Sara Bee
@sarambee.bsky.social
Aka Sara Bloomberg. SF Business Times reporter covering startups and venture capital. Not related to that other Bloomberg. https://linktr.ee/sarambloomberg
How will the newly formed OpenAI Foundation eventually spend billions of dollars? Apparently, not on affordable housing in its hometown of San Francisco.
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Sam Altman says funding affordable housing would be too expensive for OpenAI - San Francisco Business Times
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Warriors coach Steve Kerr weighed in on housing, wealth inequality and San Francisco during a live event hosted by Manny's Café.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
How will the newly formed OpenAI Foundation eventually spend billions of dollars? Apparently, not on affordable housing in its hometown of San Francisco.
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ICYMI: here's what happened on Day 1 of Dreamforce in San Francisco this week. Benioff avoided politics for most of the day, then brought "special guest" David Sacks on stage to talk about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, AI and crypto. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Benioff avoids politics in Dreamforce keynote, but then brings out Trump adviser David Sacks - San Francisco Business Times
Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference kicked off Tuesday. Here's what Marc Benioff said, and what he didn't say, after making controversial comments about San Francisco last week.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
ICYMI: here's what happened on Day 1 of Dreamforce in San Francisco this week. Benioff avoided politics for most of the day, then brought "special guest" David Sacks on stage to talk about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, AI and crypto. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Will Eat Just IPO? How many ways can it use a mung bean? And why is CEO Josh Tetrick prepared for this to be his "last year"?
I recently sat down with Josh at the company's Alameda headquarters to talk about this and more. Here's our full conversation.
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I recently sat down with Josh at the company's Alameda headquarters to talk about this and more. Here's our full conversation.
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July 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Will Eat Just IPO? How many ways can it use a mung bean? And why is CEO Josh Tetrick prepared for this to be his "last year"?
I recently sat down with Josh at the company's Alameda headquarters to talk about this and more. Here's our full conversation.
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I recently sat down with Josh at the company's Alameda headquarters to talk about this and more. Here's our full conversation.
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Tim Draper has raised $200 million for a new VC fund at his firm Draper Associates which has made a bunch of new investments this month.
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July 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tim Draper has raised $200 million for a new VC fund at his firm Draper Associates which has made a bunch of new investments this month.
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ICEBlock on CNN! #resist
Last week I spoke about ICEBlock (@iceblock.app) with the incredible @claresduffy.bsky.social from CNN and it’s now live.
She’ll be on air at 9:45am EST this morning talking about it.
Let’s help keep people, and their communities, safe by encouraging everyone to use it. #resist
She’ll be on air at 9:45am EST this morning talking about it.
Let’s help keep people, and their communities, safe by encouraging everyone to use it. #resist
‘I wanted to do something to fight back’: This iPhone app alerts users to nearby ICE sightings | CNN Business
Joshua Aaron has worked in and around the tech industry for around two decades. He built his first app — a blackjack game — at computer camp when he was 13.
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June 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
ICEBlock on CNN! #resist
"Everybody's got a price." Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence. Who might be the next big acquisition target? Here's what one expert told me last week after Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang.
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June 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"Everybody's got a price." Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence. Who might be the next big acquisition target? Here's what one expert told me last week after Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang.
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Forcibly removing someone for asking questions at a press conference and then telling bystanders they can't record cops putting them in handcuffs is authoritarian and contrary to everything the First Amendment stands for.
Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed after trying to question DHS Secretary Noem
Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla tried to as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question. He was instead forcibly removed from her press conference.
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June 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Forcibly removing someone for asking questions at a press conference and then telling bystanders they can't record cops putting them in handcuffs is authoritarian and contrary to everything the First Amendment stands for.
Could a VC fund create a new revenue stream for local governments? Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii wants to find out. More details from my conversation with the mayor here.
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June 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Could a VC fund create a new revenue stream for local governments? Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii wants to find out. More details from my conversation with the mayor here.
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Elon Musk confirmed in a new legal filing that he dropped just shy of $45 million into OpenAI before he left the organization in 2018. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
May 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Elon Musk confirmed in a new legal filing that he dropped just shy of $45 million into OpenAI before he left the organization in 2018. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
My latest cover story looks at University of California, Berkeley and its new approach to venture capital. Can the school catch the next trillion dollar company that emerges from the UC system? www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
May 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My latest cover story looks at University of California, Berkeley and its new approach to venture capital. Can the school catch the next trillion dollar company that emerges from the UC system? www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
"You are not going to get replaced by AI” … but "you are going to be replaced by people who know AI."
I talked to Glean CEO Arvind Jain ahead of Glean Go in San Francisco. Here’s what he had to say about agents, jobs, raising funding and IPOs.
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I talked to Glean CEO Arvind Jain ahead of Glean Go in San Francisco. Here’s what he had to say about agents, jobs, raising funding and IPOs.
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May 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"You are not going to get replaced by AI” … but "you are going to be replaced by people who know AI."
I talked to Glean CEO Arvind Jain ahead of Glean Go in San Francisco. Here’s what he had to say about agents, jobs, raising funding and IPOs.
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I talked to Glean CEO Arvind Jain ahead of Glean Go in San Francisco. Here’s what he had to say about agents, jobs, raising funding and IPOs.
