Cities

“Guys, like, we should watch for this in the autonomous car space too. Cities may get acute and start doing things like that. And what they did on scooters, they could do on cars.”

“When it comes to housing, just to slightly switch topics, the fees that cities can assess, one-time fees can add 20% to the cost of a project.”

“So anyway, I think within five to 10 years, we will at least see cities where these things become ubiquitous, and then I think at the very least we'll have directionally Answers to some of these things.”

“So one of my goals in my lifetime is to eliminate most cars in most cities. So if we put a 25 year metric on that, by twenty-fifty, we should be able to eliminate that. Now, there isn't another person in the world who told me that's reasonable. I'm pretty sure…”

“If you're gonna replant your, the sort of commanding heights of your economy on knowledge work, then what you're gonna do is you're gonna slam basically all economic growth into the cities, right? Because you're, which is what Silicon Valley has done, right? S…”

“What happens is from a political standpoint is the cities that are run right there in, in, in, in their local democracies, it's these super high end kind of, you know, very progressive elites. And then it's sort of the clientele underclass. Right. That you kno…”

“For me, it feels like actually a little bit of a beginning of a wave that's going to continue to sweep over this country starting in cities, and I think that we're at the very early stages.”

“And then we realized our cities are already paying between five to 20,000 dollars for trip counters.”

“Yeah, so year one, we charge cities 750, and then we scale up to 1200 per individual device as we get further along.”

“There's the reason why small towns, there's a main street where everything happens, and so then you start realizing that the density problem is not as complicated as you might think, and they won because they were able to take the profits of the suburbs to go …”

“If you're still on your journey, I do think cities are, they're not just a place to go have fun. They are a utility that you pay for. Like, there's a reason also people are like, oh, if you live in Berlin, you pay this much for an apartment. But if I, if you j…”

“The way I think about these NFT projects is the goal is to evolve them more like cities in a bottom up way. So you create these assets in these communities, and then people build applications around them, and it comes bottom up.”

“Cities, 25% of the average city is parking spaces.”

“I actually think we are very much on track to replace most cars in most cities in 25 years.”

“I believe, as an optimist, we can replace more scars in more cities in the next 25 years.”

“It almost seems deterministic that if a city becomes successful, it basically, the local homeownership, whatever political base devotes itself to preventing the construction of new housing.”

“If you look at consumption, how much water is consumed, agriculture is the biggest consumer, and then cities, then the power sector.”

“I think there will be more cities. They will be more differentiated and opinionated, and they will be more welcoming. They will have a recruiting department.”

“High intensity urban farming, which is fundamentally a game of data, genomics robotics and AI will for the first time since we actually had cities in from 9000 BC, allow cities to be self-sustaining in their food”

“Political divisions within cities, I think will start to decline, but economic competition between cities will rise. Right. So Democrat versus Republican within cities will fall.”

“I don't think the cities are going to let the scooter companies be profitable or be meaningfully profitable.”

“The analogy would be in blockchains that the more people are using the network, like, the more valuable the currency, because the currency is what powers all the commerce, and that, that's sort of like the tax, and that goes, you know, to the value of all the …”

“Curb space is essentially given away almost for free, and that'll stop.”

“And I think generally speaking, you're going to find states being much more laissez-faire and cities being prescriptive.”

“If you mean racially segregated, cities are more racially segregated. Suburbs are not. So that's a mixed story.”

“Crypto networks are actually much, much more like cities, which could be Considered a specific kind of organism than they are than they are like individual organisms or firms or coral reefs.”

“So hesitant to say, just given a lot of natural preferences that go towards cities, that AVs are going to really disrupt things that much.”