Exactly what the CEO told us: “It wasn't that peer-to-peer lending didn’t work, it was hard to scale.”

LendingClub CEO says name 'no longer reflects what we do or what we stand for,' rebrands as Happen - San Francisco Business Times As LendingClub takes on a new name, CEO Scott Sanborn says home improvement loans are coming soon.

LendingClub for nearly 20 years has promised the dream of a previous generation of the internet: Taking out the middleman and letting people deal with each other.

Now, the CEO admits that dream is dead. It is just a bank, and will no longer be called LendingClub

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Exact same age Cook was when he took over.

Tim Cook chose 4/20 to be like, "I'm a billionaire, I don't need to put up with this anymore."

Toke away, Tim.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

It's always hilarious when the discussions in the group chat mix with the social media discourse

Pubic school, LOL - the typo every local newspaper editor lives in fear of

oh so now it's illegal to put on a little play with your friends

Made it to Saints Smokehouse in Oakland about an hour after it opened.

As we got in line, the mac and cheese sold out.

As we got to the register, the ribs sold out.

As we got our smoked wings and brisket, they announced everything was sold out, about 2 hours after opening.

Get here early!

Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security. theatln.tc/SS6krazR

I don't know who needs to hear this — anyone? everyone? — but whatever you do, do NOT give Sam Altman your eyeballs. You will never get them back and you have no idea what he'll do with them. If anyone asks you for your eyeballs, you should run away as far and as fast as you can.

How did anyone in that crowd stop from busting out laughing at this idiot by a dozen words into one of the most famous diatribes in movie history being read as an actual prayer?

AI executives can only promise to build a digital god that might destroy the world, declare that they're going to replace a vast swath of everyone's jobs, and work directly to subvert democracy for so long before people, some of whom *take their words at face value*, will decide to act.

Here are my top 10 dog and news reporter interactions!

Bay Area Council names former Oakland mayor as next CEO — Here are her priorities - San Francisco Business Times The next CEO of the Bay Area Council is a former Oakland mayor, who explained why she took this job and her priorities in an interview with the Business Times.

Former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf had not taken a permanent full-time job in 3+ years since leaving city hall - until now.

I spoke with Libby on Sunday about her next role as CEO of the Bay Area Council, why she picked this job and what she will prioritize.

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Artemis II splashdown!

New from me on @reuters.com: Anthropic is starting to explore the possibility of designing its own chips, per sources. Details and more info in the story.

Hell yeah, such a great series, can't wait to see the TV version

my best guess is that a Trumpian Pentagon official, high on his own supply as they all are, thought "get your boss to play ball or we will do an Avignon on him" would genuinely intimidate AN 80-YEAR-OLD CARDINAL FROM FRANCE, which is perhaps the funniest thing anyone has ever done at the Pentagon

“.. Better TACO Tuesday than World War III,” said one European official ..

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I've never read an @esksf.bsky.social column that would have the average San Francisco Business Times reader vigorously nodding and likely fist-pumping.

Until today.

Any Christian who voted for a man who would threaten to bomb civilian infrastructure in a foreign country in this manner on Easter Sunday should pray for a lot of forgiveness today.

ROSENBERG, on jobs data:

“.. If there was a blemish, it was that the workweek sagged -0.3% to 34.2 hours. .. in a holistic sense, .. payrolls actually declined by -284k: Tack on the revisions, and it is really -353k. .. Sorry, but we are not gullible enough to be a buyer of this report ..”

It's honestly kind of mind-blowing that this is the first time in over fifty years that anybody has been able to take a picture like this. Images of the earth are completely familiar to us, but a human hasn't pointed a camera at the whole planet for half a century.

cover the magazine The Economist. chinese president Xi Jinpingnis off to the right with a smile on his face while trump is out of focus on the left but we can see his big squishy mouth is open in mid-speech (almost certainly saying something absolutely inane). the headline over all of is NEVER INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY WHEN HE'S MAKING A MISTAKE

woof.

Embarrassing, ESPECIALLY on April Fools Day.

Gilead and its new HIV prevention drug are in the sights of a well-known humanitarian group - San Francisco Business Times Gilead and its new HIV prevention drug are in the sights of a well-known humanitarian group.

Doctors Without Borders calls out Gilead on lenacapavir access www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

As a Braves fan, I was very excited to see him come in after Strahm and Erceg