#Silicon Valley

#Silicon Valley

Every Wednesday he'd head to the nearest Armadillo Willy's barbecue restaurant for the Pit-Smoked Boneless Chicken Sandwich, a juicy thigh topped with jalapeno-spiked barbecue sauce and fresh jalapenos. When I worked for Apple I went to the Cupertino location. Then when I worked for Nest I went to Los Altos. Then Google bought Nest, so we by then it was a group, the VIM, Very Important Meeting lunch club had to come to this location, he said, sitting in what was formerly the Sunnyvale Willy's.

Yeah, it's a great point because, you know, going from, you know, Caltrain where most of the areas around those stations, and certainly in the city, but also in some of the peninsula cities where for those who have not visited the peninsula south of San Francisco and north of San Jose, it's dense in a way, like you might find on the mainline outside of Philadelphia or like a Boston commuter line.

"You'd think, wouldn't you, that if you were immensely powerful and rich like Elon Musk and all these other tech bros and members of that podcast community," the former politico told The Guardian, "that you'd reflect on your good fortune compared with most other people?"

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Sam Altman remarked that he believes AI could be in a "bubble," suggesting that investors are overexcited about AI, yet expects OpenAI to invest trillions in data centers.

By the time Intel was celebrating its 10th anniversary in 1978 - a huge party at Daly City's Cow Palace, complete with disco music and a stock gift to every employee - the company had already racked up a list of industry-defining accomplishments.

Bob Lee was stabbed multiple times in San Francisco during a late-night dispute with fellow techie Nima Momeni, leading to his tragic death.

Altman called the current talent market the 'most intense talent market I have seen in my career,' emphasizing the fierce competition for AI professionals.

Elad Gil has made early investments in companies like Perplexity and Character.AI, and his portfolio includes seed or Series A stakes in over 30 unicorns.

Khanna's House district encompasses the headquarters of valuable companies, showcasing his role in technology and politics, which he leverages as he positions for a presidential run.

The Marin Community Foundation sold more than 13.4 million shares in Figma's IPO, making it the largest selling shareholder, netting over $440 million.

Feld offers a quieter kind of wisdom. He's a systems thinker, a long-term optimist, and one of the rare people in the industry who treats business as a philosophical practice. His philosophy emphasizes the importance of mentorship and relationships that transcend financial metrics.

The 'Nerd Reich' is a web of powerful, ultra-wealthy tech billionaires whose politics push the country away from democracy towards unrestrained capitalism and monarchy.

This breaks the Silicon Valley social contract. This is bad for startup employees. They're going to be less likely to join startups. What's the point of joining a startup and working your ass off if you might get screwed?

The U.S. is preparing for potential near-peer conflicts amid great power competition, complicated by disruptive technologies, leading to the rise of defense contractors from Silicon Valley.

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, humorously referred to the recruitment gatherings in San Francisco and New York City as a 'party' while seeking finance professionals to develop artificial general intelligence.

Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, suggested that New York legislator Zohran Mamdani's culture is based on deceit and promotes lying to advance an Islamist agenda.

Bay Area transit agencies face annual deficits nearing $800 million, leading to calls for increased revenue through a proposed sales tax, which may disproportionately impact lower-income residents.