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JY Studio photographed Business Insider's Tech Insider: Growth Mode at The Pearl SF during SF Tech Week 2026, with Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy, Lime CEO Wayne Ting, and a Fidelity panel on life after IPO. Here's the event, the photos Business Insider published, and what we've learned photographing events at The Pearl SF.
On October 7, 2026, during SF Tech Week, Business Insider hosted Tech Insider: Growth Mode, "From Breakout Company to Enduring Business," at The Pearl SF in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood. Sponsored by Fidelity, the evening brought founders, investors, and operators together for on-stage conversations about venture capital and IPOs. JY Studio photographed the event for Business Insider, and our photos ran in Business Insider's coverage the next day.
As Featured in Business Insider
"A tech crowd was polled on buying Anthropic shares at a $3 trillion valuation. Only 3 hands went up." by Melia Robinson, published October 8, 2026, about the evening at The Pearl SF.
Inside Tech Insider: Growth Mode
The Program
Where Money Is Moving Now
Business Insider chief correspondent Ben Bergman interviewed Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy, who backed Anthropic early. Afterward, Bergman asked the room who would buy Anthropic shares at a $3 trillion valuation. Three hands went up.
Lime's Road to the IPO
Business Insider Editor at Large Katie Roof interviewed Lime CEO Wayne Ting about recovering from a stroke and taking Lime to a $1.7 billion IPO.
Read Business Insider's story on Wayne TingSponsor Spotlight: Life after IPO
Journalist Adam Rogers interviewed Lenka Haase and Jill Hallquist of Fidelity about what changes for a company after it goes public.
Town Hall
The program closed with an open Town Hall, with attendees taking the Business Insider microphone to ask questions from their seats.
Photographing Events at The Pearl SF
The Pearl SF is an event venue at 601 19th Street in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, an industrial-style building with high ceilings, exposed wood beams, a sculptural wooden tree installation across its white walls, polished concrete floors, and a rooftop. JY Studio has now photographed events in both its main hall and on its rooftop, including the NFL Super Bowl LX Marketing Team Lunch on The Pearl's rooftop earlier in 2026.
What We've Learned Shooting at The Pearl SF
Plan for the light to change
Evening programs start in daylight from the high windows and end in the dark under warm uplighting. We adjust through the night so the first session and the last Town Hall match.
Work the angles around a low stage
A low stage in front of theater seating makes it easy to shoot speakers from the side aisles and from the back without blocking the audience or the event's video crew.
Use the room itself
The wooden tree sculpture, beams, and greenery give reception and networking photos a sense of place that a hotel ballroom can't, so we frame for them on purpose.
Follow the move to the reception
When the program ends, guests spread from the seating area to the bar and cocktail tables. That's when the best candid photos happen, so we stay through the reception.
Rooftop events are a different shoot
Daytime rooftop events, like the NFL Super Bowl LX lunch we shot there, call for open shade and skyline backgrounds rather than stage lighting.
See the NFL lunch at The Pearl SF rooftopMore SF Tech Week 2026 Coverage
Tech Insider: Growth Mode was one of two Business Insider events JY Studio photographed during SF Tech Week 2026, along with the AI Insider executive dinner whose photos ran in Business Insider's story on how tech leaders are using AI agents at work.
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JY Studio is a San Francisco event photographer who has worked at The Pearl SF in both the main hall and on the rooftop. We photograph panels, fireside chats, media events, product launches, and SF Tech Week events across San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area.
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