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tech culture reporter @sfstandard . ex @business @theinformation @buzzfeed . tip me

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@Priyasideas
Priya Anand
3 months
NEWS: I’m joining @sfstandard , where I’ll be covering all things tech culture. It’s become a must-read for so many in our city and I’m excited to help build something new!
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Priya Anand
4 years
People need to understand just how insidious and routine racism is in the tech industry. Please read the personal stories many Black entrepreneurs shared with me and @mcbridesg .
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Priya Anand
1 year
The elder-care startup Papa became worth $1.4 billion by offering a kind of TaskRabbit for seniors. But caregivers and seniors have reported sexual harassment and assault allegations, internal records show New investigation, by me:
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Priya Anand
2 months
I'm up and running @sfstandard , where I'm covering all things tech culture. This is an expansive, undercovered beat -- all ears for tips and story ideas. DM for signal
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Priya Anand
3 years
news: Amazon sells lots of Alexa devices during the holidays. For customers, the novelty fades fast. There have been years when 15% to 25% of new Alexa users were no longer active in their second week with the device, according to internal documents ? 🧵:
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Priya Anand
3 years
Asian Americans in Silicon Valley are often told they "dont count" as a minority. Yet they face subtle but ever-present discrimination. @ellenhuet and I dug into what it's like to be the majority minority in Silicon Valley for @BW
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Priya Anand
1 year
Inside the fiasco at Daily Harvest: chants of “kale yeah,” vegan marshmallows & what it means when customers get violently ill after eating food from a Gwyneth Paltrow-backed startup that promised to help you get healthier. With @courtneybrubin for @BW
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Priya Anand
3 years
News: Amazon is working on a 15-inch Echo, an Alexa soundbar w camera, more wearables. Also exploring developing baby monitoring + health features to track temperature, sleep snoring, breathing. with @markgurman
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Priya Anand
3 years
If you need some joy right now, I recommend listening to @TheSporkful ’s mission impastable series. Every episode makes me literally laugh out loud while making dinner. Thank you Dan Pashman!
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Priya Anand
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SF's hottest club is … Shack15. It has everything: Coworking space. Bay views. AI events. A VC firm. Sound bath yoga. Vibey DJ sets. Even its own podcast.
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Priya Anand
4 years
should we all just go back to sleep and try again tomorrow?
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Priya Anand
3 years
Alexa costs Amazon a ton of $$$. But now we have a better sense as to how much. The company projected the fixed costs alone for the division would hit $4.2 billion in 2021
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Priya Anand
4 years
Honestly this is so depressing
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Priya Anand
4 years
if you are looking to read about...something else...for a few moments: i wrote about how the tech industry's embrace of remote work leaves behind some of the chefs, cooks and dishwashers who staffed lavish office cafeterias for @BW
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Priya Anand
3 years
as we approach the fifth hour of this hearing, i have finally figured out why it looks so familiar
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Priya Anand
1 year
Papa calls itself "family on demand" for seniors. Our investigation, based on more than 1,000 internal complaint records, reveals allegations of sexual harassment and assault, & other unsafe situations -- for both @join_papa 's elderly users and workers.
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Priya Anand
1 year
a16z founders + adam neumann fawned over saudi arabia this morning. they said the country "feels like" a startup. Adam added, “It’s leaders like his royal highness that are actually going to lead us where we want to go.”
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Priya Anand
2 years
there is so much money sloshing around and people are making stuff up to try to get some of it (and attention) story with the great @mcbridesg
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Priya Anand
1 year
Today @SenBobCasey sent @join_papa a letter saying our investigation into the co raises "deep concerns" + asking a lot of qs about its safety practices & complaints. & Papa announced new trust/safety measures More here (click for link to original story)
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Priya Anand
3 years
Amazon has tried many things — even an Alexa-powered microwave — to get users to engage with the voice assistant in new ways. Still: Alexa users discover half the features they'll ever use within their first 3 hours of using it, per a 2019 document
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Priya Anand
3 years
Since the pandemic, schools have become surveillance hubs. NYC schools and entire states use GoGuardian, which tracks & analyzes the online activity of 23 million+ students across the country story for @BW with @mhbergen
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Priya Anand
1 year
Amazon made its own Twitch channel and says it is among the top ones on the platform. A closer look indicates it may not be as popular as the company says. With ⁦ @cecianasta
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Priya Anand
11 months
NEWS: Major insurers, including Humana, Aetna and Molina, have declined to renew contracts with @join_papa , after our @BW report detailed extensive allegations of abuse from seniors who rely on the service, and its workers.
