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At a sold-out conference in San Francisco for people who build robots, the robots were surprisingly hard to find.This week, 1,500 robotics investors, founders, and engineers packed a cavernous former Army warehouse at Fort Mason, overlooking San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. They came from across the country…
Han Wang insists his intentions were pure.The 25-year-old cofounder of Mintlify is a prolific X poster, sending off his snippets of management philosophy to the platform’s techies. One of his essays fanned the flames of Silicon Valley’s hardcore workplace debate. He called it: “Remember to not smile.”Wang said that the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nick Sanchez, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I would say 99% of my clients cite burnout as one of their biggest problems.As a licensed marriage and family…
Tattoos, company logos, and deleted apologies — oh my.A Y Combinator-backed startup founder is in hot water after saying his company would offer job interviews to anyone who got a tattoo of its logo at a party in San Francisco last weekend.Jordan Zietz, the cofounder of the small AI automation…
On a Thursday afternoon, about 70 people gathered around a nearly six-foot-tall humanoid robot outside an unassuming office building.Employees, executives, and board members of Agility Robotics, along with local officials, had come to christen the humanoid startup’s new engineering hub: a 60,000-square-foot facility where nearly 200 existing and new employees…
