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How the Dream of Building a California City From Scratch Got Started

What if you built a new city from the ground up? The idea has tantalized urban planners and utopian dreamers for centuries. In 2017, Jan Sramek joined their crusade.Mr. Sramek, […]







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Happiness or Success? Salesforce’s Marc Benioff Doesn’t Want to Choose.

Many years ago, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist monk and spiritual leader, posed a question to Marc Benioff, the co-founder and chief executive of Salesforce.“What is more important, being successful […]




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‘Recession Resilient’ Climate Start-Ups Shine in Tech Downturn

But the stakes are too high to be cynical, climate entrepreneurs and investors said.“There’s a bigger fight to fight,” said Elisa Jagerson, an investor at Wildcat Venture Partners. “Everything else […]




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What Comes Next for the Most Empty Downtown in America

For the optimized office worker looking for the trifecta of fast, healthy and filling, few meals are more efficient than a pile of veggies and some dressing swirled with tofu […]




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A Frustrating Hassle Holding Electric Cars Back: Broken Chargers

The federal government is doling out billions of dollars to encourage people to buy electric vehicles. Automakers are building new factories and scouring the world for raw materials. And so […]




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Russian-Speakers in Tech Rebuild Their Lives in San Francisco

He soon founded a nonprofit social network for entrepreneurs called Mesto — the Russian word for place — hoping to boost the start-up market in Russia and other parts of […]




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Start-Ups Flock to WeWork, Trellis and Other Low-Commitment Spaces

When Melissa Pancoast moved her financial literacy start-up, The Beans, into a WeWork office in San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower last May, most of the offices around her were rented out […]




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House Hunters Are Leaving the City, and Builders Can’t Keep Up

River Islands, the development where the Namayans hoped to live, is in Lathrop, Calif., which has a population of 25,000. It sits about a half-hour beyond Altamont Pass, whose rolling […]