SF News Google Ventures, Other VC Firms Invest $120 Million In $700 Wi-Fi Enabled Juice Machine Silicon Valley may well be running out of juice, as streams of venture capital dry up and some San Franciscans root for a cooling-off period. But investors like Google Ventures (GV, as it's
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Silicon Valley' Cast Guesses At What Actual Startups Do By Their Dumb Names Watch this on The Scene. Anaplan? Twilio? Klarna? These are all real companies that we will not link to, but feel free to Google them. The hilarious cast of HBO's Silicon Valley, who
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Season 3 Full-Length Trailer Features Erlich Riding A Unicorn We got the teaser last month, and now as we approach the April 24 premiere of the third season of HBO's Silicon Valley, and today they give us the full 90-second trailer. We
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Silicon Valley' Season 3 Trailer Drops As we have before, SFist will be recapping HBO's absurdist look at our local tech community, Silicon Valley, when its third season begins on April 24th. In the new trailer, we see our
SF News Actual Knight Won't 'Lower Standards' To Hire Women At Silicon Valley VC Firm Chivalric venture capitalist and literal knight Sir Michael Moritz sat down for an interview just called out by Vanity Fair with Bloomberg's Emily Chang, who pointed out the simple fact that Sequoia Capital,
SF News At Least 10 Tech Campuses Threatened By El Niño Flooding First El Niño took your Dungeness crabs, then it brought you thunderstorms in November, and now it threatens to turn the Googleplex into a swamp. According to a new report in the SF
SF News Uber Investor Says High Valuations For Private Tech Companies Are 'Fake,' Warns Of 'Correction' Bill Gurley is well-known as a Silicon Valley investor, with dough in Uber, DropBox, SnapChat, and others. He's also gaining a reputation as a guy who is unafraid to speak critically about these
Arts & Entertainment <em>Felicity</em> Co-Creator Returns To TV With Silicon Valley Teen Drama <em>In The Wild</em> "The Real Teens of Silicon Valley," a magazine profile from June of "the almost-adult lives of the [technology] industry’s newest recruits," took some cues from television, as acknowledged in its title. But
Arts & Entertainment Former Twitter CEO (And Theater Nerd) Dick Costolo Consulting On HBO's <i>Silicon Valley</i> Dick Costolo may be laying low in the real Silicon Valley, but he's just jumping right into the parody version — if there is any perceptible difference. The tech exec is now consulting on
Arts & Entertainment Vanity Fair Grasps For Relevance, Fails With 'Silicon Valley Game Of Thrones' "What it would be like if Game of Thrones featured the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley?" asks Vanity Fair, the same publication that just named Mark Zuckerberg its top "cultural leader." Well,
SF News Is Silicon Valley Simply Too Young To Remember The Last Bubble Bursting? Whether you assume that a "market correction" or bubble pop-pop is around the corner or not depends on which side of the local economic equation you live on. Those of us not currently
SF News Tech Companies Already Recruiting Boy Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School While Muslim I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed's sister asked me to share this photo. A NASA shirt! pic.twitter.com/nR4gt992gB— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015 As everyone
SF News Twitter Is All Up In Your Private Messages, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Twitter has been sliding into your DMs (direct messages between users) or so claims a class action lawsuit reported on by BuzzFeed. Though the company asserts the privacy of these messages, the suit
SF News Larry Ellison Buys Giant Palo Alto Hotel In Life-Size Monopoly Move This just in: Billionaire yacht cheater and proud Hawaiian island owner Larry Ellison just paid $71.6 million to buy a huge-ass Palo Alto hotel. The Business Times reports that Ellison is basically
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Environmental Activists Claim Techie Fave 'Soylent' Might Give You Brain Damage When software engineer Rob Rhinehart wrote a blog post on the lengths he'd go to live "less wastefully", many corners of the internet reacted with anger, dismay, and concern — the Soylent creator seemed
Arts & Entertainment What Would You Trade For Steve Jobs' Old Car? Since his death in 2011, we've seen a veneration of Steve Jobs that's reminiscent of the attention focused on, say, a European saint. (His office at Apple remains untouched, for example.) But instead
SF News Report: Venture Capitalist Confidence Hits Two-Year Low, High Valuations And Pointless Startups Blamed Just a week after it was reported that venture capitalists were putting more money into startups than ever before, we're hearing that VCs might now be having second thoughts on the matter, and
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Coding In A Burning Room "This guy falling off a cliff is the first piece of good luck we've had," says Dinesh of the booming Pied Piper live-stream that's following a museum employee who was injured while removing
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Para-Paranoid In the 8th episode of the second season of HBO's Silicon Valley we open with Russ Hanneman, presumably still sulking since he's sunk below billionaire status. He's arrived at the Pied Piper house
SF News Mystery Donor Drops Off Classic Apple Computer Worth $200,000 A woman who dropped off a classic Apple computer has a $100,000 check waiting for her. The electronic waste recycling firm Clean Bay Area is looking for a woman who dropped off
SF News Breaking: Many Tech Workers Are Being Priced Out Of Bay Area A KPIX headline that's getting splashed around social media since last night proclaims "Even Techies Can't Afford the Bay Area Anymore," but there's a bit more to it than that. As Redfin CEO
SF News Former Startup Castle Residents Speak, Say It's 'Like A Prison' "One of the largest estates in Silicon Valley with everything you need to live and launch your greatest ambitions." That description of the place called Startup Castle in Woodside might be more accurate
SF News Have You Heard About The Startup Castle In Woodside? Because It's Ridiculous And Sexist A huge mansion in tony Woodside has been rebrand the Startup Castle, as of about a year ago, and it's offering "monk-like" lodging for startup bros in a bizarre, stately setting, straight out
SF News Yahoo! Goes After Former Former Employee For Leaking Secrets Yahoo! has filed a lawsuit against a former staffer who, they say, broke her confidentiality agreement and leaked corporate secrets. The complaint by the tech giant alleges that Cecile Lal, a former senior
SF News Google's Canopied Campus Dreams Dashed By Mountain View City Council It was just around midnight last night that the Mountain View City Council rebuffed Google's new attempt at town domination. This means that Google's recently revealed dreams of creating a game-changing piece of
