Business Editor

Kevin Truong

Fed by venture capital and scientific talent, Bay Area startups are aiming to redefine what’s on your plate. 


Dying should be optional. That’s why the new breed of bros are injecting themselves with Chinese chemicals. 

A strategy developed during the AIDS crisis has fallen out of favor in the fentanyl epidemic. Its advocates say people will die. 

San Francisco could glean some strategies from how Detroit has revived its neglected Downtown.


With Brock Purdy about to — theoretically — sign a big extension, the team is closing out some tabs a bit earlier than fans may have expected. 