SF News Y Combinator President Sam Altman Is Prepping For The AI Apocalypse With Guns, Planes, Peter Thiel, And Elon Musk Sam Altman can see the future, and what he sees — far along the horizon, past the massive profits for the many thousands of startups in which he has a hand as president of
SF News Venture Capitalist Solves Sexism In Tech By Telling Women To Pretend They're Men Sexism, as we are repeatedly reminded, is particularly pervasive in the world of tech. And so a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed addressing discriminatory hiring practices against women in the industry might at
SF News Tech Exec Ponders Office Stripper Party, Says Female Employees 'Undesirable' Because They Might Get Pregnant That the tech industry is rife with sexism is not a shocker in 2016. That someone would openly admit to discriminating against women while simultaneously pondering the merits of having an in-office stripper
SF News Former CTO Of Newly Notorious Startup Confirms Details About CEO's Allegedly Shady Behavior The Silicon Valley company we now know to be WrkRiot, formerly known as both 1for.one and JobSonic, has now been publicly outed following a Startup Grind/Medium post earlier this week by
SF News Spurned By Silicon Valley Startup, Dallas Woman Pens Viral Cautionary Tale A woman by the name of Penny Kim, who relocated to the Bay Area from Dallas this summer for a job with an unnamed and clearly failing job-search startup, penned a piece on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Silicon Valley' Star Teams Up With Soylent In Mocking Promotional Stunt Silicon Valley's Big Head dons velcro suit to hawk coffee @soylent: https://t.co/pbECgUZwO7 pic.twitter.com/Tw1t2yUgA3— SanFranciscoMagazine (@sanfranmag) August 25, 2016 Replacement food-drink Soylent seems like one of those things
SF News Study: Facebook Employees Rank Last In 'Curiosity And Adventurousness' Among Top Tech Companies A study published today looking at worker personality traits across the tech sector has some bad news for Facebook. Its employees were found to rank dead last in "curiosity and adventurousness" — qualities which
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Sweet Sweet Romance Of Dinesh And Gilfoyle Silicon Valley Season Three may be over, but HBO has just given us this little trailer recapping the love between Dinesh and Gilfoyle, rom-com style. Theirs truly is the beating heart of the
SF News VC Billionaire And Facebook Board Member Peter Thiel To Speak At Republican Convention German-American entrepreneur Peter Thiel knows a good thing when he sees it. That's what made him the first outside investor in Facebook, on whose board he now serves. It's what lead him to
SF News Poll: More And More Tech Workers Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs To Go Elsewhere In The Country Home to Apple, Facebook, and Google, Silicon Valley is considered by many to be the center of the tech world. And while people travel from all over both to work for and visit
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Brief History Of Silicon Valley — Which Does Not Include San Francisco, FYI An apparently new outfit called VanDeGraph just produced this YouTube explainer for everyone who doesn't understand the difference between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, or what defines the Bay Area. The video features
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.10: 'The Elephant In The Room' Silicon Valley's first season ends with big success: A huge win for Pied Piper at TechCrunch Disrupt. Its second season ends with serious failure: Richard Hendricks is ousted from his position as CEO
Arts & Entertainment Tourists Flocking To Silicon Valley On 21st Century Tech Pilgrimages Would you travel halfway around the world to take a photo in front of the Facebook sign? No? How about the Android mascot? Well, according to The Mercury News, a lot of people
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.8: 'Chief Evangelism Officer' In a New Yorker article about Silicon Valley published last week, readers learned that TJ Miller, who plays incubator owner and eccentric bong collector Erlich Bachmann, once met Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, more)
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Lawrence To Play Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes In Upcoming Film In yet another example of Hollywood being obsessed with Silicon Valley lately, a new film is in the works by director/screenwriter Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman) telling the story of the
SF News Forbes: Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Net Worth Now Zero Dollars Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of blood testing startup Theranos, has had a rough year. News broke in April that the company, which she founded, was under criminal investigation and an SEC probe for
SF News Peter Thiel Calls Funding Hulk Hogan v. Gawker Lawsuit 'Philanthropic' After speculation that appeared to verge on conspiracy theory, Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire, Facebook board member, and pledged Trump delegate, was revealed this week to have been footing the
SF News [Update] Silicon Valley Billionaire Peter Thiel Secretly Funded Hulk Hogan V. Gawker Suit In March, after a years-long case against Gawker Media, Hulk Hogan, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, was granted a $140 million jury award at the online media company's expense for its release
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.5: Watch The Chair After its own game of thrones, Pied Piper's CEO chair sits empty, and Richard aims to prove himself the rightful heir to the company he founded. But to keep the business afloat, costs
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.4: 'Box Turtle' After a secret plan to divert their efforts was discovered at the end of last episode, Dinesh, Gilfoyle, and Richard are being forced to deliver on a decidedly un-thrilling box project. And yet,
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.3: 'Shawshank Redemption' Like show creator Mike Judge's Office Space, the latest episode of Silicon Valley borrows the plot points — and thrills — of a prison break movie, substituting, of course, the office for the prison in
SF News As Ping Pong Sales Go Down, So Goes Silicon Valley? Maybe With seemingly everyone convinced that the tech industry is currently experiencing a bubble, and more and more every day appearing certain that the pop is imminent, The Wall Street Journal is now reporting
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Star T.J. Miller Calls Out Humorless Silicon Valley Tech A**Holes HBO's Silicon Valley premiered its third season on Monday, and accompanying it was a long interview with one of the show's stars. T.J. Miller plays the blustery Erlich Bachmann on the show
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.1: 'Decacorn' Like the startup it follows, Silicon Valley has a high valuation. According to Deadline, the tech-skewering comedy from Office Space and Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge was renewed for a fourth season
SF News Tech Writer Kara Swisher Announces Plan To Run For SF Mayor... In Seven Years Tech journalist and Re/code co-founder Kara Swisher has spent two decades sniffing around board rooms and harassing tech executives and venture capitalists over Instant Messenger, and now she's looking to pivot into
