SF News Tech Executives Yuck It Up At Private Trump Tower Meeting As initial photos emerged from Wednesday's gathering of the tech elite at Trump Tower in New York City, the most apparent reaction from those gathered appeared to be one of bewildered
SF News Peter Thiel Poised To Profit Off Trump's Promised Crackdown On Immigrants While many residents of Silicon Valley are smarting over the election of Donald Trump, Peter Thiel is sitting pretty. The Trump-supporting Facebook board member secured a position on the president-elect'
SF News Donald Trump To Host Tech Summit Next Week -- But Who's Going? The cyber, as we all know, is very, very tough. Perhaps with that in mind, USA Today reports that President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team has invited a group of tech
SF News Facebook Pledges $20 Million To Build Affordable Housing On Peninsula Facebook is trying to show up other big tech companies once again in terms of corporate citizenship as the company announces the creation of a fund to back the building of affordable housing
SF News Michael Phelps Now Dreams Of Silicon Valley Gold What's left to conquer when you already have 28 Olympic medals? How about Silicon Valley? That seems to be the thinking of Michael Phelps, who the Associated Press reports is planning
SF News To Bridge The Digital Divide, Tech Companies Need To Act Like People, Not Algorithms If it's the case that technology has divided rather than united the majority of people who rely on it — the popular argument that we're all "Alone Together,"
SF News Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Implies Too Many Asians Have Power In Silicon Valley On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to "drain the swamp" on Capitol Hill. Instead, he's made clear with his staff appointments so far that his intention is to
SF News Apple CEO Tim Cook Tries To Reassure Upset Employees Following Trump Win As Silicon Valley continues to freak out at the national tragedy that is Donald Trump's election, Apple CEO Tim Cook took a moment yesterday to reassure his employees that despite the
SF News The Tech World Is Losing Its Collective S**t Over Trump's Win While you and I are busy maintaining our thousand-yard stares off toward the orange-tinted collective doom looming on the horizon, big names in the world of Silicon Valley tech have commenced
SF News Uber Wants To Bring Flying Cars To The Masses Within Ten Years The year is 2027. You're running late for your job in Silicon Valley, and, as commuter traffic south out of SF has only increased over the last ten years, you know
SF News Does President Obama Have A Future In Silicon Valley? It's January 2017, a new president has been sworn into office, and, newly retired from public service, Barack Obama is enjoying his well-earned time out of the public eye by
SF News Discussions Of Bias, Tech, And Trump Take Center Stage At The <em>Vanity Fair</em> New Establishment Summit While everyday San Franciscans went about their normal business last week, a collection of movers and shakers from the worlds of business, tech, media, and politics gathered at Yerba Buena Center for the
SF News Peter Thiel To Speak Publicly About His Trump Support As Silicon Valley Battle Lines Harden Contrarian that he is, noted libertarian Trump lover Peter Thiel has decided that the controversy surrounding his support for the Republican presidential candidate demands his response. And so, as Bloomberg reports, the billionaire
SF News Stain Of Peter Thiel's Trump Advocacy Marks Y Combinator As Silicon Valley Backlash Grows Peter Thiel has always ranked high on the Silicon Valley eccentric scale, as most already know. The PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member's support for building floating libertarian cities and
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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'
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
