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also referred to as: sf

9 statements across 8 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jun 19, 2015 by Joseph Essas · said 127 times in 71 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Everything said about San Francisco, oldest first

Jun 19, 2015 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Diners in SF, NYC, and Chicago prioritize different restaurant scenery
“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.”
Joseph Essas Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 11:17 Joseph Essas, OpenTable // Mining Diner Talk (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jan 25, 2016
Disclosure
Scholnick: Trinity invested in InfluxDB and moved them to San Francisco
“I invested in InfluxDB, and I think it's a great company, but we moved them to we moved them to San Francisco.”
Dan Scholnick Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 5:25 Investing in Data and A.I. // Dan Scholnick, Trinity Ventures (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Oct 11, 2023 positive
Insight
Polu: Building a strong AI research team is 10x easier in Paris than SF
“If you want to build a strong AI research team today, it'll be 10 times easier to do it in Paris than it is to do it in SF with OpenAI as a lab, as a competitive lab to, in the same hiring markets.”
Stanislas Polu Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 47:25 Secure, Private, Powerful: Dust’s Vision for Enterprise AI Agents | Stanislas Polu
Oct 18, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The prompt engineer title jumped to roughly 1,000 SF workers in 2023
“If you look at the data, it's, like, basically until twenty-twenty-three, no one called themselves a prompt engineer, and then twenty-twenty-three, all of a sudden, a thousand people in SF are now a prompt engineer”
Nancy Xu Oct 18, 2023 ▶ 40:46 Moonhub’s Nancy Xu Unveils the AI Recruiter That’s Beating LinkedIn
May 31, 2024 negative
Opinion
San Francisco is a poor location for running a global business
“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.”
Daniel Dines May 31, 2024 ▶ 27:44 From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
May 29, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Hebbia currently employs zero artificial intelligence researchers in San Francisco
“And so we currently don't have any AI researchers hired out in San Francisco.”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 37:12 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
May 29, 2025 negative
Opinion
The San Francisco artificial intelligence ecosystem suffers from strong groupthink
“I think not a lot of people are saying it, but I think like SF has a really big group think.”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 36:32 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
Aug 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Granola's SF user meetup packed a two-floor bar despite expecting five
“I we did this was last maybe November so we're based in London, right, and we went to SF for a board meeting, and someone on the team said, hey, should we rent out a bar and just email users and say if you'd want to come? And we'd like, sure, you know, and we …”
Chris Pedregal Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 2:27 How to Build a Beloved AI Product - Granola CEO Chris Pedregal
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wall Street discusses AI bubbles far more than San Francisco
“The finance crowd in New York is definitely talking about bubbles a lot more than what we're talking about in San Francisco, where they're, Their view is like, this is the golden era of AI, and a lot of things are working.”
Nathan Benaich Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 14:22 State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
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