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#silicon-valley

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.

First, there's the confidentiality clause. When Bi, a venture capitalist who claims to have invested in a dozen unicorns, hired a surrogate to carry her only male embryo in 2023, both parties agreed to keep the details private and away from the media. Then there's the restraining order against Bi, followed by a court-ordered agreement saying she would not so much as mention the "surrogate" involved in Baby Leon's stillbirth.

"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?"

On September 9, WIRED is partnering with KQED for Uncanny Valley's first live show of the podcast. Join us in San Francisco to see hosts Katie Drummond, Michael Calore, and Lauren Goode shed light on the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. Get your tickets here.

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.

"I don't think it was received super well... this isn't what we wanted."

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

Kayci Lacob’s debut feature, 'Everything to Me,' is a self-distributed film reflecting on the complexity of growing up in Silicon Valley during the tech boom.

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.

Immad Akhund, an angel investor in over 350 startups, asserts that simply emulating Silicon Valley playbooks often leads to failure, as they are context-specific and not universally applicable.

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.

America is the country that started the AI race. And as president of the United States, I'm here today to declare that America is going to win it.

As a new kind of dealmaking is sweeping Silicon Valley, forcing employees to be vigilant about how much trust they are willing to put in startup founders.

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?

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.

The provision to the reconciliation bill was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Many prominent Silicon Valley executives were in favor of the so-called "AI moratorium," which they said would prevent states from forming an unworkable patchwork of regulation that could stifle AI innovation.