Zara Stone

Culture/tech reporter @sfstandard | SF life | 🇬🇧➡🇺🇸 | Author "Killer Looks: The History of Plastic Surgery In Prisons." [email protected]

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

exciting update: I'm the new culture reporter for @sfstandard ! fun things in store 😀 Will be covering Bay Area life, biz, tech + people.

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

Books come with disclaimers now? Pubbed may 2026.

[malena @InaccIsland]

dating in sf is wild, one evening you’re grabbing drinks with a billionaire, next you split the bill with a dude who lives in a van.

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

@cremieuxrecueil Advance warning: peptide club is also shoes off.

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

Literally no one is surprised.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I just launched a longevity Rx platform. Prescriptions I personally use are there.

v1 is live now.

Includes access to:

+ Tadalafil (Cialis)
+ Metformin
+ Oral Minoxidil
+ Tretinoin
+ Estradiol
+ Acarbose

We’re working with licensed doctors and pharmacies to make these medications accessible. Lots more in v2 coming next week.

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

@bryan_johnson 💍

[Anna Tong @annatonger]

Five years ago, it was rare for escorts to charge more than $1K per hour. Now, a handful of women charge much, much more: $3k, $5k an hour. $23k a day. $30k a weekend.
Inside the shifting economics of intimacy in Silicon Valley:
https://t.co/zmPrr2rkCp

[Ksenia Moskalenko @kseniam0s]

$220K to work on AI research for 3 months. No PhD. Any background. Most people don't know this exists.

Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) just opened their Research Residency:

- 3 months, full-time in SF or Palo Alto
- $220K annualized
- Open to any quantitative discipline
- No PhD or ML background required
- Visa sponsorship available

If you've got serious analytical chops and you've been watching AI from the outside, this is how you get in.

Rolling applications, limited seats.

→ https://t.co/BWGdJv3nrj

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

@gnikhil335 But how’s the battery life? Charging it feels like a pain point.

[Karine Hsu @karine_hsu]

saw a NY tech week event that's literally

"make the most free throws and win a Rolex" LOL

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

Musk delivery!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Built with Grok

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

Love love love

[Teddy @WarnerTeddy]

i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

[Celine Halioua @celinehalioua]

perpetually shocked by how many people bomb the "tell me about a mistake you've made" question

being able to talk candidly about your mistakes/failures without sugarcoating is a superpower (and a huge green flag re: your growth trajectory!)

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

Peptide startup gold rush continues as more & more vcs ok with publicly backing gray market.

[Drew Fallon @drewfallon12]

FEEL PEPTIDES RAISES $3M SEED

Feel Peptides closed a $3M seed round led by Sugar Capital.

Most of the consumer peptide market still runs through compounding pharmacies, gray market online sellers, and wellness clinics with minimal transparency on sourcing or purity.

Feel is the brand layer when the FDA clarifies its restrictions on popular peptides, a regulatory reset that's been building since 2023 and has more political tailwind now.

Sugar Capital backed Grüns, sold to Unilever for $1.2B less than three years after launch.

Another peptide startup Protocole just raised a $6M seed led by Rare Capital last month.

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

@Noahpinion Shillionaire

[Karine Hsu @karine_hsu]

interesting to see the ~390 fb/ig ads for their peptides + supplements from Enhanced post-Games

[Lauren Sherman @lapresmidi]

Scoop: Michael Preysman, founder of Everlane, is starting something new in reaction to the company's sale to Shein last week. The landing page: https://t.co/y1gaRoMr8I

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

I like this approach.

[Dara Tumenbayeva @_okdara_]

Everyone's trying to fix sleep.

But insomnia isn't the problem. It's the bill.

Burnout, anxiety, panic - they all start the same way: you stop hearing yourself.

Today we're launching Aora. The first device that hears it for you.

@AoraBCI

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[josh hardman @Josh__Hardman]

Psychedelic pharma booths have arrived!