Turns Out One-Way Trips to Mars Not Exactly Great Business Plan
Remember Mars One, that company we all knew was a scam but still kinda hoped was real because of how much we liked the…
Snap Is Now Slightly Less Fucked
Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat app and a failed line of wearable cameras, is slightly less fucked than it…
E-Scooter Startup Bird: We're Sorry for Sending Wild Legal Threats to Media Over Scooter Hacks
On-demand electric scooter startup Bird has backed down from its legal threats against Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow…
MoviePass Films Somehow Scores Three-Picture Deal With Bruce Willis
MoviePass, the e-ticketing company that has spent most of the last year in a slow-motion catastrophic meltdown, has…
MoviePass: The Dog Ate Whatever We Were Supposed to Be Doing
MoviePass, the ticketing startup that burned through hundreds of millions of dollars trying to undercut the theater…
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Is Allegedly Looking to Start Another Company
Elizabeth Holmes lost everything—and nearly $900 million of other people’s money—when her bunk blood-testing startup…
Director of ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat at Controversial Food Producer Leaves to Start New Company
The director of cellular agriculture at JUST Inc, formerly known as Hampton Creek, has started his own company,…
Shyp Hits the Fan
On-demand package delivery startup Shyp, which offered to take care of the entire packing-and-shipping process for…
Travis Kalanick Is Gonna Be an Investment Fund Guy Now
Uber founder Travis Kalanick, who was forced out of his CEO role last year amid widening scandals about its toxic work…
Theranos Somehow Manages to Snag $100 Million Lifeline
Theranos, the beleaguered health care company that has fallen into serious financial trouble since 2016 over…
Mattress Startup Casper Sued a Mattress Review Site, Then Paid for Its Acquisition
Think about competition in the economy and big names come to mind, like Apple vs. Microsoft, Uber vs. Lyft, Walmart vs.…
Loftium Wants You to Host an Airbnb for 357 Days a Year in Exchange for a Home Down Payment
Ask someone what their dream house is, and you’ll get a lot of different answers. Perhaps a rustic ranch house out on…
Lessons From the Sexting App Whose Partyboy CEO Blew Millions Before Burning Out
There’s no shortage of catastrophic flame-outs in tech. Take, for example, junk science blood-testing startup Theranos,…
The Men Who Run Startups Blame Lack of Diversity on Everyone Else
There is a well-documented problem with diversity in the male-dominated tech world. Who’s to blame? A new survey of…
Beyoncé Startup, Beyoncé Startup, Beyoncé Startup
Hold up, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is now a tech investor! Bey has invested $150,000 into a startup called…
Vegan Mayo Startup Paid Contractors to Buy Its Culinary Abomination
Hampton Creek is a Silicon Valley startup that sells, among other products, an eggless mayonnaise substitute called Just…
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Operating a Lab for Two Years
The hammer has finally dropped on blood-testing startup Theranos and its beleaguered CEO Elizabeth Holmes. US federal…
It's Impossible to Tell a Pied Piper Parody Ad From an Actual Facebook Ad
At the start of last night’s Silicon Valley, Pied Piper is in a pickle. Although the startup’s new file-compression…
Watch the Years-Long Process of Turning a Tree Into a Bowl
The adage goes, “measure twice, cut once.” Frank Howarth’s projects are a little more complicated than the average…
Insane Startup Wants to Create a Man-Made Meteor Shower For the 2020 Olympics
In today’s ‘I can’t believe they’ve been funded’ news, a startup called Star-ALE wants to create a man-made meteor…