My reporting on Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, the Boring Company, uncovered **disappearing state safety violations** and an altered public record, illegal wastewater dumping that threatened county infrastructure, a shutdown of the Las Vegas monorail, and the broken safety culture at Boring Company that led to dozens of employee injuries. My reporting has prompted a federal investigation into Nevada OSHA, a demand letter from Nevada Congresswoman Dina Titus, and additional project oversight.
My reporting on electric vehicle startup Canoo revealed how delivery vans were given to Walmart without airbags and unearthed the extent of Canoo’s precarious financial position. I was the first to uncover the financial ties between Walmart heiress Alice Walton and Canoo’s then-CEO, Tony Aquila, that were in place before Canoo signed the deal with Walmart that helped momentarily balloon the startup’s floundering stock price.
I wrote the definitive account of the collapse of Cruise, the autonomous robotaxi startup that General Motors had invested $10 billion to scale, and what happened behind the scenes after one of its robotaxis ran over a woman who had been struck by another vehicle, then dragged her 20 feet as it tried to pull over. I was the first to report that Cruise reached a more than $8 million settlement with the woman who was run over.
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I'm Jessica Mathews.
I’m a tech reporter at Fortune Magazine, where I write about defense tech, transportation, and Elon Musk’s companies. I wrote the Term Sheet newsletter for two years, where I won an EPPY award for best business/finance blog. Before that, I covered the wealth management industry for Financial Planning. Now I’m spending all my time digging into some of the world’s most important technology companies and trying to bring more transparency to the private markets. You can email me here or here, send me a confidential tip on Signal here, or follow me on X here. And here is my guide on how to use documents to investigate companies.