San Francisco
5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2021 by Andrew Callaghan · said 144 times in 58 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2026 46 mentions in 18 episodes 3 per episode
- Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- The Real ROI of AI Tokens — With Dallas Dolen
- Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 48 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
- Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
- Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
- OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- $100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 15 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Sparking Net New Innovation At Massive Scale — With LG's Sokwoo Rhee
- Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
- Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- Box CEO Aaron Levie — Audience Q&A: AI Agents, AI Talent, Evolution of Work
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
- Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
- How Ozempic Changes Our Bodies, Minds, and Economy — With Johann Hari
- NVIDIA's Auto Play and the Future of Autonomous Driving — With Danny Shapiro
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 24 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt — Self Driving Cars Will 10X Every Year
- How Generative AI Is Changing Travel — With Priceline's Marty Brodbeck
- Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
- The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
- SBF's Last Stand — With Molly White
- Google's DeepMind Wants To Make Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, Says Its Chief Business Officer
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2021 3 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about San Francisco, oldest first
Jun 9, 2021 negative
Callaghan: San Francisco is dystopian due to extreme wealth inequality
“San Francisco is dystopian. I mean, look at the inequality that's propagated with the city failing to combat gentrification and provide for their homeless people. I mean, I can't think of a place where you can have the richest people that close to just like th…”
Jun 9, 2021 negative
Callaghan: Gentrifiers post radical social media content out of neighborhood guilt
“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…”
Oct 6, 2023 positive
Oct 6, 2023 positive
Sep 16, 2025
Kantrowitz: Ramp data shows 5% surge in Saturday corporate meal spending in SF
“This guy Ara from Ramp looked at the data again and saw a bump of ordering from restaurants delivery and takeout from employees at San Francisco based businesses occurring on Saturdays. So it's basically a five percent bump on Saturdays. He says it's new. Ther…”