San Francisco

10 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement May 2, 2018 by Patrick Collison · said 98 times in 38 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Shane Parrish (25), Balaji Srinivasan (13), Jim Dethmer (10), Sahil Lavingia (5), Ryan Petersen (4), Patrick Collison (4), Michaeleen Doucleff (4), Logan Ury (4)

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Everything said about San Francisco, oldest first

May 2, 2018 bearish
Disclosure
Collison: John and I own an SF house and hope its value declines
“I'm a landowner in San Francisco. John and I own a house together, and I hope its value declines”
Patrick Collison May 2, 2018 ▶ 1:44:42 #32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
May 2, 2018 neutral
Assertion Supported
Collison: San Francisco has one-third the density of Greenwich Village
“San Francisco of today, recognizing that it is of approximately a third of the density of even just Greenwich Village in New York, right? We're not you know, the sort of, the other extreme is not Hong Kong. You can triple San Francisco and get to Greenwich.”
Patrick Collison May 2, 2018 ▶ 1:46:00 #32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
Mar 5, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Marks: AI developers will thrive while displaced workers face dystopian hardship
“The people who can develop the personless bookstore or the robot will be in great demand, and the people who can create artificial intelligence will be in great demand and very valuable, and they'll all live in a small community just south of San Francisco. An…”
Howard Marks Mar 5, 2019 ▶ 59:11 #53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
Mar 13, 2020 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
San Francisco pedestrians routinely inhale and track aerosolized fecal matter indoors
“In many cities on the coast of the US, like San Francisco most infamously, you are definitely, people are definitely inhaling fecal matter as they're walking outside. They're definitely getting it on their shoes and so on and tracking it in, even in, like, sma…”
Balaji Srinivasan Mar 13, 2020 ▶ 41:29 #78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
Jul 21, 2020 negative
Disclosure
Sivers left San Francisco because he hated everyone thinking like him
“I actually, I tried living in San Francisco for a little while. I had to leave after a few months. I hated it because everybody thinks like me. And so I'm happier living in a place like Singapore, where most people don't think like me.”
Derek Sivers Jul 21, 2020 ▶ 1:40:12 #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
Apr 5, 2022
Insight
Balaji: Global dynamics depend on ascending versus descending trajectories, not wealth
“It's not about the developed world and developing world. It's about the ascending world and descending world. Like that's about rate of growth, not simply about statics. So just to elaborate on that, your Brooklyn woke is actually rich, but in the descending c…”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 1:03:27 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Apr 5, 2022 positive
Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Chennai is cleaner than San Francisco
“Chennai is cleaner than San Francisco. It's not close. Okay. Like I, there's no question.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 2:37:47 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Jun 25, 2024
Assertion Supported
Doucleff: SF parents give 120 verbal inputs hourly versus 2-3 traditionally
“In places where children have autonomy, parents give children, like, two to three verbal inputs in an hour. And I've done it on myself, I've done it with parents in San Francisco, and we are talking about, like, a 120 verbal inputs per hour.”
Michaeleen Doucleff Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 27:51 #197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
Apr 29, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Garry Tan: YC teams staying in SF double their unicorn odds
“One thing we spotted is that the teams that come to San Francisco and then stay in San Francisco or the Bay Area, they actually double their chance of becoming a unicorn.”
Garry Tan Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 25:12 Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Apr 29, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Garry Tan: San Francisco had zero housing starts last year
“Literally, there were no new housing starts in all of, you know, San Francisco proper for the last year.”
Garry Tan Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 26:15 Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
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