About San Francisco: The Tech capital of striking inequalities, between the GAFAMs and the homeless
Like "Twitch" or"Front", they have to attract worldwide talents to grow fast, and the recipe to keep them is easy : game rooms, free cafeterias, flexible working hours, digital detox… it almost feels like home. This tech rush comes with a price and the social divide has never been so acute with booming poverty rates and over 10% of the bay area population being homeless. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Introduction ▷ 00:12 - San Francisco: a city that is becoming the exclusive domain of the very rich ▷ 03:50 - A technology capital where tomorrow's world is being invented ▷ 05:30 - In the footsteps of a French engineer living in Oakland in the face of property inflation ▷ 10:00 - Twitch: an example of Silicon Valley start-ups where everything is done to attract the best engineers ▷ 15:10 - TwichtCon ▷ 19:00 - Front, the American dream of a French woman, Mathilde Collins ▷ 24:10 - Silicon Valley, the heart of San Francisco's wealth with the GAFAMs ▷ 29:31 - Naveen Jain, former top executive at Microsoft, one
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