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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where San Francisco comes up
Rebuilding the NYU Endowment – Michelle Knudsen (EP.513)
- ▶ 9:19 Michelle Knudsen They had an open slot in their San Francisco office for the following fall.
Senior Decision Makers: Luis Laboy, Hewlett Foundation (EP.512)
- ▶ 16:01 Luis Laboy She invited me up to San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:00 Luis Laboy Went to San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
Hotel Investing at EOS – Jonathan Wang (EP.506)
- ▶ 27:33 Jonathan Wang Is in seven large urban markets, so Boston, New York, DC, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, and resorts, which the vast majority of the resorts that we invest in are up and down the East and West Coast.
- ▶ 46:39 Jonathan Wang On the hotel side, the very small opportunity set that we saw was buying San Francisco hotels at deep discounts to 20 19 levels, but
Katelin Holloway – Human Side of Venture Investing at 776 (EP.490)
- ▶ 9:56 Katelin Holloway I deeply understood why it was the most important job that we could have in our society, but I loved San Francisco more, man.
Lane MacDonald – Teamwork, Alignment, and Investing at the Highest Levels at SCS (EP.483)
- ▶ 14:33 Lane MacDonald Right after I stopped playing hockey in San Francisco, I didn't even know what an income statement, a balance sheet, or cash flow statement was. 2 times in the scene
Robert Boucai & James Broyer – Tax-Efficient Multifamily Real Estate at Newbrook (EP.475)
- ▶ 44:14 Robert Bukai I mean, most of us in our business on the hedge fund side travel to San Francisco and Miami and Los Angeles and Boston.
John Khoury – Asymmetry and Opportunity in Public Real Estate at Long Pond (EP.474)
- ▶ 38:35 John Khoury San Francisco is bouncing back in a way very few thought it would
Morgan Housel – The Art of Spending Money (EP.466)
- ▶ 20:58 Morgan Housel I grew up in the woods outside of Lake Tahoe, and this was before San Francisco tech money invaded.
Jack Kokko – Building the Google of Finance at AlphaSense (EP.461)
- ▶ 3:46 Jack Kokko and I ended up in San Francisco working on tech deals during the dotcom boom.
Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- ▶ 32:42 Michael Ovitz Marc Andreessen had me move to San Francisco.
- ▶ 37:27 Michael Ovitz I tell this story to young people that I got a call, I was living in San Francisco, and I got a call from Patrick Collinson, who's one of the founders of Stripe.
- ▶ 50:45 Michael Ovitz When Marc Andreessen had me move to San Francisco, I have put Ollie into over 200 meetings in the last nine months with smart people, and I've not gotten one negative back, and I'm very proud of him.
- ▶ 1:04:13 Michael Ovitz I had a meeting in San Francisco with 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:46 Michael Ovitz I have a young VC in San Francisco named Rompton Naimi, who you may know, who has abstract ventures.
David Breach – Software Specialist Enters Private Wealth (Private Wealth 6, EP.450)
- ▶ 10:57 David Breach I ended up being asked to move out to San Francisco to start a new office for Kirkland and build out a West Coast private equity practice.
Brett Barth and Evan Roth – Stewarding Family Wealth at BBR (EP.433)
Anthony Pompliano – Building Influence and Capital to Live an Extraordinary Life (EP.430)
- ▶ 25:01 Anthony Pompliano I just happened to live in San Francisco in 2012, and all my friends were starting companies, and one of them was named Uber, right?
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 37:12 Mitchell Green A dinner in San Francisco, 70 people show up.
Asset Management Consolidation - Simon Krinsky, Hall Capital and Tim McCusker, NEPC (EP.421)
- ▶ 27:44 Simon Krinsky They have no office in San Francisco or New York. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:00 Simon Krinsky The president and CEO of Paststone will be in our office on Monday in San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
Matt Miller – Crossing the Energy Divide at Grey Rock (EP.412)
- ▶ 18:17 Matt Miller Three are in San Francisco and New York, and long story short, we're able to find those three other cousins to get access to an EOG-operated position at a material discount versus what operators had to pay.
- ▶ 27:03 Matt Miller And then I have got more evangelist folks on, I'll pick on San Francisco here, who said, we need to stop all fossil fuel production tomorrow in order to solve it.
Stephen Nesbitt – Innovation in Private Markets for RIAs (EP.410)
- ▶ 47:36 Steve Nesbitt First of all, Bill Sharp, because I got to meet him when I took this job in San Francisco with Wells Fargo, who was an advisor there.
