Once dubbed “San Francisco’s giant of generosity," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff now principally lives, works, and votes elsewhere. But as he told The Standard, “nobody has given more than my family.”

AI bubble, what AI bubble? This 'cheat on everything' startup took $15M from a16z and other VCs, now offers PTO for employees to do Hinge dates. Bananas story by @ryajetha.bsky.social in the @sfstandard.com. sfstandard.com/2025/07/18/c...

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Here's @sfstandard.com's Margaux MacColl with the best story yet on the Soham Parekh saga. How a perfect-on-paper engineer fooled startup after startup into hiring him. Was he a scammer or just "overemployed"? sfstandard.com/2025/07/04/e...

"The Standard declined to comply." Media companies shouldn't blur the faces of ICE and other agents rounding up immigrants—and citizens! Good on the @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2025/05/29/i...

Read and weep: sfstandard.com/2025/06/09/c...

LUlz. "“I’m trying to hear Charlie,” said a man in a MAGA hat and a “Filipinos for Trump” shirt who declined to provide his name. “I’m trying to hear a good conversation, and all I hear is, ‘AGGHHH.’” Punk show drowns out Charlie Kirk rally at SFSU sfstandard.com/2025/05/06/c...

The Warriors' bench is its own key part of this franchise's ecosystem -- why everybody sits where they do and why it matters: sfstandard.com/2025/05/12/w...

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New from @sfstandard.com: Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are pulling funding from more non-profits, including any that "would sound or even be construed as DEI-esque,” according to a former employee. sfstandard.com/2025/05/13/n...

Nothing but respect for this tactical urbanist king. sfstandard.com/2025/05/10/m...

Amazing. He shot himself on a livestream. Obituaries poured in. Then the @sfstandard.com found him alive and (un)well at his parents' house in SF's Crocker-Amazon neighborhood. sfstandard.com/2025/05/08/j...

Chrissy McGarry says she’s the victim of a defense-tech startup that took the worst traits of Silicon Valley and the U.S. military and combined them. By Margaux MacColl for the @sfstandard.com. sfstandard.com/2025/04/08/s... .

Weeks after Prasanna Sankar began posting on X about his wife's alleged affair and kidnapping of their son, a fuller story emerges based on hundreds of pages of court records and exclusive interviews with the @sfstandard.com. The truth: Sankar isn't telling it. sfstandard.com/2025/04/04/r...

News from @sfstandard.com: SF mayor Daniel Lurie taps Lauren Powell Jobs and Google's Ruth Porat to co-chair a CEO supergroup to advise him on policy. Members include Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, Richard Dickson (Gap), Michelle Gass (Levi Strauss), Tony Xu, and 20 others. sfstandard.com/2025/03/17/l...

Off Menu, a new newsletter from The Standard's brilliant food team @laurensaria.bsky.social & @saradeseran.bsky.social, is a delightful mid-day read. See the latest edition and sign up here >> sfstandard.com/newsletters/...

The @sfstandard.com food team just dropped a new weekly newsletter, Off Menu. It's delicious and you should sign up! Here's where to get it: sfstandard.com/newsletters/ And here's a preview link if you wanna taste test: sfstandard.com/newsletters/...

New from @adamlashinsky.bsky.social: For his top 4 deputies, Lurie has chosen 1 ex-McKinsey consultant, 1 ex-Goldman Sachs banker, and 1 ex-bigtime nonprofit CEO. Starting to feel very, very Bloomberg-y at SF City Hall! sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

New from @eshugs.bsky.social: Time staffers are reeling from Marc Benioff's recent embrace of Trump, and his use of fake Time magazine covers in tweets: “How are we as journalists supposed to do our jobs when that is the look he’s putting out there?” sfstandard.com/2025/01/06/a...

“Criticism is easy,” Breed said. “But actually putting together the pieces of the puzzle to be effective and do the job, and to have the kinds of results that we’re finally starting to see — that’s hard work.” sfstandard.com/2024/12/23/l...

A new cafe on the former location of the Creamery in SoMA — where many a tech deal was hatched in Web 1.0/2.0 days — was burglarized twice! Before it even opened! Welcome to SF, baristas... sfstandard.com/2024/12/19/c...

BREAKING: Nima Momeni found guilty of murdering Bob Lee. sfstandard.com/2024/12/17/j...

Is there a Bluesky version of TPOT? sfstandard.com/2024/12/10/t...

NEW: Luigi Mangione's mother reported him missing to San Francisco Police weeks before he allegedly shot Brian Thompson in NY. #sfnews sfstandard.com/2024/12/09/l...

It's a big day at the @sfstandard.com: We've entered our subscription era! If you love great local journalism; if you value the work of *real* journalists; orrrr if you just want my children to go to college....please become a member! sfstandard.com/membership/

Morning, SF! Anyone else catch the amazing sunrise today? Share your best shots below. Here's one from @jonsteinberg31.bsky.social:

Our hot list is out! Here are the best spots to check out now. #sffood sfstandard.com/2024/12/02/b...

We’re launching our first paid membership to The San Francisco Standard this week. Members will get everything from limited edition merch to exclusive events like a private concert with Rufus Wainwright that we’re hosting with Ken Fulk. www.semafor.com/article/12/0...

Wild @sfstandard.com story just dropped: Ricci Wynne, X poster of homeless people and Fox News guest who loves to trash SF... Is in jail suspected of running a pimping op out of a luxury #sf apartment building More updates to come, by @jonahowenlamb.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2024/11/25/s...

Controversial opinion: If more local news articles had ledes like this, more people would care about things like the fiscal state of their public transit agency. Simple, to the point, a little fun, a bit of edge. @kevinbtruong.bsky.social @sfstandard.com

we're launching a paid membership to @sfstandard.com next month and...it's going to have some very cool stuff for our readers. heh

'This is all he knows’: Incredible story from @sfstandard.com's David Sjostedt. sfstandard.com/2024/11/21/h...

SF mayor-elect Daniel Lurie just named Sam Altman the co-head of his transition team — a very, very Bloomberg-y move. sfstandard.com/opinion/2024...

Looking for cheap(er) eats in SF? Our series "The $25 Diner" hunts down the best restaurants where you can eat like royalty for a song. #sffood Some recents: -Chaa Roen Pohn sfstandard.com/2024/10/23/c... -El Mil Amores sfstandard.com/2024/10/30/a... -AyDea sfstandard.com/2024/09/11/a...

Move over KFC/Taco Bell. We have a combination bagel shop/pizza place/bar/hot spot...called Laundromat. #sffood #sfnews sfstandard.com/2024/11/16/l...

Exclusive: Assemblymember Matt Haney used campaign funds to stay in a luxury castle in Ireland, among other lavish spending uncovered by The Standard. sfstandard.com/2024/11/14/s...

I kind of love the dirt bikes. I don't love it when they go blazing through neighborhoods with a lot of kids, and I hate motorized transport generally. But that's kind of the point. They've got a thing going, and that thing is theirs, FTW. sfstandard.com/2024/11/12/s...