Challenging the VC Bros Status Quo
The mostly white, mostly male dominated VC community had its chance to widen the tent but has been too slow on the draw. Lemmings are not good for innovation.
Silicon Valley
What to Read: Silicon Heartland–Transforming the Midwest from Rust Belt to Tech Belt
In an excerpt from her new book, Silicon Heartland, Rebecca A. Fannin discusses how her experience as an onsite reporter of emerging economies throughout Asia allowed her to recognize a developing region, this time in...
Happy 75th Anniversary, Transistor. You’ve Changed Everything – Including How We Innovate.
December 16 is the 75th anniversary of the transistor, and we are all implicitly celebrating it by being unable to live without it.
Venture Capital Is Broken—But Who Can Really Fix It?
VC helped create just about every post-’70s tech company you can think of, but now it must evolve—or die. Here's why.
Facebook “Has Known This Forever”
Facebook is soft-pedaling its own internal research about the effects of Instagram, and underestimating the severity of eating disorders, an expert says.
What Hamilton Tells Us About Silicon Valley
The parallels to today’s Silicon Valley should not be lost. Hamilton’s crew were eking out a framework for democracy. Theirs was a very serious sort of start-up.
Why Silicon Valley Demands Diplomats
In 2017 Denmark elevated technology and digitalization to a foreign policy priority, and appointed Casper Klynge ambassador to Silicon Valley. He was just profiled in the New York Times, so we are republishing this essay...
Chinese Entrepreneurs Discard Silicon Valley’s Model
A unique combination of an enormous market, tenacious entrepreneurs and a gladiatorial environment has seen China catch up with the U.S. at an incredibly rapid and unexpected pace, says Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Beijing based...
Understand Tech, Understand the World: Techonomy 2018
Understanding how tech alters the world is like trying to understand the world itself. Tech's impacts on society are immense and interrelated. People come to Techonomy to explore all that for themselves and their organizations.
