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[...] As tech companies established their dominance over the city, more and more mundane aspects of life came to resemble Web-style terms-of-service agreements—unfair, unenforceable, vaguely threatening, and totally rigged. There were even apps for homeless panhandlers to collect Bitcoin, but more …

The tech boom, I had begun to see, was not a fount of opportunity, but an engine that transformed baby boomers’ pension funds into canapés and booze for millennials through the marketing budgets of venture-backed startups. Which was all well and good, but I couldn’t help feeling that there was some…

I wandered through an expansive unfurnished wing of the office. Who was paying for this? And why? What exactly was a NerdWallet? A woman at the party had tried to explain the company to me, but since she was a newish hire, she didn’t seem quite sure, either.

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[...] Pelosi praised Yelp as “a model of good business” and an exemplar of the “social and economic engines that drive the American dream”—a dream “built on faith in the future, faith in the entrepreneurial spirit, faith in innovation, faith in technology, and really faith in community, because com…

Naïve believers make the loudest heretics. That’s me. As a kid, I taught myself to code on a dusty old Commodore 64. By rights, I should have been a billionaire wunderkind before my sophomore year of college. But I screwed up. Instead of skipping class to build a world-changing website in a dorm ro…