Elon Musk caused a stir by announcing the next great milestone in his bid to build a 500-mile underground transit link between major US cities…
UP AND DOWN
All the times Elon Musk has trash-talked Tesla’s stock price as overvalued
Tesla delivered just 76,230 cars last year, remains mired in debt, and profitability is a distant speck on the horizon. Yet Ford, which earned 22-times…
FREE THE PARKING SPACE
If you’re renting a US city apartment without a car, 16% of your rent pays for parking you don’t need
A whole generation of young workers are being priced out of renting (let alone, buying) in major cities. Parking deserves part of the blame, suggests…
GROWING GLOBAL
More Silicon Valley tech workers were born outside the US than in it
The US government has sent a clear message to potential immigrants over the past six months: no jobs here. President Donald Trump’s administration has taken…
BOOK CLUB
Marc Andreessen says he’s reading these eight provocative books to better understand our world
Marc Andreessen’s (now dormant) Twitter feed was like the Venture Capitalist’s Review of Books. He issued a steady stream of dozens of recommendations (more than…
ROUND II
Startups are co-opting Donald Trump’s digital playbook to push progressive politics in 2018
In the months before the 2000 US presidential election elevated George W. Bush to the White House, a batch of political startups emerged to rally…
NET FIGHT
Google and Amazon are fighting to save net-neutrality rules that Trump says are killing business
Republican appointees to the US Federal Communications Commission are gearing up to scrap Obama-era regulations that force internet providers to treat all online content equally.…
MORE ACTION, LESS TALK
Sexism is alive and well in Silicon Valley, but life for female founders is changing
Binary Capital is now the cautionary tale. Within days after the venture capital firm’s co-founder Justin Caldbeck was accused of sexual harassment by a number…
🔌 🚗
Tax incentives might run out on Tesla, but electric cars will be just fine
Tesla likes to argue that its customers don’t need government subsidies to buy electric vehicles. “In fact, the incentives give us a relative disadvantage,” Tesla…
PRICELESS
Tesla is about to deliver the Model 3, its most inexpensive vehicle and most valuable asset
The $35,000 Model 3 due to roll off the assembly line today is the most inexpensive vehicle Tesla has ever made. But nothing has been…
DRILL, BABY, DRILL
Alphabet’s latest spinoff uses the earth’s warmth to heat people’s home instead of burning oil
Alphabet’s X unit calls itself the “Moonshot Factory.” It’s mission is to place risky bets with potentially big pay offs. Yet one of its wagers…
SHOW ME THE MONEY
Alaska shows even people in the most conservative states prefer a basic income to lower taxes
Low taxes are good, but a basic income is better, at least in Alaska. The Economic Security Project (ESP), a group backing efforts to collect…
