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A Salute to AOL's Tim Armstrong, a Real Shitty Boss
In May 2011, Tim Armstrong spent a day at work barefoot to raise awareness about barefoot children, instead of just donating money to barefoot children to buy them shoes. This is the kind of boss Tim...
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'Everything Really Hit Rock Bottom': How Nasty Gal's Culture Went Nasty
“Be a nice person at work,” Sophia Amoruso writes in her 2014 book #GIRLBOSS, a combination memoir and self-help book for hungry millennial feminists looking to get ahead in life and business. “If you...
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Jay Z's Troubled Music Service Tidal Loses Another CEO
The latest boss of Jay Z’s floundering music streaming service Tidal has already washed out. Read more...
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Inspiring: A Full 0.56% of Facebook's 2013 Hires Were Black
Love Facebook or hate Facebook, you’ve got to respect the company’s commitment to inspiring everyone else in America to do worse. Read more...
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31 Flavors of Bullshit: Your Horror Stories of Working At a Startup
We asked for your nightmare tales of startup employment. Did you ever deliver—sending narratives of woe, scams, drugs, psychotic managers, drinking at your desk and more hookers than a venture...
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Reddit In Chaos After Allegedly Firing AMA Coordinator Victoria Taylor
If you tried to visit r/IAmA (one of Reddit’s biggest subs) recently, you were probably greeted by the image above. And if you’ve been absolutely anywhere else on the site at all in the past few hours,...
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Fired Reddit Administrator Victoria Taylor Finally Breaks Her Silence
After Reddit effectively consumed itself this weekend over the firing of beloved AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor, redditors have been clawing at themselves for a chance to hear Taylor’s side of things....
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Misogynist Tantrum Officially Drives Ellen Pao from Reddit
After spending the last few months turning Reddit into a virtual guillotine for its widely despised CEO Ellen Pao, it looks like redditors are finally getting their wish. Ellen Pao is officially...
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Did Reddit's Former CEO Just Reveal a "Long Con" to Sabotage the Site?
After Reddit’s surrender to white supremacy this week, users and observers alike have been trying to figure out how exactly we got to this nadir. How could something so popular get so much wrong, over...
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Was Ellen Pao Set Up? Former Reddit CEO Unleashes on Founders
The story so far: Reddit already despised recently ousted CEO Ellen Pao, and the firing of community liaison Victoria Taylor was the final screwup that did her in. But what if the whole time, she was...
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No One Wants to Admit It, but Reddit Can't Be Saved
It’s looking more and more like Ellen Pao was, in some sense, set up to fail by her male board of directors. Her predecessor Yishan Wong says it. A top Reddit engineer said it right after quitting . It...
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Here's What a Party for Elite White iPhone Daters Looks Like
Have you heard of “The League”? It’s like Tinder, but for white people people who fancy themselves “elite” and aspire to white collar crime. Business Insider, a website run by an actual white collar...
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Here Are the Internal Documents that Prove Uber Is a Money Loser
Uber, Silicon Valley’s prized amoral unicorn, is presumed to be a financial titan and a sure-thing IPO in the near future. Which may be true. But one thing that’s frequently missing from the...
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Snapchat Lost a Ton of Money Last Year
In 2013, teenage attention-pit Snapchat turned down a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook, which is only not an insane and arrogant decision if you’re going to reap so much profit that you’re...
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Burning Man Riddled with Brutal Pest Infestation
Burning Man, favorite summertime gathering place for Silicon Valley’s VC-funded shirtless mollybros , is combating a large-scale pest infestation at Blackrock City, Nevada. Crawling over every surface...
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Silicon Valley Trend Watch: Growing a Beard to Mask Pure Evil
In a past age, the American robber baron class would combat bad publicity by building a library or calling in the Pinkertons. Today, Silicon Valley’s captains of industry convince people they’re not a...
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Silicon Valley Banded Together To Protect Abusive CEO Before Company's IPO
In April of 2014, Gurbaksh Chahal was fired as the CEO of the tech company RadiumOne, amid fallout from a domestic violence case. Chahal had managed to escape felony charges despite being caught on...
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Why Apple Decided to Block Ads on the Same Day It Started Pushing a News App
Well that’s quite a coincidence. The very same day Apple turned its News app into a mandatory blob on your home screen, it also rolled out ad blocking capabilities in iOS 9. Read more...
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A Strike May Park San Francisco's Tech Buses
San Francisco’s tech workers may be looking for a new ride to work if their shuttle bus drivers go on strike over contract negotiations. At a meeting yesterday in San Leandro, leaders of the Teamsters...
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White People Control All the Power in Silicon Valley
A new report finds that Silicon Valley’s power structure, the conduits that determine which technologies will shape the fabric of society, is comprised of a representative mix of the people who use...
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Twitter CEO Offers Employees a Bold Peek Into Their Jobless Futures
Twitter plans to lay off eight percent of its workforce, the bearded Machiavellian at its helm announced in a memo to the company today. Those 336 workers who will be going home without their jobs can...
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The Extremely Shitty Way One Man Learned He'd Been Fired From Twitter
This morning, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced he’s laying off 336 employees, but would do so “with the utmost respect for each and every person.” Also this morning, Twitter engineer...
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Twitter Is So Hopelessly White Its Only Black Engineering Boss Just Quit in...
Leslie Miley was “the only African-American in [engineering] leadership” at Twitter, a company that employs thousands, and owes much of its success to adoption by non-white users. Then he quit, as he...
View ArticleR.I.P. Valleywag, 2006-2015
Here lies Valleywag, a Silicon Valley gossip and news site launched in 2006 by Gawker Media and decommissioned in 2015. Its editors and writers over the years included Nick Douglas, Nick Denton, Owen...
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