San José, California—If you want to see American exceptionalism reduced to its purest, most comically earnest form, forget the aircraft carriers or the moon landes; come to CEFCU Stadium on a Saturday when San José State University (SJSU) is playing football. To the outside world, the Spartans are a curiosity: a mid-tier program in a…
Omaze: The Golden Ticket Factory Where Dreams Are Packaged in USD, EUR, and Existential Dread by our correspondent in the Duty-Free Lounge of Disillusionment Somewhere between the duty-free Bulgari store and Gate 42B at Heathrow, an email pings: “Win a Tuscan villa & a Lamborghini for £10.” The sender is Omaze, the Los Angeles-based sweepstake-cum-conscience…
SAP Center: Silicon Valley’s Coliseum Where Code Meets Chaos By Our Correspondent, who once watched a hockey fight break out during a blockchain keynote—San José, California. From the moment you step off the VTA light-rail and inhale the mingled aromas of churros, burnt clutch, and existential dread, it’s clear the SAP Center isn’t just another…
**Andreessen Horowitz: The Venture Capital Empire That’s Quietly Reshaping Your Digital Future (Whether You Like It or Not)** In a world where billionaires casually purchase social media platforms for fun and your grandmother now asks about cryptocurrency at Sunday dinner, one venture capital firm has mastered the art of being everywhere while remaining largely invisible…
UC Berkeley: The World’s Most Expensive Protest Theme Park By Dave’s Locker International Correspondent If universities were cocktail parties, UC Berkeley would be the guest who shows up late, spits in the punch bowl, and still ends up running the karaoke machine. Perched above San Francisco Bay like a caffeine-withdrawn oracle, this 155-year-old campus has…
Stephen Ehikian, a name that sounds like it should belong to a Bond villain’s accountant, has quietly become the most interesting man in Silicon Valley—and, by extension, the world. While you were doom-scrolling about melting ice caps and the latest celebrity divorce, Ehikian has been stitching together the global digital nervous system with the nonchalance…
