Where to work
- SHACK15 — Ferry Building, founder-heavy, great food and coffee and views
- Founders Inc — Fort Mason, hardware and AI
- Frontier Tower — vertical village of floors
- Corgi Cafe — the epic founder-centric café with unmissable orange branding
- Hej!Workshop — IKEA-inspired space on Market Street
- WeWork Salesforce Tower — SoMa offices in the tower
- Sightglass Coffee — multiple locations, good coffee, laptop friendly
Where to train
- HYROX San Francisco — race season plus gym prep classes
- Barry’s SF – FiDi — treadmill classes, social crowd
- Midnight Runners SF — music-led evening run crew
- San Francisco Road Runners Club — weekly group runs and track
Jobs
- Work at a Startup — Y Combinator company jobs
- Wellfound — startup roles, salary upfront
- Clera — AI-native recruiting and startup roles
- Paraform — recruiting marketplace for startups
News, events, culture
- SF Standard Daily — city news in five minutes
- The Waggle — the city’s most-read gossip column, from the SF Standard
- SFIRL — SF in real life, events and city guide
- michelleefang on X — weekly must go events listing for the bay area
- startertosf.guide — newcomer guide to San Francisco
Major events
- SF Tech Week — October, hundreds of side events
- SF Climate Week — Late April, citywide climate program
- GDC — March, Moscone, games industry
- Cerebral Valley AI Summit — November, invite-led AI summit
Where to stay
- Hayes Valley — cafés, startups and SHACK15 around the corner
- The Mission — taquerias, parks and the classic founder flatshare
- Noe Valley — sunny, calm, stroller-and-engineer territory
- Nob Hill — central, hilly, big views, older buildings
- Marina / Cow Hollow — fit crowd, weekend runs along the water