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San Francisco - government, policy issues

San Francisco - government, policy issues

Airbnb - online travel experiences

Airbnb - online travel experiences

Slack - Founding story, history

Slack - Founding story, history, origins

Quizlet - EdTech Startup

a collection of articles about Quizlet

Airtable - Project Management software

A collection of articles about Airtable - Project Management software

Opendoor - Online housing and Real estate startup

Opendoor - Online housing and Real estate startup

Flexport

Flexport is using technology and data to make global trade easier and more accessible for everyone.

DoorDash - food delivery

DoorDash is connecting people with the best in their cities

Instacart

Food delivery app

Airbnb

online marketplace and hospitality services, short-term lodging including holiday cottages, apart...

Mixpanel

Mixpanel is a business analytics service company. It tracks user interactions with web and mobile...

Minted

A collection of articles about Minted, a design firm

Intercom

Intercom builds a suite of messaging-first products that all modern internet businesses can use t...

Aha! - Product Management - software, tools

A collection of articles and videos about Aha! - Product Management - software, tools

Brandless - online retail - taking on Amazon

a collection of articles and videos about Brandless - taking on Amazon

Silicon Valley

a collection of articles about Silicon Valley

Triplebyte - interview platform for hiring engineers

a collection of articles and resources about Triplebyte - an interview platform for hiring engineers

Resources for this Location

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Silicon rally: As San Francisco builds the future of technology, can it rebuild itself?

Cities: one of America’s great cities has a fresh chance to rebuild itself. People feared a doom loop. Reality has been more surprising | Leaders (2024)


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The Rise of the Meta City

The playing field of corporate location is changing, driven by new digital technologies and the shift to remote work. The authors outline the struc... (2023)


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Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional | The Economist

Covid-19 has exposed many of the city’s old problems—and some new ones, too | United States (2021)


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Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)


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Bloomberg - What Happens When the 1% Go Remote

It doesn’t take very many ultra-wealthy Americans changing their address to wreak havoc on cities’ finances. While the pandemic has helped to a... (2020)


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Bloomberg - San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

San Francisco’s sky-high apartment rents are falling fast. The median monthly rate for a studio in the city tumbled 31% in September from a year... (2020)


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SF, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn: 'Never seen anything like it'

The cost of renting an apartment in the Bay Area fell sharply in May, as layoffs and the increased flexibility of working from home drove a double... (2020)


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Gimme Shelter - The cost of living in the Bay Area - Harper's Magazine

The cost of living in the Bay Area "... After living on the East Coast for eight years, I’d recently left New York City to take a job at an inve... (2019)


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Demolishing the California Dream: How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

Shop for—and learn—about vintage and antiques. Browse the best of eBay, connect with other collectors, and explore the history behind y... (2019)


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San Francisco's public-poop problem is worse than ever - Business Insider

In 2011, just over 5,500 reports feces in public were logged by the San Francisco Department of Public Works; in 2018, the number was more than 28,... (2019)


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Drivers Beware: The Traffic Safety Reporting Apps Are Coming

It’s getting easier for city residents to use technology that can report bad drivers who block bike lanes. Welcome to the self-surveillance era of ... (2019)


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Even tech workers can’t afford to buy homes in San Francisco - Recode

In tech’s capital, even programmers with six-figure salaries are struggling to afford studio apartments. (2019)


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SF fines two landlords $2.25 million for illegal Airbnb rentals – TechCrunch

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is laying down the law — literally. Today, Herrera’s office announced a $2.25 million settlement with tw... (2018)


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San Francisco's Dream of 'Zero Waste' Lands in the Dumpster | WIRED

The city has reduced its trash more than any other American metropolis. But eliminating all garbage, it turns out, is an impractical goal. (2018)


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The death of once high-flying VC funds –2018 - TechCrunch

They all started with the best of intentions. Formation 8 talked about bringing “smart enterprise” to the corporate world. Social Capital talked ab... (2018)


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Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns – TechCrunch

The Bay Area may be the center of the global technology industry, but that hasn’t stopped one wealthy enclave from protecting itself from the futur... (2018)


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Startups That Move to the Bay Area See Big Benefits—But Are in the Minority

A new study explores startup migration and the benefits it brings. (2018)


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The Problem With the Facebook Cafeteria and Free Food - The Ringer

What may be Insta-worthy and a great perk for company employees isn’t so great for the cities that house tech campuses (2018)


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San Francisco rent is so expensive that a law firm fly its people in from Texas

Rent in San Francisco is three times that in Houston. To cut costs, the law firm Patterson and Sheridan flies its Houston lawyers to the Bay Area m... (2018)


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San Francisco Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at Facebook and other tech companies

It's no secret that Facebook employees love their free meals. But this fall when the tech giant moves to its new office complex in Mountain View, C... (2018)


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Save the Scooters, Redesign the Streets, and Save San Francisco | WIRED

Instead of limiting scooters, officials should rebuild infrastructure with their riders in mind. Because a city made for scooters is a city made fo... (2018)


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The Scooter Economy – Stratechery

Scooters are everywhere, and the use case is amazing. What is not so clear, though, is how scooter companies can build strong businesses, which mea... (2018)


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Half of Silicon Valley residents want to leave, blame housing

More residents plan to leave the Bay Area every year, according to a new study. Housing is residents' number-one complaint. (2018)


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New SFMoMA Aims to Be Not Just Giant, but Global - The New York Times

The institution is reopening on May 14 with a striking all-white addition and fresh initiatives promoting visual and cultural diversity. (2018)


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Shared housing startups are taking off – TechCrunch

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor These schools graduate the most funded startup CEOs The formula behind San Francisco’s st... (2018)


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The formula behind San Francisco’s startup success – TechCrunch

Why has San Francisco’s startup scene generated so many hugely valuable companies over the past decade? (2018)


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A Cartography Nerd's Guide to Custom Map-Making | ideo.com

How to one designer used public data to create an interactive map of San Francisco tennis courts... (2018)


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We Tried Every Shared Bike and Scooter in San Francisco

On Monday, Uber announced their acquisition of the bright-red bike-rental startup JUMP, owners of the 500+ electric, dockless bicycles scattered th... (2018)


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Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco

Economists Rebecca Diamond and Tim McQuade’s study makes the provocative argument that San Francisco rent control drove rents up citywide since 1995. (2017)


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Ashamed to work in Silicon Valley: how techies became the new bankers

The Guardian, 2017: “Wall Street has long been the industry people love to hate. But as big tech’s reputation plummets, suddenly a job at Facebook... (2017)


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Making It | What It Costs To Live In San Francisco

VICE News Published on Sep 11, 2017 Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Franci... (2019)


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Salesforce Tower: Building San Francisco's Vertical Village

The B1M Published on Apr 11, 2018 San Francisco's "Salesforce Tower" is the first in a new generation of skyscrapers reshaping the city's skyline... (2019)


Website

Minted - website

Photo Cards, Announcements, Invitations, Art & Home Decor | Minted Enjoy 25% off save the dates. Shop wedding stationery, fine art, and more des... (2019)


Location Details

Population: 3,364,979
Administrative Area: California
Coordinates: 37.7558, -122.4449
Parent Location: UNITED STATES

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30 Articles
2 Videos
1 Websites
25 Chunks