Emily Shugerman
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wealth and power reporter @sfstandard. previously @thedailybeast @Independent. words in @thecut @guardian. email: [email protected]
New York, NY
Joined February 2014
The inside story of how the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative lost its way (including Priscilla's response to the inauguration, secretly taped meetings, and interviews with a dozen+ insiders).
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Current and former staffers spill on what brought Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's personal philanthropy to abandon its progressive values
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how am i supposed to write under these conditions (every single group chat blowing up about taylor engagement).
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how am i supposed to write under these conditions (every single group chat blowing up about taylor engagement).
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very excited to read @mjnblack's new substack and also thrilled that someone is making this point
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New: The Battery is selling off its proposed second location in Oakland, saying the $9.8 billion building “wasn’t the right fit.”
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RT @reeyopeeyo: SF is so back and so are the superyachts! . @eshugerman on all the pleasure cruisers parked in the Bay: . .
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Nature is healing. The superyachts are back in the Bay.
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Nature is healing, the super yachts are back in San Francisco ❤️
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Oh look, more billionaires failing to live up to the Giving Pledge.
Is Larry Ellison pulling out of the Giving Pledge?. Ellison says he is "amending" his pledge. He is "concentrating" his resources on a for-profit company, and the Pledge generally wants its donors to give to nonprofits. We investigate.
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RT @reeyopeeyo: Here’s everywhere the $40 million movie about Sam Altman was filmed in SF this summer:
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and here's our story on the closure of The Primary School, since people seem interested:
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s tuition-free low-income private school has had its funding pulled by the billionaire family foundation, parents say.
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absolutely stunning: at the same time Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pulled funding from a free school for local kids, they were running a private school for their own children out of their house
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RT @reeyopeeyo: “Burned by a decisive loss in last year’s presidential election and frustrated with how party leadership handled the race,….
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Bay Area big-money donors are holding back on federal spending this year, as Democrats scramble to keep up in the fundraising fight.
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New from me: Some leading Silicon Valley Democratic donors -- including Laurene Powell Jobs, Dustin Moskovitz, and Michael Moritz -- appear to have gone dormant this year, giving nothing to major Dem PACs. A local donor advisor told me donors are "more [discouraged] than I’ve.
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15 years ago, some of Silicon Valley's biggest names pledged to give away half of their wealth in their lifetimes. How's that going?. "Across nearly every example, there’s proof that the Giving Pledge is unfulfilled, unfulfillable, and not our ticket to a fairer, better future,".
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“We are the kings of distribution and the kings of virality.". @reeyopeeyo spent the day with the startup everyone is talking about.
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Cluely’s 21-year-old CEO wants to put AI chips in your brain. But first, he's throwing a $1.5 million rave
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