That way a customer can choose to rent a tech product via their favourite online store powered by Grover.
In San Francisco, a company called Doze allows businesses and events to rent high-tech, $11,000 reclining nap pods by the month.
The debate comes amid an extraordinary housing crisis in Oakland where skyrocketing rents and tech-induced gentrification has led to mass displacement.
It's set in the indie-style world of a low-rent high-tech start-up, where two young inventors, Aaron (Carruth) and Abe David Sullivann), issuing rapid-fire science talk with an air of cool authority, hide a new project — an anti-gravity device — from their two skeptical business partners.
As more and more people move to the Bay to work in tech, rent and cost of living continues to skyrocket — making it even harder for the people who don't work in tech to stay.
Much of the building boom here so far has been for apartments with high rents, geared toward tech workers.
Thrill seekers can rent a high-tech mountain bike, ride the gondola up Ajax Mountain and take a death-defying run down its world-class ski trails.
Vlad Shmunis, the firm's Ukraine-born founder, says it wanted to be near another big university that could be a source of smart employees.Soaring salaries and extortionate rents in big tech centres encourage start-ups to hire elsewhere.
Additional revenue can come via renting WeWork's tech stack and staffing WeWork managers to foster community and keep the space running smoothly.
The team saw such great feedback that they built out a stand and started renting out the tech, which sends Phhhotos to party-goers phone as an SMS attachment, for professional events.
Across the Bay Area, that impact is becoming clear: Black and Latino populations, especially, have been driven out by the high rent prices in tech-heavy neighborhoods.
