- San Francisco has visibly changed in the last decade as tech companies and workers have continuously made themselves more comfortable in the city.
- Luxury glass high-rises and tech offices have gone up, and new tech sprouting up on city streets has become so common that an office devoted to regulating emerging technologies is set to launch.
- Here's how some parts of the city have transformed since 2010.
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A lot has changed in San Francisco since 2010.
Ridesharing cars and e-scooters moved in, robots started roaming the streets, and Twitter and Uber planted their global headquarters in the city instead of down south in the Valley like their tech-giant counterparts.
Luxury glass skyscrapers have been erected, and more tech offices have sprouted up.
And perhaps nothing has shifted the cityscape as visibly as Salesforce Tower; the high-rise that houses the cloud-software giant now appears in the distance behind the most iconic views of the city.
The omnipresent tower is emblematic of big tech's growth within San Francisco in the past decade as tech companies and workers have continuously filed into city limits. The tech invasion has visibly choked much of the bohemian spirit out of the city, with decades-old music stores closing and artists being driven out.
Tech money has even enabled projects in the city to come to fruition - the Golden State Warrior's $1.4 billion world-class sports arena, for example, wouldn't have seen the light of day without big tech bucks.
Here's how some parts of San Francisco have changed within the last 10 years and what that means for the city.