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TechCrunch May 8, 2026 at 22:32 Startups Rising Hot

San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind

The invisible force behind all of this is no mystery to anyone paying attention to the city's tech economy. San Francisco is home to some of the most valuable private companies in the world, and their employees have been quietly accumulating — and, increasingly, cashing out — fortunes.

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