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Justin Kan ’05, Emmett Shear ’05: billion dollar men

Would you pay to watch video of other people playing video games? If you said “yes,” you undoubtedly knew about Twitch before this week.... Read on

Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | August 27 2014 05:17pm
Ben Silbermann ’03: A tech CEO moves out of Silicon Valley.

When a company with some 30 employees moves its office, the decision rarely makes even local headlines. When the company is Pinterest, the tech... Read on

the staff | July 17 2012 11:28am
Kaitlyn Trigger ’06: A love story written in code.

Behind every billion-dollar man, they say, stands an awesome woman. In this case, she is also Awesome—a trustee of the San Francisco... Read on

the staff | April 19 2012 12:46pm
Zachary Katz ’99, ’05JD: Broadband in every pot.

If your image of the Federal Communications Commission still revolves around handing out broadcast licenses and regulating George Carlin’s... Read on

the staff | January 12 2012 12:10pm
10/21/11: Omar Christidis ’04, ’07MBA

Last December—just ahead of the uprisings roiling the Arab world—Omar Christidis ’04, ’07MBA, traveled the Middle... Read on

the staff | January 3 2012 01:52pm
Anne Wojcicki ’96

When Anne Wojcicki ’96 and her husband, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, have their first child in November, they’ll have more than a... Read on

the staff | October 31 2008 10:18am
W. Bing Gordon ’72

W. Bing Gordon ’72 is a 58-year-old executive who sees an empty nest on his horizon and, as he told the San Jose Mercury News, wants to... Read on

the staff | May 2 2008 02:32pm
Erna Schneider Hoover ’52PhD

For designing the first computerized switching system for telephone calls, Bell Labs researcher Erna Schneider Hoover ’52PhD was awarded... Read on

the staff | February 15 2008 01:19pm
Glenn Reynolds ’85JD

Yalies? Liberal? So they say. But consider Glenn Reynolds ’85JD whose blog Instapundit is one of the most influential on the Web.... Read on

the staff | February 1 2008 01:07pm

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