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Anna TongSan Francisco Chronicle |
In AI, yesterday’s jaw dropping valuation is today’s starting point. Eighteen months after two high school friends joined the Y Combinator startup...
Burning Man has spent the last three decades arguing over what Silicon Valley gets to bring to the desert playa: sushi, satellite internet, turnkey...
When U.S. sales teams from Silicon Valley’s big data-labeling startups visited this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul,...
Late last year, as factory farming advocate Lewis Bollard prepared to go on the Dwarkesh Podcast, a must-listen among the AI insider crowd, host...
Corgi, the AI insurance startup that works seven days a week and operates an all-night cafe in San Francisco, has raised money from investors yet...
Normal people can’t buy shares of OpenAI or Anthropic ahead of the companies’ looming IPOs. So some are buying into a different kind of secondary...
In 2024, Meida Marek (her online pseudonym), was a recent college graduate working an entry-level finance job when she started doing the mental math...
Ted Larson started his accounting practice in Bellingham, Washington in 1949 the old-fashioned way: one proprietor, one office, one client at a time....
For years, startups obsessed over recruiting the mythical "10x engineer," a rare, hyper-productive individual capable of writing elegant...
When a major storm headed toward Florida, an insurance claims servicer called Ryze Claim Solutions had the obvious problem: thousands of new claims,...
When Eric Wu was the CEO of Opendoor, a startup that popularized instant cash offers to homeowners, Opendoor was purchasing roughly 5,000 homes a...
Kabir Nagrecha learned the enterprise software racket before he was old enough to drive. Raised in London and California, he spent his childhood as...
“Mommy and daddy would always bring home boring notebooks, pens, and chargers with company names on them, but that would just go in the trash. But...
When Shanna Johnson was winding down cielo24, the transcription and captioning company she ran as CEO, she discovered an unexpected asset: its...
The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious...
In a two-story brick office building in Emeryville, neuroscientists are making plans to fit mice with diminutive brain-computer interfaces to record...
In 2024, Crusoe went from harnessing oilfield flare gas to mine bitcoin to going all in on the first phase an AI data center so big it needed a...
On January 5, employees at Cursor returned from the holiday weekend to an all-hands meeting with a slide deck titled “War Time.” During the break,...