SF News Mystery Buyer Who’s Bought Nearly a Block of Fillmore Street — Including the Defunct Clay Theatre — May Be Identified The Chronicle may have solved the riddle of the mystery buyer who bought the old Clay Theatre and five other buildings on the same block, and unsurprisingly, the person appears to be a wealthy venture capitalist.
Business & Tech Andreessen Horowitz Partner Has Wedding at Natural Landmark, Infuriates Locals By Leaving It Trashed A Labor Day weekend wedding ceremony between a Silicon Valley bigwig and a former Miss Ireland has residents of a rural Utah town up in arms, after the area was left trashed, and the couple allegedly misrepresented their event when applying for a permit.
Business & Tech Report: Ron Conway Was Among Venture Capitalists Begging For Silicon Valley Bank Bailout The “small-government libertarians” got their big government bailout this past Sunday, and as observers slag the hypocrisy of founders and VCs who oppose safety nets for everyone else, we learn that local mayor whisperer Ron Conway was helping pull strings to get the bailout.
Business & Tech Bay Area Billionaire Marc Andreessen Claims Modern California Is Like the Fall of the Roman Empire The man who bought the most expensive mansion in California history now says the state is “the ruins of a once great civilization,” comparing conditions to the fall of Rome, but perhaps ignoring the role of an incompetent wealthy ruling class in that analysis.
SF News Venture Capitalist Sam Altman Is Thinking About Running For CA Governor Against Gavin Newsom Willie Brown offered up some rare, not-rumor-based political intel in his Sunday Chronicle column this week, announcing that 32-year-old Y Combinator president Sam Altman approached him for advice on possibly running for governor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Juicero CEO Begs Customers Not To Squeeze Packs By Hand, 'Hacking' $400 Juicer In a somewhat desperate sounding Medium post, Jeff Dunn, CEO of perhaps unnecessarily internet-connected juicer company Juicero, responded to a recent report that customers could simply squeeze their Juicero pouches by hand rather
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Juicero' Packets Are Easily Squeezed By Hand, Making Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer Arguably Unnecessary An expensive wi-fi-connected juicer called Juicero from a much buzzed-over startup that's backed to the tune of $120 million by GV/Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers apparently needs no wi-fi
SF News Hova Fund? Jay Z Partners With Sherpa Capital To Form Venture Capital Firm As the rapper himself so famously put it, Jay Z's not a businessman, he's a business, man. And now, as Axios reports, he's getting into the venture capital business, doing so in partnership
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 on leveraging
SF News Self-Assured VCs Argue 'Dumb Money,' Not Venture Capitalists, To Blame For Tech Bubble Sure, we're likely in a tech bubble. But hey, that's only because wannabe tech players and foreigners are dumping "dumb money" into the startup sphere, and not because the intellectual powerhouses that are
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
SF News Fat Cat Fight: Elon Musk Cancels 'Rude' Venture Capitalist's Tesla Order All Stewart Alsop wanted was a Tesla Model X, and is that so much for a venture capitalist to ask? No, he didn't want to wait for it, and now he'd better not
SF News Palantir Co-Founder's Undergrad Intern Ex-Girlfriend Drops Sexual Abuse Charges A Stanford graduate from 2004, he was to be her mentor. Soon, she was his intern. But Joe Lonsdale, a former executive at PayPal, a co-founder of Palantir Technologies, and a founding partner
SF News Report: Flood Of Venture Capital Funding Is To Blame For High Rents San Francisco rent is sky-high. San Francisco also receives gobs of the nation's share of venture capital dollars. Coincidence? Zumper, itself a venture-backed real estate website aimed at apartment seekers and renters, thinks
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
SF News San Francisco's Massive Venture Capital Haul, By The Numbers The San Francisco Business Times reports that venture capitalists are ramping up to drop "dot-com era levels" of dough on US companies by the end of 2015. Unsurprisingly, a lot of that money
SF News Weed Seed Funding: Top Venture Capital Firm Puts Millions On Pot Remember when Midas-touching angel investor Peter Thiel said there was "a lot of pot smoking going on at Twitter?" He said that. Well, despite what we perceived to be his disdain for cannabis,
SF News Underwear-Sniffing San Francisco VC Settles Ugly Sexual Harassment Suit No workplace where the words "anal bleaching" are mentioned publicly can be a safe or sane workplace. A lawsuit over that, and a bevy of other comments including inquiries into female executive assistants'
SF News VC Tom Perkins: I Regret Comparing Plight Of 1% To Nazi Germany But It's Totally Like Nazi Germany On Sunday, rich, deluded San Francisco resident Tom Perkins wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal—which the WSJ published—complaining that Occupy Wall Street's attack on the 1% was just like
Arts & Entertainment Video: Silicon Valley Nerds Rap Badly About Venture Funding We're not sure if this counts as funny, but we suppose it's funny to those involved the way similar efforts by a college fraternity to make a viral video are funny to those
SF News Sexual Harassment Suit Against VC Firm Will Make You Feel Dirty Are you near a shower and some astringent body wash? Then read on. Three women are suing San Francisco venture firm CMEA Capital and former chief operating partner John Haag for sexual harassment,