Why Being Responsible Company is Everyone’s Job Make the World a Better Place When the heroes of the satirical HBO show ‘Silicon Valley’ – based on the life of a fledgling start-up – attended the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, they witnessed founder after founder proudly proclaiming, “We wont to make the world a better place.” It mode …
Traffic Relief: It’s about time. Time wasted on increasingly congested commutes. Time wasted away from our families. Time lost traveling between home and work. As our 2019 Silicon Valley Competitiveness Project data shows, between 2010 and 2017, average commute time in the Valley has increased by 21 percent. On average, Valley commuters spend 73 minutes …
Up in the Air Broadly speaking, I believe that all technology should serve to advance humanity’s ability to improve our lives. For me, in my job as the president of the Oakland Athletics, this means that technology should serve to improve the City of Oakland and the people who call the East Bay home. As …
The Leadership Group held its seventh annual Silicon Valley Energy & Sustainability Summit on June 14th at Oracle’s Conference Center in Redwood City, and the theme this year was “Catalyzing Transformational Leadership for Climate Action.” The day-long summit–branded #ESS19–brought together professionals from the private, public, and non-profit sectors to discuss how to more impactfully combat …
Old Values for a New Age In an era when the answer to an opposing viewpoint is to discredit, attack, or label the opposition as disingenuous – the need to advocate for civil discourse is paramount. As a former journalist, I am discouraged by the way we now manage dialogue and diversity of thought. And …
This photo speaks to what should’ve been. A young family with dreams and aspirations, seeking a better life for themselves and their little girl. Instead, this week they experienced an absolute horror, seen by so many of us in a tragic and horrific photo. The 25-year-old father and his 23-month-old daughter, trying to escape the …
Jaywalking. That was what former Tonight Show host Jay Leno called his interviews with people on the streets, asking about history or current events. Most of their answers, you’ll recall, were delightfully wrong. Abraham Lincoln identified as the first President. A furrowed brow when asked the country where the Panama Canal is located. Now imagine …
Innovating in Health Care Today… for Tomorrow In health care, improving the patient experience and health outcomes for those we serve is essential. Our communities face greater health challenges than ever before. Meeting those challenges requires more resources, talent, expertise, investments, and collaboration. But we cannot accept the status quo. We have to work, step-by-step, …
Opportunities for All First Paycheck I grew up in Plaza East public housing in the Western Addition. For those who grew up in the area, it had a different name: “OCP” or “Outta Control Projects.” Violence and drugs were never far away, and poverty was the default condition in our lives. When I was 14 …
The challenges to purchasing or renting a home in the 9-County Bay Area reflect and amplify the housing crisis facing almost all of California. While our state needs an average of 180,000 news homes built annually, the past three years alone have averaged the construction of a paltry 80,000 new homes. And now we are …
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