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Smartbird CEO: The Real Asset Was the Nasdaq Listing, Not the Shoes
New CEO Nadia Carlsten, appointed June 17, explains in her first extended interview why Allbirds' public company shell…
KGO/ABC 7 Asks Bay Area Viewers to File FCC Comments as License Deadline Looms
Bay Area's ABC affiliate launched a viewer-advocacy campaign Monday ahead of a June 29 deadline in the FCC's…
Muon Space Opens 130,000‑Square‑Foot Satellite Factory in San Jose
The four-year-old startup, backed by $181M in equity and credit, opened a 10x-larger manufacturing facility in San Jose…
JetBlue's Surveillance Pricing Lawsuit Names a Vendor the FTC Already Subpoenaed
A landmark class action accuses JetBlue of using PROS Holdings software to set individualized fares from behavioral…
Three Dispatches, One Economy: What Lucid, Fremont, and the AI Boom's Map Have in Common
Read together, Monday's stories on Lucid's layoffs, the Fremont tote line, and SF's record office quarter describe the…
Lucid Motors Cuts 1,400 Jobs in Second Major Round This Year as New CEO Halts Production Shift
Lucid Group has eliminated roughly 18% of its workforce — the second significant round in four months — under CEO…
Oakland's Own Economic Chief Admits It's a "Spillover Market." The AI Boom May Never Spill.
San Francisco is absorbing record office demand without running out of space — which means Oakland's historic role as…
Devers Defies Vitello Mid‑Game, Giants Hit Season‑Low 31‑46
Rafael Devers waved off a pinch runner twice and stormed off the field Sunday in Miami, capping a series sweep that…
Trader Joe's $2.99 Mini Totes Drove a Pre‑Dawn Line in Fremont. The Company Won't Say How Many It Printed.
The third edition of Trader Joe's pastel mini tote dropped June 17; by Saturday morning, 80-plus people were queuing at…
The Store on Polk Street and the List No One Was Supposed to Find
From Manny Mashouf's Polk Street boutique to the Dialog member list to the NYT's abandoned $500K studio, the week's Bay…
From Polk Street to the Forbes 400: The Bebe Founder Who Did It Without VC
Manny Mashouf opened a women's clothing shop on Polk Street in 1976 with no venture backing and built Bebe Stores into…
The Studio, the Tax, and the Member List: Three Capture Mechanisms, One Structural Failure
The NYT's unfinished podcast studio, SF's real estate transfer tax, and Dialog's $16,000 social gate all failed the…
NYT's 'Hard Fork' Hosts Are Out — and the $500K Studio It Built for Them Isn't Even Finished
Kevin Roose is leaving the New York Times and Casey Newton is stepping down from the paper's AI podcast "Hard Fork,"…
The Equity SF Is Waiting on Has a Member Directory
Three stories this week — Dialog's exposed member list, SF's $10B IPO projection, and a $22.2M cash Victorian purchase…
Thiel's "Secret Society" Wasn't Very Secret: Dialog Member List Exposed in Plaintext HTML, 17 Bay Area Execs on It
Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew didn't need to break anything — Dialog's membership directory was sitting in…
Waymo Recalls 3,871 Robotaxis After Fleet Drives Into Highway Construction Zones at Speed
Waymo filed voluntary recall 26E035 with NHTSA on June 13 covering its entire 5th-generation Jaguar fleet after 13…
SF Can't Tax OpenAI Stock. It Can Tax the Mansions That Stock Buys.
City economist Ted Egan projects the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs will generate over $10 billion for San Francisco — but…
Stock Bought the AI Startup. Cash Bought the Victorian.
The same week SpaceX paid $60 billion in stock for the company behind Cursor, an anonymous buyer paid $22.2 million in…
Roblox Rolls Out Age‑Gated Account Tiers Worldwide, With $35.8M in Settlements as Backdrop
The San Mateo gaming platform completed a global rollout of Kids, Select, and Standard account tiers on June 16 — a…
SF Decorator Showcase Victorian at 2315 Broadway Sells for $22.2 Million to Anonymous Tech Buyer — Mid‑Event
A Pacific Heights Victorian used as this year's Decorator Showcase sold for just over $22.2 million before the event…
SpaceX Agrees to Buy Cursor Parent Anysphere for $60 Billion in Stock
Four days after its Nasdaq debut, SpaceX filed a Form 8-K announcing a definitive all-stock deal to acquire San…
The Chaperone Is Always Temporary
Four Bay Area tech stories this week share a single structure: the thing that gets approved is always the supervised…
DoorDash's Fremont Delivery Bot Still Requires a Human Escort. That's the Deal.
A Reddit photo of a DoorDash Dot robot trailed by a human attendant on Paseo Padre Pkwy isn't irony — it's Phase 1A.
Accountability Wasn't Killed. It Was Privatized.
Five stories from this week, read separately, look like a busy news cycle.