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 15:45 Mike Maples, Jr. Lyft had started out as Zimride, and we had just launched an illegal service that had blown up in San Francisco.
- ▶ 37:43 Mike Maples, Jr. and so if taxis in San Francisco were three out of 10 good, ride sharing needed to be at least seven out of 10 good.
Todd Simkin - Game of Trading at Susquehanna (EP.399)
- ▶ 12:45 Todd Simkin So that was Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and then the P Coast, the Pacific Coast in San Francisco, and we had traders on all of those floors. 2 times in the scene
Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
- ▶ 19:51 Graham Weaver And then Tom Steyer, who was running Fairlawn at the time and was in San Francisco, ended up being an early backer.
Mo Haghbin - Customizing Solutions from the Top Down at Invesco (EP.390)
- ▶ 4:34 Mo Haghbin I spent a few years in Colorado, and then I quickly moved to the West Coast and started my career in finance in San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
- ▶ 15:33 Jonathan Tepper It hit Madrid a little later than it did San Francisco or New York.
Chad Hutchinson – Professional Athlete to Professional Investor in Sports (EP.351)
- ▶ 40:42 Chad Hutchinson And middle of COVID, I had been commuting up to the San Francisco, and I have three kids, and I take being a father very seriously.
Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- ▶ 11:28 Rick Heitzman It was the greatest time ever that there was launch parties and everybody was moving to San Francisco and everything was great.
- ▶ 23:12 Rick Heitzman In addition to that, that as people left San Francisco, left a lot of places, even the folks that went down to maybe Miami or Austin are now all relocating to New York. 3 times in the scene
Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- ▶ 9:54 Allison Thacker I interned at Putnam Investments and loved it, thought it was an amazing experience, but ended up at a firm, RS Investments out in San Francisco, which is the old Roberts and Stevens funds, and I had a couple choices of where to go.
Tim Lyne – Three Decades of Private Credit at Antares (EP.346)
Muthu Muthiah - Inefficiency and Innovation at CHOA (EP. 339)
- ▶ 46:26 Muthu Muthiah And it's taking a page from Alpine investors out in San Francisco, Graham Weaver, where he says, we try consistently to water the flowers and take out the weeds.
Adam Karr – Extreme Alignment at Orbis (EP.338)
Kimberly Sargent – Passion and Mission at the Packard Foundation (EP.333)
- ▶ 11:39 Kimberly Sargent Well, I'm a California girl, born and raised in San Francisco, and I'd spent eight years on the East Coast, seven of them in New Haven. 2 times in the scene
Kipp deVeer – The World of Private Credit at Ares (EP.329)
- ▶ 32:38 unnamed speaker We've got a pretty substantial office in Chicago that'll go up to Toronto and goes as far south as Dallas, and then a big business obviously in LA that's working in Los Angeles and San Francisco for the most part.
Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
- ▶ 20:56 Chris Sacca They'd all gone one way out of San Francisco already.
Richard Craib – Crowdsourcing Data Science for Returns at Numerai (Capital Allocators, EP.314)
- ▶ 22:45 Richard Craib We had a big conference in San Francisco called Numicon.
Aaron Sack – Branded Middle Market Investing at Morgan Stanley (Capital Allocators, EP.311)
- ▶ 2:28 Aaron Sack Few years later, intent on going to law school, I did a year, and I'm grateful I did, at a corporate law firm in San Francisco, where I was surrounded by abject misery and despair, and was warned against going into corporate law, and this…
- ▶ 12:22 Aaron Sack Businesses located around the United States, not in New York, not in LA, San Francisco, generally.
Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
- ▶ 17:11 Tom Steyer When I asked two different people if they would basically back me with limited partner money, one of them was a firm in San Francisco where the number three person was my old roommate.
Marshall Boyd – Meat and Potatoes Multi-Family Real Estate at IEC (Capital Allocators, EP.295)
- ▶ 19:56 Marshall Boyd So we're not in the city of San Francisco.
Charles Van Vleet – Thinking Differently with Pensions at Textron (Capital Allocators, EP. 283)
- ▶ 7:02 Charles Van Vleet I went to work for Mitsui Bank in San Francisco, selling certificates of deposit at 18%.
- ▶ 33:44 Charles Van Vleet In fact, he and I are off to San Francisco tonight.
