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Annie Goldsmith

Annie Goldsmith

Reporter/Contributor at The Information

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The New Snow Toys That Tech Moguls Love

In between the Crypto Finance Conference and the World Economic Forum last month, a group of investors and founders enjoyed a busy few days in St. Moritz. They networked, and they enjoyed a fireside chat with venture capitalists Bill Tai and Daniel Gutenberg. For play, rather than ski, snowboard ...
10 months ago
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The Personal Trainers Tech Execs Trust

Ozempic be damned. Silicon Valley is holding on tight to its love of the personal trainer. These are people like Matt Dixon, a San Francisco–based trainer and former professional triathlete whose clients include billionaire Max Levchin. After several decades of whipping folks like Levchin into ...
about 1 year ago
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How a YouTuber Got Inside the Heads of Silicon Valley’s Families

Last fall, Satyajeet Salgar, the director of product management and user experience at Google AI, was huddled outside his kids’ Palo Alto, Calif., elementary school with a group of parents who were there for a class performance. The parents began talking about their kids’ favorite shows, and the ...
about 1 year ago
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What Silicon Valley Buys to Spoil Its Pets

Penny Lane, a Boykin spaniel living in the East Bay, is a bolter. It comes naturally to her: The Boykin, which is the state dog of South Carolina, was bred to fetch game during a hunt. “We live in the suburbs, so there’s some retrieving to be done, but not as much as one wishes,” said Penny’s ...
about 1 year ago
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The New Water Toys That Tech Moguls Love

Look past Crissy Field on the Presidio shoreline, and you might spot Ariel Poler, co-founder of Reveri Health, and some of his friends—10 to 20 small sails dotting the San Francisco Bay, riding a cargo ship’s wake. They’re not kitesurfing or windsurfing: They’re wing foiling. It’s a new water ...
over 1 year ago
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The Epic Corporate Marathon of Strava, Cult-Favorite Fitness App

While running a half-marathon in Philadelphia a few years ago, Courtney Kitchen noticed another woman near her running roughly her pace: She seemed like she’d make a great training buddy. But there wasn’t an opportune moment for the pair to exchange phone numbers at the race, so later that day, ...
over 1 year ago
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Our Favorite Interior Designers…for Rescuing a Boring Office

When Molly Martell, vice president of brand at San Francisco venture capital firm Headline, was tasked with revamping the company’s offices in 2021, she sought out a design that “felt like the antidote to Zoom” and could fulfill a mandate for a “cozy” space that wasn’t “cold, gridded boxes,” she ...
over 1 year ago
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How the CEO of Kim Kardashian’s Skims Dodged Retail Armageddon

When Skims co-founders Kim Kardashian and Jens Grede were recently considering where to put their very first physical store, they knew right away that New York and Los Angeles wouldn’t work well. Their retail unicorn had previously held pop-up shops in those cities, and they had attracted ...
over 1 year ago
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The Absolute Best Attorneys for Startups

Find the right lawyer and they can fill many roles: advisor, defender—let’s be real—therapist. In recent decades, the white-shoe law firms that once mostly catered to—and chased—blue-chip industrial companies, conglomerates and banks have set up practices targeting startups, and as Silicon ...
over 1 year ago
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'I Want My Daughters to Be on Tinder': A New CEO Hopes to Make Ever...

Faye Iosotaluno initially envisioned her family’s December trip to New Zealand as a holiday-time sojourn, but a week before they left, she learned they’d have another reason to celebrate. She’d gotten the top job at Tinder, after a lengthy stretch as its chief operating officer. For Iosotaluno, ...
almost 2 years ago
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The Very Best Executive Coaches — The Information - The Information

Here’s one common link between Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt: They’ve all employed an executive coach, seeming to prove the point that everyone could use some advice—even the greats. The best coaches have “gravitas, experience, intellect and people skills,” said Jonathan Rosenberg, a ...
almost 2 years ago
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The Top 5: Last-Gasp Holiday Gifts — The Information - The Information

Face it: You’re long past most “arrive by Christmas” shipping deadlines. To alleviate your procrastinator’s panic, we sourced five gift ideas you can purchase online mere minutes before you’re supposed to bestow them. Sometimes experiences are the greatest (and easiest) gift for the person who ...
almost 2 years ago
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Can Instagram Save the Department Store? — The Information - The In...

Tyler Bell was encouraging all her clients to “tag your bag.” Every time Bell, a Saks Fifth Avenue stylist in Troy, Mich., closed a sale, she asked the buyer to show off their purchase on Instagram and tag her account, @tyler.saks. Bell posts Saks inventory multiple times a day on Instagram ...
almost 2 years ago
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The Top 5: Where to Host Your Silicon Valley Offsite - The Information

Tech companies have long been famous for their offsites. Though these are not always the most prudently planned events—recall WeWork’s lavish English countryside summer camp—Silicon Valley has perfected the art of getting out of the office, bringing the team together and doing a few trust falls. ...
about 2 years ago
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The Dating App Founder Who Wants You to Stop Swiping

Within minutes of meeting Amanda Bradford, founder of dating app The League, I had to bring up the company’s did-they-really-just-say-that subway ads. “Date someone with a 5-year plan that makes you want to ovulate” one reads; “Achieve multiple goalgasms” suggests another. Covering three New ...
about 2 years ago
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Healthcare Without Health Workers: A Unicorn Pivots to an AI Doctor...

If Adrian Aoun has his way, the next time you visit the doctor’s office, you won’t see a single medical professional. In fact, he said, “I don’t even believe a doctor’s office should exist.” Instead, the outspoken founder and CEO of primary care startup Forward wants you to entrust your health ...
about 2 years ago
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Has Continuous Glucose Monitoring Peaked? — The Information - The I...

In November 2020, marketing consultant Sarah Eade Bengard was in St. Barts, mingling at a venture capitalist friend’s beach party, when she noticed something strange. A number of guests had small circular sensors dotting their upper arms. They were continuous glucose monitors, medical devices ...
about 2 years ago
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Spotify's AI Chief Wants to Remix Our Relationship With Discovery -...

When Ziad Sultan began thinking about artificial intelligence, there was no craze afoot. Not even a cultish flurry of excitement. Sultan, who is now Spotify’s vice president of personalization, responsible for a slate of new AI features for the audio streamer, first caught the bug in the early ...
about 2 years ago
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The Unsinkable Melanie Perkins: After 100 Rejections, the Canva CEO...

In little more than a decade, the expectations placed on 36-year-old Melanie Perkins have gone from negligible to near impossible. Perkins, CEO and co-founder of Canva, a rapidly-growinggraphic design platform and one of tech’s most highly valued private companies, was a complete unknown from ...
about 2 years ago
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Runners' Highs: Tech's Serial Marathoners on Their Favorite Long .....

Despite Silicon Valley’s drift toward sports that require an octagon, long-distance runningstill ranks highly. In our recent Brain-Body Investment Survey, running was respondents’ second most time-consuming form of exercise, right after weightlifting. True to form, tech executives are applying ...
about 2 years ago
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A Is for Adaptogens, B Is for Body Sculpting: A Trending-in-Silicon...

Last month, The Information Weekend conducted our first-ever Brain-Body Investment Survey, asking subscribers about their exercise, wellness and beauty practices. The results emphasized Silicon Valley’s willingness to experiment and innovate—not just in their jobs, but on their bodies. Some of ...
about 2 years ago