There's a gang of them in tech. David Sachs, Elon Musk, Jesse Calicandis are very vocal about San Francisco. I have some ideas of why they're doing this besides being desperately unhappy and insecure people. Is it dangerous? Oh, yeah. In what way? Well, just take AI, which thankfully is being led here. But it's a pretty small group of people that who knows what the implications are of that.
Hollywood may be shut down, but one industry seems to be enjoying a surprising upswing: crypto. Kara interviewed Ripple co-founder and Executive Chairman Chris Larsen hours before what is being called a “landmark victory” – but, as Nayeema and Kara note, it’s not a clean victory. We discuss the Ripple case, whether the crypto winter is over, and why Larsen is investing heavily in everything from campaign donations to public interventions on crime in SF – but would rather “vomit blood from his eyeballs” than actually run for office.
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