#larry-hoffman

#larry-hoffman

The internet is real life. And navigating life means navigating the internet. News now exists to summarize things that have already happened online. Music is being restructured by TikTok's 15-second clip format, the way radio once defined the verse-chorus arrangement.

"How can you not land on Silicon Valley?" he says, pointing out that most of us are already living inside its influence every time we pick up our phones. That constant presence makes it fertile ground for satire, even if the show leans hard into drama.

If you're looking at a founder and they got dirty white sneakers, you're a real builder. They don't have time to buy nice sneakers; they just put on the same pair of sneakers, and they get dirty.

Musk holds approximately 42% of SpaceX's equity but controls roughly 79% of its votes through super-voting shares that carry disproportionately higher voting rights per share.

I will be stepping back from some of my usual activities, but I will continue to support founders backed by my firm SV Angel: With a more focused and balanced schedule, I can prioritize treatments while helping SV Angel founders at inflection points like we always do!

The inaugural WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America will draw approximately 10,000 attendees to San Jose, establishing it as the permanent North American home for the annual congress.

In posts on X and an opinion column penned for The San Francisco Standard, Hoffman writes: "We in Silicon Valley can't bend the knee to Trump. We can't shrink away and hope the crisis fades. Hope without action is not a strategy -- it's an invitation for Trump to trample whatever he can see, including our own business and security interests."