Emily Shugerman
Wealth and Power Reporter at The San Francisco Standard
wealth and power reporter @sfstandard. previously @thedailybeast @Independent. words in @thecut @guardian. email: [email protected]
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3 days ago |
sfstandard.com | Emily Shugerman
Jenny and Chrissy are like a lot of the young grads streaming into San Francisco these days. The identical twin sisters graduated last year with degrees in computer science from an elite university (Princeton), they work in AI, and they excel at making the technology do difficult things — like producing videos of real-looking humans having real-sounding conversations.
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1 week ago |
sfstandard.com | Emily Shugerman
An aspiring entrepreneur is calling on President Donald Trump to give him 500 acres in Alameda to build “Silicon Valley 2.0” — a proposal that caught city leaders entirely off guard. James Ingallinera, a self-described “broke startup founder,” launched a company called Frontier Valley this week, declaring in a 13-minute video that he plans to build a “massive jurisdiction for accelerating frontier tech” on the westernmost tip of Alameda.
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2 weeks ago |
sfstandard.com | Emily Shugerman
In the summer of 2020, Priscilla Chan faced the employees of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with tears in her eyes. Black Lives Matter protests were raging across the country, and Chan — the cofounder of CZI and wife of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — had decided to shift the focus of their biweekly all-hands meeting to address it.
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1 month ago |
sfstandard.com | Emily Shugerman |Kali Hays
Earlier this year, Juan Hernandez was having exciting conversations with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative about what to do with his next round of funding. Hernandez, the CEO of Creser Capital Fund, had received $500,000 two years earlier from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s mammoth philanthropic organization for his nonprofit, which provides loans to Latino entrepreneurs.
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2 months ago |
sfstandard.com | Emily Shugerman
When Michael Tilson Thomas took the stage at the San Francisco Symphony for the final time Saturday night — for a concert even some of his closest friends didn’t know if he’d be healthy enough to perform — it was to a sold-out crowd, and an audience brimming with tears.
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