Op-Ed

Targeted private capital will play a critical role in ensuring nations meet the Paris Agreement’s emission reduction targets.

Within the past two weeks, three different companies created by Elon Musk have parted ways with portions of their staff—although the cuts were much less severe at one of the billionaire’s offspring.

Ambrosia is a startup founded by a Stanford Medical School graduate who wants you to wire him $12,000 on PayPal for two liters of young people’s blood. What a strange, strange world.

If there’s any industry in the country that could use a financial boost, it’s the newspaper business. A PE-backed mill is orchestrating just the opposite.

Toys R Us closed the last of its remaining US locations on Friday. Bain Capital and KKR should respond by paying off the roughly $70 million in severance owed to the 33,000 employees that lost jobs.

The huge deals announced in 2016 will help to shape the year in M&A to come—and so will one that didn’t happen: Twitter.

Look, Elon Musk is almost definitely—like 99.9%—not a megalomaniac bent on galactic domination. But this is 2016. It seems like we should at least be prepared for the insane.

The Green Party convention started this week, which got me wondering about the ways the party matters today.

In this PitchBook SoundOff, four of our writers tackle four hot topics in the VC, PE and MA industries, including Pokémon GO’s success, post-Brexit M&A and Uber’s increasingly controversial background.

It’s easy to blame the death on the technology, as Tesla has admitted that the Autopilot was engaged. But the reason the technology is so easy to blame isn’t its safety, it’s that the technology is so unfamiliar to drivers.

Driverless cars are a lot less scary than Tesla’s handling of Joshua Brown’s death and the subsequent sale of stock that took place without its announcement. We should expect better, even when a company makes stuff we want and especially when they promise so much.

In the inaugural edition of the PitchBook SoundOff, four of our writers tackle four hot topics in the VC, PE and M&A industries, including Uber vs. the competition, Brexit, Twilio’s IPO and tech M&A.

Elon Musk declared last week that he believes we almost certainly live in a computer-generated simulation. This column discusses that opinion in the greater context of how we use technology.

Apologies in advance for the ramblings of a non-tech-savvy, near-middle-aged man, but I already hate drones. Sure, innovation is awesome, but let’s not forget about the potentially dangerous consequences and let’s make sure they’re getting addressed sooner rather than later.

I can understand why some people bring up privacy concerns as their issue with drones. But there are almost endless uses for drones to categorize them simply as a nuisance.

In announcing himself as the financial backer behind Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media, Facebook board member Peter Thiel revealed himself as an enemy of free speech.