
Rya Jetha
Dow Jones News Fund Reporter at CalMatters
Tech culture reporter @sfstandard via @business & @calmatters Tips + ☕️: [email protected] / signal: rjetha.07 🇺🇸🇮🇳🇬🇧 /🏃🏻♀️➡️📚🏎️
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sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss |Rya Jetha |Kevin Truong
If you’ve ever been to a networking event in SoMa and found yourself cornered by a coder who hasn’t outgrown their Ayn Rand phase, you’ll immediately recognize the characters in HBO’s new techdoomsday satire “Mountainhead.”In the Bay Area, a grown-up case of infectious Randianism seems to spread seasonally — and no one is too bothered.
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4 days ago |
sfstandard.com | Rya Jetha
Zsombor “Anthony” Jancso and Jordan Wick had lucrative jobs at blue-chip tech companies — the kind of roles that are increasingly tough for new college grads to come by. But for them, it wasn’t enough. Frustrated with the direction of San Francisco’s drift, they had a vision of young tech workers working hand-in-hand with local government to solve core challenges like homelessness, degrading public safety, and trash on city streets.
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6 days ago |
sfstandard.com | Rya Jetha
As I walked into the Strand Theater with a group of theater-curious tech founders, there was one question on our minds: Who, in the year of our Lord 2025, is asking for another hip-hop musical? For one: LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman. The billionaire has invested in everything from OpenAI to a proposed utopia in rural California.
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2 weeks ago |
sfstandard.com | Rya Jetha |Ezra Wallach
Johnn Cabacungan, a 21-year-old from Los Angeles, flashed a toothy smile as he looked for his crew Saturday in the crush of people outside UC Berkeley’s California Memorial Stadium after commencement. A media studies major, Cabacungan has a string of internships at Adobe and other companies on his résumé and served as president of UC Berkeley’s consulting club. He’s the kind of gunner who in recent years would have had a cushy job waiting for him.
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3 weeks ago |
sfstandard.com | Rya Jetha
Daniel Ha loves to argue. He loves it so much that his last company was an internet commenting platform that allowed people to banter about news. But he knows his contrarian bent can be tiresome for the people around him. So when AI came along, and others started thinking about how to build friends, romantic partners, or tutors, Ha, 39, saw an opportunity to make what he’d always wanted: a debate opponent who loves arguing as much as he does.
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