San Francisco

“If you're going to complain about, you know, the, you know, what's going on in San Francisco or California, then you should also be trying to do something about it in any way you can, but don't just complain that San Francisco has too much homelessness or Cali…”

“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.”

“Well, and so just San Francisco and LA alone, I mean, four people, four homeless individuals die on the streets of LA every day. That death rate is higher than the death rate in Iraq and Afghanistan for soldiers.”

“So every time we've run a poll on a state of registered voters, it is a 70 plus issue. 70% of people because I want to figure out what works for messaging. Even when I go is like the caricature of criminalizing homelessness, which is just one of many things th…”

“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.”

“They recently did an audit in LA and in San Francisco that found these things cost about 700 dollars per square foot and around 800,000 dollars maxed out per apartment.”

“And yeah, San Francisco, Arizona, these other states and cities, they built enough homes for every single unsheltered homeless person in the street. 1015 years later, they have more homeless people in the streets.”

“A Walgreens got robbed right in front of me. It was one of those things where you can't even just draw it up. Like I was, and I was in town for like a day. I walk into Walgreens, dude just, you know, runs out with a bag full of stuff”

“A lot of other cities are hiring the same people who ran these things in San Francisco, and that really concerns me.”

“YouTube had just been acquired by Google. The internet was sort of buzzing again. It was one of the most exciting times to be in the city.”

“My new take is leadership in executive positions are in San Francisco but not, not going to come into the office every single day, because I think that can diverge into loss of productivity. So we'll have a hybrid situation going on in SF. But when it comes to…”

“So back in 2018, you know, of course we had done hundreds of scale model tests, lab tests, et cetera, but then we said, okay, let's just build the full scale thing in one go. It was this big launch in San Francisco, took the thing out. It was you know, we were…”

“Taxpayers in San Francisco are being forced to fund organizations that, for example, are shutting down the Bay Bridge. That's just crazy, and nobody knew that until we went and Filed an information request and was like, they're getting paid by the city.”

“San Francisco doesn't just belong to San Francisco. It belongs to the United States, and it's a very important asset. And also, one thing I never understand about the exit people is like, where do you think it's going next? You think that the rot is going to s…”

“Most of the money spent on homelessness half of it, about half of it goes to basically subsidizing housing for people.”

“And I think after this, I, for me, if this thing, whatever's happening now, this nascent sort of the Gary Tan movement fails, then that's, there's nothing left there, but I think that this is, we've, I have never, and I've lived there, I, or I guess I live in …”

“We don't need woke kindergarten which is some people may not, may think I'm joking. That's actually a real program that they did in San Francisco.”

“They defined shelter as what they call permanent supportive housing, which is an apartment unit costing because of all the other Corruption and regulation involved in house building in California, 700,000 dollars, 800,000 dollars, a million dollars now in San …”

“My parents' home had three break-in attempts in a very short amount of time.”