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Ellen Huet is an American journalist known for her investigative reporting on startups, Silicon Valley culture, and technology. She is a features writer for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek, where she covers topics including artificial intelligence, consumer technology, and tech industry power dynamics. [1]
Huet was born and raised in Fremont, California [ when? ]. She attended Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science.[ citation needed ] During her time at Stanford, she was a senior staff writer and managing news editor for The Stanford Daily. [2]
Huet began her journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered crime and breaking news. [3] She later joined Forbes as a staff writer, reporting on technology and its societal impacts. [4] In December 2015, she joined Bloomberg, where she continues to focus on in-depth stories related to the tech industry and startup culture. [1]
In 2018, Huet published "The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company" for Bloomberg Businessweek which drew upon the experiences of former employees at OneTaste to detail abusive labor practices and coercion within the organization. [5] The story cost the organization $5M on impact and led to an FBI investigation of the company, which lasted four years, and Huet is featured in subsequent media coverage in Playboy, the BBC as well as a Netflix documentary “Orgasm Inc.: The Story of OneTaste” and a segment on Vice’s “True Believers.” [6] [7] In 2024-2025,The Frank Report emphasized Huet’s reliance on anonymous sources, including her undisclosed personal connection to a key source, upon the government's indictment of OneTaste executives Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz. [8]
In 2020, Huet reported and hosted the seven-part narrative podcast Foundering, which examined the rise and fall of WeWork and its co-founder Adam Neumann. [9] [10] The podcast received first place in the SABEW Best in Business audio category and was a finalist for the Livingston Award. [11] [12] In 2024, Huet hosted another season of Foundering, which chronicled the founding and internal power struggles at OpenAI, with a character study of CEO Sam Altman. [13] [14]
Huet has received several accolades throughout her career:
