Korean food seems to be having a moment at the same time David Chang’s Ugly Delicious is becoming a hipster favorite on Netflix, kimchi taco trucks are popping up all over California and K-pop band BTS dominates the pop music charts. While Silicon Valley’s Koreatown in Santa Clara can’t compare to the massive one in LA, there are still…

The NBA season is upon us, and I couldn’t be more excited! A big part of my lifelong basketball obsession has been seeing how players with widely different skill-sets and personalities can still come together to become an effective team. At the risk of sounding self indulgent, it really does remind me of the different…

When people hear about the free food in Silicon Valley tech companies, they usually picture copious amounts of dishes elegantly prepared by Michelin starred chefs. My friends outside the Silicon Valley bubble love asking me about the free food, but is it really as delicious and sumptuous as they imagine it? For whatever reason, white…

One of my favorite ways to kill time is to read articles about Silicon Valley culture. It’s always an article written by a journalist who lives in some other place, who embeds him or herself in some siloed-off Silicon Valley subculture (the VC world, Googlers, blockchain entrepreneurs), and goes on to write an article as…

Mitsubishi, Nissan, BMW, Ford, virtually all of the major car manufactures these days are now making electric cars. With the help of government subsidies in Europe and around the world, electric cars have grown 60% year over year since 2015 as cars are becoming cheaper and cheaper for people to buy. As more electric cars…

I remember first hearing about Bitcoin back in 2012. I was working at Amazon at the time. A couple guys from my development team were huddled around one co-worker’s screen. We were pretty fascinated by the concept, yet we didn’t take it too seriously. Bitcoin cost just $7 at the time, it was very interesting,…

My Silicon Valley Quest as a Jobless New Grad in an Economic Crisis. What I learned as a recent college graduate on a rampage to get a corporate job during the global financial crisis.  By the end of this May, another round of new college graduates will be commenced and entering into the work force. Many of…

Back in 2010, Rakesh started his company specializing in mobile application development in Ahmedabad, India. He started with only 1,000 US dollars (roughly 70,000 rupees), an empty office with a few plastic chairs and zero infrastructure. Today, Rakesh’s company, Space-O Technologies, overlooks 3000+ mobile applications with over 20 million downloads, has powered 25+ successful startups…

When most folks in Silicon Valley think of going on a date, they immediately think of heading up to San Francisco. And it isn’t a bad idea. Between the great restaurants, exciting nightlife, and amazingly beautiful views, there’s a reason why everyone who lives and works in the valley prefers to play in the City……

In my ten years working at tech companies in Silicon Valley, I’ve worked on a few projects that have been described as “sinking ships”. Usually, these projects have been stuck in managerial hell, with a revolving door of top leadership cycling through trying to “right the ship.” More often than not, some aspect of the…