Stand-alone Subdomains on AWS DNS with Terraform
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Elon Musk Left South Africa at 17 with $2,000 and a Suitcase of Books
I was researching the early chapters of Elon Musk’s life when I realized that most peop...
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Maye Musk: The Mother Who Worked Five Jobs to Raise Three Entrepreneurs
I was researching the Musk family when I kept running into the same pattern: every arti...
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The Road Trip That Started It All: How the Musk Brothers Found Their First Business
I was researching the founding of Zip2 when I stumbled across a detail that most accoun...
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Greg Kouri: The Man Who Bet $8,000 on Elon Musk Before Anyone Else
I was researching the founding of Zip2 when I kept encountering a name that appeared in...
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The Netscape IPO That Started the Internet Gold Rush
I was researching the timeline of Elon Musk’s early career when I realized that one eve...
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How Zip2 Almost Died Before It Became a $307 Million Exit
I was researching the early days of Zip2 for my earlier piece on the Musk family when I...
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From Zip2 to X.com: How Elon Musk Bet Everything on Online Banking
I was digging into the timeline between Zip2 and PayPal when I realized that most peopl...
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Kimbal Musk: From Zip2 Co-Founder to Farm-to-Table Pioneer
I was reading about the Musk family for my earlier article when I realized I had been m...
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How Reed Hastings' First Company Failed — And Why That Was the Best Thing
I was researching Reed Hastings for a piece on the Keeper Test when I stumbled onto som...
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From a Classroom in Swaziland to Netflix: How the Peace Corps Shaped Reed Hastings
I was reading about Reed Hastings’ management philosophy at Netflix when I noticed some...
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Sibling Founders: Why Brothers and Sisters Build the Best Companies
I have been writing about the Musk family for months now, covering everything from Elon...
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1997: The Year That Changed Everything — Netflix, Google, and the Birth of Modern Tech
I was mapping out timelines for my articles on Reed Hastings and the Musk brothers when...
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Reed Hastings Gave Away Billions — And Most of It Went to Education
I was reading through Reed Hastings’ career timeline — the founding of Netflix, the str...
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The Dot-Com Crash: 8,000 Companies Died, but the Survivors Built the Future
I have spent months researching the origins of companies like Netflix and PayPal, and o...
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Founders Who Got Fired From Their Own Companies — And Built Something Greater
I was thinking about a pattern that kept showing up in my research across both the Netf...
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Peter Thiel's Zero to One: The Contrarian Philosophy That Built PayPal and Palantir
I first read Zero to One in 2015, and it annoyed me. Not because it was bad, but becaus...
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What Netflix and PayPal Have in Common: Talent Density Built Two Empires
I have spent the better part of a year writing about two seemingly unrelated stories: R...
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The 124 Slides That Changed Silicon Valley: Inside the Netflix Culture Deck
I was researching Netflix’s management philosophy for a piece on the Keeper Test when I...
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Patty McCord: The Woman Behind the Keeper Test Who Eventually Didn't Pass It
I was researching the origins of the Keeper Test — the talent management strategy that ...
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No Rules at Netflix: How Unlimited Vacation and No Expense Policy Actually Work
I was reading through Netflix’s corporate policies — or rather, the absence of them — w...
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The Secret Strategy to Success of Netflix
As everyone has experienced, the business world is very competitive. New companies go u...
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