Silicon Valley Bank: SF payroll firm relied on collapsed bank

LATEST March 10, 3:10 p.m. Rippling relied on Silicon Valley Bank to process its customers’ employee paychecks, but when the bank suddenly collapsed, the human resources startup had to quickly pivot. The firm’s CEO, Parker Conrad, posted an update Friday afternoon, saying that though SVB’s systems indicated that payments were processed, money hadn’t actually gone…

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Staying alive: SF family-owned funeral home celebrates 100th anniversary – SFChronicle.com

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but the business of death is changing.Funeral homes that have been around for decades have been closing around San Francisco as sons and daughters of owners pursue other careers. Morticians are cashing out in the hot real estate market by selling their building sites for bigger housing developments. Duggan’s…

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