Paris

“So, I mean, at least the Bangalore ecosystem is far deeper and richer than Paris.”

“When I go around Paris, you see data collection vehicles. And you're like, it's even coming here. Like, you know, it's just like not Sunnyvale. And so now, like every city I go to typically with a trained eye, you can see like, oh, that's a data collection. We…”

“Lama was started in Paris. Dino, which is the most groundbreaking vision work from Facebook was developed in Paris.”

“The building of the facility has progressed quite well. It's in the south of Paris, and we are right now running through the stabilization stabilization of the first trench.”

“We're headquartered in, in Paris, but we have around the four, four, four workforce, which is actually in the U S and a lot of our activity is actually here.”

“The thing that defines great cities at the end of the day, Is the cultural aspects and the sporting aspects, the places where people will gather. So you could have a great city. That's beautiful. The architecture is amazing, but there's no cultural ethos in it…”

“Milan worked really well. Paris didn't work well. And the main reason was because in Paris we were late. No, we were launching maybe like two or three years after Deliveroo and Uber Eats launched. So we never gained the scale and the leadership to be a sustain…”

“At some point, we were losing three percent of the vehicles every week because people were just stealing them, throwing them in the river, trashing them.”

“She brought more people to Paris than the Olympics are expected to.”

“Duveen received daily reports from his galleries. So he's got galleries in New York and London and Paris telling them are telling him what customers had come in, what pictures they had looked at and for how long and what they said about those pictures.”

“Abruptly, he retired, shut down his Paris house completely because there was no possible successor, and returned to Spain.”

“This shocked me in 1978. There was only two Vuitton company owned shops, one in Paris and one in Nice.”

“If you want to build a strong AI research team today, it'll be 10 times easier to do it in Paris than it is to do it in SF with OpenAI as a lab, as a competitive lab to, in the same hiring markets.”

“I don't have the exact number, but I think 10 out of the 13 authors of Lama are actually based in, in Paris, right? In, in the Meta AI, lab that, that they have there that is huge.”

“I feel like if Uber would have started in, you know, in Paris or London as UberX. It wouldn't have worked.”

“Paris is really expensive, the most expensive in France, and there's the rest of the country. So in Paris, you would have to spend around 2000 euros per month. Here in the south of France, for example, you would pay half the price for a rental. In Paris, it's …”

“All our engineering is is there.”

“So we decided to have an office in Paris in January this year. And so now we have about 20% of our team in Paris and 80% here.”

“It's crazy that Paris is half the price of San Francisco fully burdened for an engineer. It's crazy that London is cheaper than San Francisco.”

“Centre Pompidou is a very funny building. Again, to make a long story short it's a very weird piece of architecture, but it acts like a Faraday cage. So it was blocking all signal.”

“I think for whatever reason, Paris is very design centric in general. So you'll see a lot of design related or like beautiful looking products coming from Paris or France in general.”

“The concentration of, like, good tech people is probably better In Europe compared to, like, the competition you have here in SF. I mean, you have, like, crazy good people here, but the local industry is startup, so you are going to compete with so many other …”

“And we have, ah, a license, licensing deals in Paris, and England, ah, and other places around the world.”

“Paris is, I think, underrated for what it is in terms of momentum and talent.”

“Paris is obviously a great ecosystem, but that's a little bit more inward looking, or at least seems like a little bit more inward looking than other, other places.”