San Francisco
also referred to as: sf
4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2024 by Ivan Zhao · said 71 times in 40 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sarah Guo (12), Qasar Younis (5), Dmitri Dolgov (5), Brendan Foody (4), Stanley Tang (3), Winston Weinberg (2), Sajith Wickramasekara (2), Joshua Meier (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
- The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity?
- No Priors Live: Is the SaaS "Bear Thesis" Overblown? MongoDB CEO Answers
- Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein
- Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak
- Pax Silica: Inside the Trump Administration’s Tech Strategy with Jacob Helberg
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 30 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 119 | With Applied Intuition's Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig
- No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody
- No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
- No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
- No Priors Ep. 121 | With Chai Discovery Co-Founders Jack Dent and Joshua Meier
- No Priors Ep. 101 | With Harvey CEO and Co-Founder Winston Weinberg
- No Priors Ep. 98 | With Convective Capital Founder Bill Clerico
- No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 26 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan
- No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov
- No Priors Ep. 95 | Best of 2024
- No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
- No Priors Ep. 51 | With Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
- No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
- No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
- No Priors Ep. 36 | With Hubspot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan
- No Priors Ep. 2 | With Runway ML’s Cristobal Valenzuela
- No Priors Ep. 10 | With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
- No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about San Francisco, oldest first
Feb 15, 2024 neutral
May 23, 2024 negative
May 23, 2024 positive
Tan: Only SF Directly Connects AI Model Builders With Edge Deployers
“Only here can you know, can the tool makers and the foundational model builders and the researchers literally sit down and break bread with the people way out on the edge, like, trying to practically Deploy these things to every industry and every type of know…”
Nov 13, 2025 neutral
Wickramasekara: Most Biotech Researchers Are Not Yet Using Much AI in R&D
“Most people aren't really using that much AI and R&D yet. They all want to, they're primed to, but there's a lot of concerns about accuracy, IP, security, legal. And I think the farther you go from SF, the like, Larger those concerns, concerns get.”