Susie Cagle

Native Americans have long struggled to convince Internet service providers to install networks on their land—but homegrown tribal solutions are facing unique challenges too.

• By Susie Cagle

The company kind of has a point—we do need better labor laws. Just not the ones Silicon Valley is promoting.

• By Susie Cagle

The company recently filed a patent on using social network data to influence lending decisions. God help us all.

• By Susie Cagle

An open application to the university’s Impact Challenge.

• By Susie Cagle

Why test cars on fake roads when they'll need to operate on real ones?

• By Susie Cagle

This isn’t a matter of technology—a service economy by another name is still a service economy.

• By Susie Cagle

The way we work is changing, but not quickly enough for the boosters peddling these ideas.

• By Susie Cagle

Our machines are very smart. They’re also very incompetent.

• By Susie Cagle

The company has more practice than you might expect.

• By Susie Cagle

We treat platforms like they are public utilities. They’re not—but maybe they could be.

• By Susie Cagle

The secondary housing market in the Bay Area is blowing up, but collective living isn’t always “sharing.”

• By Susie Cagle

When tech workers are considered the true “creative class,” artists don’t appear to win.

• By Susie Cagle

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has opened a new campaign office in a San Francisco tech incubator. He—and his philosophies on unregulated markets—will fit right in.

• By Susie Cagle

Media depictions of tech are rubbing some viewers the wrong way—but the entertainment industry is not the real problem.

• By Susie Cagle

High-interest loans are predatory whether you get them at a corner store or in an app.

• By Susie Cagle

Platforms that bill themselves as revolutionary are learning what that really means.

• By Susie Cagle

What do we stand to lose when we gain big convenient platforms?

• By Susie Cagle

Venture capital’s money and myths are producing more bloat than good.

• By Susie Cagle

Regardless of the legal outcome, her lawsuit against a venerable venture capital firm stands to change the way Silicon Valley is perceived both inside and out.

• By Susie Cagle

More workers are telecommuting than ever before, but tech is clinging to the campus life that made it so homogenous.

• By Susie Cagle

Real transportation futurism looks more like a fleet of self-driving buses.

• By Susie Cagle

The charm and wile of a celebrity pimp may be no match for the moneyed juggernaut of weed tech.

• By Susie Cagle

This new wave of high-profile donations from tech moguls may be generous, but it is not a win for populism. It's the modern Carnegie.

• By Susie Cagle

The explosion of real estate investment start-ups gives us a peek into the dangers of peer-to-peering everything.

• By Susie Cagle

Don't hate the app, hate the game.

• By Susie Cagle

Night School just wanted to provide a modest, low-cost bus service from San Francisco to the East Bay. Without expensive lobbyists and venture capital, the rule-abiding company folded after hitting bureaucratic roadblocks.

• By Susie Cagle

Only when it doesn't endanger their ability to make a profit.

• By Susie Cagle

Tech billionaire Vinod Khosla claims he just wants to preserve Martins Beach. But he's going about it in exactly the wrong way.

• By Susie Cagle

Does it make democracy more representative or more confusing?

• By Susie Cagle

A transgender activist, an Egyptian blogger, and a porn star explain the crucial identities connected to names they weren't born with.

• By Susie Cagle