San Francisco
also referred to as: sf
29 statements across 27 episodes · 12 bullish · 6 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Mar 13, 2020 by Sam Parr · said 503 times in 190 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Shaan Puri (229), Sam Parr (197), Sheel Mohnot (8), Furqan Rydhan (8), Justin Mares (6), Scott Galloway (3), Nick Bilton (3), Jack Abraham (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 24 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks
- 7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
- From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
- A high school dropout reveals how he built a $200M brand
- $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
- Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight
- How to use your "useless” hobby to make money
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 101 mentions in 30 episodes 3 per episode
- 5 Conversations that broke our frames this week
- Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway)
- 7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
- 3 Wild Stories to Get You Hyped This Week
- Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)
- How NOT to Make $1,000,000 (I Tried 17 Ways)
- The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
- 22 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 133 mentions in 47 episodes 3 per episode
- 10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo
- You Have 70 Days to Win the Year
- $100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- 5 Random But Useful Things I Learned At A Private Equity Conference
- 3 Things You Need To Outperform 99% Of Entrepreneurs
- 6 College Students Pitch Us Their Startups | MFM Shark Tank
- The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech Billionaire
- The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing
- 39 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 47 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
- Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- How I Live On $25,000/Month In New York City
- Brainstorming Ideas with The $200M Man | ft. Patrick Campbell (#519)
- 5 Internet Goldmines To Spot The Next $1B Trend | Steph Smith (#529)
- From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
- Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends (#523)
- Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story (#521)
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 54 mentions in 21 episodes 3 per episode
- Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More
- 6 Hilarious Business Ideas That Could Make You $1,000,000 in 2022 (#351)
- Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…
- The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
- How This OnlyFans Model Built A $40 Million Business Empire (#383)
- BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers
- 4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
- How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 127 mentions in 56 episodes 2 per episode
- How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183
- Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
- How to launch a $100M DTC brand | My First Million #194
- The Milly Awards 2021
- Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Metaverse, Gaingels, Companies that Don't Advertise, and More
- How a City Tour is Making Millions, & Selling Manhood | My First Million # 177
- Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175
- The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht
- 48 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 17 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- Lead Gen Businesses, Islamic Finance & COVID-19 Virality | My First Million Podcast 03-10-2020
- How to Navigate the Upcoming Depression | My First Million Podcast | 03-24-2020
- Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020
- What Does It Take To Become Rich? How Some People Make Millions! My First Million Podcast 04-02-2020
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about San Francisco, oldest first
Mar 13, 2020 neutral
Sam Parr compares Silicon Valley to Hollywood for elevating baseline startup ambition
“The way that I described San Francisco and Silicon Valley is to me, it's kind of like Hollywood, but it's only, only if you're trying to make like a big blockbuster hit. I believe that you can make those anywhere. It might be a little bit more helpful if you a…”
Apr 3, 2020 negative
Puri: SF Rental Regulations Cut Airbnb Listings by 30-40%
“They changed some rules here in San Francisco where it's like, you can only do 90 days out of the year and you have to live in the place. You have to prove that blah, blah, blah. And that, that, you know, it eliminated like 30 or 40% of the listings overnight …”
May 5, 2021 bearish
Balaji: Founding a startup in San Francisco is like choosing Java
“Somebody who's choosing San Francisco for a startup, I crinkle my eyebrows as, you know, I mentioned it before, before the pandemic, I said it was like choosing Java, you know, proven, but kind of sucks. And it's like, okay, you don't know new languages and, y…”
May 12, 2021 bullish
Rydhan: Founders Inc is building a hardware and robotics lab in SF
“I'm building a hardware and robotics lab here in San Francisco as a part of F dot Inc. And, you know, the idea is software you can do in a coffee shop in a living room, but you can't really build any one of these, even off the shelf hardware products in your l…”
May 20, 2021
Puri: Tech Giants Took Nearly $1B in SF Lease Write-Downs Post-COVID
