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Companies

Amazon | Apple | Google | Meta | Microsoft | Tesla | Theranos | Twitter | Uber | Others

People

Jim Allchin | Jeff Bezos | Sergey Brin | Dick Costolo | Eddy Cue | Tim Cook | Jack Dorsey | Craig Federighi | Scott Forstall | Bill Gates | Elizabeth Holmes | Steve Jobs | Travis Kalanick | Marissa Mayer | Elon Musk (Tesla) | Elon Musk (Twitter) | Larry Page | Satya Nadella | Sundar Pichai | Phil Schiller | Phil Spencer | Eric Schmidt | Kevin Systrom | Linda Yaccarino | Mark Zuckerberg

Key

🔍 = Editor’s Pick

Amazon

Jeff Bezos

“I’d buy [Ring] right now” 🔍
December 15, 2017

Others

Meeting notes on super-fast delivery
September 19, 2013

Memo about why Amazon should acquire Ring
October 10, 2017

Amazon exec’s concerns about Ring acquisition
October 31, 2017

Apple

Eddy Cue

Email brainstorming Apple's rules for in-app subscriptions
February 9, 2011

Email about promoting Shazam Player in the App Store
January 12, 2012

Email to execs about iTunes gift cards
February 15, 2013

Email to Tim Cook about improving App Store discovery
June 9, 2015

Tim Cook

Reaction to email from Epic’s Tim Sweeney
June 26, 2015

Talking points for earnings call: "Hot topics"
October 31, 2018

Email to execs about China
November 24, 2018

Notes for Apple board call
December 17, 2018

Email to employees about war in Ukraine
March 1, 2022

Craig Federighi

Email about detecting more apps that use private APIs
August 28, 2013

Emails about acquiring a cloud gaming service
August 22, 2017

Emails with execs about preventing phishing
December 1, 2019

Scott Forstall

Email to Steve Jobs about the future of mobile
October 19, 2006

Feedback on a draft of Steve Jobs’s letter announcing third-party iPhone apps
October 14, 2007

Email to Steve Jobs about alert copy 🔍
May 17, 2008

Email to Steve Jobs about Google contacts
June 29, 2008

Initial requirements for In-App Purchase feature
December 19, 2008

Steve Jobs

Email negotiating Apple’s deal with Microsoft 🔍
July 24, 1997

Email to Bill Gates about Apple’s relationship with Microsoft 🔍
February 3, 1998

Email to employees referencing Aristotle
January 20, 2002

Emails with Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen about recruiting 🔍
May 26, 2005

Email to execs about negotiations with Qualcomm
November 14, 2006

Emails with Eric Schmidt about recruiting 🔍
March 7, 2007

Executive team meeting agenda 🔍
August 5, 2007

Emails with Palm CEO Ed Colligan about recruiting 🔍
August 24, 2007

Email with Bertrand Serlet about third-party apps on the iPhone 🔍
October 2, 2007

Email to Phil Schiller about Google’s ad platform for iPhone
October 10, 2008

Email to himself: “I grow little of the food I eat…” 🔍
September 2, 2010

Outline of Apple’s strategy for 2011 🔍
October 24, 2010

"It's time for [Amazon] to use our payment mechanism or bow out” 🔍
November 22, 2010

Email to Eddy Cue about bookstores on iOS
February 6, 2011

Emails with execs about Facebook’s iPad app
July 11, 2011

Phil Schiller

Emails with execs about removing the iOS developer NDA
August 4, 2008

Email about Steve Jobs's request for the App Store’s financials
July 15, 2009

Emails with eBay CEO John Donahoe
November 1, 2009

Email to Steve Jobs about App Store complaints
November 20, 2009

Email about the "very high" threat from Amazon's App Store
March 29, 2011

Email about “bad apps” in the App Store 🔍
February 3, 2012

Email about Microsoft's desire to use an external payment system
April 13, 2012

Email to Tim Cook about switching ad agencies
January 27, 2013

Emails with execs about iMessage for Android 🔍
April 8, 2013

Email about growing the Mac App Store
December 24, 2015

Forward of App Store comments from Apple bloggers
January 9, 2016

Email about iOS racing games
November 27, 2017

Idea for a “Jump Start” program for small developers
June 21, 2018

Emails with execs about a “unique arrangement” with Netflix
July 28, 2018

Emails with T-Mobile exec about In-App Purchase
September 6, 2018

Discussion of an upcoming CNBC story about the App Store
June 21, 2019

Email about controversy surrounding HEY email app
June 17, 2020

Others

Emails between Apple and its ad agency about iPhone “firsts”
April 5, 2010

Samsung exec: "this is our best opportunity to attack iPhone"
October 4, 2011

Discussion of a blog post: “10 Things Google Play Does Better than the App Store”
March 19, 2015

Discussion of Google’s app review process
March 19, 2015

Email from developer Cabel Sasser about App Store frustrations
January 4, 2016

Email from Beats Music CEO about iMessage and Android
March 3, 2016

Email from App Store chief about app downloads from farmed accounts
July 19, 2016

Headspace CEO reaching out to App Store about copycat apps
November 18, 2016

App Store team: Apple's Files app was manually boosted over Dropbox
May 7, 2018

Discussion of taking a 30% cut of Uber's membership program
June 26, 2018

Email from Uber product manager about In-App Purchase
August 7, 2018

App Store chief: If In-App Purchase is optional, “no one will ever use it”
December 12, 2018

Emails about Metal games with memory problems on iOS 12
February 20, 2019

"LinkedIn has been rejected for using the same language that Apple uses”
May 1, 2019

Emails about Fortnite’s problems upgrading to Xcode 11
March 3, 2020

Summary of press coverage before House antitrust hearing
July 29, 2020

Google

Sergey Brin

“Irate call from Steve Jobs” 🔍
January 23, 2006

Email to execs: "There is a social networking bubble"
October 13, 2007

Marissa Mayer

Email to execs about the advantages of scale
August 20, 2009

Larry Page

"I think we should look into acquiring [YouTube]" 🔍
November 8, 2005

“Where are we at” on acquiring YouTube?
January 23, 2006

Sundar Pichai

Message to exec: “can we change the setting of this group to history off”
October 12, 2021

Eric Schmidt

Email to execs about phone call from Meg Whitman
September 7, 2005

“I don't want to create a paper trail” for Google’s recruiting rules
October 4, 2005

Emails exploring the “likely cost of acquiring YouTube” 🔍
February 7, 2006

Others

Email from YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim about "aiming high"
February 11, 2005

Email from YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim about “video idea”
February 13, 2005

Engineer’s notes on nascent Android project
July 15, 2005

Email from Sequoia’s Roelof Botha to YouTube cofounder
August 5, 2005

YouTube investment memo from Sequoia’s Roelof Botha
Circa 2005

Slide from presentation: “Antitrust Basics for Search Team”
March 2011

Email from Anthony Levandowski: Google’s self driving project is broken
January 9, 2016

Email from Epic’s Tim Sweeney about bypassing the Google Play Store
February 22, 2018

Product manager: Stripe is “kicking our butt”
September 9, 2020

Meta

Kevin Systrom

Messages with investor Matt Cohler about Facebook buying Instagram 🔍
February 13, 2012

Messages with Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook buying Instagram 🔍
March 19, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg

Email to employees about development speed and major product areas
February 14, 2008

Facebook’s philosophy on perks
September 18, 2009

Email to employees: “Please Resign” 🔍
September 22, 2010

Messages with CFO David Ebersman about acquisition strategy 🔍
February 27, 2012

Messages with exec Mike Schroepfer about buying Instagram
March 9, 2012

Emails with execs: Could Facebook move faster? 🔍
March 30, 2012

“I just need to decide if we’re going to buy Instagram”
April 5, 2012

“It'll be a while before we can buy Google”
April 9, 2012

Email approving the shutdown of Vine’s API access
January 24, 2013

Thoughts on a Messenger Platform
December 9, 2013

Email about Tinder and people recommendations
January 11, 2014

Facebook’s VR / AR strategy 🔍
June 22, 2015

“I worry we’re miscalibrated” on Elizabeth Warren’s antitrust issues
March 8, 2019

Email to Anthony Fauci
February 27, 2020

Other

Email from CFO David Ebersman about WhatsApp acquisition
February 18, 2014

Email from Reed Hastings to Peter Thiel about Facebook board 🔍
August 14, 2016

Memo on “Building the Discovery Engine” amid competition from TikTok
April 27, 2022

Microsoft

Jim Allchin

“We were smoked” by Apple’s music store 🔍
April 30, 2003

Emails with execs about the iPod
November 13, 2003

Email to Bill Gates: "I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft" 🔍
January 7, 2004

Bill Gates

Memo about the company’s strategy for the '90s
May 16, 1991

Email about the company's “hard-core detractors”
December 4, 1993

“I want to learn a lot of facts” about Netscape
July 28, 1996

Email to exec: I'm literally losing sleep over Java 🔍
September 30, 1996

Email to execs about discussions with Apple
July 1, 1997

“I want to apologize for my last email”
October 26, 1997

Email to Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg
May 14, 1998

Writeup of experience installing Movie Maker 🔍
January 15, 2003

Reactions to the launch of Apple’s music store 🔍
April 30, 2003

Emails with execs about the iPod and Apple’s music experience 🔍
November 2, 2003

Satya Nadella

Email about Xbox Cloud Gaming: "I want to use this tactically vs GOOG/AAPL"
September 1, 2022

Phil Spencer

Email about Microsoft's gaming strategy: “We are exactly like Polaroid”
February 15, 2019

Reactions to PlayStation 5: “today was a good day for us”
March 18, 2020

Email to execs about buying Nintendo amid TikTok talks
August 6, 2020

Others

"[Steve Ballmer] thinks we ought to admit that Windows 98 will be a yawner"
August 21, 1997

