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Bay Area
Silicon Valley Asian candidates’ campaign posters hit with hate graffiti
Two Asian American political candidates in Milpitas, California, have been targeted with hate crimes twice within a week. Campaign signs for...
Ryan General
Entertainment
Silicon Valley tech guru Andrew Chen marries former Miss Ireland in Utah desert
Former Miss Ireland Emma Waldron and Silicon Valley tech guru Andrew Chen were recently married in Moab, Utah. Picturesque ceremony: The cou...
Economy
World’s 50 richest cities list: Singapore now has more millionaires than Hong Kong
Singapore has overtaken Hong Kong in its population of millionaires, according to a new report. Hong Kong, which previously ranked fourth in...
Michelle De Pacina
News
150-year wait to get a green card: Indian H1B visa holders hold protest in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley tech workers from India held a demonstration in front of Representative Zoe Lofgren's (D, CA-19) home in San Jose, Cali...
Politics
Gay AAPI lawmaker reportedly removed as committee chair as ‘revenge,’ replaced with straight white male
In an alleged act of “revenge,” California Assemblymember Evan Low, an openly gay Democrat representing Silicon Valley, was remo...
Carl Samson
Silicon Valley investor steps down from company’s board after leaked email showed her calling BLM ‘the true racists’
Less than a week after a leaked email showed her dismissal of the Black Lives Matter movement, a prominent Asian American investor in Silico...
Editorial Staff
Indian American Tech CEO Forfeits $1 Million Salary to Avoid COVID-19 Layoffs
A CEO of a tech company in Santa Clara, California has decided to forfeit his own salary to save his employees and company during the COVID-...
Bryan Ke
Clerk Fired From Silicon Valley Supermarket for Xenophobic Remark Against Asian American Woman
A supermarket clerk in Silicon Valley was fired after her xenophobic remark against an Asian American woman amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The ...
Technology
Startup Founders Discover Innovative New Way to Recycle Plastic
Meet Jeanny Yao and Miranda Wang, the co-founders of Silicon Valley startup BioCellection, a company that seeks to improve plastic recycling...
Instagram
Startup Prodigy Brian Wong Charged With Sexual Assault from Incident at SXSW
A man who gained recognition in Silicon Valley as one of the youngest entrepreneurs to receive venture capital funding has formally been cha...
Meet the ‘Crazy Rich Asian’ Teaching Others ‘How to American’
I was first introduced to Jimmy O. Yang after seeing him on HBO’s “Silicon Valley” where he plays Jian-Yang, a Chinese app devel...
Benny Luo
She is Suing Google For Allegedly Letting Tech Bros Grope and Slap Her at Work
A female software engineer who previously worked at Google sued the company for creating a “bro culture” that got her slapped, groped and se...
Business
Silicon Valley Startup is Now Selling a Drink to Make You ‘Super Human’
A Silicon Valley startup is now selling what it believes is the fourth type of fuel for humans, casting carbohydrates, proteins and fats asi...
Uber Investor Files Lawsuit After Being Accused of Rape in London Penthouse
Shervin Pishevar, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist and an early investor of Uber, is suing Definers Public Affairs and two of i...
Asia
Silicon Valley CEO Ruins 2 Years of Chinese Designer’s Work With a Single Tweet
Naomi Wu, 23, is known in China’s tech world as “SexyCyborg,” and has become the target of ill-informed misogynists far from her city as she...
Another VC With Yellow Fever Accused of Sexually Harassing Asian Woman
In a recent post, TechCrunch writer Catherine Shu went into detail in describing an incident involving 500 Startups Venture Partner Tristan ...
Asian Female Founders Are Banding Together to Fight Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley
A group of female Asian entrepreneurs, who have had enough of the growing sexual harassment scandals in Silicon Valley, have taken it upon t...
Beloved VC Accused of Sexually Harassing and Forcing Himself on Asian Female Founder
Merely a week after a creepy white venture capitalist in the form of Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital was exposed of preying on Asian femal...
Silicon Valley Bro Calls Mother ‘F*cking Cambodian N*gger’ in Front of Her Little Daughter
A California woman on a bike ride with her 9-year-old daughter was called a “bitch” and a “f*cking Cambodian n*gger” by a white Silicon Vall...
Khier Casino
How a Homeless Son of Vietnamese Immigrants Landed a $100K Job in Silicon Valley
Armed with a dream, determination and only $250 in his bank account, Preston Phan left his home in Seattle to give in to the allure of Silic...
VC Says He Made Huge Mistake Partnering With A White Guy Thirsty For Asian Women
Jonathan Teo, co-founder of Binary Capital, has released a statement regarding his experience with his former partner, Justin Caldbeck. Cald...
Heather Johnson Yu
White VC Allegedly Tried Bribing Asian Woman He Harassed With Startup Funding
Justin Caldbeck, a venture capitalist who reportedly sexually harassed multiple Asian female founders, just keeps digging himself a deeper h...
Silicon Valley VC Accused of Sexually Harassing Multiple Asian Female Startup Founders
Six women have come forward to openly allege prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Justin Caldbeck, of unwanted sexual advances, repo...
How a Trip to China Inspired One Man to Launch a 7-Figure Snack Business
Roger Jin’s desire to become an entrepreneur was already brewing inside him when he was still a teenager. The passion was so great that the...
Indian Techie in Silicon Valley Reveals the True Struggles of H-1B Immigrants in Moving Film
Being an H-1B immigrant in Silicon Valley has proven to be a frustrating experience for Rishi S. Bhilawadikar. In hopes of making others und...
India’s Silicon Valley is Installing Vertical Gardens Everywhere
Bangalore, India’s version of Silicon Valley, has taken a cue from Chinese cities’ recent green revolution by creating its own vertica...
The U.S. Just Made it Harder for Foreigners to Get Work Visas
Expedited processing for all H-1B visa petitions will be temporarily suspended beginning April 3, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servi...
One Asian Janitor in SF Made $276,000 in Over Time Pay Last Year
A BART station janitor in San Francisco earned more than a quarter million dollars in total pay last year, a research group discovered. Acco...
She Was Living Off Ramen Noodles to Build Her Startup, Now She’s Filthy Rich
One 26-year-old Silicon Valley CEO knows a little something about money after starting her first business at the age of 11. Jessica Mah is a...
Top Silicon Valley VC Firm Hires First U.S. Female Partner — And She’s Badass
Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s greatest VC firms, has finally hired their first U.S. female partner. Starting in November 7, Jess ...
Woman Documents Her Horrid Experience Getting Scammed By a Silicon Valley Startup
Few things are more inspiring than Silicon Valley’s startup scene, but every now and then, startup dreams can turn into absolute night...
One of Silicon Valley’s Most Famous Investors Just Irked All of Silicon Valley
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel’s anticipated speech on Thursday at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland earned him a thunderous ap...
Silicon Valley Has Two Harsh Words That Sum Up Chinese Investors
China has been pouring an insane amount of money into business ventures in many parts of the U.S. — and many entrepreneurs are lining ...
President Obama Hints He May Head to Silicon Valley for His Next Job
As President Obama’s eight years in office comes to an unfortunate end, the soon-to-be former-Commander-in-Chief is considering what his nex...
Retired NFL Star Patrick Willis is Now Killing It as a Silicon Valley Executive
Star linebacker Patrick Willis shocked football fans when he left the NFL last year at the peak of his career. After eight fruitful years, t...
Silicon Valley Has a Vulnerability Problem
Editor’s Note: Maren Kate is an entrepreneur and founder of Zirtual. A few of us sat in a swanky restaurant, the air was warm and sm...
Maren Kate
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