Housing

“The average rate of inflation in the last 30 years has been two and a half percent, but housing's gone up by at least five percent a year on average compounding, education over six percent, healthcare five and a half percent.”

“AI is disrupting office real estate, but AI cannot and will never disrupt the fundamental need for housing.”

“Oh, we're just not building enough of it. You know, for a million stupid reasons, and we've let existing homeowners close the door to potential homeowners. We treat landlords like enemies. We think the rules of the marketplace don't apply when it comes to hous…”

“70% of CEQA lawsuits are used to block housing.”

“Over the last 20 years, this incredible economy here, Engine of innovation for our country and really the world has created about eight jobs for every one new home we've built.”

“I suspect that at the core root of socialism are those two very specific things, and if we fix those two things, I suspect most of the people Would say, you know what? The system works for me. And then what's left over are the fringe people that will always wa…”

“That virtually all of the reason that housing is so unaffordable is because we don't build enough, and the reason we don't build enough is zoning.”

“Tokyo, gigantic city. Bigger than the city you and I are in right now in New York. Very affordable housing, relatively. Because they build. They build and build and build and build.”

“Housing is so important to the economy. It's 20% of the GDP, right? Five trillion dollar market.”

“So they kind of feel very, very different, but from admin organizational operations perspective We, we've barely been surprised by anything by transitioning to healthcare.”

“70% of lawsuits under CEQA are used to block housing.”

“We see that beacon holders who complete those one-on-ones are likely to exit to housing, employment.”

“One of the biggest impediments to housing in the United Kingdom, and housing is a big deal in the United Kingdom, we don't have enough houses, is we did not build reservoirs 30 years ago.”

“My opinion is much of the inflation in health care costs arises from the federal government's role. In the same way that the federal government has a role in student loans that has driven up the cost of education, and the federal government has a role in provi…”

“There's actually only one reason housing is expensive. Pure regulation.”

“Educational opportunities for more people, housing for more people, healthcare for more people, that's going to be solved through innovation and technology and business, right?”

“So the two main themes that we've been spending time on are one, you know, the lack of housing and two, the price discovery between founders and investors.”

“If you look at kind of all the economic statistics by sector, healthcare, education, housing are basically increasing you know, in terms of cost, you know, at a much faster rate than the, than all the others. And they're the sectors where the tech industry has…”

“Education and housing are, you know, two areas that I think venture capital hasn't touched as much as say healthcare. Like if you look at like the last 10 years, digital health has just grown tremendously and we have, you know, we have a separate bio and healt…”

“Everything has come down the cost curve, like televisions are less expensive, everything is less expensive in consumer land, except for healthcare, except for housing, and except for education. And it's really because technology has not touched those sectors, …”

“You can build all the housing and get everybody off the street housed, but if you're struggling with addiction or mental illness, you're just housed with drug addiction and mental illness.”

“Gagan there used to run Pawai Lake Ventures, which was like this, you know, network of founder angels from IIT Bombay who were reinvesting in founders that graduated from IIT Bombay. And that really worked. They ended up backing, you know, Ola, Housing, Topper…”