San Francisco

“Progressive SF liberals are actually some of the most racist people that I've ever met, you know, on the planet.”

“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…”

“Someone sent me a data report like a day or two ago that New York finally surpassed San Francisco in the number of new founders that have just started companies in the last quarter.”

“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…”

“Oh, the SF hype never went away. I think it is a deeply, deeply special place. And if you are ambitious and weird I think this is, like, San Francisco is, like, the perfect place for that. If you're ambitious and cool, I think you live in New York.”

“SF has an amazing density of talent and it's a great hub. But New York is a clear second, and it's growing in momentum. And we're seeing that again in the numbers, right? So as if I had a lion's share of AI venture capital of like 40%, I think it was over the …”

“There's just, like, LA is the hub for creators, right? I think it's very similar to, like, if you were building an AI company in SF versus New York, like, New York might be number two, and I think Miami is number two in the creator economy”

“For the series A, we flew a plane over San Francisco and had a little banner.”

“We have an office in San Francisco, the team is in person five days a week.”

“They're way cheaper too.”

“We've seen models that are up to a hundred times higher resolution. So to give you a sense, we're based in San Francisco, and if you took the National Weather Service model for San Francisco, it would treat that whole city Roughly on the order of nine pixels. …”

“When we first set up the program, we didn't, and we never had any sort of mandate about moving to San Francisco or anything like that. But the first year, almost all of them came to San Francisco, which was a bit of a surprise because we assumed they would Kin…”

“They, in San Francisco, it got to 25% market share really quickly with very few cars. You know, Surpassing Lyft and being a formidable competitor to Uber.”

“San Francisco, I think, has seen a 42% reduction in auto theft since they launched their drone program.”

“So in this one, I think it's around, like, 350, and then New York is around, like, 300, something like that.”

“San Francisco is, I would say five years ago was probably not even in our top 10.”