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

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Stopping Trolls Is Now Life and Death for Twitter

Special Edition: Join me on my 4th annual social media sabbatical

Inside Airbnb’s Kumbaya Biz Strategy

This Is the Smartest Thing Facebook Ever Did

Facebook’s High-Flying Drone Finally Takes Off

A Year After Founder Steve Huffman Returned to Reddit, Things Are Getting Better

“Airbnb’s Sheryl Sandberg” Is the Valley’s Quiet Superpower

Follow-Up Friday: A Year After US Gov Got Hacked, It’s Still A Mess

Why We Cannot Forget the Past

A Women’s History of Silicon Valley

Hi, I’m Jessi

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Microsoft’s New Secret Weapon is Reid Hoffman

I Went Inside Magic Leap's Mysterious HQ. Here's What I Saw

Pinterest Reinvents Itself to Prove It's Really Worth Billions

Facebook Believes Messenger Will Anchor a Post-App Internet

Layer3 TV's Crazy Plan to Take on Comcast and Reinvent Cable