Seattle

“Like, truthfully, getting a job at Microsoft was much more prestigious than getting a job at Amazon at that time in Seattle.”

“Seattle, to give you a sense how crazy things are, the district in Seattle, the city council district where the most Microsoft and Amazon executives lived, live, elected a city council woman who's, who ran a platform of nationalizing Microsoft and Amazon.”

“I think we added 900 software engineers in 12, in like 12 months. Oh wow. And turned out, they're all in the U.S. Or almost all in the U.S., Seattle mostly. It was like very expensive people.”

“We started with 200,000 bucks and got into a little eight unit in Seattle, and we literally just 10 31, 10 31, 10 31, up and up and up and built that portfolio to You know, being worth about thirty million dollars.”

“The district in Seattle, the city council district where the most Microsoft and Amazon executives lived, live elected a city council woman who's, who ran a platform of nationalizing Microsoft and Amazon.”

“The number of teams in the NBA is the same. They're about to launch, they're about to open up two new franchises, and each one of those will get six billion. And then that revenue goes to the other owners”

“After a six-week voyage on a freighter, she reached Seattle with no entry permit. If you were healthy, you got in, she later recalled, and healthy I was. She had 200 rubles, about 66 dollars in her purse.”

“We've launched a 500 beacon pilot in Seattle, and we've seen and helped over 28 beacon holders leave the street, saving our city half a million dollars per year and earning our first 100,000 dollars in licensing revenue.”

“We didn't get our community burned down like Minneapolis or, downtown taken over like Seattle or Portland or any of these other places because it wasn't just me, but it was people throughout this community that said, that's not our police department.”

“So they only opened one or two more, despite the fact that the locally owned stores, well, the Seattle store, actually did way better. I think it was the highest performing U.S. Store and beat all the corporate owned ones.”

“The first system that we built was for a minimally invasive heart procedure. The electrophysiologist was in Chicago. Our system was in Seattle, and we did a heart procedure on a pig, and we did it successfully.”

“Every two years, Bangalore adds about 800,000 people, like which is the size of like a Seattle or something.”

“On the corner of Fourth and Spring in Seattle, and it was the sixth Starbucks store, and out of about 1200 square feet, I got a hundred feet, and I designed and opened the coffee bar, worked behind the counter as a barista, and Starbucks probably had two to 30…”

“So, so first of all, I saw this happening in many different groups, right? Not just this one group. And also, I talked to my friends in other cities in the US. People were doing this in Boston. People were doing this in Seattle. So Chinese immigrants were doin…”

“Finally Microsoft put their research center in Hyderabad. And it's a massive research center. I don't know if you know, it's probably the largest outside of Seattle.”

“What we know is the territory size you give the rep will dictate your growth rate, right? And so while we could have given our first rep the entire city of Seattle, We knew that'd be counterproductive going back to the density, right? And so the key is to, and…”

“It's really easy to say, well, you know, I can be in the game in Austin. I can be in the game in Seattle. There are investors there. There are people there. I can be in the game in New York. And I wish that we were more honest that like, yeah, you can play bas…”

“They would have had to check a box in this, in Seattle, and we did not require them to check the box. We employed them. The first job out of prison was working at Maud, and in a very short period of time even though some people thought, well, that's kind of cr…”

“And that's something we're really excited about as well as the tech presence and the salaries have parity in Seattle to Silicon Valley, which is really attractive to us.”

“I think Seattle is putting their trash on trains all the way down to Oregon, which is just crazy.”

“And even in a city that's doing everything right today, like, you know, Seattle, Tacoma area as an example, they have a green bin program, which people still don't use because in your kitchen, the easiest thing to do is throw it in the trash.”

“PitchBook is PitchBook is Seattle's, like, monster amazing business hiding in plain sight, and it's been really cool to get to know their team more and more and more and understand the business and just learn how on four million dollars they've been able to bu…”

“80% engineers still. We are just building out our go-to-market team, which is a big thing that we took on after our series A. That was one of the biggest motivations of investment that those dollars 80% is engineering and 60% of the overall company actually is…”

“That's why all these like gentrifier, like white people are so, so scared of like not, not appearing like as radical as possible. Like, you know what I mean? Like in San Francisco and Seattle... Cause the deep down they know, like in places like Bushwick and t…”

“If you take Silicon Valley and Seattle out of it, the US actually would be worse than Europe if you took those two out of it.”

“Coins sold in Seattle in the sixties. Foreign coins for Three cents a piece, you know, in the coin markets, if it was a German coin or a Norwegian coin. So I could buy 52 Groschen coins for a nickel and bring them home and sell them for three cents each.”

“Microsoft before Satya was a little insular. Like, we're up there in the woods in Seattle, and we didn't really kind of get down to the valley very much, right?”

“A, we love it here, and B, we can live here for less money than we could back in Seattle, which is where we previously lived, so it's a bit of a geo-arbitrage move, I think.”

“It was about eight days from concept to when we launched the first website. And then we basically took pre-orders for two weeks to buy us extra time as we sourced small vendors from our first box, which was Seattle. And we sold in the first three months, we di…”

“Because you gotta imagine that there's maybe six cafes in all of Seattle.”

“We had an example where we started serving the city of Seattle. They had an old program called Pronto, which is a dock-based system with 500 bikes, and within the first few days of operating, 20 to 30% of our bikes were in parts of the city that previously had…”

“On the good side of it, I find that tech workers in Seattle are loyal. We don't have the types of problems that our Bay Area office has and others have of people every 18 months to two years looking for the next thing that's going to pay them more.”

“And then we did a small angel round with some prominent local angels here in Seattle. And we've been using that. Nathan Latka: What was that? Nathan Latka: How much was that round? Bob Bagga: Just under a million bucks. Nathan Latka: Okay, so and that's all yo…”

“Overnight, we had hundreds of customers every day, and we introduced cafe latte to the city of Seattle, basically.”

“We're serving thousands of families in Seattle right now, and it's an incredible thing to be a part of, especially because Poppy almost didn't exist.”