Rachel Kim

Rachel Kim covers the intersection of business, technology, and questionable venture capital decisions from her desk in the West Loop — or, as she calls it, “the front row seat to Chicago’s ongoing experiment in turning money into press releases.” A former financial analyst who pivoted to journalism after realizing she’d rather write about bad ideas than build spreadsheets for them, Rachel has become the paper’s go-to voice for skewering corporate nonsense.

Her reporting style relies heavily on letting her subjects speak for themselves, a technique she describes as “just writing down what people say and waiting for readers to notice it’s insane.” She holds an MBA from Booth and a deeply held suspicion of any company whose pitch deck contains the word “synergy” more than twice. She lives in Wicker Park and is, by her own admission, unreasonably loyal to the Brown Line.