Dear Timmy An open letter to Tim Lincecum on the occasion of his probable Giants farewell. By Dan Fost | September 4, 2015 It’s painful to think of this as a farewell letter, although that’s probably what it is. With your hip surgery complete, your contract expiring, and nothing but rehab and uncertainty on the […]
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The IPO Shopping Cart: San Francisco magazine, May 2012
The IPO Shopping Cart Yes, it feels like 1999 all over again. But will the newly minted millionaires from Zynga, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Facebook burn through their cash the way many did in the bubblicious days of the dot-com boom? We talked to financial advisers, luxury sales folks, and people who survived the first bust […]
Power in Numbers: San Francisco Magazine, December 2010
What do you do if the fitness club you’re obsessed with is about to go out of business? If you’re Max Levchin, the multimillionaire cofounder of PayPal, you get your similarly fanatical gym buddies to go in with you to buy the club yourselves. Levchin had been working out for about a year at an […]
Biz 101 for a Growing Crowd: San Francisco Magazine, November 2010
David Abernathy knows about image problems—he dropped out of high school and college, then burned out as an investment banker before starting his own consulting practice. Perhaps that’s why he’s a perfect fit for his new job: As a director of Compassionate Green Financial Services, the only company of its kind in the country, Abernathy […]
Tech Gets a Time-Out: San Francisco magazine, April 2010
San Francisco: April 2010 Tech gets a time-out In this 4,500-word feature for San Francisco magazine, I explored why so many high tech high achievers choose to send their children to Waldorf elementary schools, where there are no computers in the classrooms. The bottom line: The kids don’t need it, they learn the tech later, […]