Austin

“I feel like Austin's a little better on that score. People here don't seem quite as triggered into their tribes as they did back in San Francisco.”

“Yeah, we were trying to raise 50, but all we could get was 45. That's all we could beg out our friends and family. And we said, let's give it a go.”

“You probably heard where some of my friends and I with Neil Ferguson and Barry Weiss are trying to create a competitor to Stanford now in Austin here.”

“When cities like Austin or San Francisco or Denver voted on, say, camping bans, overwhelmingly passed in some of these most liberal cities in America.”

“You know, for the University of Austin, we're planning on doing it probably just east of the county that has Austin in it, because The county to the east is like slightly more permissible, easier to build, easier to work with is our guess.”

“One of the surprising things we saw there, and we've seen this elsewhere, Is the amount of sheltered homelessness went down by about 20%.”

“What you saw in Austin was in 2019, the city council turned back a previous ban on street camping. They repealed the law that said it was illegal to camp and sleep on the streets. And what you saw was pretty surprising and pretty rapid. You had, About a 40 to …”

“In Austin, I hear we have 2700 administrators for 5500 teachers.”

“I mean, I would say it's easy to stick with the evidence and that's where, you know, you can always be pretty comfortable, but even in stating the evidence, it became such a politicized issue, particularly in Austin, Where you had a city that was taking differ…”

“I think obviously there's a role for university. I'm building one here in Austin, but agree with you. A lot of these things, you know, not everyone needs to go.”

“And so the way we solved it is we brought down 2000 Ivy League grads or top talent and had them move to Austin.”