San Francisco, every mention
12 scenes (said by Shane Parrish) · ← back to San Francisco
tap a year for its mentions
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
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
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,
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
- ▶ 24:07 Shane Parrish Why San Francisco? 8 times in the scene
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.
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.
#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?
- ▶ 1:44:13 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