“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.” YearsTwoMovingLeftParentFourGrowingCollegeProductsHorrorAreasBoxesFoundersDylanJuniorsNon StopBay AreaJunior Year Author:Aaron Levie
“It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.” TogetherJobsCultureIndustryAreasDefenseValleysSiliconSilicon ValleyBay AreaCounter Culture Author:Erik Qualman
“The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.” HomeAreasComing HomeComing BackBay Area Author:Richard Serra
“I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.” HouseLeftLinesFourMagicInternetAreasBay AreaFood Banks Author:Andy Hertzfeld
“Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.” HardMovingActorsEasierAreasHollywoodActressesIrelandFar AwayBay Area Author:John Collison
“The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.” CultureWinningTeamAreasCubsBay Area Author:Eric Byrnes
“I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.” BornAreasRaisedAffectionBorn And RaisedBay AreaDeep Affection Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.” WellsGrewGrew UpAreasEarthquakesBay Area Author:Joe Morgan
“By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.” WellsTwoRunningThreeMonthsAreasTheaterDollarsIncludingFinishedDozenTheatricalTwo MonthsBay Area Author:Mira Grant
“What's exciting about the Bay Area, is that people are not waiting for permission from the industry to make movies - unlike Los Angeles or New York, where you can get stuck into that desire of raising a big budget, or working with the studios.” PeopleBigsDesireWaitingNew YorkIndustryAreasExcitingStudiosStuckBudgetsLos AngelesPermissionBay Area Author:Matthew Jacobs
“I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light.” ThinkingHas BeensLightBitsDifferencesQualityRichParticularPaintingAreasDialogueWeatherAtmosphereRollingFogAbstractionExoticGridsBay Area Author:Stephen Beal
“I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in the Bay area, and they taught me about the game. They taught me about the subtleties of the game, but they also gave me the game and let me enjoy it. That's the main thing, whether it's TV or radio. You have to give the fans the game, and if it's a Giants broadcast, the vast majority are Giants fans. In terms of story lines, most would be about the Giants.” IfsGivingStoriesWould BeGamesEnjoyTermLinesGrowing UpGrowingFansTaughtTvsAreasLet MeMajorityRadioGiantsSubtletyBroadcastersBay Area Author:Jon Miller
“ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA revelations played a big part but there are all sorts of other issues too, like inequality and gentrification in the Bay Area, and labor abuses everywhere from Amazon's warehouse, to Apple's factories, to start-ups like Uber and TaskRabbit.” PeopleYearsHardBigsLastsAsksIssuesSeeingMajorsAreasLaborAbuseInequalityApplesRevelationsFactoriesLast YearAmazonNsaWarehouseBay AreaGentrificationHard QuestionsUber Author:Astra Taylor
“The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.” WorldHumansJourneyCenturyAreasAround The WorldSparks21st CenturyInitialsSan FranciscoHuman TraffickingTraffickingBay Area Author:David Batstone
“We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.” GivingChildrenStudentsProjectsAreasEmpoweringAfghanistanNow And ThenEmpowering WomenFundingScholarshipAfghanBay Area Author:Khaled Hosseini
“When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.” ChildrenHandsThreeChurchJourneyCallingBlessingMembersAreasEveningGirlfriendPastorBreakthroughAltarsRestorationNumbMy GirlfriendBaptistsBay AreaLutherans Author:Jonathan Cain
“When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.” UsedLossTreeOceanLowsAreasMovedFilledTinyShoreMexicoTidesFloridaShallowJerseyMeadowsParkingNew JerseyBackyardsParking LotBay AreaGulf Of MexicoShoreline Author:Sylvia Earle
“When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU.” WayTryingSpeakFeltNaturalHappenedDoorsStageNeededAreasMy WayFulfillingNatural ThingsBay AreaNyu Author:Mahershala Ali
“Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.” BookDesireNew YorkAreasReviewsAdsDesperationBisexualBay Area Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.” AreasBaseballThirdsMcdonaldsPayrollBay AreaOakland Author:Sandy Alderson