Ev Williams co-created Twitter way back in 2006—years before you were using it. He's kept a firm grasp on the company since then, and according to Bloomberg News sources, still holds 15% of Twitter. That means the biggest payout on IPO day.

Eric Schulte, who is making his wonderful girlfriend make him 300 sandwiches in exchange for matrimony, is an iOS engineer in addition to a domestic tyrant. Make sure you check out his apps, and digest (like a sandwich), the irony of Schulte working at a startup for "empowering women."

When you're one of the richest men in the world and supreme software asshole non plus ultra, flaking out on a 60,000 person conference to watch your yacht team instead is totally cool.

There are no shortage signs that the tech industry is, once again, bubbling over with absurdity. "Part-time" Y Combinator partner Sam Altman, whose app Loopt got acqui-hired for $43 million and then shut down, thinks he's found another: "hot girls" on the prowl for engineers.

When beloved dot com disaster Kozmo.com first teased a relaunch yesterday, we crossed our fingers that cofounders Joseph Park (now the CEO of Bluefly) and Yong Kang (who ended up at Lehman Brothers after Kozmo) were dusting off their grand piano to yell “IPO! IPO!” again. Sadly, no. But the domain’s new owners also hail from that era, albeit post-crash.

This is either a sickening hoax or a true sign of end times: Kozmo, up there with Pets.com as bobble-headed mascot of the Dot Com Implosion, is apparently returning from hell. Is this really happening?

Haven't you heard? San Francisco is literally hell, a place where crusted-over old guard socialites mix—cautiously—with tech arrivistes. Vanity Fair has a foie gras slab of an article on the uneasy unity of sclerotic blue bloods and geeks. We've found the best (worst) chunks for you. Come on, look at that guy!

If you've been wondering how Brit Morin, the $6 million lanyard empress (and former Google employee!), finds DIY ideas to plagiarize, here's a rambling post about how much she loves Bing. Brought to you, of course by Bing.

When you name your investment vehicle #DominateFund (with an actual hashtag!), you're inviting the wrath of the gods, and an ironic end. Sure enough the pet project of Mashable's former editor at large Ben Parr is striking out.

In this month's issue of Fortune, we "meet the most important young iconoclasts, risk-takers, and rule breakers in business"—40 of them, to be exact. At the top of the 40 Under 40 prestige pile is Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who, despite lavish press, has accomplished about as much for Yahoo! as you have.

In a feature story from the October issue of San Francisco magazine, Farhad Manjoo—the Wall Street Journal’s new tech columnist—offers a forcefully optimistic vision of how the tech industry’s growth “can benefit us all.”

The Facebook Alumni Association's top (or at least certainly most attractive) power couple now has a YouTube video to lean on, showing, in vibrant detail, how the couple will buy its way into the political favor of the Hudson Valley. Watch as local business owners thank Eldridge for giving them money—this is very Transparency 4.0.

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is trying to sell corporate advertisers and Wall Street investors on the idea of AOL as a home for original online programming "featuring personalities such as Gwynneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Hank Azaria and Nicole Richie." Happy Advertising Week, everyone.

You might not use Zoosk, an SF-based internet dating service with tens of millions of dollars VC backing. But you've almost certainly been annoyed by one of its primetime ads—you know, the one where a woman takes dating advice from a heart-shaped pillow. It turns out one its top execs doesn't use it, either.

Larry Ellison is continuing his push to be the supervillain San Francisco deserves. He already has supervillain money, a supervillain island, and now, after cheating in his own yacht race, his minions are running wild across the city defrauding exotic dancers.

On Friday, the Seasteading Institute—a non-profit group cofounded by Peter Thiel and Patri Friedman (grandson to Ronald Reagan advisor Milton Friedman)—successfully closed its Indiegogo campaign to design “the world’s first floating city” for “pioneers who wish to demonstrate new ways of living together.”

The company that used to make standard issue hardware for suits, geeks, and spoiled college kids is, as long expected, sliding into oblivion: BlackBerry will lay off 4,500 employees after a quarterly loss of almost $1 billion. No one wants the phones.

Google's playboy executives didn't just land their planes on NASA property and start chugging Pentagon fuel without permission—first, they had to cozy up with the government.

Bitcoin tends to bring out a sense of blind optimism in true believers. But of all the delirious visions about the "monetary miracles" that Bitcoin can bring to our wretched, fiat currency-based world, Wired calling "Bitcoin: The Great Equalizer" for the homeless has to be the most delusional.