Since its founding in 2014, with backing from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Andreessen Horowitz, and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the San Francisco startup has opened eight of its new-age AltSchools in the Bay Area and New York City. It sees these as mini educational labs where it’s working to create a new kind of personalized … Continued
ASK NOT WHAT the government can do for Silicon Valley; ask what Silicon Valley can do for the government. That’s President Obama’s tack, anyway. He presented WIRED with six challenges he feels the tech industry needs to address—just a few earthshaking problems the country could use some help with, that’s all. We reached out to … Continued
Last year, Google’s senior vice president of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, peeled back the curtain on Google’s management style and culture with the publication of his book “Work Rules!” The bestseller is chock-full of insights that explain what it’s really like to be hired at what’s consistently been ranked one of the best companies to … Continued
