It's not easy to innovate—no one ever said it'd be easy. You've got things like "reality" and "demand" stomping on your dreams for the next delivery laundry app. What makes it even worse is the hellish condition of cesspool San Francisco, as one startup founder laments. Let's offend everyone!

Former BusinessWeek reporter, TechCrunch columnist, and current tech PR star Sarah Lacy has made a name for herself: her website, PandoDaily, is one of the industry's most loyal allies. But if you do something she doesn't like, she and her goons will try to destroy you. Look at their rabid emails and see.

King Tim the Terrible just shelled out some major cash to give AOL a makeover as a media monster, not your uncle's ancient homepage—but according to a new report by AdWeek, it might have purchased itself some big problems.

The great infantilization of Silicon Valley's employed continues.

We've found a copy of an unpaid job listing Lean In Foundation's editor-at-large tried to delete. If Facebook's celeb COO Sheryl Sandberg just made $91 million last week (and God only knows how much from her book), why can't she pay her interns a cent?

Palantir, the CIA-backed, Hobbit-inspired, probably-spying-on-you startup worth billions, has one hell of a leader. Forbes profiles Alex Karp in its latest issue, and he is a drug-smoking, sex-loving, curly-haired star. Is this Silicon Valley's zaniest exec?

Something beautiful happened yesterday: an otherwise fractious internet was drawn together in harmony, united in mutual contempt for a new website called Bustle. Bustle is the spawn of asinine media mastermind Bryan Goldberg—creator of the dudebro sports-spam boiler room Bleacher Report—who reached new depths explaining his amazing, unprecedented brainstorm: a website... for girls!

Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to work for a tech company? A spooky tech company? If so, you will probably like this forthcoming novel.

It turns out, even Tim Armstrong finds Tim Armstrong obnoxious—the troubled chief of AOL just sent an apology email to his company for firing a subordinate on a conference call.

More bleak leaks out of AOL's local news network, Patch: Jim Romenesko got his hands on two internal emails asking staffers to make more sales. Asking is one term, pleading, in a panic, is another. You never want your boss to say "We had $36K day yesterday, when we need to be having $100K+ days."

It'll be quite some time before the social network's Manhattan vanguard moves to its sprawling, 100,000 square foot Frank Gehry-designed space. But even a peek at this model shows that it's going to be a desk palace fit for tech royalty.

TechCrunch has great news for anyone hoping to piggyback on an old company's success: the "Pandora for e-commerce" just raised $750,000 in funding (atop a million a year ago). StyleSeek says it can perfectly grok your taste in clothes in 30 seconds, and then sell you more—but it can't, and everyone needs to give up.

From the ongoing legal saga of fraternal business treachery, we receive this relic: a draft of Snapchat's (née Picaboo) first ever press release in July, 2011. Maybe this is how Stanford startup dudes think girls talk—"Let him choose that hot new outfit!"

Elon Musk, who co-founded PayPal and is now in the electric car game, doesn't have regular hobbies. No, his latest pet project is called the Hyperloop, and he says it's the future of transit. Unfortunately, it's also just a series of pictures.

Any company can offer a few bean bag chairs plopped around an Xbox—that's just not good enough anymore. The next big thing in closing the great Perk Gap isn't more snacks, but turning your office into a vintage arcade.

What'd you do on Friday? Best-selling motivational author Sheryl Sandberg netted $91 million dollars in Facebook stock sales, a fortissimo note after months of steady selling.

With a thousand nervous staffers and executives on the line, AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong announced a bloody swath of new layoffs via conference call. He also, a sort of Shakespearean firing-within-a-firing, axed a creative director on the spot for allegedly taking a picture. Here's the audio.

"I was minding my own business last night when I got the note below from a respected investor," disgraced Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget recently wrote on his blog. That investor is almost certainly Silicon Valley titan Marc Andreessen, shitting on the Washington Post's erstwhile publisher—and his fellow Facebook board member.

Things are a little tense over at AOL, with hundreds of Patch staffers facing layoffs as the hyperlocal news service continues to slide. And it's not just them: during a meeting about the layoffs, AOL's chief allegedly canned an exec just for trying to capture his likeness.