Wait, what’s astrology got to do with venture capital? We were at a launch party for a social-astrology app
The T.J. Martell Foundation raised more than $3.2 million for cancer research at its annual New York Honors Gala on Sept. 15 — the most the event has raised in more than two decades. Red Light Management founder Coran Capshaw was presented with the Lifetime Music Industry Award by his longtime friend Dave Matthews, and
The entrepreneur behind TikTok and Douyin is now the richest person in Asia—and AI is helping fuel his rise to the top. Zhang Yiming, the founder of TikTok parent company ByteDance, has just overtaken Indian tycoon Gautam Adani as the richest person in Asia, according to Bloomberg, who currently boasts a net worth of $104.8
It looks like Caroline Ellison has emerged from stealth mode. A nonprofit CEO announced Friday that he secretly gave a job to Ellison — who went to prison in connection with fraud by Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange. Austin Chen, the founder of Manifund, a grantmaker tied to the effective altruism movement, wrote on Substack that
Seyfried played Holmes all the way from her time at Stanford in 2003 (where she did the titular dropping out) through to the catastrophic collapse of her company Theranos in 2015, spurred by an exposé published in The Wall Street Journal, in the 2022 Hulu limited series “The Dropout.” Theranos purported to manufacture a device