“There's two hundred million dollars of real estate impairments in the past year since COVID. It's almost a billion if you add in the lease related write downs from large companies like Salesforce, Dropbox, Uber, PayPal, Zendesk, just getting rid of their real …”
May 20, 2021
Jun 25, 2021 positive
Mares made $15K-$18K monthly via Airbnb arbitrage in San Francisco in 2013
“In 2013, we had, like, the number third, like, the third ranked Airbnb in San Francisco, and so we were we were, like, renting out either our living room most nights, or you know, over summers, we'd rent it out for, like, 15, 18 grand a month, and then we just…”
Sep 1, 2021 positive
Parr: Chuck Feeney gave away his $8B fortune and kept only $2M
“And so at its height, he had something like it was multiple digit billions, I believe, eight billion dollars. And that's how much he's given it away. So he's given All of it away, except for two million dollars. And he currently has an apartment in San Francis…”
Sep 17, 2021 neutral
Oct 5, 2021 positive
Puri: In-Home Preschool With 10 Kids Yields ~40% Margin on $30K/Month
“Well, every kid pays 3000 dollars, so that's 30 grand a month of income coming in. Now you have teachers, so you got maybe three teachers there. It ends up being about 40, 40%, I want to say, profit. I might be wrong off the top of my head, but it's about 40% …”
Dec 31, 2021 bearish
Tech salary inflation will reverse as remote hiring shifts overseas
“I think that this high salary inflation is not here to stay. I think what's happened is all these companies down in San Francisco are going, oh, crazy. We can hire cheap people in Canada, but they're not yet going, oh, hey, we can hire people in India and the …”
Jul 19, 2022 neutral
Shaan Puri: San Francisco awards status to broke founders chasing massive problems
“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…”
Sep 15, 2022 neutral
Oct 11, 2022
Puri: My First Million was started as an excuse to meet 50 SF founders
“When I originally started the pod, I literally wrote this in a doc. I've shared this before. I wrote most likely nobody's going to listen to this, but there's a hack really smart and interesting. Successful people are willing to go on a podcast. Even if it has…”
Mar 9, 2023
Sep 5, 2023 positive
Shaan Puri: Hamlin School generates $31M revenue and $11M profit in SF
“In San Francisco, I discovered a business that does thirty one million dollars in revenue locally here in San Francisco? No, no, no revenue outside of San Francisco. On the thirty one million in revenue, it does about eleven million in profit... And it has a h…”
Sep 5, 2023 neutral
Shaan Puri: Hamlin School charges $40,000 annual tuition for 450 students
“It's just for girls. It's a girls only school K through eight, I think. And only 450 kids. So 450 girls go to the school. You pay basically a college level tuition. So parents pay 40,000 dollars a year to send their kid to kindergarten or first grade.”
Jan 17, 2024 negative
Nagpal: Highly paid W2 tech employees face the worst tax burdens
“I don't think anyone pays more in taxes than highly paid tech employees. Like in terms of tax bracket, that's about as bad as you can get. You know, two people in San Francisco making 400,000 dollars a year together. Cool. You're paying half of it in taxes.”
Sep 13, 2024 positive
Oct 10, 2024
Parr claims he met London Breed hours before Mayor Ed Lee died
“By the way, the last time I met with the mayor it was in San Francisco, and so I met with London Breed, and she was just a council person, whatever, a district, I don't even know what it was called. Literally eight hours later, I met with her at like, five p.m…”
Jan 16, 2025 bullish
Puri: Living in San Francisco yields significantly more income through serendipity
“SF is now where the action is, but so the question would be, do I wish I was still in the city? And the answer is, I definitely would've, I definitely know I would make more money if I lived in SF. Like, it seems like it's a more expensive place to live, but a…”
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Apr 7, 2025 positive
Jun 25, 2025 bullish
Sep 24, 2025 bullish
Puri: Tech founders must move to San Francisco to maximize success
“So if you want to be a tech founder, you need to move to San Francisco. If you want to make movies, you go to LA. Now it's not that you had to do it, but if you want to increase your odds and you want to go faster, that's what you would do because proximity is…”
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Puri: Moving to San Francisco normalizes the irrational delusion required for startups
“That's also why you got to move to San Francisco is because you'll be surrounded by success stories and you'll see them. You'll be like, okay, cool. That guy's not special. I could do it. If you could do it, I could do it. And also everybody around you is simi…”
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Galloway says tech executives wrongly idolized Steve Jobs's asshole behavior as genius
“I was raised in a generation in San Francisco where Steve Jobs is our mentor and there was this terrible gestalt that infected a bunch of young tech executives, including myself, that if you were talented and nice, you were talented. If you were talented and a…”
Feb 18, 2026 neutral
Feb 20, 2026 bearish
Shaan Puri predicts China's elite talent pipeline will outcompete US education
“Whereas if other countries are taking this idea of, like, your job is to produce talent quickly and early, and that, like, it's, the goal is greatness, and let's be competitive about it. Like, what's going to happen over a 20 year arc, right? Like, you're goin…”