Silicon Valley Proptech Association

02/18/2026

Wishing you a healthy, happy, auspicious and prosperous Year of the Horse!

01/10/2026

“I don’t want to be a millionaire. I want to be a billionaire.” — Russ Hanneman, Silicon Valley Sitcom ( HBO).

California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax isn’t law (yet), but the reactions already tell a story about status, mobility, and fiscal math. Let's dug into the numbers:
➡️ How many billionaires California has
➡️ What the proposal could raise per year for the next 5 years
➡️ What the tech economy already contributes through volatile income-tax flows.
➡️ How that compares to the state’s budget reality

👇 Full article and a very personal opinion in the full article bellow.

PS. Russ would like to know how do your car doors open : spaceship or like a normal car? Same energy.

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-want-billionaire-california-version-global-invest-forum-gfi-a4ywc

12/23/2025

I’ve been spending some time with the World Bank’s latest charts on AI innovation, and they’re quietly unsettling.

Nearly all AI models, funding, research, and patents are concentrated in high-income countries, while most of the world’s population sits on the margins of that picture. Not because people elsewhere lack skills or ideas, but because AI depends on things we rarely talk about enough: data that can be trusted, institutions that cooperate, and systems that connect technology to everyday economic life.

For countries still formalizing land markets, housing systems, healthcare records, or city planning, AI isn’t a shortcut — it’s a mirror. It reflects what already exists.

Which is why building the foundations matters more than chasing the latest tools.

02/01/2025

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7291285729744162817

It was a real treat and lesson in Silicon Valley entrepreneurship with one of the valley's legendary figures, the founder of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, RJ Rodgers in a live podcast interview with Shawn Flynn, the founder of and producer of The Silicon Valley Podcast. Cypress Semiconducto...

01/30/2025

There have been a few days since the launching of a China based company released a competitive and cost efficient AI product, enough to throw the US markets and tech companies stocks into frenzy.

Here is a good cheat sheet from .

01/30/2025

01/23/2025

Web3 in real estate : promises and challenges. Last week I had the chance to attend a rather super technical presentation for a non developer like me, but I tried to soak up every word, logical explanation and to understand the applicability in business of a new generation of web3 tools, where virtually anyone can build a community and monetize it too and also the new opportunities and progress made for a better integration between web3 and AI applications and also for different chains integration. That brought me back to the web3 applications in real estate and what are the industry adoption promises and challenges for 2025.

In 2024, Web3 adoption in real estate faced mixed results. While the broader Web3 ecosystem grappled with regulatory uncertainties and market corrections following the 2022-2023 crypto downturn, certain projects demonstrated measurable success: Tokenization pilots gained traction, particularly

01/11/2025

Which were the best and most efficient AI tools and apps in 2024? The top tech VC’s weighted in and come up with this list.

The VC’s tested hundreds of them and have spoken: here the best AI tools in 2024, covering different aspects of a business and according to the top tech…

10/07/2024

Tech Week is back throughout many major cities in the U.S. and San Francisco is hosting a variety of tech events, covering not only technologies but also economic sectors and verticals. Technology in governance, building community with diversity and inclusion in mind, urban mobility and planning are conversations we need to have now more than ever. Silicon Valley Proptech Association is a proud event partner of San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development for “Gov/ Tech SF-The Future of Public Innovation”, an event that unites visionaries and policy makers for a day of discussions, presentations and demos, and networking on Tuesday, October 8,

TOPICS AND DEMOS INCLUDE:
- TechSF: Connecting Talent and Opportunity
- Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, and IT: Preparing the next generation
- Leveraging Public Funding
- AI for Good, and Good for All
- Generative San Francisco: Regenerative Tech, AI, and Community
- The Future of Workforce and Tech in San Francisco
- Challenges in growing innovative companies
- From Vision to Venture: Lessons from Top VCs
- Web3 and GovTech: Decentralization in GovTech
- Robotics and Mechatronics

Are you a tech leader, founder, or entrepreneur eager to make a lasting impact in the public sector? Gov/TechSF is your opportunity to explore how technology…