OpenAI, Anthropic, Pear VC sublease sizable office spaces in SF; ‘I sold rugs for 17 years, so I have some skills in negotiation’ Ten years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo Alto that was enlivened by bright, computer-themed art. Last week, the outfit — which closed its largest fund to date in May — quietly inked a deal to sublease 30,000 square feet of “Class A” office space in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood from the file-storage giant Dropbox. It’s among a number of fast-growing outfits taking up more space in San Francisco as an earlier generation of companies shrinks its physical footprint. As the San Francisco Chronicle first reported last week, ChatG… Click below to read the full story from TechCrunch
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