San Francisco, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 25Balaji Srinivasan 13Jim Dethmer 10Sahil Lavingia 5Ryan Petersen 4Patrick Collison 4Michaeleen Doucleff 4Logan Ury 4Tobi Lütke 2Shep Gordon 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where San Francisco comes up
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 0:27 Kaz Nejatian Um, to fly San Francisco, where Open Door had one office.
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 1:19:31 Joe Liemandt Like, if you go to our website, we have testimonials of people, you know, we opened San Francisco.
An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott
- ▶ 3:20 Shane Parrish When Bill was 15, his father put him in charge of shipping 3000 sheep to San Francisco for the Panama Pacific Exposition, alone on a freight train nearly a thousand miles to a city he'd never seen. 2 times in the scene
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 34:42 Michael Ovitz Great, well-loved up in San Francisco, and we knew each other through UCLA because he was, he had a kid down there, and we had, uh, I was, you know, running the board at the hospital, and we had had some contact on some personal issues,…
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 1:39:22 Shane Parrish I remember I gave a talk once in San Francisco,
The Science of Lasting Love with Dr. Sue Johnson
- ▶ 1:33:56 Dr. Sue Johnson You know, I'm gonna work at it, um, I'm willing to look at it and explore it and work at it, right, and then that's the start, and then to find something that really helps you, and if something like, you know, an educational program like…
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 26:39 Ryan Petersen Um, and okay, so we had this license, but it was in Houston and we wanted to be in San Francisco after YC. 4 times in the scene
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 6:37 Shane Parrish Why did all these people concentrate in San Francisco almost or California?
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 7:37 Garry Tan There's like a lot of mechanical knowledge about how do you incorporate, or how do you raise money for the first time, and all of that is out there for free, and, ah, you know, on the other hand, I think of doing YC, being in the program,…
- ▶ 24:07 Shane Parrish Why San Francisco? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:31 Garry Tan Um, but, you know, also that being said, I'm a San Francisco Democrat, so I really have a very, very little, uh, you know, I have very little special knowledge about how the new administration is going to run, um, except that I
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 38:45 Shane Parrish Now, watching tens of thousands head to San Francisco each month, he saw a bigger opportunity than anything he'd tackled before. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:15 Shane Parrish New line of steamships to San Francisco, announced the Times.
- ▶ 55:30 Shane Parrish Enter Edmund Randolph, a Virginia aristocrat and friend of Walker who proposed a daring conspiracy to Cornelius Garrison, transit San Francisco agent.
- ▶ 1:21:09 Shane Parrish He made money from monopolizing, and he understood where the real money was, like the lucrative mail contracts from New York to San Francisco.
Logan Ury: The Dating Myths You Need to Stop Believing
- ▶ 1:03:09 Logan Ury Not in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:55:37 Logan Ury So in their twenties, or maybe it was their early thirties when they were dating, they lived in this communal house that they ran in San Francisco, where it was about, like, nine people in a house.
- ▶ 2:05:11 Logan Ury Your dating app profile is sort of like your billboard, and if you were buying a billboard, let's say, on the one-on-one in San Francisco, like, you would, of course, think a lot about what you're going to put on it, and I think people…
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:02:11 Shane Parrish Roosevelt articulated this divide in a September, 1932 speech to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club, where he directly challenged everything Mellon represented.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:20:29 Alfred Lin In San Francisco, where I was, not a lot of people wanted to be in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year
- ▶ 32:01 April Dunford Is a company I worked with in San Francisco called Postman.
Adam Karr: The Investing Blueprint
April Dunford: The Marketing Expert
- ▶ 55:59 April Dunford Is a company I worked with in San Francisco called Postman.
#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
- ▶ 0:05 Michaeleen Doucleff What was really surprising to me and why I went on this journey to, like, learn this other way of parenting was when I came back to San Francisco and I tried some of these techniques and methods, they worked, like, amazing on my little…
- ▶ 13:27 Michaeleen Doucleff When I came back to San Francisco and I tried some of these techniques and methods, because that's really what they are, um, they worked, like, amazing on my little girl in urban San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:04 Michaeleen Doucleff 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.
Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
- ▶ 24:04 Rey Flemings When the rich aren't trusting the poor, and the whites aren't trusting the blacks, and the Republicans aren't trusting, you begin to see this fraying of the edges, the, the things that you see in San Francisco right now with,
Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success
- ▶ 1:12:48 Ravi Gupta Um, uh, an ops leader in San Francisco, and the scenario she would give is, uh, and I thought it was an amazing question, effectively this, but she would say, look, she was interviewing somebody, hey, you're, um, one of the managers in San… 2 times in the scene
Jim Dethmer: The Pillars of Integrity
- ▶ 14:32 Jim Dethmer I want to go to San Francisco, not Austin. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:48 Jim Dethmer But when I'm in a relationship with somebody where we are co-committed, as we talked about, co-committed, we're both going to San Francisco, and we both want to practice being revealed and not concealed, so we can be fully alive, then I'm…
- ▶ 1:51:46 Jim Dethmer It's the San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 50:48 Balaji Srinivasan They've also picked fights with, uh, they've also picked fights with parents, huge ones on, on, um, education and on COVID restrictions to the extent that even San Francisco had the school board recall.
- ▶ 1:03:49 Balaji Srinivasan Whereas you might be rich in San Francisco, but you're part of the descending world, right?
- ▶ 1:12:12 Balaji Srinivasan If you're a terrible capital allocator, if you're spending three hundred million dollars on bus lanes like San Francisco, if you're spending billions of dollars on like planes and ships that don't work like the US military, like the…
- ▶ 2:37:47 Balaji Srinivasan Chennai is cleaner than San Francisco.
#113 Sarah Tavel: The Value of Intellectual Rigor
- ▶ 46:26 Sarah Tavel But the difference was is that Postmates went after San Francisco.
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- ▶ 44:27 Seth Godin And figuring, well, I could get away from the office for an hour, and they said, in San Francisco.
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 20:31 Sahil Lavingia I mean, you know, I was living in San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:46 Sahil Lavingia Like you're living in San Francisco, regardless of what happens with COVID and remote work, because you need to be there.
- ▶ 52:57 Sahil Lavingia Cause that's one, you know, one, one question I always, I think about a lot is like, when you decide to do something like, you know, like when I decided to leave San Francisco and move to Provo, was it the stuff in Provo that made me…
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 1:40:12 Derek Sivers I actually, I tried living in San Francisco for a little while.
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 47:24 Jason Calacanis Like, I used to use this valet service, Lux, in San Francisco.
#79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People
- ▶ 6:43 Esther Wojcicki All the exciting journalism, uh, locations were in San Francisco or San Jose.
#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- ▶ 41:29 Balaji Srinivasan Um, and number two, 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. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:12 Balaji Srinivasan Let's say there's a hundred people in San Francisco who have the coronavirus, and San Francisco's population is about 880,000, and you have a office that has a thousand people, right? 5 times in the scene
#65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons
- ▶ 4:16 Shep Gordon Um, there was a big song called, I want to wear a flower in my hair and go to San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
#62 Dr. Sue Johnson: Cracking the Code of Love
- ▶ 1:27:50 Dr. Sue Johnson There's, if you're in San Francisco, you can go one to one nearly every week, right?
#53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- ▶ 59:11 Howard Marks 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…
#50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
- ▶ 18:34 Josh Wolfe You know, it was a series of circumstances and luck, but I'm in this boardroom, and then I find out that these young guys in San Francisco want to take these antennas that are as flat as an iPad and put them on small satellites, and so we…
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 59:50 Tobi Lütke Develop, develop a conference last year in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 38:21 Ben Thompson But then two, on a day-to-day basis, to not be in San Francisco, to not be immersed in tech
#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- ▶ 7:03 Tyler Cowen Downtown San Francisco, tech aside, I'm not sure artistically it's such a creative area.
#38 Ali Almossawi: Thinking in Algorithms
- ▶ 0:46 Shane Parrish Today's guest is Ali Almosai, the San Francisco-based author of an illustrated guide to bad arguments and bad choices.
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 3:47 Shane Parrish And how did we get from MIT to where we are today, which is Stripe's offices in San Francisco?
- ▶ 1:37:44 Patrick Collison Medical care in San Francisco doesn't seem so great, and it seems extraordinarily expensive. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:13 Shane Parrish What do you think your role as a large employer and thoughtful citizen of San Francisco is in, in this? 5 times in the scene
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 1:18:31 Gary Taubes It's true, he's not getting to eat donuts and, and, and french fries and cereal anymore, but he's replacing it with some pretty, so that kind of clinical observation, you know, there's a startup in San Francisco called Virta Health that's…