I’m San Francisco bureau chief at Forbes. I’ve been covering the tech industry from Silicon Valley since about the time of the Netscape IPO. I've worked at The New York Times, Fortune, the Industry Standard, the San Jose Mercury News, Wired and the Los Angeles Times. Over the years, I’ve written about chips, PCs, software, security, the Internet, mobile, digital media, VCs and startups. Before becoming a journalist, I worked as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems and as a professional mountain guide. Follow me on Twitter