Mark Gustely is the owner of the Starbuds Cannabis Club in Santa Rosa,north of San Francisco.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

His other passion, yachting, is making its mark on San Francisco as warm-up events for the 2013 America's Cup yacht race kick into gear.

FORBES: Larry Ellison

When he was a penniless San Francisco musician, Mark Bittner, the hero of this documentary, became a self-taught parrot authority and bonded with the species.

NEWYORKER: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

On stage at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Zynga chief Mark Pincus said that 320 million people had played Zynga games to date.

FORBES: Zynga: 320 Million People Have Played Our Games