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Jeff Elder

(He/Him)
  • Senior Manager, Social Media Lead, Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco
As seen in: Medium, Business Insider, Business Insider Singapore, HuffPost, MSN India, The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, SFGate, Chron, Yahoo and
Covers:  None—I'm not a reporter anymore.
Doesn't Cover: I do NOT cover NFTs, crypto, cyber, or anything else anymore.
Screenwriter, #SFGiants fan, cat lover. Former Knight fellow at Stanford, investigative reporter at WSJ. Briefly the world’s worst bouncer.

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Jeff Elder’s Biography

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No longer a reporter. I do social for cybersecurity. I don't want your pitches,.

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How SF tech giants are navigating a successful return to the office - The San Francisco Examiner

How SF tech giants are navigating a successful return to the office - The San Francisco Examiner

Kat Nobles takes part in a Zoom meeting in a conference room at the cybersecurity firm Okta at the company's …

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76 of the most promising enterprise startups of 2021, according to top VCs

76 of the most promising enterprise startups of 2021, according to top VCs

From productivity tools to data management services, enterprise technology is changing how companies conduct …

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Here's why hedge fund titan Dan Loeb, famous cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs, and Ashton Kutcher...

Here's why hedge fund titan Dan Loeb, famous cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs, and Ashton Kutcher...

Cybersecurity startup SentinelOne is going public Wednesday, aiming for an $8 billion market cap. The startup…

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RadiumOne Worked to Save IPO Amid Scandal

RadiumOne Worked to Save IPO Amid Scandal

A venture capitalist with political ties sought to help Silicon Valley entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal "do whate…

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Tech workforce almost entirely white and Asian, data shows. - Digits - WSJ

Tech workforce almost entirely white and Asian, data shows. - Digits - WSJ

The Silicon Valley workforce is overwhelmingly white and Asian, according to newly released corporate reports…

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Tech titans conspired on hiring, wages

Tech titans conspired on hiring, wages

Some of tech's biggest names-Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, Bill Campbell-conferred and squabbled and…

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Drop those bad remote work habits now

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By Jeff Elder
| Welcome to the Jungle
Workers seem to love remote work. Too bad it may be killing them. On the one hand, it rescued many from pointless commutes, helped them to crank up productivity, and gave them a new form of work-life balance. On the other hand, it led to some hunching over laptops on the couch for long stretches, damaging their physical health, mental health, and sometimes even relationships. Welcome to the “It’s complicated” love affair between employees and remote work.
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Dreamforce returns, bringing business travelers and their credit cards

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By Jeff Elder
| The Bradford Era Verified
Dreamforce, San Francisco’s biggest conference, has returned in full force to the SoMa neighborhood for the first time in two years, filling sidewalks and restaurants and hotels with 40,000 Salesforce users who bring business tourism that The City desperately needs. The conference, which began Monday with badge pickup and ends Friday morning with a presentation summing up the week's events, will bring $40 million in revenue to The City, the company says.
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The Golden Hoodie and laptop sticker swaps - inside the world of Dreamforce

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By Jeff Elder
| The San Francisco Examiner Verified
There’s a boulder in the middle of Howard Street that you can pick up with one hand. Birdsong is being piped in through speakers, and a 30-foot artificial waterfall splashes down, a perfect backdrop for business travelers’ photo opportunities. After two years of absence, Salesforce has once again erected the fantasy forest world of Dreamforce, The City’s biggest conference, in downtown San Francisco.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I shot photos for the Stanford Daily when I was 15.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, as a young reporter. I vividly recall writing a review of "Taxi Driver" on a Corona electric for The Stanford Daily.

How is social media changing news?

It's making it much, much faster - and more shallow.