Big Technology Turns Five: Here’s What I’ve Learned
A half-decade in, Big Technology is alive and kicking. Journalism leads, it takes a village, and YouTube and ChatGPT are surprising new sources of growth.
In the fog of Covid in 2020, I quit my reporter job at BuzzFeed News and started Big Technology here on Substack. This was before a wave of journalists and opinion writers decamped from mainstream publications to ‘go independent,’ but the time was right for me. I had a new book, solid sourcing within big tech, a desire to write only my own stories, and …