Ellen Huet

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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.

Huet was born and raised in Fremont, California. She attended Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science. During her time at Stanford, she was a senior staff writer and managing news editor for The Stanford Daily.

Huet began her journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered crime and breaking news. She later joined Forbes as a staff writer, reporting on technology and its societal impacts. In December 2015, she joined Bloomberg, where she continues to focus on in-depth stories related to the tech industry and startup culture.

In 2018, Huet wrote an investigative piece for Bloomberg Businessweek titled "The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company", which examined OneTaste, a company promoting "orgasmic meditation". The article detailed allegations of abusive labor practices and coercion within the organization. The company was later investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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. The podcast received first place in the SABEW Best in Business audio category and was a finalist for the Livingston Award. 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.

Huet has received several accolades throughout her career:

• Finalist for the Livingston Award (2021) for her work on the Foundering podcast.

• First place in the SABEW Best in Business audio category (2020) for Foundering.

• First place in the Digital Media: Breaking News category at the Bay Area Journalism Awards (2020) for her coverage of WeWork's IPO filing.

• "The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company" – Bloomberg Businessweek

• "They Invented the Must-Have Instrument for the Burning Man Set. Now They Want to Kill It Off" – Bloomberg Businessweek

• "WeWork Wants to Become Its Own Landlord With Latest Spending Spree" – Bloomberg Businessweek

• Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult (October 2025)

• Official website

• Bloomberg Author Page