Adam Lashinsky

San Francisco

Contributing columnist
Adam Lashinsky is former executive editor of Fortune magazine, the author of “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works” and at work on a biography of William Safire. He lives in San Francisco.
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Elon Musk, government efficiency expert? That is one really bad idea.

Musk effectively hasn’t run a business that didn’t benefit from or work with various government entities.

September 9, 2024
SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk, left, with President Donald Trump at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on May 30, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Why Detroit is hitting ‘pause’ on electric vehicles

Electric vehicles will prevail. Here’s why Detroit is opting to take it slow.

August 27, 2024
A Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck at a Glendale, Calif., dealership on Aug. 21. Ford is cutting output by half at the Michigan plant that builds the truck. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

A Silicon Valley pioneer who locked in on excellence

Susan Wojcicki was the model for excellence and responsibility that Silicon Valley often lacked

August 11, 2024
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki in Cannes, France, on June 19, 2018.

The Google decision is the right ruling — at the wrong time

The glacially slow process of reining in bad behavior by a powerful corporation lands just as AI takes off.

August 6, 2024
A Google logo is on display at a trade fair in Hanover, Germany, on April 22. (Annegret Hilse/Reuters)

Apple is late to the party again. It still might clean up.

Apple’s ability redefine product categories is its greatest strength.

June 24, 2024
Apple CEO Tim Cook said artificial intelligence would be “the next big step” for the company. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

The sad and inevitable fall of Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media

A story made for Hollywood: How Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media fell from the sky.

April 29, 2024
Viola Davis, center, accepts the outstanding actress award for her performance in “The Help” at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards on Feb. 17, 2012, in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/AP)

The ‘landmark’ Apple lawsuit ignores two realities

Is the Feds’ new antitrust case against Apple for real or just an exercise in ankle-biting?

March 26, 2024
People outside an Apple Store in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Trump’s new stock deal is just another pig in a poke

Donald Trump’s Truth Social stock scheme will leave investors in pain.

March 25, 2024
A photo illustration of former U.S. president Donald Trump's Truth Social account. (Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images)

To put it charitably, Elon Musk’s philanthropy isn’t that generous

Elon Musk’s charitable giving appears to be close to home. Will he ever step up?

March 18, 2024
Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Del., on July 13, 2021. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Another Wall Street fad has imploded. Not before it claimed its victims.

SPACs were always a dubious route to the stock market. Why didn’t the SEC step in sooner?

February 20, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)