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

Magic Leap Could Be Looking at an $8 Billion Valuation

Melinda Gates and Fei-Fei Li Want to Liberate AI from “Guys With Hoodies”

The Echo Look is Amazon’s Trojan Horse

Sheryl Sandberg’s Accidental Revolution

Sheryl Sandberg Is Starting a New Movement

Pepsi Would Like the World to Buy a Coke

Why Uber Won’t Fire Its CEO

Obama’s Secretary of Defense Won’t Stop Trying Fix the World

Special Issue: Outsiders

Inside Airbnb’s Innovation and Design Lab

Now We Know Why Microsoft Bought LinkedIn

Fixing Fake News Won’t Fix Journalism

Uber Needs New Leadership

This Man Makes Founders Cry

For Nextdoor, Eliminating Racism Is No Quick Fix

Politics Have Turned Facebook Into a Steaming Cauldron of Hate

The Muslim Registry We Already Have

The Brief, Bumbling Tech Careers of Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, and Gwen Stefani

We Need Techies to Work for Trump

The Inside Story of BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse