San Francisco, every mention
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every year anyone Laura Behrens Wu 7David Cramer 7Kevin Busque 6Gorkem Yurtseven 6May Habib 3Guillermo Rauch 3Wes Kao 2Matt Lerner 2Kiren Sekar 2Casey Winters 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where San Francisco comes up
The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- ▶ 36:03 Paul Copplestone They really want you to come to SAF and be based here and built here, and that is the right approach, I think, for 99.9% of the companies.
Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- ▶ 14:45 Graham Moreno So to be fair, I really haven't experimented yet with taking like a great enterprise seller and being like, Hey, I'm going to pull you off of the big banks and like stick you into the, the tier one San Francisco companies.
Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 18:36 Anil Varanasi And the way we thought of these couple of customers is we used to have the small office on Townsend street in San Francisco.
- ▶ 21:55 Anil Varanasi Then immediately we felt that bottleneck a lot being in San Francisco.
How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 34:02 Jyoti Bansal At that time, it was just, for me, it's like, we didn't have many investors in San Francisco at that time.
Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
- ▶ 1:11:37 Jake Stauch Are the people, you know, we're all in person, uh, in the office every day in San Francisco.
The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
- ▶ 4:07 Gorkem Yurtseven I met Burkay when I moved to San Francisco over 10 years ago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:19 Gorkem Yurtseven You know, we've been trying to get both our American engineers who live in other cities to move to San Francisco, but also some of the overseas engineers to move to San Francisco as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:47 Todd Jackson You've been, you, you sponsored the Padel courts in San Francisco, you know, nano banana hackathons, generated video awards, and your first developer conference coming up.
Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)
- ▶ 34:29 Kiren Sekar Part of it is just being willing to, you know, get on a plane, and most of our customers are not in, you know, San Francisco or New York or Boston, so we're 2 times in the scene
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 46:48 Abhinav Asthana So we first started with building community in San Francisco, like not too far from here.
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
- ▶ 2:44 Ankur Goyal I started studying CS, and then, again, trying to be like a good Indian kid, I interned at Microsoft, and I did research with a professor, and I hated both of them, so I had my second existential crisis, and decided to move to San…
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 1:29 David Cramer I was there till, you know, almost 20 years old, and then moved out, and have been in SF most of the time since then. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:35 David Cramer And then I actually moved to California with that company to San Francisco for about a year. 4 times in the scene
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 9:06 Karri Saarinen And that, that kind of like also got me to move to California or San Francisco.
How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 5:41 Kevin Busque And we're supposed to be this scrappy San Francisco startup, right?
- ▶ 27:33 Kevin Busque That's part of the beauty of San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:44 Kevin Busque So there's a lot of the early questions are where like, Hey, you're San Francisco,
- ▶ 49:38 unnamed speaker Um, that was really important for us to, to understand, and we got a lot of learnings from that, but the next hurdle for us was hourly workers, and we didn't really think about that being a startup in San Francisco, kind of everybody was…
- ▶ 1:04:45 Kevin Busque In TaskRabbit days, this is 2000, I think, 2010, we moved to San Francisco.
Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition
- ▶ 3:02 Bill Magnuson And then I moved out to San Francisco and worked at Google and Mountain View for a time.
Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand
- ▶ 20:16 Varun Anand We now have billboards all in San Francisco.
Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO That's Led Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta
- ▶ 3:05 Anneka Gupta I knew I wanted to work at a startup, so I started researching startups, talking to different companies in the space, realizing that I was probably going to need to start in software engineering because that's where the entry-level jobs… 2 times in the scene
How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- ▶ 0:06 Matt Lerner I was, when I started at PayPal early on, I was living in San Francisco, and I came home to my apartment, and there was a sticker on the gate that said, 24 hour emergency locksmith, and it had a phone number.
- ▶ 57:27 Matt Lerner Early on, I was living in San Francisco, and I came home to my apartment, and there was a sticker on the gate, apartment complex, that said, Twenty-four-hour emergency locksmith, and it had a phone number.
How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)
- ▶ 18:52 Brett Berson The top 20 restaurants in San Francisco, if you were to go to them and say, do you want more customers?
- ▶ 30:47 Casey Winters And then Lyft comes along and I'm in San Francisco and I'm seeing all the pink mustaches while Uber early on was optimizing for luxury as a form of trust. 2 times in the scene
How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)
- ▶ 26:44 Matt MacInnis Someone who is commuting to work every day in San Francisco, but then we decide we're going to do an offsite and the offsite is a block away from the office, but now they tried to expense their commute because it's not at the office.
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 2:06 Brett Berson I was really excited to have a chance to sit down with him in our San Francisco office to talk about some of his biggest lessons from scaling BuddyBuild that he's bringing to his second time in the saddle at Unblocked.
- ▶ 56:34 Dennis Pilarinos I was walking through San Francisco and I called him up to talk to him something.
Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
- ▶ 3:30 May Habib Started it and, and moved to San Francisco end of 14 beginning of 2015 to, to work on it.
- ▶ 33:52 May Habib So if you are listening, New York, San Francisco, London, you can work from anywhere.
- ▶ 36:10 May Habib And I think, you know, in the early months, and, and really a couple years of, you know, working together before we moved to San Francisco to start Cordoba, just side hustling type of things, the chemistry was always there, the creative…
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- ▶ 51:52 Kyle Parrish And in the early days we were all in San Francisco, you know, we, COVID had not happened.
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
- ▶ 35:32 Steve Blank That is to be able to jump on a plane for, in fact, just to be clear, you know, here we are in San Francisco.
The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- ▶ 1:22:27 Jack Krawczyk No, I want to give you the thought, like, I have admired, I've watched you in your first, like, week of living in San Francisco, being, uh, at First Round Capital, and the conviction that you've had for your entire journey here, the First…
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 16:22 Guillermo Rauch So to me, I remember thinking at the time I was in my apartment in San Francisco, if I'm struggling, imagine the next 10,100 thousand companies that are going to go through digital transformation.
- ▶ 28:03 Guillermo Rauch All you're doing is serving a limited number of users in San Francisco.
- ▶ 59:31 Guillermo Rauch This, this guy in San Francisco is just like trying to like predict the future or whatever, but we will have systems that help you migrate from where you are today to this world.
How young outsiders changed the shipping industry | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)
- ▶ 3:08 Laura Behrens Wu And at that point in time, like I've not really, I've never been to San Francisco before. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:01 Laura Behrens Wu We like it here so much.
- ▶ 58:38 Laura Behrens Wu And then I'd say the, the other part, like it's not a specific person, but being able to talk to a whole lot of startup founders here in San Francisco, and I think that that's why building in San Francisco is, is so awesome.
AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- ▶ 1:04:34 Dan Siroker I did that on a flight to San Francisco from Denver.
The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
- ▶ 26:53 Alex Kracov So we would rent out a room at a fancy restaurant, like foreign cinema and SF and invite a bunch of HR people in there to talk and have different discussion topics around that.
- ▶ 31:15 Alex Kracov So think of all the big tech cities, New York and San Francisco and Seattle and Austin, all these different.