New York

“Now I think they rent more nights, ah, every night in New York than Hilton Hotel.”

“We have more American bank headquarters here in London than in New York.”

“Which it just re-got again from New York this year.”

“I think a person in Shanghai feels a lot closer to the person culturally, kind of what their day-to-day needs are to a person in New York or San Francisco or London or Berlin versus kind of maybe even the rest of China or rest of India or so forth.”

“Our founders are saying, let me launch immediately in London, Berlin, maybe even in New York, actually. So they're really going after urban spread rather than any kind of geographical bias.”

“And so the sales rep that initially in San Francisco and New York sold three restaurants a month, The same reps, in most cases, seven, eight years later, were selling 20.”

“Where Putin annexes Crimea, part of the sanctions that the United States government passed to kind of penalize Putin is to say that transactions can no longer happen in Crimea that are centrally routed in San Francisco or New York.”

“From my perspective, we have to remember that in every American city, with the possible exception of New York, more space is devoted to sleeping cars than sleeping people.”

“Because the growth motion, which I'm going to talk about, is really a marketing led motion, B to B startups can now really come from anywhere. And that's just not been the case in the past. There's really been very, very few centers for real strong B to B comp…”

“There was only three black furriers in the country. There was one called the, he was the most popular, the black furrier in New York, and there was two in Chicago”

“Where they argued quite convincingly that if we built enough housing in the Bay, in New York, and a couple of other places, American GDP would be higher by 14% or more.”

“Like a very large percentage of the top taxpayers in New York, which is a lot of the tax base have moved to Florida because it's finance and finance as opposed to tech”

“I think somebody said it's like, 5000 families in New York are half the tax base, or maybe it's more.”