Annie Duke – The Power of Quitting (Capital Allocators, EP.273)
- ▶ 48:25 Annie Duke They started thinking about it, and I think it was about 2008, and the idea was to build high-speed rail, like in Japan or other places, that would connect San Francisco and Silicon Valley to LA and San Diego to the south. 5 times in the scene
Allan Jean-Baptiste and Marco DeMeireles – Under-covered Venture Markets and Teams at Ansa Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.36)
- ▶ 4:44 Alan Jean-Baptiste After college, I joined Goldman's TMT banking team before moving to San Francisco to become an early member of the team at Capital G, Google's Growth Equity Fund.
Howard Smith – Japanese Equities at Indus Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.35)
- ▶ 20:05 Howard Smith And as part of that process, I decided to take the big decision to leave Tokyo in 2018 and move to San Francisco.
- ▶ 22:21 Howard Smith I really wanted to see Japan from a different perspective and get closer to the other portfolio managers at Indus, all of whom were based in North America, either in New York or in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:05 Howard Smith And then here in the States, we have offices in San Francisco and New York.
- ▶ 54:58 Howard Smith So I'm an avid ornithologist, I love watching birds, and moving to San Francisco has been wonderful in that respect, because it's an incredibly rich environment for bird life.
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 51:18 Avichal Garg If you're going to get a house being three streets over in San Francisco changes, whether or not you stay at that house, or if the house has a pool and you have young kids, that's a no go.
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 9:50 Regan Bozman And I moved out to San Francisco about two weeks later. 2 times in the scene
Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- ▶ 9:13 Ben Forman In 2014, I was living in San Francisco.
Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- ▶ 6:28 Steve Drobny We're not in San Francisco.
- ▶ 27:13 Steve Drobny Technology used to be in San Francisco, Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 1:03:34 Tom Lenehan I started out working in venture in March of 2000 in San Francisco, and left a really excellent job in Connecticut doing private equity with an awesome organization, and it was easy, and I loved the idea of venture capital, and I wasn't…
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- ▶ 10:00 Roseanne Wincek I went to Berkeley and was living in San Francisco and saw tech taking off, so I did
- ▶ 40:37 Renata Quintini In San Francisco grew the business from zero to a hundred million revenue.
Kelsey Chase – Analyzing Venture Transactions at Aumni (Capital Allocators, EP.241)
- ▶ 14:11 Kelsey Chase How have we ever invested across a Series A company in San Francisco in fintech?
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 15:24 Arjun Sethi This is a dog patch area into the mission in San Francisco and basically say, if you help me, I will help you.
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 7:40 Annie Lamont And a friend introduced me to this job at a venture capital investment bank boutique that happened to be the leading one, Hamburg and Quist in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 1:00:04 Fabrice Grinda It'll no longer just be in New York and San Francisco or LA.
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 21:07 Sean O'Sullivan It's also in Tokyo and, and one other place, Xi'an and San Francisco as well. 2 times in the scene
Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- ▶ 45:37 Chris Douvos The thing that kills me dead, and this is a work one, is when I meet with folks, and they tell me about what a good investor they're in, because they're in companies A, B, and C, and the number of times that I hear, literally in the course…
Jamie Montgomery – March Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.26)
- ▶ 5:24 Eric Yuppin I was introduced to Jamie by John Conlon, who was the CEO of Robertson Stevens at the time, one of the four horsemen, one of the great investment banks of San Francisco, founded by Sandy Robertson and many others.
Christopher Zook – Thematic Investing and Raving Fans at CAZ Investments (Capital Allocators, EP.226)
- ▶ 35:04 Christopher Zook Another really fun story that people like to tell is that I literally don't have a car and for people in New York and San Fran, that's not that unusual, but in Houston, Texas, I'm kind of the anomaly to put it mildly.
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 5:55 Chris Douvos and I'd show up at these places when I was out in San Francisco with a couple of cases of beer and pass them around to the team
- ▶ 53:36 Bill Trenchard I don't see a lot of talent banging down the door to get back to the office five days a week in San Francisco.
Brian Higgins - King Street Capital (Manager Meeting, EP. 21)
- ▶ 41:37 Brian Higgins If you think about what it was like in both the real estate side, I mean, we were still from 2020, we're still only say 30% of occupancy in New York, San Francisco, around 20%.
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 8:23 Paula Volent Studied with a bunch of people, so it was a two-year program, and then you needed to do two years of internships, so I went to San Francisco to the Palace of the Legion of Fine Arts, and then I went to Los Angeles, the LA County Museum of…
Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
- ▶ 13:37 Stefan Kaluzny My career, and so after six or seven years, left that in the hands of a management team and stepped away and moved to California and joined a brand new nascent leverage buyout firm in San Francisco and began my investing career eight years…
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 28:59 Barry Sternlicht They're moving their families, and they're going to these states which have a right to work, and they have a welcoming business, and the mayor of Miami put up a billboard in San Francisco, like, come to us, and literally, how can we help… 3 times in the scene
Katie Hall – Hall Capital Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.213)
- ▶ 48:55 Katie Hall We have offices here in San Francisco and New York, but we really are sort of one team.
