Venture capitalists are helping launch a number of direct to consumer startups, or DTCs. But do sofas, toothbrushes, and suitcases need the Warby Parker business model?
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How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
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‘We All Live in the Great Database in the Sky’: On Silicon Valley and UFO Culture
“The idea seems to be that we all live in the great database in the sky, occasionally summoning aliens with our minds.” Emily Harnett explores Silicon Valley’s appropriation of UFO culture.
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‘Stanford Is the Valley’: On Grooming Tech’s Next Generation
Amid controversies and unethical practices, tech giants like Facebook and Google are no longer dream companies to work for.
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Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker. Inside the Wild Race to Overthrow Every Consumer Category
Venture capitalists are funding DTC, or direct to consumer, startups that apply the Warby Parker model to everything from tampons to potted plants. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has become an incubator. Tootbrush subscriptions sound cool, but can DTCs remake certain products that don’t need makeovers?
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Health Care Sponcon: Where Big Pharma Meets Instagram Influencer
Health care and medical sponsored content from influencers is growing on Instagram. But is it ethical?
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‘They’ve Forked Baby Hitler’
High-stakes time travel adventure from sci-fi writer Jo Lindsay Walton.
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Pot Luck
Searching for justice in the newly legal weed economy
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Against Hustle: Jenny Odell Is Taking Her Time at the End of the World
The attention economy is killing us and the planet. Artist and writer Jenny Odell talks about why slowing down could be the only way to survive.
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How Southern Cities Are Joining the Knowledge Economy
Greenville, South Carolina has revitalized its city center by incubating start-ups. Can other Southern cities do the same?
