San Francisco, every mention
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every year anyone Alex Lieberman 12Sahil Lavingia 6Jesse Pujji 5Josh Reeves 2Jonathan Swanson 1Dan Siroker 1Ankur Jain 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where San Francisco comes up
Early days building a decacorn
- ▶ 6:58 Josh Reeves We then were living in Palo Alto, which is about an hour south of San Francisco.
- ▶ 11:29 Josh Reeves And Eddie was living in San Francisco at the time.
How I Lost $10,000,000
- ▶ 3:51 Alex Lieberman I hated the idea of having some annoying VC involved pressuring me to grow or move to San Francisco.
- ▶ 6:54 Alex Lieberman Around this time, Dustin invited me for a coffee in San Francisco.
A Founder’s Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
- ▶ 6:51 Sahil Lavingia Uh, and so, you know, like we built a business, but we also had like 20 people in San Francisco. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:14 Sahil Lavingia I like, I grew up in Singapore and like, you know, like moved to San Francisco, dropped out of college, like my, you know, moved, you know, I'm basically like, it was very much like the thing that I, I was doing right in everybody's mind.
- ▶ 28:12 Sahil Lavingia Uh, and then, and yeah, when I moved to, to Provo, as I mentioned, that was like the big thing where I was like, okay, this is really not recoverable in the sense that like next quarter, it wasn't going to like, I was going to hire a team…
How To Raise Capital Successfully with Dan Siroker
- ▶ 6:23 Dan Siroker And, uh, and sometimes I'll even frame, like, let's say you and I bump into each other in San Francisco, and I turn to you, and hey, it just didn't work out.
This Tragedy to Triumph Story is Why I’m an Entrepreneur
- ▶ 3:42 Alex Lieberman He used to live outside of San Francisco, which I'll share more about.
- ▶ 5:34 Alex Lieberman 12 months ago, he was living with his wife outside of San Francisco, and they quickly realized that a teacher's salary 3 times in the scene
Introducing Storyarb, My Content Agency + A Temperature Check
- ▶ 12:45 Alex Lieberman I learned from Steph Smith, who used to work at The Hustle, now she works at A-sixteen-Z, that there is a company in San Francisco called Temple Immersive that turns nightclubs into yoga studios, because nightclubs are only used on, let's…
Is it Time To Pivot ‘The Plunge’?
- ▶ 3:53 Jesse Pujji And it's actually like a kind of a dicey topic, especially in San Francisco or other places that are uber liberal.
How This Founder Wants to Reward You for Paying Rent
- ▶ 37:24 Ankur Jain It required trips to Riyadh, Dubai, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, L.A., San Francisco, meeting with every housing authority.
The Business Behind Conferences + Embracing Confrontation
- ▶ 42:17 Alex Lieberman Early stage founders in San Francisco.
The Art of Scrappiness
- ▶ 7:26 Alex Lieberman We have one in San Francisco.
Rolex Is A Nonprofit + When To Disrupt Your Own Business
- ▶ 52:59 Alex Lieberman Three, I'm in, you know, you were in San Francisco.
Silicon Valley Bank: What Happened and Why
- ▶ 31:06 Alex Lieberman So we have a question from, uh, Reggie, who's a listener in SF, and Reggie asked, and it was a question that actually came in in the last 24 hours, the question was about comms, like, when bad news happens within your company, whether it's…
Exclusive: Selling My Company & Making Life-Changing Money
- ▶ 58:24 Jesse Pujji You know, I, I stopped being CEO and I left San Francisco in the middle of COVID.
Jonathan Swanson on Building a Unicorn and Delegating 90% of Your Life
- ▶ 3:25 Jesse Pujji And I went to this like little backstreet of Minna and like the worst part of San Francisco and walk into this thing.
- ▶ 22:21 Jonathan Swanson Not like handyman in San Francisco doesn't show up.
The Genius of Spotify Wrapped and How to Copy It, and How to Sell Your Business for 9 Figures
- ▶ 40:58 Jesse Pujji And there'd be tons coming from San Francisco.
How Spirit Halloween Makes $600M in 2 Months, The Journey of a CEO & Is a Recession Coming?
- ▶ 10:53 Alex Lieberman He founded a discount apparel business in 1983 in California, in San Francisco, and basically what happened was there was a neighboring costume store that did exceptionally well during Halloween, and when that store ended up shutting down…
- ▶ 37:12 Jesse Pujji I bought a house in San Francisco, which is like, so there was, I mean, we, we moved fast to get to that place.