David Lidsky

Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker will teach your kid to code

Why everyone from Kylie Jenner to Ford loves Shopify

These Chinese supermarkets make Amazon Go stores seem basic

Alibaba Group’s Hema Xiansheng groceries offer a compelling vision of a retail future that combines the best of real-world experience with digital convenience.

Drop the clicker. Twitch has a vision for the future of live television

Don’t look now but Netflix won 2018’s holiday week–and showed how it could win the streaming wars

Bird Box, Bandersnatch, and how Netflix won the end of 2018 and spelled trouble for the rest of Hollywood in the year ahead.

Exclusive: These ad stars are creating a Berkshire Hathaway for the streetwear era

The one chart that tells you everything you need to know about Netflix

A chart featuring the Instagram follower counts of Netflix stars says more about secrecy than popularity.

A timeline of values-based employee resistance movements

The Pod Save America TV show is not going to save democracy–or even your Friday nights

The popular Democratic political podcast takes its act to television, to diminishing effect.

10 outrageous CEO stunts in history that changed business

What do Heinz, Chanel, Wrigley, and Bezos have in common? A propensity for ballyhoo that drove their businesses forward

All hail Netflix, the master of disastrous press tours

What explains Netflix’s boneheaded gaffes as it’s tried to drum up excitement for “Norm Macdonald Has a Show,” “Insatiable,” “Arrested Development,” and other shows?

If Spotify wants to dominate podcasting, it’s time to step up its ambitions

The streaming music giant wants to expand into more audio entertainment but as its initiatives in podcasting reveal, it’s moving too slowly and too tentatively.

What Netflix needs to do to make a successful late-night show

The streaming service canceled Michelle Wolf’s and Joel McHale’s series, raising questions about its ability to develop its own comedy-variety franchise.

What we can learn from 10 audacious talent factories

From Procter & Gamble to the just-launched Daisie, the impact of fostering great talent spreads far and wide.

The definitive timeline of Spotify’s critic-defying journey to rule music

How did Spotify get here? Let us show you.

Kano is releasing a programmable Harry Potter wand this fall

The $99 coding kit is available for preorder now and will go on sale October 1.

How everything–everything–changed for Netflix this week

The four events since Monday (!) that signal we’re entering the next chapter in the epic saga of Netflix and the future of entertainment.

13 reasons why Netflix’s disappointing quarter merits scrutiny

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings effectively shrugged off his company’s missed subscriber growth estimate, but a larger lesson looms in the loss.

These are the four startups anointed to present at the Sun Valley moguls’ confab