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Priya Anand
3 years
I should have known that asking Alexa to play “tere rang balle balle” would not work
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Priya Anand
3 years
thinking about the dumb Indian food take while eating my mother’s chole bature with achari chilies and onions for lunch. disappointing that such ignorance gets published and also if you have bad taste don’t blame an entire diverse country’s many cuisines.
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Priya Anand
3 years
If you work at Reddit (or used to) and want to chat about your experience there, DM me for my signal #. Happy to talk through how working with a reporter works and what “on background” means.
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Bloomberg
3 years
Reddit, the platform that helped fuel the meme-stock frenzy, confidentially files for an IPO
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Priya Anand
3 years
if you read @BradStone 's absolutely crazy story about jeff bezos and didn't order his upcoming book about amazon, what are you even doing? i promise im not just saying this because he is my boss
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Priya Anand
4 years
i love cooking and baking and i cook and bake all the time and i have for years but i have no desire to make bread. but someone gifted me sourdough starter so now i feel burdened help
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Priya Anand
3 years
you can raise like a billion dollars even if you think banana is spelled like this
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Internal Tech Emails
3 years
Elizabeth Holmes's daily schedule Circa 2005–2009
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Priya Anand
3 years
@joshtpm Would be nice if you linked to the article where you learned this :)
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Priya Anand
1 year
makes sense given ben and marc were so publicly fawning over saudi arabia on stage in miami last week. (and good eye as usual, @KateClarkTweets )
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Kate Clark
1 year
Sanabil, the venture arm of Saudi Arabia's $620 billion sovereign wealth fund, is an investor in nearly 40 U.S. venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners and Coatue Management. w/ @beckpeterson
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Priya Anand
3 years
So...what has replaced the handshake? Asking for a friend who is going to the office and will meet many colleagues for the first time after joining the newsroom during a pandemic
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Priya Anand
1 year
I assume this is every Indian-heritage 90s kid’s regular background music, right? Cc ⁦ @snigdhasur
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Priya Anand
4 years
dms open, email in my bio. if you are considering sharing your story, i am listening.
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Priya Anand
6 months
Looking forward to joining @AirTalk shortly to talk about my Zyn story and the controversy around nicotine pouches
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Priya Anand
2 months
So excited for this and truly everything @ellenhuet makes
@ellenhuet
Ellen Huet
2 months
📢📢 NEW PODCAST LAUNCH: season five of Foundering is here! in this five-episode season, we dive into the contentious story of OpenAI we also explore an urgent question: Should we trust Sam Altman? episodes 1&2 are out now, 3-5 available early for Bloomberg subscribers 🎧✨🎧
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Priya Anand
3 months
@business @BradStone Tech culture is an essential San Francisco beat, and one that is undercovered. All ears for tips, story ideas, intros.
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Priya Anand
2 years
Justin Zhu was fired for using LSD. Now he's suing, claiming that was an excuse and the real reason for his termination was his East Asian background. from me and @mcbridesg
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Priya Anand
5 months
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Priya Anand
3 years
it should not take three days of incessant refreshing, blood, sweat and tears to book vaccine appointments for the elderly
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Priya Anand
3 years
if you have never put achar in your salad i am here to tell you it is excellent
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Priya Anand
1 month
12 cybertrucks and a high-fiving robot: I went to last night’s tech “gigarave” on the USS Hornet aircraft carrier so you didn’t have to:
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Priya Anand
4 years
@mhbergen @tsgiles What kind of group did I join 🙅🏻‍♀️
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Priya Anand
2 months
"For all the consternation about San Francisco’s challenges—shoplifting, homelessness, feces on the sidewalk—the audience appeared to be…not particularly San Franciscan"
@sfstandard
The San Francisco Standard
2 months
A debate about crime in cities drew hundreds, but is it even a debate if most minds are made up?
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Priya Anand
9 months
Ellen is amazing and her WeWork podcast is very, very good and you should absolutely listen to it.
@ellenhuet
Ellen Huet
9 months
canoes full of beer! Summer Camp! the Creator awards! WeLive! WeGrow! The power of We! If you want to revisit all the WeWork wildness, highly recommend the first season of our podcast Foundering -- 7 episodes on the WeWork saga (i'm biased but it's good)
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Priya Anand
2 months
@sarahfrier Have you heard of @sfstandard 🙃🙃🙃we have even more news you can use!
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Priya Anand
4 years
did you leave SF during the pandemic? are you now back in the city due to the wildfires raging all around us? tell me your story about life in this surreal time.
