At Santa Cruz Works (“SCWorks”), one of our New Year’s resolutions was to create an energetic new board of directors. The formula we used to select our board included has five (5) values we deemed essential for our community’s vibrant tech ecosystem.

Community leaders gaze into the crystal ball to predict the year ahead. You decide if their predictions for past years have been foretelling and accurate.

We are in crisis. The realities in San Francisco and Silicon Valley set a very bleak stage. Where do you call Home?

This week, backed by an amazing amount of in-depth research and impeccably reported by Leonardo Castañeda, The Mercury News dropped the truth bomb that just 10 entities own about 11% of all the taxable property in Silicon Valley—that’s $59.2 billion of property