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  • CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki.
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    One of the most powerful leaders in the tech industry on regulation, content moderation, and creators.

  • How to get venture capital for your startup: know somebody
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    Scott Kupor of firm Andreessen Horowitz decodes VC in his book “Secrets of Sand Hill Road.”

  • Filmmaker Hao Wu at Future Tense in Washington, D.C., in 2017.
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    In the United States, would-be internet stars turn to YouTube, Twitch or Instagram. In China, it’s a livestreaming platform called YY, where creators sing or tell jokes to an audience that pays them directly in the form of digital gifts. Top streamers can make $100,000 a month or more, and lots of people now want […]

  • IEX Group President and CEO Bradley Katsuyama, right, and Notre Dame finance professor Robert Battalio prepare to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee about high-speed stock trading in 2014.
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    The former trader started his own stock exchange, IEX, to address his concerns about high-frequency trading.

  • Federal Communication Commission Commissioner Mignon Clyburn addresses protesters outside the Federal Communication Commission building to rally against the end of net neutrality rules December 14, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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    A retiring FCC commissioner on how politics and technology have both gotten a little out of hand.

  • Tim Armstrong speaks at an event on the Times Center Stage in New York City.
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    The CEO of Oath talks about the combination of AOL and Yahoo.

  • Hundreds of demonstrators, many of them Howard University students, march down the middle of U Street Northwest after a grand jury did not indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, for killing Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.
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    How Black Twitter is influencing the American conversation.

  • The founder and CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, speaks onstage at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit back in Oct. 2016 in San Francisco, California.
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    Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya on why he wants to change how tech companies go public.

  • Ellen Pao leaves the San Francisco Superior Court Civic Center Courthouse during a lunch break from her trial on March 25, 2015, in San Francisco. Pao, Reddit's interim CEO, is suing her former employer, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, for $16 million alleging she was sexually harassed.
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    Our conversation with Ellen Pao on the pervasive sexual harassment problem in venture capital.

  • Kim Stanley Robinson.
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    Colonizing Mars won't be a moneymaker, according to sci fi author Kim Stanley Robinson.