If you live or work in the Bay Area, you know the disparities outside our front doors are painful and growing. On one hand, the Silicon Valley economy is thriving. If the region were its own country, it would be one of the wealthiest ones in the world. The area’s success is due, in large part, to the booming tech sector. Many local tech startups like Uber, Lyft, Zoom and Slack went public this year, driving up the number of billionaires populating the region. But at the same time, poverty is alarmingly prevalent — in fact, the Bay Area has the third-largest homeless population in the United States. And unfortunately, inequality levels are only getting worse, with 90% of workers in the region making less money today than they did in 1997 (after inflation). At Okta’s San Francisco headquarters, we have seen these inequities grow in our community, and have.