SF News Day Around the Bay: Ron Conway Is a ‘Top Funder’ of the Recall Sheng Thao Campaign The CPUC approved yet another PG&E rate hike; we’re learning about more scary SFO plane equipment failures; and the Recall Sheng Thao campaign says Ron Conway is one of its “top funders.”
SF Politics New Crypto Bro PAC Spending Millions on Ads to Defeat Katie Porter in California Senate Race Whatever remaining cryptocurrency moguls who are not looking at prison time have coalesced around a common enemy in Senate candidate Katie Porter, as money from Ron Conway and Andreessen Horowitz just bought $2 million worth of attack ads against her.
Business & Tech Report: Ron Conway Was Among Venture Capitalists Begging For Silicon Valley Bank Bailout The “small-government libertarians” got their big government bailout this past Sunday, and as observers slag the hypocrisy of founders and VCs who oppose safety nets for everyone else, we learn that local mayor whisperer Ron Conway was helping pull strings to get the bailout.
SF News Mayor Never Convened Promised Working Group On Airbnb Regulations A working group to propose improved Airbnb regulations that Mayor Lee promised to set up by the end of February 2017 when he vetoed the 60-day rental cap is nowhere to be found,
SF News Venture Capitalists Funding Anti-Homeless Encampment Measure With so many local propositions on this November's ballot, it's perhaps understandably hard for any single one to stand out. That, of course, is where money comes in. Mission Local reports that a
SF News Tech Titans Voice Support For Gov. Jerry Brown's Controversial Plan To Speed Housing Development A gaggle of powerful members of the tech sector have banded together to support an effort, spearheaded by Governor Jerry Brown, to override local planning reviews and affordable housing requirements for new developments,
SF News Ron Conway Instructed The CEOs Of Every Company He Funds To Tell Their Employees How To Vote Ron Conway, Mayor Ed Lee's own personal angel investor, knows how he'll be voting in this upcoming local election. Ed Lee all the way, baby. In fact, Conway seems to think he'll be
SF News After Threatening Fliers Appear In The Mission, Tech Workers Reportedly Change Their Clothes Anyone who's surprised that there's tension between those who've recently moved to San Francisco for jobs in the tech industry and those who lived here before this new wave arrived — well, you're probably
SF News Ed Lee's Big Money Tech Leader Donations, By The Numbers Even though Mayor Ed Lee's reelection bid is virtually unopposed, his campaign has been gathering cash hand over fist. One area from which he's getting big bucks is the tech sector (surprise!), just
SF News Ron Conway Donations In District 3 Fight Questioned The only two local-official elections that will be at all interesting this November are the Sheriff's race in which incumbent Ross Mirkarimi will have to fend of bad press and a back-room campaign
SF News Ron Conway Defends Warriors Arena, Mission Bay Alliance Consultant Calls Him 'Bag Of Crap' Today we hear more from the Mission Bay Alliance, a group that just appeared made up of anonymous deep-pocketed UCSF donors to crusade against the Warriors Arena project in Mission Bay. Meanwhile, as
SF News Why Are Ron Conway And Marc Benioff 'Escorting' SF's Anti-Gay Archbishop? It appears that Jeb Bush isn't the only conservative figure SF tech gazillionaires Ron Conway and Marc Benioff pal around with: according to former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, the two are also
SF News Ron Conway And Marc Benioff Met With Jeb Bush Yesterday, Who Had This Nonsense To Say It wasn't just us giving Jeb Bush a warm welcome to San Francisco when the former Florida Governor rode in to town yesterday with his anonymous donor Super Pac "Right to Rise" in
SF News Ed Lee Scolds Ron Conway For Supporting CIA Torture In tweets that were more annoying than they were shocking, Ron Conway implied he wholly approved of the CIA despite revelations of atrocious torture of detainees following 9/11 that included sodomizing them.
SF News Two Tech Billionaires Have Shouting Match About Housing Crisis, Ed Lee At Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference in Sausalito today, local billionaires Ron Conway and Chamath Palihapitiya got into a shouting match about how to solve San Francisco's housing crisis, and whether Mayor Ed
SF News Ron Conway Honored For Surviving 1906 Earthquake Because the city is running out of people to honor on the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, this year San Francisco named noted angel investor, tech lobbyist and Ed Lee crutch Ron Conway
SF News Sheriff Mirkarimi Might Actually Be Worried About That Recall Effort During the lengthy proceedings that led up to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's official misconduct hearing, the now-reinstated Sheriff and his supporters repeatedly claimed that the proper way to remove an elected official from office
