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
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
