This Tech Bubble Is Different

By Ashlee Vance – “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” Jeff Hammerbacher says. “That sucks.”

You might say Hammerbacher is a conscientious objector to the ad-based business model and marketing-driven culture that now permeates tech. Online ads have been around since the dawn of the Web, but only in recent years have they become the...