The list presents a small window into the movers and shakers in the Silicon Valley.
Who Owns Silicon Valley?
Silicon Valley is one of the most expensive real estate markets in the United States. While it’s known that a handful of tech companies are huge employers, what’s less obvious is that these firms are also some of the Valley’s biggest landowners. We spent nearly a year looking at half a million property records to figure out – Who Owns Silicon Valley? This series was produced by KQED, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo. It is part of Reveal’s Local Labs initiative, which supports lasting, sustainable investigative collaborations across the country.
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