New York

“I'm actually finding right now, because we're hiring engineers both locations, that we're having a little more luck hiring engineers in New York.”

“New York has had two billion dollar exits in the last 10 years, and they were both double-click, right?”

“New York is, ah, is like the Saudi Arabia of design talent. Meaning, as Saudi Arabia is to oil, New York is to design talent.”

“In New York in general, you find the startup scene is quite consumer oriented, and as a result, there's a lot more competition for front end developers.”

“In New York, I think something like 93 or 94% of bills end up failing you know, by the time they get to committee.”

“And then we have Jesse from Newton, which is one of the first mark portfolio companies, in full disclosure who I think runs The largest data science team in New York, as far as I know.”

“And so that might peg you down to roughly within a square kilometer less if you're in New York, more if you're in a suburban or rural area.”

“Ships now laying new fiber optic cables between New York and London to show five milliseconds of round trip time at the cost of three hundred million dollars.”

“In San Francisco, people talk a lot about the view of the Bay, the view of the bridge. In New York, people talk about, ah, a view of the river, or view of the Hudson, ah, while in Chicago, ah, people talk about the city and the lake.”

“To be, I mean, to be truly honest with you New York isn't a focus area for us.”

“So most, about 85% of our engineering is based in New York, you know, in Times Square, 10 blocks away from here.”

“On average, I'd say they work between in New York, sort of eight or nine hours a day.”

“We look at some of our competitors, specifically Uber, there's a paper published again, either late last year or earlier this year, showing how many miles they ride empty on average for every single passenger mile that they do, and it's about between . Six and…”

“Our average wait times in New York are about five or six minutes.”

“I actually think maybe being in New York is an advantage at this point because the noise levels are reduced, right?”

“Whenever we pitched West Coast investors, like, it was sort of seen as a form of mental deficiency to be to be based in New York and, you know, doing it, doing infrastructure.”

“I think a lot of tech is adopted almost city by city, and so I think that one of the things we got right in the early years was focusing on a few cities like New York, Berlin, London, to really grow the scene there, and then you get positive word of mouth.”

“If I were to bet on where like the global nexus necessarily would be, like if you're accounting for the fact that like, you know, there are things happening outside of the US, I think New York is a very strong candidate.”

“San Francisco was, it's too far away. I think for our global business, timezone doesn't help you when you do global business. It's not really so well connected globally, I think from, in, from flying perspective.”

“From 2015 to 2022, New York grew from 11 to a 144 unicorns.”

“We were a fully remote company. But as soon as COVID started exiting, we realized that to start a company, there's just nothing like being in the same room. And so we started doing the in-person thing. First start with one day, then two days, then three days. …”