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Cal Bear, born in SF & back in the city! Dad of 2 boys & 2 dogs. Hiking, backpacking, MTB, Niners, Dubs, & Giants. Advising startups @HeadlandsWest - previously CorpDev/Strat @techstars & BD/PM @storify @adobe @typekit @google @feedburner @yahoo

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Magnolia trees at ggp :)

05.02.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Berkeley-to-San Francisco ferry plan takes key step forward San Francisco Bay Ferry could offer service from the Berkeley Marina in three years, if they can find more than $100 million to pay for it.

Love to see more public transit in the BA. Hope it goes thru!

www.berkeleyside.org/2026/01/26/b...

27.01.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OB tonight after the *fantastic* niner game :)

12.01.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me | TechCrunch The gaming startup will allow Netflix subscribers to create avatars that can extend across gaming titles.

Is this Netflix's first technology acquisition?

techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/n...

19.12.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ahmed el Ahmed, Who Tackled a Bondi Beach Gunman, Was Seriously Injured

Courage.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/w...

15.12.2025 14:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Scientific Pipeline to the Nobel Prize Fueled by Immigrants

A must read:

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...

10.12.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A buried Nvidia warning could shake the entire AI buildout Investors are watching how cloud providers manage the rising cost of AI infrastructure.

www.miamiherald.com/news/busines...

28.11.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ocean beach on Sunday

25.11.2025 21:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, this is well timed to counter the AI bubble / correction narrative :).

25.11.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Piloting group chats in ChatGPT Collaborate with others, and ChatGPT, in the same conversation.

Simple, smart - openai.com/index/group-...

14.11.2025 02:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"...while testing has begun with human drivers at the wheel at SFO, we don't yet know when users will be able to order rides from San Francisco or any of these other cities to SFO."

13.11.2025 06:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Except you can't get to SFO yet. Wonder when that's supposed to roll out.

13.11.2025 06:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Taking riders further, safely with freeways The open road symbolizes freedom and unlimited possibility– highlighted especially by the ease and speed by which freeways allow us to get where we’re going. Waymo is now bringing that experience into...

waymo.com/blog/2025/11...

13.11.2025 06:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Roelof Botha Steps Aside as Sequoia Capital Names New Leaders Amid The Firm's Cultural Reckoning Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha steps aside, naming Alfred Lin and Pat Grady as new leaders amid the firm’s cultural and leadership reset.

www.forbes.com/sites/sindhy...

11.11.2025 05:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ocean beach run. Hauntingly beautiful.

08.11.2025 00:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

07.11.2025 11:05 πŸ‘ 5520 πŸ” 2330 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 256
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'Like somebody turned a faucet on': Union Square buzz is building in SF "There's just a lot of great momentum and buzz in Union Square right now."

Great to see....due to a combination of the rise of AI in SF more generally, tech companies' return to office policies, and Lurie. Glad to see it all coming together and Lurie might be the right Mayor at the right time.

www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

04.11.2025 18:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain that increased during the war in Gaza and tax breaks for investors in Israeli funds and tech firms By James Shotter / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

Interesting - www.techmeme.com/251102/p9#a2...

02.11.2025 19:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads. Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization

This is small, but terrifying - www.wsj.com/business/pal...

02.11.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What's the argument for these if chips are obsolete w/n 3-5 years. I have some thoughts, but curious what people think.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

02.11.2025 03:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meta, xAI Starting Trend for Billions in Off-Balance Sheet Debt Just this month, Meta Platforms Inc. has secured about $60 billion in capital to build data centers, part of its spending to get ahead in the artificial intelligence race. Half of that won’t show up o...

Debt = not great for the health of the AI buildout.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

01.11.2025 21:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good evening ocean beach SF

25.10.2025 01:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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JPMorgan Says US Risks Missing Energy Goals Without Wind, Solar The US will struggle to generate the energy it needs to power growth in its tech industry without including wind and solar, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s global head of sustainable solutions...

Duh....

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

14.10.2025 15:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From Muni.

10.10.2025 01:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

08.10.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ocean beach rn

07.10.2025 01:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

AOL Keywords 2025 ;)

07.10.2025 00:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello my friend…

03.10.2025 20:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

Yes…devastating and just plain dumb.

We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

14.09.2025 06:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great NYT piece from my friend Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

13.09.2025 01:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0