15 of the most successful companies that started in homes, basements, sheds, and bedrooms

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The garage where Jeff Bezos started Amazon.

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San Jose just authorized plans to build a network of autonomous cars hailed via an app to ferry people from its airport to its railway station

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Mark Seeger. Founder & CEO at Glydways
Mark Seeger. Founder & CEO at Glydways at a testing facility in Concord, California.

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Cash App creator Bob Lee moved out of San Francisco because he thought the city was 'deteriorating' shortly before he was stabbed there, friend says

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Bob Lee, the creator of CashApp and former CTO of Square
Cash App creator, Bob Lee.

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Cash App creator and former Square CTO Bob Lee has died after a reported stabbing in San Francisco

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Bob Lee, the creator of CashApp and former CTO of Square
Cash App creator Bob Lee died on Tuesday, according to MobileCoin, the company he most recently worked at.

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I'm an instructor at the Esalen Institute, a famous wellness retreat near Silicon Valley. Here's why tech executives flock to this oasis of 'transformation.'

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Justin Michael Williams, an instructor at Esalen, with his students.
Justin Michael Williams, an instructor at Esalen, with his students.

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The notion of 'fake work' or coasting in the tech industry has a long history, but experts say it's just an 'excuse for bad management'

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Nap pods at Google's Mountain View Googleplex in 2015.

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I'm an SVB employee who lost more than $1 million. Here's the inside story of our struggle to survive.

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Police officers outside SVB's headquarters in Santa Clara, California on Friday.

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The US is bleeding tech workers to other countries — it needs to move fast or risk falling behind.

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I want a free vacation, buds. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I'm excited about a bunch of compensated travel opportunities coming up. Taiwan is paying tourists' expenses. A northern region of Italy is paying people to visit.

The inside story of hot startup Deel's grow-at-all-costs culture

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$100K apparently isn't that much, pals. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I'm definitely feeling a financial strain in San Diego.

A new study found that if you make $100,000 in NYC, it only "feels like" $36,000. Meanwhile, the same study found that San Diegans need to make even more than New Yorkers to live comfortably. Imagine moving to New York to save some money. Wild.

Tech leaders remain oblivious to the true lessons of Silicon Valley Bank

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Hi, I'm Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today: Sunday Edition, a roundup of some of our top stories. 

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