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...Matkovic, 36, grew up in the Bay Area and moved to San Francisco for college and to launch a tech platform for the retail industry, where his wife, Kerina, also works....
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...“I’m always going to be the bad guy in some people’s eyes,” he said as we sipped at our coffees in San Jose....
...The peculiar thing is that this has all happened just as robotaxis arrive on the streets of San Francisco....
...The couple to our right were gourmets from San Francisco, one of whom worked at David Barzelay’s two-Michelin-star restaurant Lazy Bear....
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...May 16 to 19; further information and tickets here Performance Swan Lake, Hong Kong Ballet The world premiere of San Francisco Ballet resident choreographer Yuri Possokhov’s revival of Tchaikovsky’s classic...
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