Portraits of Power

Secretive Billionaire Thomas Tull’s Never-Ending Transformation

Thomas Tull, 53, has gone from laundromat owner, to Hollywood financier, to rising GOP kingmaker and weapons investor, just as global political tensions have seldom seemed higher.

Behind the Marriage of Microsoft and Mustafa Suleyman, a Bid for Redemption

By hiring Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft gets a disruptive leader to push it past fierce rivals in consumer artificial intelligence. For Suleyman, the role could make him one of the most important people in tech—and place his fiery exit from Google far behind him.

The Power and The Powder: Inside Reed Hastings’ Life After Netflix

A year after the billionaire exited Hollywood, he is finally ready for a closeup on his next acts: one as a world-changing philanthropist, another as the tamer of an untameable mountain.

A New Novel By ‘Silicon Valley’s Favorite Fixer’ Is Coming for Everybody

In his debut novel, venture capitalist and political strategist Bradley Tusk is not naming names—but you can probably make some educated guesses.

Profile of Rolling Stone Magazine Owner Jay Penske

He has movie-star good looks, a former Victoria's Secret model wife, and a billionaire father. Here's how Jay Penske transformed from playboy to pragmatic media mogul.

Signal Chief Meredith Whittaker Could Use Some Backup in the Fight for Encryption

The president of the Signal Foundation worries that without some bigger names backing it, privacy will become a thing of the past.

Elon Musk Unmasked

I spoke with Paris Marx for his four-part series about Elon Musk.

Is OpenAI's Sam Altman Building a Tech Dream or a Sci-Fi Nightmare?

He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction