Bay Area Ventures welcomes a new weekly contributor, Owen Thomas, Business Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Today, host Doug Collom talks in depth with Owen to explore the current pulse of San Francisco, chatting about Unicorns and Exits among Bay Area companies, hypergrowth in the city, and homelessness and Proposition C on Bay Area Ventures. Owen’s weekly contribution, “Bay Area Beat,” will start this Monday 1/7/19 at 7PM Eastern with Bay Area Ventures, occurring the first ten minutes of every show.

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