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Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein Aug 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:40 Ofir Ehrlich And let's say, uh, uh, you're a data team leader in, in some company and you are based in San Francisco, or we are now here, uh, in New York and both are also different business unit, uh, uh, uh, leaders.

Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak Jul 31, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:31 Melisa Tokmak Uh, industries and every single engineer in our company do have to go visit customers on site to build the right product back home in San Francisco.

Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang Jul 23, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:24 Stanley Tang Like a delivery in downtown San Francisco is completely different than, uh, a delivery done in Dallas or, or even in Europe or in Helsinki where it's snowing, or you're doing a, uh, pizza is very different than ice cream. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:18 Stanley Tang Restaurants behave in, in Phoenix look different than restaurants in, in San Francisco versus like, you know, London versus Helsinki.

Pax Silica: Inside the Trump Administration’s Tech Strategy with Jacob Helberg May 14, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:15 Jacob Helberg And so we're super excited to be here in San Francisco, talk to builders and see ways that we can actually accelerate supply chain security for our tech companies.

The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity? Feb 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:51 Elad Gil I'm already seeing that in the SF housing market, right? 2 times in the scene

No Priors Live: Is the SaaS "Bear Thesis" Overblown? MongoDB CEO Answers Jan 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:31 CJ Desai You want to make sure that your platform, that you are positioning to the customer, whether it's a builder here in San Francisco that is creating a brand new company for a use case, all the way to a very large company that is selling to…
  • ▶ 16:57 CJ Desai And then the second thing I learned by speaking to some of the companies here in San Francisco area, was that some of the digital natives around 2010, 15 timeframe,

No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski Dec 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:03 Mati Staniszewski We started as a remote company and are still first, remote first, but have hubs around the world with London being the biggest, New York being second biggest, Warsaw, San Francisco, and now Tokyo and, and one in Brazil.

No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra Dec 5, 2025 · 1 mention

No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara Nov 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:51 Sajith Wickramasekara We haven't figured out what that is in bio yet with some ideas, but by and large, and I just got back from a month on the road and I was in Boston, London, a bunch of other places that are sort of scientific capitals outside of SF. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 133 | With Alpha School Principal Joe Liemandt Sep 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:49 Joe Liemandt You know, I was just up at the San Francisco campus last night, and one of the parents, it's been open 23 days, and the parent's like, in 23 days, this guy knows more than the teachers did in years, you know, in the prior world, and I'm…

No Priors Ep. 132 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang Sep 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:43 Jesse Zhang I, I think an interesting thing with new, each new office is that you also have to kind of rethink the, like, we worked really hard to build our current culture and, and SF office, and it's been up in New York.

No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel Aug 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:41 Dylan Patel But what was really interesting is, like, when they asked where we're from, we're like San Francisco, they're like, do people get shot in the streets? 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 126 | With Cloudfare CEO Matthew Prince Aug 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:47 Matthew Prince And that, that if we can then compensate people on that, that actually is much better than yet another article about what's happening in Washington, DC, yet another article about, you know, how much San Francisco is on decline or on the…

No Priors Ep. 122 | With Rippling Co-Founder & CEO Parker Conrad Jul 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:40 Parker Conrad Like, like Patrick Collison has this great site that talks about these different organizations and how, how like, you know, teams of people that like, you know, did the moon landing in four years or like the sort of Van Ness bus lane in…

No Priors Ep. 121 | With Chai Discovery Co-Founders Jack Dent and Joshua Meier Jul 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 47:01 Joshua Meier You know, we, the company wasn't even, we were based in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 119 | With Applied Intuition's Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig Jun 17, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:09 Qasar Younis I, uh, I came as casual as I could for the San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:44 Qasar Younis And I think in industries like us, if you're an AI company in, you know, in, in San Francisco and you supply, you know, let's say developers that are mostly based, that doesn't matter for us.
  • ▶ 35:34 Qasar Younis And I think the, not to pick on Waymo a lot, but it's just easy one because we're in San Francisco to see all these cars around and it's, it's, um,

No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody Apr 10, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 26:18 Brendan Foody And then in terms of things that like maybe no one even in like San Francisco is thinking about, uh, which is another interesting part of that problem is that these agentic evals for non-verifiable domains is under indexed on significantly. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:21 Brendan Foody Well, I think that the largest inefficiency in the labor market is fragmentation, and that a candidate, wherever they are in the world, will apply to a dozen jobs, and a company in San Francisco will consider a fraction of a percent of…
  • ▶ 39:07 Brendan Foody Yeah, and I think one of the, like, crazy things about the market is that any candidate that you do a work trial with has probably done work trials with, like, a lot of other top companies in San Francisco, but you don't have any of the…

No Priors Ep. 107 | With Physical Intelligence Co-Founder Chelsea Finn Mar 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:13 Chelsea Finn That makes me optimistic, and I think that also, like, all the results in self-driving have been very encouraging, especially, like, the number of Waymo's that I see in San Francisco.

