Hot on the heels of Lyft’s public market debut, Uber filed its S-1 today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, setting the stage for its initial public offering next month. It’s chock full of interesting tidbits (like Uber’s ticker symbol, “UBER”)…
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Bad Robot’s Santa Monica, California headquarters–intentionally mislabeled “The National Typewriter Company” in raised Futura lettering–features a small gold placard above the buzzer asking a question that unsuspecting visitors will soon find relevant: Are yo…
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J.J. Abrams, one of Hollywood’s most successful and prolific TV creators and filmmakers (Lost, Alias, Cloverfield, Star Trek), rarely participates in profiles or interviews that go beyond promoting a specific project. But just days after he returned from a mo…
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The malfunction happened just a few miles from the surface. The spacecraft had spent days orbiting the moon and, before that, about a month and a half traveling the four million miles from Earth. Back home, its creators sat tense in a control room as they wai…
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Corporate “impact reports” are typically exercises in meaningless image-burnishing, glossing over the toughest realities and highlighting the best-sounding (and often least-impactful) actions taken. In the case of Tesla, such an exercise should be ridiculousl…
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