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In 2017, a systems engineer with a sharp tongue and a sharper spreadsheet published the first issue of a newsletter called Last Week in AWS. It was a…

In the mid-2000s, as the technology industry settled into what appeared to be permanent ideological trenches — Microsoft on one side, the open source movement on the other…

In 2006, a Swedish entrepreneur who had already built and sold one of Europe’s largest affiliate marketing networks sat down with a 23-year-old named Daniel Ek in a…

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on a stage in San Francisco and introduced the iPhone to the world. Behind him, carefully choreographed, every transition was seamless,…

In the spring of 2003, the music industry was in freefall. Album sales had cratered by nearly 25 percent since their peak in 1999. Napster had been shut…

On a sweltering July evening in 2016, something unprecedented happened in cities across the world. Millions of people — strangers who would normally pass each other without a…

Before Daniel Ek launched Spotify in 2008, the music industry was in freefall. Piracy platforms like Napster and LimeWire had shattered the old revenue models, and record labels…

In February 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion — at the time, the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company in history. Brian Acton, who had co-founded WhatsApp…

In December 2011, a black car pulled up to a San Francisco curb, summoned not by a phone call to a dispatcher but by a tap on a…