What a great event to end the dacade with! Thank you to everyone who came out. If you missed it, don’t worry, we have you covered. Here are a few pictures and videos.

When I first decided to transition from the action sports industry to tech, I was told I would need to learn how to golf. Times have certainly changed! In this recent Crunchbase article, author Mike Marg of InterviewX describes his journey from real estate into tech beginning in 2011.

Out of nearly 6,400 U.S.-based investment partners listed in Crunchbase at the time of writing, an astonishing 8.15 percent of them are named either “David,” “Michael,” or “John.”

Welcome to the fourth annual “Fearless Five” – the five companies that made the boldest and most audacious media-tech moves of the year put together by Forbes Magazine.

CruzHacks 2020, the annual student-run hackathon at UC Santa Cruz, will be held at the Stevenson Event Center from January 17 to 19.

The Santa Cruz Tech Exchange is Santa Cruz’s #1 resource for all things tech! They buy, sell, trade, service and repair Apple & PC laptop computers, desktop computers, pro audio, home audio / visual, dj gear & more!

This week we had the opportunity to sit down and have an interview with Ethan Summers, Anne-Marie Napoli and Alex Lamb from Almost Human Media.

Imagine our surprise to learn that smaller classes and even text books are not the remedy for better education. This is what Esther Duflo Nobel Prize-winning Economist has learned in her research.

New Santa Cruz company Prometheus Fuels has a unique product for creating gasoline out of thin air. This could be the stop-gap solution we so desperately need.

Santa Cruz company SapientX, a leading supplier of AI powered voice assistant software, announced that Zia now speaks 36 languages and dialects allowing them to serve 5.3 billion potential users.

Togo’s Franchisee and Community ‘Man of the Year’ Greg Wimp Is Bringing the Brand’s New Look and Feel to Downtown Watsonville. Greg is a strong supporter of Santa Cruz Works.

Thank you to productOps for inviting us to check out The Garage, their new space to build innovative hardware and software. Learn about some of the projects and who they have been working with in the video…

In past years, a committee at Santa Cruz Works has carefully selected each Titan of Tech based upon community feedback. This year, we are soliciting more direct member feedback: we want your recommendations!

Areias Systems is a local Scotts Valley based company providing full service design, prototyping, and manufacturing to turn your ideas into products. Joining us on December 4th’s event, CEO Clemm Noernberg will provide insight on the behind the scenes process of making ideas reality.

Thank you to everybody who came to the Young Professionals Mixer on November 20th. The event was cosponsored by Santa Cruz Works, MBEP, Think Local First, LINK, and YFIOB and was the first of its kind in the Santa Cruz area.

Women Who Cowork is a membership platform for femme-identified coworking space operators around the world. Our mission is to amplify the coworking movement by providing women with support, resources and mentorship.

In Part 4 of our series comparing living and working in Santa Cruz vs San Francisco or the Silicon Valley, we talk to local entrepreneurs about our best kept secrets.

In Make Me Smart podcast # 135, “Your Outfit is Trash”, our tech heroine Molly Wood interviews Dana Thomas. We learn that a garment in the US is only worn 7 times before it is tossed into landfill.

Santa Cruz welcomes a new member to our community: Aaron Slosberg. Aaron is the Director of Student Programming at Where There Be Dragons (“WTBD”), a 28-year old company based in Boulder, Colorado.

Minutes before we went live on this week’s newsletter, we learned that UCSC’s Girls in Engineering was awarded a $10,000 grant by Amazon Santa Cruz. The full story at Santa Cruz Tech Beat.