Writing

A selection of my published articles. I have extensively covered tech and business, and have experience reporting on education and politics

Tech reporting

Features:

• Four years ago, Salesforce hired a rock star executive to show the world how to fix workplace diversity. Insiders are disappointed with the slow progress (Insider)

• Tech's tidal wave of layoffs means lots of top workers have to leave the US. It could hurt Silicon Valley and undermine America's ability to compete (Insider)

• Dropbox insiders say the end of office perks like free food from Michelin-starred chefs and the shift to remote work has upended its culture and made it harder to keep employees around (Insider)

• Silicon Valley's Newest Tech Bus Is an Electric Ferry in the Bay (Bloomberg)

Analysis/Explainers:

• America needs immigration reform, or it risks losing an entire generation of tech workers to countries like Canada, the UK, and Japan (Insider)

• Without radical changes, TikTok could vanish in the US (Insider)

• Zoom warns investors that the app's huge boom in popularity is making it more expensive for the company to do business (Insider)

• Salesforce benefited big time from its investments in companies like Robinhood and Monday.com, but now its stock holdings could become a liability (Insider)

• Why software's subscription model is 'dying' and usage-based pricing is the 'next wave' for cloud services (Insider)

• 6 charts show that tech giants like Meta and Google have still grown like crazy even after layoffs (Insider)

• Salesforce salaries revealed: Here are the six-figure wages the $187 billion cloud giant offers for jobs in engineering, data analytics, project management and more, paying as much as $241,696 (Insider)

• 30 startups creating the future of work that will prosper in 2020, according to VCs (Insider)

Profiles:

• Bret Taylor is officially Salesforce's co-CEO with Marc Benioff, ending over a year of speculation. Over a dozen insiders explain his meteoric rise to the top (Insider)

• Here's how Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has used people-centric policies and a strategic mindset to lead the software giant (Insider)

• The new CEO of Tableau just inherited one of Salesforce's fastest-growing businesses and insiders say he's the perfect leader to step it up without losing what makes it special (Insider)

• Meet Dylan Field, the 30-year-old college dropout who built Figma, one of Silicon Valley's most beloved companies, and is set to become a billionaire when it sells for $20 billion to Adobe (Insider)

Scoops:

• Photo App VSCO’s 200 Million Users, Profitability Signal a Turnaround (Bloomberg)

• AI Chip Startup Etched Raises $120 Million to Expand Supply (Bloomberg)

• We identified the 137 most powerful people at Salesforce under CEO Marc Benioff. Explore our exclusive org chart. (Insider)

• Bret Taylor, the likely successor to Marc Benioff, has quietly taken over important parts of Salesforce's business (Insider)

• Leaked memo: Salesforce's chief equality officer Tony Prophet is retiring after 5 years at the company (Insider)

• Insiders say Salesforce's $6.5 billion bet on MuleSoft is getting slowed down by high employee turnover and tougher competition from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft (Insider)

• Hot $10 billion productivity startup Notion is acquiring Cron, a calendar app backed by top execs at LinkedIn and Figma (Insider)

• $6.1 billion cloud startup Benchling hired executives from top software companies like Atlassian, Workday, and ServiceNow as it looks to its next phase of growth (Insider)

• Asana, which makes an important tool for the shift to remote work, got a $40 million loan in April for construction of a new San Francisco headquarters (Insider)

Breaking news:

• The TikTok CEO's day in Congress was a 'disaster' that means the app will still likely get banned or sold, Wall Street says (Insider)

• Salesforce is buying workplace messaging app Slack for $27.7 billion in its biggest deal ever (Insider)

• Uber VS Waymo trial (CNBC)

• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former president Balwani charged by feds with wire fraud (CNBC)

• From Dallas to Baltimore, these cities are already vying to be Amazon’s new headquarters (CNBC)

Education and Politics

• Richmond schools adapt to growing need for bilingual teachers (Richmond Confidential)

• Debt and Dreams (UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism)

• Formerly Homeless Residents May Face Higher Eviction Rate Than Other S.F. Tenants (SF Public Press)