Pittsburgh

“So the other place that I invest only where I know. So I really only have investments in Pittsburgh, which is where I grew up.”

“What I figured out was that, that a proxy for the 24 hour city is you now go to a city that's not a 24 hour city. Like for example, you know, Indianapolis. I do not, but I know Pittsburgh, which is where I'm originally from. Pittsburgh is certainly not what th…”

“I started angel investing with a very similar thesis in Pittsburgh because there's no one other than me and Luis.”

“We actually did get a lot of interest from Silicon Valley VCs at a time, but they all made it a requirement To move to Silicon Valley. So we're like, you've got to move here, right? Like, when are you going to move here? That was the, always the question. Okay…”

“And I still believe if I had started investing in Los Angeles, 25 years ago, we could do the math. You'd be a lot better off at your .6 less than one percent because appreciation would have way made up for it.”

“500 factories belching smoke into the sky, forging two-fifths of America's iron.”

“By 1912, their banks controlled half of Pittsburgh's banking resources.”

“The Curtis candy company, which made it chartered an airplane to fly over the city of Pittsburgh and drop bars down with little paper parachutes over the city.”

“Cleveland was actually the number two largest center for oil refining behind Pittsburgh at this time. Once they do this deal, Cleveland is like fast tracked and becomes number one.”

“Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill, Tree of Life, like, that's gonna be known as one of those places that I read about and heard about my entire life. You know, it's gonna be like Columbine, or Charleston, or Krakow, or Munich, or Moscow. Or Kiev.”

“I often tell people, when you're from Pittsburgh, there are two diasporas. There's the Pittsburgh diaspora, And then there's the Jewish diaspora.”

“So, you know, for most kind of Silicon Valley investors, you know, it's a downside that we're in Pittsburgh, and I understand that.”