Early in the design process, Arad was teamed with the landscape architect Peter Walker, who shares his minimalist sensibility, and they have made the space around the two footprints a handsome and restrained civic square, with oak trees, benches, and light poles giving the place a kind of quiet, firm order.

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We see websites listing tax debtors, a kind of modern day equivalent of putting people in the stocks in the town square.

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Khosla has invested in tech companies like Square, as well as clean tech companies and food startups like a new kind of vegetarian meat company.

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