Margaux MacColl

1 week ago | sfstandard.com | Margaux MacColl

The young investor is the rare power broker who gives away no partisan preferences. That’s why everyone is listening to him. On April 29th, the self-described “three musketeers” of tech in Washington stood at a wooden podium in the National Press Club.

3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Margaux MacColl

This week, as Carnegie Mellon University students filtered out of classrooms into the fresh spring sun, they ran smack into a dire warning. Around the Pittsburgh campus were black signs with bold white text: “A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West.

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Margaux MacColl

By Margaux MacCollPublished Apr. 11, 2025 • 12:47pmOn Sunday, as the stock market appeared ready to tumble amid President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, Nikita Bier did what he does best: trolling. The tech entrepreneur, who famously sold two shockingly similar apps to Meta and Discord, posted to X a picture of the predicted stock freefall. “SELL EVERYTHING!” he wrote.

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Margaux MacColl

Chrissy McGarry says she’s the victim of a company that took the worst traits of Silicon Valley and the military and combined them. Chrissy McGarry remembers the night at South by Southwest as the flash of lightning before the storm. It was March 2023, and McGarry, COO of the defense tech startup Second Front Systems, had gone to a bar with colleagues, including Tyler Sweatt, then the company’s chief revenue officer.

2 months ago | sfstandard.com | Margaux MacColl

More than 108,000 workers have been axed by the Trump administration, and Roger Lee is tallying every one of them. For five years, Layoffs.fyi creator Roger Lee has kept a watchful eye over Silicon Valley, maintaining a much-studied database of layoffs at tech companies. But the biggest startup-style firings these days aren’t happening in San Francisco; they’re in Washington, D.C., where Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is taking a chainsaw to the federal government.