Erin Griffith

Erin Griffith is a technology reporter at The New York Times who has covered the venture capital industry, startup culture, and Silicon Valley with a critical eye toward its excesses. Her reporting on WeWork's failed IPO and Adam Neumann's management style was among the first to expose the company's dysfunction before its implosion. She has also written about tech industry culture, the treatment of workers in the gig economy, and the broader social implications of Silicon Valley's power. Her work has been nominated for journalism awards. Griffith's coverage of the 2021-2022 tech downturn — the collapse of venture valuations, layoffs across major tech firms, and the reckoning following years of zero-interest-rate-driven startup funding — provided sharp analysis of how easy money distorted incentives in the startup ecosystem. She has also reported extensively on the intersection of cryptocurrency and venture capital, examining how hype cycles in digital assets mirrored and amplified the broader speculative excesses in Silicon Valley during the pandemic era boom.