Business editor at the @sfchronicle. "More militant than @nicknotned" āVanity Fair. @alex's #Twitterdad. Email me: othomas at sfchronicle dot com. Michael Moritz may not be the ideal messenger to bring up the idea of changing the IPO system. But he makes some interesting (and self-interested) points.
My latest @techchronicle: https://trib.al/O8QQUUm Delts. cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Hamstrings. #legdaypartdeux cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Pecs. #postbroga cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Broga. cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy RT @techchronicle: "Caution, bumpy roads ahead": Bay Area businesses prepare for a slowdown. From @CSaid: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/The-Bay-Area-is-booming-and-bracing-for-a-14339525.php# #legday #postbroga cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Broga. cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Delts. #southbayworkout cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Arma virumque cano. #southbayworkout cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Itās my one-year newsletterversary!
Get yourself right and get yourself subscribed, if you havenāt already. https://twitter.com/owenthomas/status/1029752970613673984 Today in bankruptcy court, from a PG&E laywer: "Mr. Morris from the San Francisco Chronicle chronicles every word we say.ā
Yep.
Thatās @thejdmorrisās job, and he does fine work.
#proud #journalism #gratuitoushashtag You live in San Francisco for *cough* years, you think you know this town.
And then you discover that we once had a SKY TRAM.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/San-Francisco-s-Sky-Tram-a-tourist-oddity-lost-9970307.php?psid=dcU6q
SKY TRAM!!! This is ā¦ Not Your Century.
Aināt mine, either. Iām a child of the 20th century, blinking my eyes at the wonders and blunders of the 21st.
Join Not Your Century host @king_kaufman and me Aug. 22 in SF as we reminisce and argue about the dot-com boom:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/betabrand-podcast-theatre-not-your-century-tickets-64386962137?aff=ebdssbdestsearch Balloons are everywhere in tech offices. It's not just Uber: @SlackHQ loves them, too.
I guarantee you photo editors are looking for photos of tech offices with balloons on desks at this very moment.
Nice scoop by @Jason_Rowley (#maroons)
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/deflated-uber-may-swap-anniversary-balloons-for-stickers-to-save-200k-per-year/ Smaller tech firms have been tasty snackquisitions for Google and Facebook going back a decade or more. Will new antitrust scrutiny put a damper on Silicon Valley's profitable trade in startups?
My latest @techchronicle:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/With-Washington-watching-will-Facebook-and-14302357.php Hamstrings. #legdaypartdeux cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Please fry those other fish. Theyāre pretty big. https://twitter.com/jdel/status/1161457722832801792 I feel like Iāve done this before, but just in case:
Portmantneaushebettadonāt. Good morning. @ The Coit Tower https://www.instagram.com/p/B1G2ngxpVKZ/?igshid=ctjjdtpqfqw7 #meantrainer #postbroga cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Broga. cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Pecs. #postbroga cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Broga. cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Broga. cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy #legday #postbroga cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Roger Parloff profiles @jack: "A Square representative met with me off-site but, in the end, provided next to no assistance. A Twitter representativeās three email responses were even stingier, with the first two clocking in at well under 140 characters."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-dorsey-twitter-square-profile-140037540.html Getting some help with an assignment https://twitter.com/ramonaterrier/status/1159942435893600256 Never have I been subtweeted more viciously https://twitter.com/thejdmorris/status/1159504924146728960 How much does Hollywood hate San Francisco? @peterhartlaub counts the ways our city has been destroyed:
https://projects.sfchronicle.com/guides/sf-movie-disasters/ #meantrainer cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy ā¦@timehopā© āWoahā is not a word (see also: āwhoahā) #journalisminnovation from @meliarobin https://twitter.com/meliarobin/status/1159128645002153984 RT @meliarobin: There's a camera at the base of Salesforce Tower that will soon collect (very blurry) images for the tower's lighted top.ā¦ My uncle bought an SF Municipal Railway hoodie as a souvenir and no nephew was ever prouder #legday #postbroga cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Broga. cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Pecs. #vacationworkout cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy #legday #vacationworkout cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy The thing Iām genuinely most proud of from my career is the number of interns/junior journalists Iām still in touch with/friends with. The ones I vouch for, I believe in with everything in my being. I hope they hire me some day. For YEARS people had no idea I started from Atlanta and not SF or NYC. Thatās largely b/c I was willing to get on the phone and schmooze, regardless of location. And itās also because of the people like @owenthomas who introduced me to others so theyād know why I was calling Aw shucks! Your talent always shone through. Out-of-office autoreply set.
I really wish I were cool enough for someone to collect these in a Tumblr. RT @king_kaufman: * = Not really
BUT!
You might win valuable** prizes***!
And you'll delight to tales of the dot-com boom and bust froā¦ RT @king_kaufman: Come see the Tony Award-winning* LIVE version of #NotYourCentury!
Aug. 22 at 6:30 pm @betabrand Podcast Theatre on Valeā¦ After the 1989 earthquake and the early ā90s recession, San Francisco was rife with empty spaces. In those luminal realms, the webās early culture took root. Could anything like that happen now?
My latest @techchronicle:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tech-and-the-Bay-Area-need-more-spaces-in-between-14268719.php How do you chronicle 24 hours in the life of San Franciscoās homeless? You do the work. You spend the time. You watch, you ask questions, you learn.
24 Hours of Homelessness: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/24-hours-homelessness/ #meantrainer cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Delts. cc @alex @edzitron @Kazanjy Why does @KamalaHarris keep repeating this debunked claim that there is such a thing as "cosmetic surgery insurance"? https://link.medium.com/hnEtcdcfJY |
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