Anna Tong
120 Articles published
Silicon Valley’s Elite Call This Man for ‘Experiences You Can’t Google’—Like Hanging With the Warriors
A Bashful Brit Stayed at Her Airbnb. Then She Married Him
San Francisco Police Tried To Get a Stolen iPhone Back. Now It’s in China
Inside the $30K-Per-Night British Virgin Islands Outpost of San Francisco’s Premier Private Club
‘Love Is Blind’ Star SK Alagbada Swears Off Love—For Now
This Crypto Startup Was Worth $1.5 Billion. It’s Now Said To Be Shutting Down
Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty
The ‘World’s Only Private Ski’ Resort, Where Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates Hit the Slopes
As Downtown Struggles, This Exclusive SF Club Where Justin Bieber and Warriors Stars Partied Thrives
The Low-Key SF Neighborhood Where Airbnb and Instagram Founders Live
Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents’ Beautiful Historic Home—It Even Has a Pool
‘X-Rated Acts’ and a Violent Pit Bull: Black SF Leaders Demand Police Action
Watch Dramatic Rescue From SF’s Worst Apartment Elevator
What It’s Like to Buy Ketamine Online
SF Elections Commission Move Boss Replacement Plans to Closed Meeting
I Got Prescribed 75 Doses of Ketamine in 5 Minutes Online. Is That Good or Bad?
Who Is SBF’s Lawyer? A High-Profile Lawyer With Celeb Connections
No Classes for Sam Bankman-Fried’s Stanford Professor Mom Next Year
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Stanford Professor Dad Cancels Classes
FTX Contagion: BlockFi Bankruptcy Wipes Out Billions for 400,000 Everyday Americans and Investors Like Peter Thiel
They Bought Steph Curry’s NFTs On FTX. Now Those NFTs Are Gone
Watch: The Extraordinary Saga of Sam Bankman-Fried and the Collapse of FTX
Private School and Lefty Parents: Inside FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Charmed Upbringing
‘He Seduced Everybody’: FTX Investor Says Sam Bankman-Fried Hoodwinked the Whole Venture Capital World
Brooke Jenkins Officially Wins District Attorney Race, School Board Appointee Ann Hsu Now Behind
Everybody in SF Except This Population Voted Overwhelmingly to Boost Funding for Schools and Libraries
Vacant Homes Tax Passes, Fate of School Board Candidate Ann Hsu Uncertain
Election Update: Prop. E Loses, District 4 and Prop. D Races Remain Too Close To Call
Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Brady, Gisele Lose Billions in FTX Crypto Exchange Collapse
New Election Results: Housing Measure Prop. D Still Slightly Behind
With 40% of San Francisco Ballots Uncounted, Here Are the Paths to Victory
SF Voters Starkly Divided by Neighborhood on Rival Housing Measures
San Francisco’s Crypto Love Affair Sings a Swan Song—But Could Blockchain Save the City?
San Francisco Startup Offers Free Fentanyl Test Strips, Delivered in 10 Minutes
YIMBYs Ate the World—Except for SF. Now Its Founders Are Up to New Tricks
Cryptocurrency and Airbnb Had a Baby, and It’s San Francisco’s ‘House of Web3’
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Gloves Off: Super PAC Attack Ads Flood the Sunset Supervisor Race
Seven Mind-Blowing Startups Competing at This Week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Conference
Wealthy San Franciscans Battle It Out On These November Ballot Issues
SF District Attorney Race: Who’s Winning the Fundraising Battle?
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman on Why He’s Been a YIMBY Since Day One
San Francisco Police Are Spying on Drug Dealers From Office Buildings, Apartments
Large Turnout & Crowd Control Issues Punctuate First Day of Portola Music Festival
The Q&A: With Dreamforce in Full Swing, New Moscone Center Head Talks Plan To Win Back Conventions Post-Covid
Dreamforce Is Back, and SF’s Tourism Industry Couldn’t Be More Thrilled
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Long a Champion of San Francisco, Keeps a Low Profile on the Crisis Facing Downtown
Meet the Woman Stockpiling Cash to Sue San Francisco Over Housing Deadlock
Leanna Louie’s Last-Ditch Effort To Remain on the Ballot Fails
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‘The Dust Is Very Toxic’: Everything Our SF Standard Editor Packed for a Week at Burning Man
Booted From Ballot: Controversial SF Candidate Disqualified for Failing to Prove Residency
Supe Candidate Leanna Louie Implies Veteran Jewish Journalist is a ‘NAZI’ in Online Rant
The Cheap San Francisco Gas Station Where Drivers Come From Miles Away to Fill Up
See Inside the Lavish Party Pad of San Francisco’s Biggest Hater, Keith Rabois, as It Gets Another Price Cut
San Francisco ‘Amazon Tax’ Backers Want To Axe It As Amazon May Not Be Affected
City Investigating Sunset District Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie for Possible Residency Fraud
It’s a Vibe: Gen Z is Happy With San Francisco’s Jobs and Lifestyle, According to Latest Studies
Scion of SF Coffee Dynasty Attempts Run for District Attorney, Realizes He Needs to Be an Attorney to Qualify
Amazon’s Biometric Palm Scanning Coming Soon to SF Whole Foods
As Downtown San Francisco’s Recovery Lags, a Tangle of Business Taxes Encourages Work From Home
SF’s Revenue From a New Homelessness Tax Fell 45% Last Year as Companies Moved and Workers Stayed Home
Meet Chesa Boudin’s #1 Hater, Now Running To Represent SF’s Sunset District
The Standard Tracker: Here Are the Return-to-Office Policies of SF’s Public Companies
San Franciscans’ European Summer Vacations Ending In Baggage Nightmares, Customer Service Purgatory
Sorry, Haters: The SF Bay Area Is Still the Startup Capital
$5,000 Bonuses, Pet Insurance: SF Restaurants Embrace Corporate-Style Perks Amid Historic Labor Shortage
Easy Come, Easy Go: How Tech Fueled the Boom and Bust of San Francisco Office Work
SF’s Venture Capital Deals Dropped Precipitously in June
Against the Tide: Startup Incubator Y Combinator Is Back In Person, Saying SF Is Still Where the Action Is
Leaving SF for a Vacation Abroad? Here’s How to Navigate the Overwhelmed Passport Bureaucracy
Get to the Airport Early: SFO Passengers Report Hours-Long Security Lines, Restaurant Closures