Business & Tech Viral 84-Hour Workweek Guy Calls Himself 'San Franciscan,' Has Lived Here a Year and a Half You may have seen a story about a San Francisco AI startup founder who posted to X — where else? — about how he tells prospective hires that his company expects "no work-life-balance" and 84-hour workweeks, in order to weed out the less motivated.
Business & Tech Oscar Winner Halle Berry Says Her 'Second Act' Will Be as Executive at SF-Based Biotech Startup Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry, who has been making fewer movies in recent years than earlier, says she is ready for her "second act" and second career as a comms executive at a biotech startup in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Bankrupt Poop-Testing Startup uBiome Charged In $60M Fraud Scheme SF-based startup uBiome, which got plenty of attention in the last decade for its at-home fecal testing kits and trendy focus on gut health, is now the focus of a federal complaint that accuses the founders of defrauding investors and health insurers to the tune of $60 million.
Business & Tech Startup Boom Starting to Bust, as Layoffs Sweep Silicon Valley The robot reckoning may be afoot, as the New York Times finds that startups have laid off more than 8,000 people in the last four months.
Arts & Entertainment Newly Rebranded Cabin, A Sleep-Pod Bus From SF To LA, Starts Service Next Week by Rebecca Cohen For two weeks in April 2016, you could board a bus in San Francisco, climb into a personal sleeping pod with fresh linens and free wi-fi, and wake up the
SF News Enter 'Hack Temple', A Historic Former Church Where Startups Are The New Religion In the tech mecca of the Bay Area, Hack Temple seeks to be among its highest, holiest altars. The new would-be place of worship is located in the historic Our Lady of Guadalupe
Arts & Entertainment 'Unicorn Startup Simulator' Lets You Get Valued Or Die Trying Over And Over Again In the large field of startup send-up and parody, a new entry, Unicorn Startup Simulator feels like a rare breed, in that it's so bizarre and fun. The goal of the game, naturally,
SF News Video: Very Pregnant Chelsea Peretti Hosts, Roasts 10th Crunchies Tech Awards Like artificially intelligent software that's slowly becoming sentient, the technology leaders — founders, angels, CEOs — that gathered to celebrate themselves last night at the would-be "Oscars of tech" appeared somehow changed this year, displaying
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good News, Plebs: Ridiculous $700 Wi-Fi Enabled Juicer Now Just $400! Don't worry, everybody. Juicero, the company behind a wi-fi-enabled juicer that can only make juice from the company's own subscription-delivered packages of fruits and vegetables, is doing very well, selling great, and is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Munchery, Still Losing Millions Of Dollars A Month, Seeks New CEO Munchery is in trouble. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the San Francisco-based meal delivery startup is losing millions of dollars a month, struggling to raise additional funding, and is on the
SF News Startup VotePlz Is Registering #Millennials By Printing Their Forms And Sending Them Stamps Goshdarn Millennials! The inscrutable age cohort that's broadly defined as people between 16 and 35 who likely struggle with internet addiction could easily rival the Boomers as a voting force according to an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tales Of Shooting Threats, Harassment, And Safety Hazards At Blue Apron's Richmond Warehouse With over 4,000 employees now and 8 million meals delivered each month, Blue Apron is by most accounts a runaway success story in the fledgling $5 billion meal-kit delivery industry. But a
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 News Peter Thiel Now Funding A Startup To Fund Third-Party Lawsuits Did you know that we're in a bubble? No, not a technology bubble, you overeducated ninny. “A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed,” Peter Thiel, the Paypal co-founder, Facebook
SF News Founders Used 'Sham' Startup's $12.5 Million Investments As 'Personal Piggy Bank', Lawsuit Alleges Two brothers purportedly developing an augmented reality helmet for motorcyclists appear to have merely used their company's investments to augment their own personal realities, paying for apartments, lavish meals, and more according to
SF News Office Space Startup WeWork Has Labor Issues Of Its Own The National Labor Relations Board has filed a formal complaint against WeWork, a New York-based startup already popular in SF that rents out shared office space to individuals and small startups, after a
SF News 'Pooper,' An App To Send Someone To Pick Up After Your Dog, Is Bullsh** Pooper purports to be a light-hearted but ultimately serious subscription service startup that will send a "scooper" to pick up your dog's poop after you take a photo of it and tag its
SF News Startup Scrapes Tenants' Private Social Media Accounts For Potential Landlords' Use Finding an apartment in San Francisco is already a nightmare for many, but one startup is out to make it even harder. The Washington Post reports that a British startup is promising to
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 CEO Of Apartment-Bidding Startup Blames Game, Not Player Alex Lubinsky, CEO of the instantly infamous rental application and bidding startup called Rentberry, recently confided to Curbed that he overpaid for his apartment in SoMa. By way of defending his service, he
SF News New Startup Turns Renting Apartments Into eBay-Like Bidding War A new startup hoping to capitalize on the feeding frenzy that is trying to rent an apartment in San Francisco launches tomorrow, and may succeed in driving Bay Area rents up even higher
SF News SFFD Urges You To Narc On Gasoline Delivery Startups The idea of never having to go to the gas station again is an appealing one — think electric, exhaust-free cars whisking you around a city that is suddenly just a bit less smoggy.
SF News Like It Did For Uber Drivers, Treasurer's Office Orders Airbnb Hosts To Get Business Licenses Earlier this month, roughly 37,000 drivers for Uber and Lyft were mailed letters from San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros indicating that, as contractors, they must apply for business licenses to operate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Too Many Cooks? In Crowded Market, Catering Startup Kitchit Calls It Quits The dinner party could be coming to a close for San Francisco-based Kitchit, a catering startup with $8.1 million in investments according to Crunchbase. That news came from anonymous sources to Investors
