New York

“And San Francisco's is only at like 27% versus what it was in 2019. I mean, everyone is down across the board, but the next lowest is Chicago at like 45%. And even New York, which ranks the highest, is only at like 65 Percent versus the norm of 2019.”

“The sophistication of the content conversation in Los Angeles, shocker, happens to be way higher than in New York or San Francisco.”

“I mean, there have been good New York startups, but I do think, like, the problem is, is like, look, there's just, There are too many places for talent to go. There's too much fun to be had, right? Like, if you want to live in New York and have a billion, a si…”

“If you really believe in the AI leverage story, like it's highly centralized in terms of like which companies are going to benefit from it. And I think within those companies, which teams drive the value from it is a small subset of those teams, right? And I d…”

“San Francisco feels like more of an infrastructure town and New York feels like more of an application layer town very broadly.”

“I would argue that anyone building a best-in-class company should probably look for representation from both New York and the Valley in their institutional seed round if they have choice.”