Are Startups Ruining Our Kids? Chat with Author Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Sam Biddle · 04/25/14 12:06PM

It's a given that most startups will fail, leaving the people behind them with nothing beyond, perhaps, some debt and wasted time. Author Gideon recently Lewis-Kraus followed two young techies with startup dreams, struggling to not implode, and is here to talk today.

Nitasha Tiku · 04/23/14 03:32PM

Former CEO Mark Pincus just stepped down from all his operational duties at Zynga, which went public at $10/share and is now trading at $4.60. "Ultimately a ship is better with one captain," he said. Especially if that captain chucked so many sailors overboard.

Emperor of the Glassholes Finally Feels Shame

Sam Biddle · 04/22/14 04:57PM

Google Glass is a $1,500 toy predicated on the absence of self-awareness—and so it's no surprise its early power users have been men like Robert Scoble, a roof-raising mascot of privacy antagonism. But now, even the man who once boasted of wearing his face computer in the shower is jumping ship.

Sam Biddle · 04/22/14 09:59AM

HBO's Silicon Valley has been renewed for a second season, Variety reports.