Retired Oak Ridge High School teacher Benita Albert brings us part two of her story on Ron Garret. Ron Garret, known as Erann Gat while an Oak Ridge High School student in the Class of 1982, describes ...

San Francisco Uber customers can now order a taxi through the ride-hailing application, which will come as a shock to anyone awakening from a 12-year coma. Back in October 2010, the company formerly ...

Start-up disasters are all the rage on TV right now and Showtime’s Super Pumped is, arguably, the biggest entry in the genre so far. Before the show, which premiered Feb. 27th, gets too deep into the ...

Since a company called UberCab took to the streets of San Francisco almost a decade ago, Uber has been many things: an app-powered black car service for self-described “ballers”; a slayer of taxi ...

Only ten years ago, the public perception of Silicon Valley was far more optimistic. Time magazine named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg their person of the year in 2010, after Aaron Sorkin’s film “The ...

Average rents for a studio in San Francisco go for upward of $3,000, but that’s the least of David Smith’s worries. As an independent cab driver of more than 20 years, he has to make $4,000 a month ...

Menlo Ventures was founded in 1976 but it took 35 years for the venture capital firm to hit the jackpot. Since the dot-com boom, Menlo Ventures has teetered between good and great. A prolific Silicon ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you’ve managed to get through the earliest phases of startup, and definitely don’t show signs of failing anytime soon, you still may ...

The opening slide of Uber’s first pitch deck featured a Blackberry phone. The name was UberCab, and the big idea was a “next-generation car service.” That was nine years ago. My Uber, how you’ve ...

Nick Vega is an editorial intern for Business Insider in the tech section. He attended Binghamton University where he served as editor-in-chief of the student-run newspaper, Pipe Dream. You can email ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Remember 2010? Justin Bieber was 16 years old and becoming a teen superstar, Breaking Bad was just getting really good, an earthquake ...

Tesla Motors is one of several automakers planning to put a self-driving car on sale sometime in the next few years, and it already seems to have at least one big fan. This person isn't a celebrity ...