Monday was another landmark moment in the unfolding story of Joby Aviation, as the company welcomed more than 100 local guests, dignitaries, media members and investors to the opening of its new offices at Sylvania Avenue and Encinal Street. The event featured a few speeches, a ribbon cutting, and then a tour of the former Plantronics office now officially the home of Joby which, one staffer estimated, employs about 300 in Santa Cruz.
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How I Got My Job: Alexandra Navarro sees role as disruptor, model for Latinas in tech
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How I Got My Job: Tech entrepreneur Chris Miller on what it takes to build an IT business
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Into ‘The Candy House’: Jennifer Egan on her timely new novel, ChatGPT and the demise of fiction
Jennifer Egan comes to UC Santa Cruz’s Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday riding the wave of “The Candy House,” which revisits the same universe her acclaimed “A Visit From the Goon Squad” inhabited, but this time with Big Tech in the bull’s-eye.
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Will tech layoffs rear their head in Santa Cruz?
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