San Francisco, every mention
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every year anyone John Collison 9Garrett Langley 6Dmitri Dolgov 6Casey Handmer 2Alex Rampell 2Sundar Pichai 1Pieter Levels 1Matt Penicard 1Marc Andreessen 1Evan Spiegel 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where San Francisco comes up
What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 5:57 Evan Spiegel I mean, I think, I, you know, I think it's like commonplace here in San Francisco.
The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash
- ▶ 21:43 John Collison San Francisco people have a lot of complaints. 2 times in the scene
The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 18:22 Sundar Pichai You know, or you, you were more a pure research lab, uh, you know, you're maybe headquartered in San Francisco.
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
- ▶ 8:59 Christina Cacioppo There was a niche audience of San Francisco that would be like, oh, now I understand.
The 20-year journey to fully autonomous cars with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
- ▶ 24:46 Dmitri Dolgov And, you know, are we just, do we have a driver that, you know, you're using today in San Francisco that we can just plop down in London and go. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:54 Dmitri Dolgov We're close to San Francisco, so you probably don't have to think, you know, that hard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:28 Dmitri Dolgov So one example I can give you, uh, I think I've shared some videos of that, uh, publicly in some talks was this example where the situation that happened in San Francisco, um, are, you know, fairly benign situation where at an…
- ▶ 50:59 John Collison You have all of the human operator ready to step in, and you know, there was that thundering herd, uh, incident that you guys talked about in, uh, in, uh, San Francisco that kind of highlighted that for people.
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 1:12:27 Bret Taylor And so many of the startups, particularly around here in San Francisco, um, are basically doing relatively rote
Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
- ▶ 5:04 Garrett Langley I mean, you live in San Francisco, you get it.
- ▶ 6:44 Garrett Langley Today, when you call nine-one-one in San Francisco, it's gonna get about three million nine-one-one calls a year.
- ▶ 19:35 Garrett Langley I think if you're a major city, like in San Francisco, you have, you have enough going on.
- ▶ 25:29 Garrett Langley So they, they drove from LA up to San Francisco, um, general area.
- ▶ 39:43 Garrett Langley Um, it's like when San Francisco started adopting Flock, Oakland crime went up.
- ▶ 1:11:23 Garrett Langley And then you've got like a San Francisco that's got hundreds of square miles.
- ▶ 1:37:37 John Collison How many drones does a city the size of San Francisco need?
Stripe’s 2024 annual letter
- ▶ 26:57 John Collison If this letter has piqued your interest in how technology is remaking the world around us, consider joining us at Stripe Sessions, our in-person annual conference, taking place May sixth through eighth at the Moscone Center in San…
Stripe’s 2025 annual letter
- ▶ 18:17 John Collison Your heads of payments almost definitely deserve more recognition, so let's maybe throw them an awards ceremony in the south of France for payments optimizations, or if you want a foggier version of that, we'd love to see them in San…
Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
- ▶ 26:49 Alex Rampell Like the fact that, I mean, a great example, remember when the power went out in San Francisco a month and a half ago? 2 times in the scene
Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
- ▶ 0:21 John Collison It feels like people in San Francisco have not properly discovered Taiwan as a tourist destination. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Ben Thompson The world is six billion people, most of whom do not have the disposable income that I have, much less you have, much less anyone else in San Francisco has, they get the same experience I do.
UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition
- ▶ 36:44 Matt Penicard We take our companies over to San Francisco a couple times a year, and we slowly introduce them to the ecosystem over there, both operators and funders for this very reason.
Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
- ▶ 6:19 Casey Handmer Well, Bank of Italy, which was a bank based here in San Francisco, was the bank that, like, opened its doors the day after the San Francisco earthquake and started handing out capital to people to rebuild. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:17 John Collison Getting water to, uh, you know, the city of San Francisco or getting water to, uh, uh, Los Angeles is, uh, not a commodity.
Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 27:41 Marc Andreessen Right, like, it was the ultimate selector in the build-out of the country to the people who were the most oriented towards risk, and to your point, independence, uh, and, and, and doing their own thing, and that was true in the gold, you…
A Cheeky Pint with serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
- ▶ 5:45 Pieter Levels Something you typically say after you've been in a week, a week in San Francisco, right?