New York

“And then San Francisco wasn't so much a cultural backwater. It was just provincial. You know, it was out on the coast. It was off of the mainstream. It wasn't putting out this big, unique culture thing and music anymore.”

“I think if we had started in New York, we never would have gained the local following that we gained in Vermont. In Vermont, it would, we could be A bigger fish in a smaller pond.”

“One engineer was about 10,000 dollars a month. One really high quality engineer in New York.”

“There was not a startup community truly in New York”

“Like, I think it would have been really hard to do what we did anywhere else because we have many, many data scientists and many, many engineers and, you It was not just about me being comfortable, but if we wanted to fulfill on the vision of using technology …”

“I mean, there was no marketplace in New York at the time. There was no opportunity to take pay-per-class fitness. At the time, we were talking about 2005, there were some yoga studios, but other than that, you know, the model for gyms, and this is a lot of wha…”

“Seven guys bought three pairs of pants, six guys bought two pairs of pants, only one guy didn't buy anything, and it was at that moment that I decided, we need to build this company in New York.”

“Back to when I was initially starting the product, I had always brought these groups of people together to do an activity, and at this stage, I started realizing that this offline kind of gathering of community was really the best way to drive word of mouth, a…”

“The sweet green of, that we started in D.C. Would not have been successful in New York or L.A.”

“New York was a bit of an exception to that in the sense that New York has a lot of people who commute into the city, typically when all the businesses are open to work during the day, and then they may leave after hours as the workday closes. Because of the sh…”

“My hiring, if you were from New York, I didn't pretty much want to hire you. I was looking for, because I didn't think of New York as being a very friendly place back then. I wanted a place that, that was welcoming.”

“We have these fancy studios in New York and London, and we've spent, you know, fifty million dollars a piece, I believe, on these two studios, so real investments.”

“And for City Bike in New York, I believe it was last weekend, we hit our record of over, over a 100,000 rides in one day.”

“I knew that New York didn't need me and that I could do a lot more in my hometown. You know, I never thought that Detroit really Deserved the bad reputation that it had gotten, and I wanted to be a part of, like, this new thing, and to meet the movers and shak…”

“I mean, look at Alain Ducasse, I think Robichon, really, Gordon Ramsay, some of the biggest chefs came to New York and failed, and the city was done with them, and they never got a second chance.”

“Leonard was the number one agent in New York the prior year, having sold or put in contract, five hundred million dollars in listings.”

“Seven guys bought three pairs of pants, six guys bought two pairs of pants, only one guy didn't buy anything, and it was at that moment that I decided, we need to build this company in New York.”

“So I used to say that that was the best professional decision I made moving to Walpole. It's not. It's actually the second best professional decision. The best decision was to stay there. And it's because this is so labor intensive. It requires so much time. I…”

“In our urban offices like New York or London, very quickly we get back to 65, 70% occupancy right away, so it's a strong sense of people wanting to come in.”

“I left New York and came to LA, and LA felt so slow to me. Like, LA people will be like, I'm working on a script, and you'll be like, where's the script? And they'll be like, oh, it's coming, I got you. New York, I'm working on the script. Where is it at? It's…”

“There are states like California, New York, and New Jersey That are introducing legislation that makes it illegal for businesses to throw away their food. They have to recycle it or donate it.”

“Yes, that was the typical price of Gio, actually quite a bit higher than that in the markets in New York that we started in.”

“Starbucks had expanded to New York, and the hypothesis we had was, well, gosh, if it works in New York, given how international and diverse that city is, it'll work in London.”

“Like, someone asked me once, would you have done this if you were in France? I said, I told them, probably not. Yeah. New York is a very open-minded city that would let you explore. So long you give them good food at fair price, and you respect your customers,…”

“And we started this effort a decade ago when we launched Rise of the Rest, started doing, you know, bus tours around the country, then launched investment fund, which made now 200 investments in a hundred different, different cities in what we call Rise of the…”

“Well, in Hinge's day, we started originally in Washington, D.C., There was a lot of movement between, like, DC and New York, and so people in New York would start to hear about it, but we wouldn't let anyone in until, because we had such a network effects prod…”

“The thing that's working in our favor is that there is some incoming legislation that is banning many bottles in hotels, so they've already been banned in California back in twenty-twenty-three, this year in New York, in Washington by twenty-twenty-seven.”

“That's why when we started Mrs. Meyers, we just went after market after market, and we just chipped away. We went to, we tried the Midwest, that was a disaster, so we just chipped away. New York, Atlanta, big major markets that would be so much more accepting.”

“Was it the right choice for our first store? Probably not, but you know what? It put us on the map with every, a major media, New York.”