No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Mar 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:49 Thomas Dohmke The, it works for Waymo in San Francisco and it doesn't work for Waymo, uh, all the way down to SFO to San Jose yet.

No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:04 Kyle Vogt You know, we had working prototypes driving around San Francisco, obeying traffic lights, changing lanes, you know, going from point A to point B with an iPhone app.

No Priors Ep. 101 | With Harvey CEO and Co-Founder Winston Weinberg Feb 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:21 Winston Weinberg You know, there, and I don't necessarily mean, by the way, if you're building a tech company, like I think it needs to be in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:51 Rick Caruso Nathan Hochman, I think, is going to do a very good job, just like they changed in San Francisco.

No Priors Ep. 98 | With Convective Capital Founder Bill Clerico Jan 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

No Priors Ep. 97 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang Jan 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:24 Jesse Zhang And then, you know, now we're all adults and, you know, there's, there's some sort of, you know, signal there when you're, when you're talking about hiring, but for the most part, like it's, there's, there's so many talented people here,…

No Priors Ep. 95 | Best of 2024 Dec 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:57 Sarah Guo Today, the company is scaling its self-driving fleet, completing over a 100,000 fully autonomous rides per week in cities like San Francisco and Phoenix. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:25 Elias Torres Without me even asking, like we are in the era where like, hey, um, Eliezer, you're going to speak in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell Dec 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:30 Felix Ejeckam Um, I think that being able to have battery capacity that is so optimized because we don't have the thermal constraints that we do today, uh, that can take us from SF to New York in, you know, in, in, in one with one charge.

No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov Oct 24, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:17 Sarah Guo Now it provides over a 100,000 paid rides each week across San Francisco, LA, Austin, and Phoenix.
  • ▶ 6:45 Dmitri Dolgov Uh, I basis this is what you see in, you know, in the fleet today in, in those four cities, uh, Phoenix, San Francisco, LA, and Austin. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:19 Dmitri Dolgov Uh, but then this is why we picked San Francisco is that, you know, it's good for learning and advancing the driver.
  • ▶ 24:19 Dmitri Dolgov But even, you know, kind of the densest cities, if you look at, you know, the people who live in San Francisco or, you know, people who live in New York, even, uh, before, you know, autonomy, right?
  • ▶ 38:06 Dmitri Dolgov Um, you know, freeways, uh, downtown San Francisco, around Lake Tahoe, you know, everything.

No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil Oct 17, 2024 · 1 mention

No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla Sep 5, 2024 · 1 mention

No Priors Ep. 79 | With Magic.dev CEO and Co-Founder Eric Steinberger Aug 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:24 Eric Steinberger I've done this for the last few years, and I just need to be in an environment where I'm sufficiently challenged to do this, and he's been grinding every day, and, and just having, like, that level of ambition, but not with, like, the…

No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis Aug 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:45 Jared Quincy Davis You know, you may or may not find a space that you, I'm sure many of us have the experience of driving through SF and seeing a lot, a lot full sign, you know, for lot after lot as we drive around trying to park.

No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan May 23, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 29:24 Sarah Guo How do you think about, you know, being in the SF ecosystem? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:18 Sarah Guo Should we talk about SF being back? 5 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure Apr 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:28 Brett Adcock Uh, they can take off them on helicopter landing pads, like inside of a city, and they can take you from here back to San Francisco in under 20 minutes.

No Priors Ep. 51 | With Notion CEO Ivan Zhao Feb 15, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:42 Ivan Zhao That's why SF's rent is so expensive, because we're the modern day Detroit or Manchester, right?
  • ▶ 19:10 Ivan Zhao I can just ask a question to Notion, like, um, how large, when are we moving out of the SF office to a new office?

No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI Nov 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:13 Arthur Mensch It's the same kind of flywheel that made, uh, San Francisco and the Bay Area, uh, successes is starting to, uh, to spin in, in, in France.

No Priors Ep. 36 | With Hubspot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan Oct 12, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:39 Brian Halligan It wasn't San Francisco later, they later went to San Francisco and then they, they ended up in Marin there,

No Priors Ep. 2 | With Runway ML’s Cristobal Valenzuela May 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:16 Cristobal Valenzuela And I was also new to like just the, the tech world and SF, like I've never been to SF like three years ago.

No Priors Ep. 10 | With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley Apr 25, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:17 Alex Graveley Um, I was living in like a, a warehouse in San Francisco with a bunch of Burning Man people.

No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats Apr 25, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:45 Aravind Srinivas If you go to Google and book a flight, you just like flight from SF to Seattle, you just directly click on the book button.
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