Jessi Hempel

Senior Writer

Jessi Hempel is a former senior writer at WIRED covering the business of technology. Before joining WIRED, she served as a senior writer for Fortune, where she penned cover stories on Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as IBM and RIM. In the past, she has written in-depth articles on the structural problems that threatened to hinder Twitter’s growth as well as the emerging competition between Facebook and Google over the social web. Hempel also wrote about design and technology for BusinessWeek.

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Jessi Hempel

Senior Writer

Inside Facebook's Ambitious Plan to Connect the Whole World

Satya Nadella's Got a Plan to Make You Care About Microsoft. The First Step? Holograms

Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make Machines Better for Humanity

Instagram’s Founders Have Always Had Impeccable Timing

An AI Pioneer, and the Researcher Bringing Humanity to AI

Give People Some (Micro) Credit—and Transform Their Lives

WeWork Is About to Start Selling Software

Melinda Gates' New Research Reveals Alarming Diversity Numbers

One Year In, the Real Work Begins for Uber's CEO

Airbnb Wants to Find a Home in China

Inside Magic Leap’s Rebirth as a Company With Real Products

Airbnb’s Slow-Moving Mission to Win Over African Americans

Uber's CEO Faces an Impossible Decision

Airbnb Can’t Win New York—But It Can’t Quit Either

The Rise and Fall of Uber HR Chief Liane Hornsey

Uber and Lyft's Endless Quest to Crush Price Comparison Apps

Why Airbnb Needs the Real Estate Industry to Fight Regulation

Why Lyft Is Trying to Become the Next Subscription Business

How Maps Became the New Search Box

How Social Media Became a Pink-Collar Job