SF Politics Trouble for Trumper Silicon Valley Billionaires: Project 2025 Is Actually Pretty Anti-Tech Even though some of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capitalists are jumping on the Trump train, the Project 2025 that would apparently guide a second Trump term says that tech companies "prey on children, like drug dealers."
SF Politics Mark Farrell Wants to Be Called ‘Small Business Owner’ on Ballot, Though His Company Has $100 Million Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell just filed his paperwork to run for mayor on the November ballot, and curiously asks to be called “Small Business Owner” even though his venture capital firm has $100 million to throw around.
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 Serena Williams at TechCrunch Disrupt Says She Doesn't Ask Husband Alexis for Business Advice Serena Williams was at TechCrunch Disrupt at the Moscone Center on Wednesday, discussing her future as a San Francisco-based venture capitalist, and what she looks for in founders.
Business & Tech Ellen Pao Says Ghislaine Maxwell Was Invited To Silicon Valley VC Party In 2011 Despite Sex Trafficking Claims The Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking fallout appears to have officially reached Silicon Valley, and now Ellen Pao is accusing Kleiner Perkins personnel of inviting Ghislaine Maxwell to a major event despite accusations against her.
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 Uber Valued at $18.2 Billion, Now One Of The Biggest Companies In Bay Area With a new valuation on Friday that came with a $1.2 billion influx of cash, Uber is now second only to Facebook in terms of the pre-IPO investment sum that it has
misc FailCon: Celebrating High Tech's Failures, For Fun and Education Tired of attending conference after conference in which attendees were regaled with unblemished successes, Cassie Phillipps was inspired to organize FailCon, which went down yesterday at the Kabuki Hotel and which featured panel
SF News Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Imminent; VCs Spending Again Could the wheels of techie commerce once again be spinning? Two news items today suggest that yes, the powers that be are opening their wallets. First off, that long talked about Microsoft-Yahoo deal