Jessica Mathews

Jessica Mathews is a senior writer for Fortune covering startup unicorns and the venture capital industry. Previously, she wrote the daily dealmaking newsletter Term Sheet, where she won an EPPY award for best business/finance blog. Before joining Fortune, she covered wealth management and custody as a reporter at Financial Planning magazine. Jessica was a 2018 Dow Jones News Fund intern, and she interned at CNBC in 2017. She is a graduate from The King’s College in New York City, where she was the editor-in-chief of her student newspaper, the Empire State Tribune. Originally from Memphis, Tenn., you can now find her biking around Bentonville, Ark. Follow all of Jessica’s stories here.

Tech
Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug too close to a supporting column of the Las Vegas monorail last year, forcing officials to briefly halt service
BYJessica Mathews
Tech
AlphaSense, a Goldman Sachs–backed AI research startup valued at $2.5B, gears up for IPO as it crosses $200M in annual recurring revenue
BYJessica Mathews
Tech
General Motors has sliced Cruise’s budget by $1B, but says it may bring on new Cruise investors when it starts rolling robo-taxis back on the streets
BYJessica Mathews
Tech
Inside the $1 billion love affair between Stability AI’s ‘complicated’ founder and tech investors Coatue and Lightspeed—and how it turned bitter within months
BYJessica Mathews and Allie Garfinkle
Newsletters
Executive assistant Carrie Sun spent years making her hedge fund boss’ work life run smoothly. Now she’s telling all
BYJessica Mathews
Tech
A former hedge fund executive assistant tells all
BYJessica Mathews

Tech
The CEO of the Las Vegas agency behind Boring Company’s first tunnel system says his team will be ‘more involved’ after safety incidents
BYJessica Mathews
Companies
The untold story of Kickstarter’s crypto Hail Mary—and the secret $100 million a16z-led investment to save its fading brand
BYLeo Schwartz and Jessica Mathews
Tech
SpaceX’s ‘crusade’ against the NLRB starts today as wrongful termination hearing begins
BYJessica Mathews
Tech
The startup behind the aspirational Hyperloop tunnel project in Northern Italy has struggled to pay employee salaries and rent this year, documents show
BYJessica Mathews
Tech
The guy who bought the first Apple Vision Pro in New York says it’s a ‘bit heavy’ and he doesn’t use it as much as he expected—but he isn’t returning it
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters
Here’s what it’s like to dig tunnels at Elon Musk’s Boring Company
BYJessica Mathews
Tech
‘We have consistently flirted with death’: Elon Musk wanted the Boring Co. to build a tunnel system below Las Vegas. Former employees say they feared for their lives while working there
BYJessica Mathews
Tech
Reddit tests the IPO market during a treacherous time for unprofitable startups: ‘Sophisticated investors won’t be excited about buying’
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters
Startups have taken big strides this year to bring back space travel
BYJessica Mathews

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