Oakland
other on 17 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes · said 42 times in 39 episodes since 2016
Top Founders 7 
How I Built This 6 
All-In 6 
TBPN 5 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 3 
My First Million 2 
Capital Allocators 2 
20VC 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
Another Podcast 1 
Cheeky Pint 1 
American Optimist 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
Sourcery 1 
Catalyst 1 
the Green Blueprint 1 
the MAD Podcast 1
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2026 12 mentions in 12 episodes 1 per episode
- GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
- What comes after the data center backlash?
- SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Advice Line with Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation
- Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- AI Profits Surge, $70B Capex Surge Raises Investor Concerns, Automated Skin Exams | Diet TBPN
- Inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk Courtroom
- China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
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2025 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
- AI, M&A, and the Future of SaaS: Lessons from Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, Co-Founder and Chair
- We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
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2024 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- SaaStr CRO Confidential: How to Raise in Late 2022 with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond of Founders Fund
- How To Get Billion Dollar Business Ideas From Investment Bankers
- Sukhi’s Gourmet Indian Food: Sukhi Singh and Dalbir Singh
- E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
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2021 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 224 Communities use Seva to Manage Volunteers, Raising $1.5m on $6m Now
- Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
- 20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- Ashby Monk – Innovation in Institutional Portfolios (Capital Allocators, EP.196)
- The history of doom-scrolling
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2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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7 statements about Oakland, every show
Elon Musk's $134B Lawsuit Against Sam Altman Goes to Court in Oakland
“The first is Elon Musk's hundred and thirty four billion dollar lawsuit against Sam Altman goes to court today in Oakland.”
Langley: Oakland crime rose when San Francisco started adopting Flock Safety
“It's like when San Francisco started adopting Flock, Oakland crime went up. So then Oakland needed to adopt Flock.”
Dhar Mann launched a 15,000-square-foot 'Home Depot of weed' in Oakland
“So I started what later became known as the Home Depot of weed, and it was a 15,000 square foot hydroponic store right by the Oakland airport where we sold all the supplies patients would need to grow their own cannabis. Not the actual plants or any flower, ju…”
Distributors cut off Dhar Mann's hydroponics supply after cannabis press coverage
“So the night of our grand opening, I got contacted by the big distribution companies saying they were cutting us off from receiving any product.”
Sukhi Singh's Oakland deli made max profit selling 15-cent coffee for $1
“And it was the maximum profit making business because coffee only costs you 10 to 15 cents, and you sell it for a buck.”
Back to the Roots outsourced mushroom kit manufacturing to Gourmet Mushrooms
“What we were doing in our warehouse in Oakland of collecting the substrate, the coffee grounds, mixing of the spawn, growing the kits, packaging them. We fast forward ended up now buy those from him as a supplier to us. So they're the ones incubating all of th…”
Friedman advises shorting Silicon Valley and selling Palo Alto real estate
“In fact, I would short Silicon Valley right now. If you have real estate in Palo Alto, you should be selling it, because if you're in Silicon Valley, you're, Except for a small place in Silicon Valley, which is an opportunity zone, those businesses are all goi…”