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"We're doing this to bring back this idea of starter homes."
I talked to the co-founder of Berkeley startup Type Five about how it's using modular design and software to make homebuilding more efficient and affordable.
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I talked to the co-founder of Berkeley startup Type Five about how it's using modular design and software to make homebuilding more efficient and affordable.
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May 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"We're doing this to bring back this idea of starter homes."
I talked to the co-founder of Berkeley startup Type Five about how it's using modular design and software to make homebuilding more efficient and affordable.
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I talked to the co-founder of Berkeley startup Type Five about how it's using modular design and software to make homebuilding more efficient and affordable.
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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
May 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?
May 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?
This new vibrating belt could be a game changer for women with osteopenia. Made by a Bay Area company, it slows down bone density loss and might even help reverse it before osteoporosis develops. I talked to CEO Laura Yecies who uses the belt herself.
Shake it off: Bay Area startup's new vibrating belt can preserve bone density - San Francisco Business Times
A Redwood City startup has developed a vibrating belt that boosts bone density in postmenopausal women with osteopenia. Here's how it works, and how to get it.
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May 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This new vibrating belt could be a game changer for women with osteopenia. Made by a Bay Area company, it slows down bone density loss and might even help reverse it before osteoporosis develops. I talked to CEO Laura Yecies who uses the belt herself.
“I don't love easy. I love being a driver, not a passenger," Instacart CEO Fidji Simo told me last year. Her next chapter will be driving operations at OpenAI.
Here's my story and interview with Fidji from December. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Here's my story and interview with Fidji from December. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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May 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“I don't love easy. I love being a driver, not a passenger," Instacart CEO Fidji Simo told me last year. Her next chapter will be driving operations at OpenAI.
Here's my story and interview with Fidji from December. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Here's my story and interview with Fidji from December. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
"This went from a radical concept that was very risky to something that now looks very institutional, systematic, repeatable."
I talked to SignalFire co-founder Chris Farmer about the firm's new $1 billion fund and adapting to shifting headwinds.
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I talked to SignalFire co-founder Chris Farmer about the firm's new $1 billion fund and adapting to shifting headwinds.
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April 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"This went from a radical concept that was very risky to something that now looks very institutional, systematic, repeatable."
I talked to SignalFire co-founder Chris Farmer about the firm's new $1 billion fund and adapting to shifting headwinds.
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I talked to SignalFire co-founder Chris Farmer about the firm's new $1 billion fund and adapting to shifting headwinds.
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Despicable. ICE targets a prominent union activist who has been working on US farms since he was 14.
ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley
Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.
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March 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Despicable. ICE targets a prominent union activist who has been working on US farms since he was 14.
UPDATE: OpenAI Startup Fund has now raised $129 million across five SPVs, according to filings that I reviewed. Here's how it all breaks down: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
The OpenAI Startup Fund has been scooping up cash this year. I found $70 million in total capital raised across four special purpose vehicles, including $10 million disclosed just today. Here's what we know. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
March 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
UPDATE: OpenAI Startup Fund has now raised $129 million across five SPVs, according to filings that I reviewed. Here's how it all breaks down: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Earlier this month, I attended a dinner featuring food made with a new type of vegan butter developed by San Jose startup Savor. It's not "plant-based," though. Here's what I ate and what the company is up to. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
March 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Earlier this month, I attended a dinner featuring food made with a new type of vegan butter developed by San Jose startup Savor. It's not "plant-based," though. Here's what I ate and what the company is up to. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Berkeley is one step closer to launching a new venture capital fund after a UC Regents committee advanced the proposal to the full board. We also now know how big the fund might be.
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Scoop: UC Berkeley wants to launch a new VC fund that would invest in startups and other funds affiliated with the UC system. It would also return nearly all of its profits to the Berkeley campus. Here's what we know. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
March 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Berkeley is one step closer to launching a new venture capital fund after a UC Regents committee advanced the proposal to the full board. We also now know how big the fund might be.
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"Twenty years from now, it really should be that everybody in the country has a primary care dietitian right alongside his primary care doctor."
I talked to Foodsmart founder Jason Langheier and new CEO Kurt Knight about what the nutrition telehealth is up to.
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I talked to Foodsmart founder Jason Langheier and new CEO Kurt Knight about what the nutrition telehealth is up to.
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March 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Twenty years from now, it really should be that everybody in the country has a primary care dietitian right alongside his primary care doctor."
I talked to Foodsmart founder Jason Langheier and new CEO Kurt Knight about what the nutrition telehealth is up to.
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I talked to Foodsmart founder Jason Langheier and new CEO Kurt Knight about what the nutrition telehealth is up to.
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Healthcare AI company, fresh off a $250M round, looks to hire 150 people, most of them in San Francisco
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March 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Healthcare AI company, fresh off a $250M round, looks to hire 150 people, most of them in San Francisco
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March 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Scoop: UC Berkeley wants to launch a new VC fund that would invest in startups and other funds affiliated with the UC system. It would also return nearly all of its profits to the Berkeley campus. Here's what we know. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
March 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Scoop: UC Berkeley wants to launch a new VC fund that would invest in startups and other funds affiliated with the UC system. It would also return nearly all of its profits to the Berkeley campus. Here's what we know. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...