Bay Area

“It's the reason why I live here. The quality of life is not high enough to justify living otherwise. It won't be because of the people and ideas.”

“And I think if you, like, go to another state outside of the Bay Area, probably even in California, outside of the Bay Area, and then you ask somebody how much their life has materially changed, it's, like, pretty close to zero. Real-world inertia is enormous.…”

“I do think that to some extent, if you want to do research in, you need a little bit of peace and quiet somewhere, right? So this island may be good for that, but then you can, you're still, like, able to, like, be connected, right?”

“Right now we're Building AI again for the people who are building AI. We're building AI for engineers, and we're all in our little echo chamber in the bay, and we're proud of ourselves for, you know, building AI.”

“We started as an American company. We have always been an American company. And early on, we made a very conscious decision. We said, we're not going to hire any researchers in the Bay Area. We're going to actually look for talent everywhere else in the world.”