When Faced With Times Like These, Turn to Impact Investing At present, in a time when truth and transparency seem ever elusive, when divisiveness appears a way of life, and social and environmental threats loom large, a bright spot has emerged. That bright spot – Impact Investing – curates both financial and social return, accepts …
Inclusion, Innovation, Infrastructure, Imagination For generations, America’s leadership, strength and entrepreneurial spirit have been the envy of the world. Through investments in our children and their education, in cutting-edge infrastructure, and in life-saving science and transformational technology, we built an economy, and a middle class, that were second to none. Yet, for years, the promise …
The Future Workforce in the World of Al The explosion of data in recent years has raised a number of ethical issues, from personal privacy to the integrity of our information architecture. The continued advancements in machine learning (and eventually artificial intelligence), fueled by this wealth of data, raises even more issues. Chief among them …
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group looks ahead to California’s March 2020 primary election with excitement. In preparation for this election, the Leadership Group provided questionnaires to candidates running for local, county, and state offices on the 2020 ballot. The races are among Silicon Valley’s most prominent. 29 candidates running in 10 different races responded to …
Mobility Trends Improving the Quality of Life for All Improving the quality of life and reducing the cost of living is an oft missed side effect of the pursuit of autonomous drive, clean inexpensive energy, and the electrification of transportation. These technology arcs are evolving roughly in parallel and their confluence will result in dramatic …
Reciprocity as My Guide Co-founding and helping to build Landed has brought into focus just how much I’m guided by a commitment to reciprocity: mutually corresponding exchanges of give and take. This penchant for mutual exchange is the basis for how I figure out how to do right by our team, first and foremost. In …
As the tech center of the world for decades, Silicon Valley is synonymous with innovation. And innovation is what is needed to address our deepening housing crisis. Not just innovation in technology, but innovation in thinking, in approaching the problem from a different mindset. We’ve begun to see some Silicon Valley companies and community organizations …
Working Scholars Transforms Higher Education and Unlocks Better Futures A college degree is key to unlocking economic opportunity, but it is a dream that’s out of reach for millions of students. Our higher education system, largely untouched by the technological innovations that have happened in nearly every facet of modern life, has left over 31 …
California has the opportunity to benefit from a provision in the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (also known as the Trump tax package) that can grow the economy, address our housing crisis, and distribute clean energy solutions to poorer sections of the state. However, the state has not yet taken all the …
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