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At 11:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving day last year, Kieran White brought his girlfriend’s family to a Pasadena parking garage. His goal: prove that he’s not a scammer.White cofounded Curo, a Y Combinator-backed startup focused on electric vehicle charging. His girlfriend’s family didn’t fully get it, though. White’s defense started at…

San Francisco goes by many names. There are the basics: SF, San Fran, and even Frisco. Now, as AI takes hold of the city, some have taken to calling it Cerebral Valley.For Julian Windeck, the 23-year-old founder of Attention Engineering, San Francisco these days evokes an earlier era where creativity…