New York

“I spent a lot of money. Maybe I think I did it in New York. I rented a 5500 square foot house and it was like 13,000 dollars for a month.”

“In San Francisco, it's a little bit different, right? San Francisco, the virtue signaling is different. Like what you get rewarded for. Is different. You get rewarded for I'm solving some big problem at scale, billion users, billion dollar prize. That's what y…”

“So 800,000 dollars, by the way, is 456,000 dollars post tax. And if you assume that you spend 15 or 20,000 dollars a month, which is very reasonable, And that means you're saving like 200 grand a year. You just gotta, you gotta make that for 20 years in order …”

“So I basically hire someone to drive him from Austin all the way up to New York. And like, I don't travel because of him overseas typically.”

“The cost of labor is going to just keep going up. And so, you know, waiters were paid 15 dollars an hour. Now it's 20 to 25 dollars an hour in New York. Unless we change immigration or something fundamentally changes, that could be 30 dollars an hour. So you k…”

“I think I increased my spend from like 10 to 15 a month to like 20 to 25,000 a month, maybe 20,000 a month when I'm not in New York.”

“All the Silicon Valley guys are really when like behind closed doors are really envious of the New York hedge fund guys. Cause they're so liquid. Like they might not actually be as rich per se, but they're so, they make so much cash that it's like, it may as w…”

“In New York, courts are about 300 dollars an hour and booked out over weekends.”

“There was no company in New York's history ever that was worth a billion dollars within 18 months or two years or three.”