Mac Business Unit exec: "my recent discussions with Steve [Jobs]"
July 6, 1998

Summary of Bill Gates’s reactions to a product demo
December 4, 1999

Reactions to Mac OS X Tiger: “Steve copied our pitch” 🔍
June 29, 2004

Xbox exec: We could "go spend Sony out of business"
December 17, 2019

Emails from ex-PlayStation exec to current CEO about Microsoft buying Activision
January 19, 2022

Tesla

Elon Musk (Tesla)

Draft schedule
April 30, 2017

Email to general counsel about added compensation
July 30, 2017

Emails to board about taking Tesla private
August 2, 2018

Texts with Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia 🔍
August 7, 2018

Texts with James Murdoch: “Everything’s better with fire”
August 7, 2018

Email to large investor: “Don't ever send emails like that to Tesla”
August 7, 2018

Texts with Larry Page 🔍
August 9, 2018

Texts with Saudi Public Investment Fund’s Yasir Al-Rumayyan 🔍
August 10, 2018

Email to Goldman Sachs advisor about taking Tesla private
August 11, 2018

Email to general counsel: Saudi PIF was “all-in for a Tesla take-private when we met"
August 12, 2018

“I just deleted my Instagram”
August 21, 2018

Email to employees: “If an email is sent from me with explicit directions…” 🔍
October 4, 2021

Emails to execs and employees about remote work 🔍
May 31, 2022

Others

Investor’s advice for Elon Musk
July 15, 2018

Email from Goldman Sachs advisor about taking Tesla private
August 9, 2018

Discussion materials from Goldman Sachs on target list for Tesla go-private
August 15, 2018

Email from Silver Lake advisor about potential investors for Tesla go-private
August 16, 2018

Theranos

Elizabeth Holmes

Handwritten schedule 🔍
Circa 2005–2009

Email to James Mattis
August 26, 2011

Email to investors about Theranos's commercial launch
September 6, 2013

Texts with Sunny Balwani about “My new life as of this night”
November 7, 2014

Texts with Sunny Balwani about investors
November 26, 2014

Email to Rupert Murdoch about “[being] part of our company”
January 6, 2015

Texts with Sunny Balwani about Ron Conway
April 25, 2015

Email to Rupert Murdoch about Wall Street Journal story
September 8, 2015

Others

Handwritten document from Sunny Balwani about “Pursuit of Success in Business”
Circa 2005–2009

Texts from Sunny Balwani: “I am responsible for everything at Theranos”
September 8, 2015

Email from James Mattis about The Wall Street Journal’s reporting
October 18, 2015

Twitter

Dick Costolo

Email to board: “We need to start shipping and iterating on the product”
October 16, 2014

Email to board about mobile video strategy
November 30, 2014

Email to board member about stepping down as CEO
March 4, 2015

Jack Dorsey

"I have three immediate priorities" as interim CEO
June 22, 2015

Texts with Elon Musk: “a new platform is needed” 🔍
March 26, 2022

Texts with Elon Musk: “This is the right and only path”
April 25, 2022

Texts with Elon Musk about Parag Agrawal
April 26, 2022

Elon Musk (Twitter)

Texts with Antonio Gracias about free speech
March 5, 2022

Texts with Parag Agrawal about ideas for Twitter 🔍
April 7, 2022

Texts with Parag Agrawal about bots on Twitter
April 8, 2022

Texts with Parag Agrawal: “What did you get done this week?” 🔍
April 9, 2022

Texts with board chair Bret Taylor
April 9, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried reaches out about partnering on Twitter deal 🔍
April 25, 2022

Texts with Marc Benioff about “Twitter conversational OS”
April 27, 2022

Texts with banker: “It won’t make sense to buy Twitter if we’re heading into WW3”
May 8, 2022

First email to employees
November 9, 2022

Linda Yaccarino

First email to employees
June 12, 2023

Others

Product and engineering execs: We need to be focused on shipping
November 25, 2014

Email from investor relations about “Possible hot topics”
June 9, 2015

Email from Marc Andreessen about investing in Twitter acquisition
April 25, 2022

Email from board member to general counsel: “O My Freaking God”
October 27, 2022

Uber

Travis Kalanick

Email to Google exec about self-driving competition
March 7, 2015

Text to colleague about meeting with Joe Biden
January 2016

Texts with Anthony Levandowski about self-driving
March 1, 2016

Others

Email from Sequoia’s Doug Leone to portfolio companies
April 17, 2000

Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia: "I thought of a way to make a few bucks"
September 22, 2007

Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter from Yahoo 🔍
June 13, 2008

Email from Barry Diller to Tinder’s cofounder
March 14, 2014

Barry Diller: Facebook is trying to "steal" Tinder's cofounder
April 12, 2014

Email from Match CEO about Barry Diller's threats to Tinder’s cofounder
May 5, 2017

Messages with Robinhood COO about meme stocks
January 28, 2021

First email to employees from Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy
February 8, 2022

Email from Sam Bankman-Fried to Attorney General of The Bahamas
November 10, 2022

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