A16Z's managing has a new book, "Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It," and he sat down with the Business Journal for a Q&A that also touched on anti-Big Tech regulatory moves, China trade disputes and diversity.
Elon Musk and Brad Buss, former chief financial officer at SolarCity, were discussing via email how to get Tesla’s investors on board with the acquisition of SolarCity, despite the company's problems.
Cisco Systems Inc. CEO Chuck Robbins said Friday that his company’s $50 million donation last year to the nonprofit Destination: Home could “only be the beginning” for the private sector’s role in housing Silicon Valley’s growing homeless population.
San Jose Sharks officials rolled out a ‘work in progress’ tour of the 4,200-seat, two-story spectator arena that will serve as the new home for the San Jose Barracuda.
The San Francisco 49ers' Brent Schoeb recently launched SAP Executive Huddle, which uses real-time data from multiple sources, including attendance, parking, ticketing and social media, among others.
Cisco Systems announces a set of silicon, optics and software innovations and strategies that one senior executive claimed was “so significant and expansive, they will change the economics of the Internet for the next generation.”
Sujude's startup Gajo is intended to combine vetthed information about companies with the social networking aspects of TikTok or Reddit with the job searching aspects of a Glassdoor.
#BayAreaInno
Bay Area activist Shannon Coulter announced the campaign, Force the Issue, on Tuesday in order to pressure 900 large, publicly traded companies to stop requiring their employees to sign off on arbitration clauses agreeing not to sue.
It's historically been difficult to quantify CEQA's impact on housing production in California. The new study, released this month, asserts nearly 40% of units approved in the state were challenged by the environmental statue.
'It's very important to do a land grab and establish a powerful brand with the user community,' says CEO of cloud storage startup MinIO.
#unicorn
#siliconvalley
Born and made in
#SiliconValley
, here's why Lightspeed Venture Partners VC Barry Eggers is the right leader to tackle Washington D.C. as the new chair of the National Venture Capital Association.
#venturecapital
#leadership
#venture
In this week’s C-suite discussion, Juniper Networks CTO Bikash Koley sat down with the Business Journal to talk about his first two years at Juniper and the state of the networking industry.
Google's
@Its_Me_AJB
joined the company's sales organization a decade ago. Today, she heads up its 2,000-person effort around product inclusion — building tech products for a diverse user base — and just came out with her first book on the subject.
In
#fintech
news,
@ModernTreasury
redefined how to build a corporate art collection when it turned to the company's employees to create the office artwork. The CEO wants to be clear that they were paid for their creations.
Eric Stang's admiration for Winston Churchill and Enzo Ferrari — who'd fought as allies during World War I — reveals a thirst for competition matched by his unwavering support for his corporate team.
@volvocars
is the first major carmaker to say it will integrate
#lidar
sensors as standard equipment on a vehicle. That was good news for
@luminartech
.
Palo Alto-based Confluent Inc., whose valuation increased fivefold to $2.5 billion after its most recent funding round, is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley.
The new 121,000-square-foot facility at San Jose State University provides a pathway for students and the community alike to engage in active lifestyles through fitness and sport.
A device about the size of a toaster uses molecular technology to test for
#COVID19
, producing a result in minutes. And it just became available in the
#BayArea
.
Neda Tabatabaie immigrated to Toronto when she was 20 and parlayed what had been an interest in database marketing into a nine-year stint with Toronto’s Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and eventually to the San Jose Sharks in 2015.