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Lowlights from Tucker Max's Terrible Movie

Ryan Tate · 07/31/09 04:52PM

Is bro-blogger Tucker Max's movie as chest-thumpingly awful as the script made it out to be? Based on some "leaked" footage we've been sent, yes, yes it is. Sex with midgets and deaf girls; wannabe-alpha-male trash talk; it's all there.

Twitter Dreams of Being a Cash Machine, Leaked Docs Reveal

Ryan Tate · 07/15/09 04:56PM

For three years, Twitter made no money. But the microblogging company will supposedly be taking in more than $1 million per month by the end of this year and twenty times that much in 2010. Ah, the miracle of spreadsheets.

Peter Thiel's Depressing May

Ryan Tate · 06/09/09 03:13PM

Even as Wall Street rallied last month, Peter Thiel's hedge fund lost close to $25 million, according to leaked documents obtained by Valleywag. Maybe this is why the PayPal founder has been grumpily calling people "frauds."

Tesla Motors Moneyman Revs His Mouth on Camera

Owen Thomas · 05/12/09 12:46PM

Morgenstern runs Valor Equity Partners, which led a $40 million investment in Tesla in February 2008 and controls a seat on the board. The badly mismanaged electric-car startup quickly blew through Valor's money; by October, it was down to $9 million in cash. Despite raising more money from investors, Tesla is running on fumes, and collecting deposits for its Model S electric sedan, a car which exists only as a barely drivable quasi-prototype. Tesla requires hundreds of millions of dollars more than it has to make the Model S a reality — which is why Morgenstern's talk of new money is so interesting.

Salma Hayek's Hacked Emails Reveal Celebrity's Quotidian Existence

Owen Thomas · 04/23/09 02:54PM

Hackers have broken into Salma Hayek's email, revealing the actress's iPhone-app obsession, designer-clothes habit, travel plans, and more. (Her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, who's throwing a second wedding for her this weekend, pays the bill!)

Bad Boss's Get-Back-To-Work Email Sparks Online Revenge

Owen Thomas · 04/14/09 11:49PM

When times are tough, bad bosses lash out. After John Soden III, a managing director at Thomas Weisel Partners in San Francisco, sent a hectoring email ordering employees into the office, his underlings struck back.

Google Execs in Secret Layoff Meetings

Owen Thomas · 04/04/09 01:00PM

More layoffs are coming to Google, employees there believe. A Googler tells us top executives abruptly cancelled meetings across the Googleplex Friday.

Tesla CEO in Digital Witch Hunt

Owen Thomas · 03/04/09 09:30AM

Enraged by leaks at his troubled Silicon Valley electric carmaker, CEO Elon Musk cooked up a sophisticated electronic scheme to catch the blabbers. It backfired hilariously on the brilliant entrepreneur, who's a bit blabby himself.