Bay Area

“Statistically, there are more people in the Bay Area building companies in a specific, within a specific playbook that have specific expectations and shorthands and heuristics that are more likely to lead to success for a company. And so I can simultaneously b…”

“Agglomeration effects are real, like on an economic basis where once you have a dense population of really smart, highly educated or productive people, That tends to have virtuous cycle effects where more really talented, productive people want to be there bec…”

“The space X network, like those people aren't just leaving Los Angeles and moving to the barrier to start the next company. Same with Andrew roller.”

“In the Bay Area, it lagged for a long time. For a while, including, I'd say, almost until 18 months ago, The only scaled modern company that I think was in office basically all the time was Rippling.”

“I think most companies in the Bay Area are, you know, are more hobby projects than they are, like, earnest, serious businesses, and it's kind of like, we'll take a swing on this, and I don't mean to disrespect my own, you know, my co, I'm in the fraternity of …”