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Priya Anand
3 months
@business @BradStone First day is in a few weeks but nonetheless want every tip and all the goss 🔥
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Priya Anand
6 months
Why do you see live llamas at AI events? We investigate: PS. the llama-raisers don't love it!
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Priya Anand
3 years
News: amazon has considered developing an Alexa wearable with GPS for kids ages 4-12 that would allow parents to track them. Also working on a Disney-branded gadget, karaoke mic. Privacy advocates have criticized children-focused Alexa devices
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Priya Anand
4 years
An update Tujhe dekha to yeh jaana sanam Roti bananna hai deewana sanam Ab yahan vapas na aayenge hum Frozen rotis ki baahon mein marjaye hum
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Priya Anand
4 years
@TonyRomm Add rosewater, crushed pistachios, figs, honey
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Priya Anand
3 years
Lots of interesting revelations about Jeff Bezos's old pet project. Last year, Amazon projected the smart speaker market — which it pioneered with Alexa devices — would only grow about 1% over the next several years, according to the documents
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Priya Anand
3 years
interesting story by @cityofthetown on uber's continued struggles to make pool work post pandemic. the question is whether ridership will totally tank the way it did in 2017 when it was really trying to make uberpool work ()
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Priya Anand
4 years
hello california tech people! has your power gone out at all in the last few days? how are you dealing?
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Priya Anand
2 years
Deats on how much $$$ amazon spends on Alexa + how few things people use it for here:
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Shira Ovide
2 years
I mean, it is fascinating that Amazon is asking itself whether its Alexa project is worthwhile.
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Priya Anand
4 years
does your company use expensify? is there now internal debate over whether you should or shouldnt talk about politics at work? dm me!
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Priya Anand
3 years
@Lucas_Shaw @mhbergen @josheidelson @BW Nobody is allowed to make fun of mark in front of me. Mark was the first real person I met in sf and he was nice and I will fight you
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Priya Anand
4 years
@coryweinberg @sarahnferris @chloesorvino Miss the sound of someone running up the stairs to urge me to scold someone else for being too annoying during prodo
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Priya Anand
4 years
I don’t think I’m that deep into Indian twitter but if even one desi appreciates this I will feel seen
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Priya Anand
3 months
Thanks to all at @business for a fantastic four years, but especially @bradstone , who brought me on four years ago.
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Priya Anand
3 years
@sheeraf You should host the daily every day
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Priya Anand
6 months
just discovered there is an ai company called @chai_research -- if there is not masala chai in the office 24/7, this is a huge missed opportunity
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Priya Anand
1 year
@Katie_Roof oh no i'm so sorry to hear that. we detail instances of theft that Papa's elderly users have dealt with too.
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Priya Anand
1 year
@MikeIsaac wait do you actually use that many containers of tomato paste in one batch?
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Priya Anand
24 days
"Fishback declined to comment for this story as the nudist values his privacy."
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Jon Steinberg
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“Siri, show me the most SF story ever written.”
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Priya Anand
4 years
the pandemic has changed life for all of us but for the class of 2020, it's really a trip. imagine starting your first job from your childhood bedroom, doing zoom calls while surrounded by old trophies and toys ?
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Priya Anand
2 years
New: senators Warren & Markey are questioning school surveillance companies on how they’ll handle students’ abortion and reproductive health-related searches after the overturning of roe v wade
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Priya Anand
4 years
@CiaoSamin @abrowntable help! My oyster mushrooms have turned yellow along the edges. If I cook these and eat them, will I die?
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Priya Anand
4 years
@Scaachi No my mother instead says “what is that” and then when I reply she says “doesn’t look like it”
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Priya Anand
1 year
Several people in the last 24 hours have told me they think these numbers are 😵‍💫😵‍💫 Thoughts?
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Priya Anand
2 months
@JoeJackson2345 @sarah_cone @edwinarbus @dieworkwear @skillissuenyc hi, we spoke with multiple stylists and that the images are captioned appropriately. please read the captions if you are looking for more information on the photos. thank you for reading and sharing our work!
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Priya Anand
3 years
@eringriffith @MikeIsaac italian tuna salad. chop up celery, add capers, lemon juice or a vinegar, herbs, white beans if you have them. good way to get rid of a bunch of celery
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Priya Anand
2 years
@MikeIsaac @davidwtaintor Try on toast w peaches and mint and evoo or honey
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Priya Anand
3 years
The parking lot next to Red’s used to be a Covid testing site that regularly had long lines. Now the testing tents are gone. Love to see us get here
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Priya Anand
4 years
death by constant b-unit mismatches
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Priya Anand
4 years
@SAFmedia salpal i am digging your newfound inner peace
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