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A young man was standing by a folding table with a pen and a stack of paper when Claudia Wilde emerged from the Target store in Fairfield, California, last week.“He says, ‘I have a petition… I need you to sign for better roads,’” she told The Daily Beast. “And I said, ‘That’s the name of the petition?’ He goes, ‘Yea...

For 19 months, the sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky embedded himself in an early-stage tech startup to study its organization and culture. The company went on to become one of Silicon Valley’s “unicorns,” valued at over US $1 billion. This article is adapted from an excerpt of the author’s new book, Behind the Star...

So far this year, Google, Amazon and Discord are among technology companies to announce layoffs.Tech companies including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce laid off 6% to 13% of their workforce in 2023, leading more technology workers to trade the prospect of high-growth equity and household-name employment...