Saul Hansell

Saul Hansell Departs AOL to Be EIR at Betaworks

Kara Swisher in News on November 8, 2011 at 1:57 pm PT

The prominent former New York Times writer is aiming to be an entrepreneur, just like the ones he used to write about.

Weekend Update 12.13.09–A New Hope

Drake Martinet in News on December 12, 2009 at 12:10 pm PT

Just like other parts of the world, Silicon Valley has its own special magic during the holidays. We gather together around the old-timey glow of a CRT monitor and drag out our old CDs—especially the ones that say things like “Sign up for AOL now and receive 500 hours free.” With the familiar tone of a dial-up modem log-in on the stereo, we can almost smell the sweet aroma of irrational exuberance of holidays past.

Will New York Times Vet Saul Hansell Run AOL’s New Robot Factory, or Something Less Ominous? Let’s Ask Him.

Peter Kafka in Media on December 11, 2009 at 9:19 am PT

After 17 years at the New York Times, journalist Saul Hansell is heading to AOL to do…what exactly? It’s not entirely clear, even to Hansell himself. But he has some interesting ideas.

Kara Visits the NYT's Saul Hansell (and Gets the Non-Mortgaged Tour of the New HQ)!

Kara Swisher in News on December 9, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

If BoomTown had known on my recent visit that the New York Times was trying to borrow money, using its spanking new building as collateral, I might have brought a big bag of greenbacks with me just to say I held a mortgage on the stunning edifice. No matter, as I got a most excellent free tour of the Renzo Piano-designed building at 40th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan and lunch last week from the Times’s longtime and sharp tech reporter Saul Hansell, with whom I did a video interview about the state of the Web and more.