Aron Solomon

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  • NEW YORK CITY – NOVEMBER 16: People picket outside of a Starbucks store in New York’s East Village as Starbucks Workers United have announced that they are waging the company’s largest strike Thursday on the coffee company’s Red Cup Day on November 16, 2023 in New York City. Across the country, thousands of Starbucks workers from around 200 unionized stores will go on strike on the annual Red Cup Day, which gives customers a free reusable cup after ordering a holiday drink. The union has said it is demanding that the company bargain on issues including staffing and scheduling. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Commentary

    Starbucks’s case at the Supreme Court is a venti lose-lose for the company and the burgeoning unionization movement

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  • LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – MARCH 24: Tosan Evbuomwan #20 of the Princeton Tigers lays up against Ryan Kalkbrenner #11 of the Creighton Bluejays during the second half in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at KFC YUM! Center on March 24, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Creighton Bluejays won, 86-75. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)Commentary

    Ivy League schools are not above compensating their student-athletes fairly. A new lawsuit could end that special status

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  • The FTC has warned the legal sector not to exaggerate the benefits of A.I.Commentary

    Will artificial intelligence replace your lawyer–and will its name be Harvey?

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  • Inglewood, CA – December 04:Kim Kardashian watches teams warm up before the Rams vs Seattle NFL game at SoFi Stadium Sunday, December 4, 2022. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)Commentary

    Could Kanye West be placed under Kim Kardashian’s conservatorship?

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  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 26: Kanye West onstage during the 2022 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET)Commentary

    Why Elon Musk banned Ye for ‘inciting violence’–and what it means for the future of Twitter’s content moderation policy

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  • Joshua Browder dropped out of Stanford to become a Thiel Fellow and built DoNotPay, a robot lawyer.Commentary

    Meet the college dropout who invested in Figma–and 22 other Thiel Fellows

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  • Howard Schultz speaks onstageCommentary

    Howard Schultz once spoke of the ‘reservoir of trust’ he had with Starbucks employees–but his war on unions risks destroying that bond

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  • SEATTLE, WA – MARCH 22: CEO Howard Schultz (L) and President and Chief Operating Officer Kevin Johnson pose for a photo with a key to the original Starbucks store during Starbucks annual meeting of shareholders on March 22, 2017 in Seattle, Washington. Johnson will be replacing Schultz and CEO of the company. Schultz has kept the key in his pocket every day since he took over the company more than 30 years ago. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)Commentary

    The uncertain future of Starbucks

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  • Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of blood testing and life sciences company TheranosCommentary

    What the Elizabeth Holmes verdict means for the future of startup culture

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  • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – FEBRUARY 06: Zion Williamson #1 of the New Orleans Pelicans watches from the bench as teammates take on the Chicago Bulls at the United Center on February 06, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)Commentary

    Can a community of basketball fanatics run an NBA team as a DAO?

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  • While a fauxquisition looks like an acquisition from the outside, it doesn’t smell or feel like one.Commentary

    ‘Fauxquisitions’ are misleading the startup community

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  • Facebook-Supreme-CourtCommentary

    The Supreme Court of Facebook

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