Do you know what’s happening in this picture? Literally one of the most important events in human history. But here’s the most amazing part of the story: Hardly anyone paid attention at the time. Wilbur and Orville Wright conquered flight on December 17th, 1903. Few inventions were as transformational over…

History is infinitely complicated. Too much stuff has happened for anyone to chronicle, so historians are forced to pick and choose. And wherever there’s picking and choosing, there’s the delicate art of interpretation. Sometimes the best approach to complication is to strip things down to the broadest points. …

Written with Craig Shapiro Two years ago, Aileen Lee introduced the unicorn, a private company worth more than $1 billion. Last year, Caterina Fake coined the cockroach: An adaptive company who refuses to die, even in the toughest of circumstances. We’d like to introduce a new label into the startup…