San Francisco

“If I was, you know, a new college grad or someone young and new and kind of tech industry, definitely San Francisco, you'll create a lot of serendipity. You'll, you'll meet a lot of people, but from a lifestyle perspective, LA LA, I just find more enjoyable.”

“I helped them build this office in San Francisco, hired a bunch of folks. We actually closed down the office. I had to lay off a bunch of the people that I'd hired, including myself, which wasn't particularly fun.”

“I remember really distinctly having to invite customers to go out to lunch with us when they would come to San Francisco back in the Airtable days, because we had like, 15 people in a teeny tiny office. It's not that I wanted to mislead anyone, but I didn't ne…”

“We realized that for driving in the, in sort of the slopes or the gradients you know, the street with inclines in, in San Francisco, there are many of those, right? The human brain is trained to, or the human drivers are sort of, you know, subconsciously, they…”

“A lot of driving is also social norms, right? It's if you, if you're in a particular, you know, section in San Francisco, you know, maybe it's okay for pedestrians to cross even when they don't have a walk sign, right? Another city, another intersection might …”

“I would say what's really interesting about Waymo is they've largely solved the self-driving piece, right? However they've done that. Right. And we, and in a complex environment like San Francisco, and they, you see them driving in fog and rain and puddles and…”

“Look, it's gonna be a long time before, you know, I think jobs in the small town where I have a home will ever get You know, impacted, but in the large town where I have a home, San Francisco, well, then I just gave you an example where I think that jobs will …”

“And we sublease our apartment and office, we're actually making money living in Japan. And then San Francisco.”

“Like when I started my web design firm, I started mostly with local and small projects, but very quickly I found a job board in San Francisco where startups would share projects they needed help with. I could charge five times the amount for five times less wo…”

“I think people think of the edge of AI as being in San Francisco, and I actually don't think that that's where it is. I think the edge of AI is wherever AI meets like a real human doing something, because the people in San Francisco, they're making it, but the…”