I helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook and now I'm the CEO of Philo. Here's a day in my life in San Francisco balancing work and kids.

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andrew McCollum, the 42-year-old CEO of Philo, based in San Francisco. It's been edited for length and clarity.

A recording of CEO Marc Benioff's keynote was posted on Salesforce's internal site. His jokes about ICE weren't included.

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Marc Benioff

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Slack's new head just denounced Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes in internal messages

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2025.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Gemini 3 is so advanced that he has stopped using ChatGPT.

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AI in the workplace is expanding responsibilities and intensifying work

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Research by the Haas School of Business found that AI expands responsibilities in the workplace.

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Corporate America is taking a lesson from Silicon Valley: Fail fast

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Some companies are adopting a fail-fast mentality.

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Google offers buyouts to staff in its business unit who aren't 'all in'

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Google chief business officer Philipp Schindler.

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3 VCs behind Affirm, DoorDash, and Zoom say the next wave of billion-dollar companies won't be in San Francisco

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Elon Musk said we'd reach Mars in 2026. Now, he says SpaceX is building a city on the moon.

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Elon Musk is seeking as much as $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft

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The guy who coined 'vibe-coding' says the next big thing is 'agentic engineering'

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OpenAI founder Andrej Karpathy commemorated the first anniversary of coining vibe-coding by unveiling a new term.

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The '996' work culture taking over Silicon Valley is coming at a 'human expense,' these AI researchers say

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996 culture is gaining traction among AI workers in Silicon Valley.

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