Jan Garfinkle – Arboretum Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.09)
- ▶ 15:08 Jan Garfinkel And I grew up in San Francisco.
- ▶ 22:20 Jan Garfinkel He then moved to San Francisco when I got this job at DVI and went back to, he's a physician, and went back to where he had done his fellowship, which was out here in the Bay Area, which was when we met.
Private Equity Masters 7: Orlando Bravo – Thoma Bravo (Capital Allocators, EP.206)
- ▶ 10:49 Orlando Bravo And I was based in the San Francisco office.
Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03)
Private Equity Masters 3: Robert F. Smith – Vista Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.202)
- ▶ 6:43 Robert F. Smith And I went off to business school, went and joined Goldman Sachs and then mergers and acquisitions department, then was asked to move out to San Francisco to help start our tech group.
- ▶ 55:30 Robert F. Smith One was a food business in San Francisco.
Ashby Monk – Innovation in Institutional Portfolios (Capital Allocators, EP.196)
- ▶ 43:25 Ashby Monk So if we know where we are and we know we want to go to a restaurant in San Francisco, Google can help us figure that out to the very precise point. 2 times in the scene
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 33:59 Jeff Hausenbold And in Indianapolis and Cleveland and San Francisco and Boston, now I have permission ability to believe you have the playbook and then you can go rapidly and expand.
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
- ▶ 6:42 Ted Seides The fund is managed by Bitwise Asset Management, a leading provider of crypto funds based in San Francisco with over one billion dollars in assets.
Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- ▶ 6:33 Ted Seides The fund is managed by Bitwise Asset Management, a leading provider of crypto funds based in San Francisco with over one billion dollars in assets.
Crypto for Institutions 2 – Michael Sonnenshein – A Path to Entry (Capital Allocators, EP.181)
- ▶ 6:27 Ted Seides The fund is managed by Bitwise Asset Management, a leading provider of crypto funds based in San Francisco with over one billion dollars in assets.
Crypto for Institutions 1: Eric Peters – The Macro Case for Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.180)
- ▶ 7:08 Ted Seides The fund is managed by Bitwise Asset Management, a leading provider of crypto funds based in San Francisco with over one billion dollars in assets.
Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)
- ▶ 10:07 Colette Chilton I'm from the Bay Area, and we had two little girls, and I was desperate to live closer to my parents to have more help, you know, both of us working full-time and two little girls, so I started looking for something in San Francisco, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:32 Colette Chilton I was in San Francisco a couple weeks ago, and I met with one of our managers out there.
Scott Wilson – Concentrated Investing at Washington University-St. Louis (Capital Allocators, EP. 159)
- ▶ 11:39 Scott Wilson So I moved out to Merrill on the tech group in San Francisco.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 4: Joel Wittenberg – A Prescription for the Future (Capital Allocators, EP.154)
- ▶ 26:14 Joel Wittenberg So what we did was we had two focus group sessions, one of them in New York, one in San Francisco, and we invited our largest managers and our most successful managers.
- ▶ 49:48 Joel Wittenberg I was speaking to somebody in San Francisco, and he was a forty-five-year-old guy working at Cisco, wanted to leave to work at a VC firm, but nobody wants to hire a forty-five-year-old guy.
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Taimur Hyat – After the Great Lockdown (Capital Allocators, EP.149)
- ▶ 40:45 Taimur Hyat So this is one where you have had a positive trend for the last five, 10 years for people to kind of try and embody this live, work, play lifestyle where you can walk to your restaurant, walk to your job, walk to the theater, and that's…
Clarke Futch – Healthcare Royalty Partners (First Meeting, EP.20)
- ▶ 7:17 Clark Futch 1999, moved out to San Francisco to work for a guy named Tom Weisel, who had sold his firm. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:23 Clark Futch I mentioned that the Boston company with the shingles vaccine, San Francisco, London, and then the greater New York area.
Daniel Adamson – Innovation from Asset Giants at Capital Constellation (EP.136)
- ▶ 1:00:41 Daniel Adamson So, you know, we got together as I think I mentioned in places like New Zealand, Tokyo, Amsterdam, the Hague, Stockholm, London, LA, San Francisco, New York.
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