San Francisco
13 statements across 8 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Feb 3, 2022 by Matteo Franceschetti · said 225 times in 80 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Greg Isenberg (140), Sahil Bloom (9), Codie Sanchez (9), Jonathan Courtney (6), Sahil Lavingia (4), Guillermo Rauch (4), Shahed Khan (3), Riley Brown (3)
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2026 9 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
- The $1M+ Solo AI Agent Business (Full Course)
- Hermes Agent: The New OpenClaw?
- How I use iMessage and AI to run my life
- Paperclip: Hire AI Agents Like Employees (Live Demo)
- Karpathy's "autoresearch" broke the internet
- How I Use Obsidian + Claude Code to Run My Life
- Claude Code Built My $450K Marketing Campaign
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 28 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- 3 Days in San Francisco's AI Gold Rush
- Vercel's CEO Shares 5 AI Startup Ideas So Good You’ll Quit Your Job
- The Golden Age of AI is happening right now (Here's Why)
- Inside the $50 Trillion AI Gold Rush | Episode 1
- Making $$$ with MicroSaaS
- David Senra on How to Become a World Class Founder
- Cursor AI Agents Work Like 10 Developers (Cursor VP Live Demo)
- Making $$$ with Sam Altman's Solopreneurship Thesis with GPT5
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 59 mentions in 27 episodes 2 per episode
- How To Build A Million-Dollar Media Empire | Erik Torenberg
- 1 profitable startup idea hiding in plain sight
- 3 startup ideas from the co-founder of Loom (make $120k/mo)
- 4 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow
- 5 startup ideas targeting profitable niches
- 4 profitable startup ideas you can launch tomorrow
- $1M Startup Trends For 2024, With Michael Karnjanaprakorn
- "Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 22-Year-Old who built Multiple Viral Products
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 42 mentions in 12 episodes 4 per episode
- Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion
- Sahil Lavingia Gets Radically Honest
- The IRL Tribes That Could Change Your Life
- Info Diets, OG Content Creators, and 7-year Lifespans
- How to Turn a Podcast into an Empire
- From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
- Business ideas worth paying attention to
- Unlock Your Super-Learning Potential: Learn from Emerson Spartz, Founder of Dose and MuggleNet
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 78 mentions in 17 episodes 5 per episode
- How to Get Rich Building Boring Businesses | Codie Sanchez, Contrarian Thinking
- Keeping it Real with Danny Trinh
- How to Engineer Serendipity | Matt Mullenweg, Automattic
- Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
- Building From Scratch with Ryan Hoover
- Winning at Startups and the Future of Culture
- How To Create Your Own Luck With Julien Smith
- Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about San Francisco, oldest first
Feb 3, 2022 positive
Franceschetti: Visiting CEOs take more founder meetings in Miami than SF
“These people, if you were flying to San Francisco, some of these big guys, they would never meet you because they're super busy, but when they come to Miami, then they want to meet as many people as possible, and so you have the chance to meet them, and so the…”
Feb 3, 2022 bullish
Mar 17, 2022
Isenberg: StumbleUpon CEO offered to buy startup at a party
“One of my first trips to San Francisco, you know, I was at a party and I ended up meeting the CEO of a company called stumble upon. And you know, he was like, I want to buy your company basically at the party. Like, That only happened in San Francisco at that …”
Mar 17, 2022 negative
May 19, 2022 negative
Jun 1, 2023 neutral
Neves: Landing early-career jobs in NYC or SF requires physical proximity
“One, if you ever want to get a job in New York city, guess what? You need to be in New York city. It's hard to get one. If no one's flying you out for an interview, no one's flying you out for an interview in in San Francisco. Yeah, I get it. There's remote in…”
Jul 27, 2023 neutral
Jul 27, 2023 negative
Greg Isenberg calls San Francisco the loneliest, most transactional city
“SF, The city where everyone knows you, but it's the loneliest city on the planet. And the reason I had that epiphany is, you know, I think it's, I think Eric Clapton covered this song. It's called Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out. And I don't know the…”
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Isenberg: Niche podcasts cheaply replicate moving to San Francisco or New York
“My thesis is, you know, with so many podcasts and YouTube channels and so many people now tweeting, you know, you're the average of the five friends you spend the most time with, but you're also the average of the five podcasts you consume. I think that a real…”
Jun 26, 2024 positive
Isenberg: Living in major cities accelerates paying down your ignorance tax
“Every person has a ignorance tax that they have to pay down. So no matter what your goals are, there's a price that you have to pay to learn and To get to your goals quicker. And by living in San Francisco, New York, some of these places, yes, it might be two …”
Jun 26, 2024 positive
Isenberg: Building an audience creates digital gravity, enabling off-grid living
“I think you could move out to the suburbs or live off the grid if, You build a big audience. Cause then what is an audience? An audience is just puts you at the center of digital gravity. And then it's all good because you don't need to be in New York. You don…”
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Brown: Successful startup founders prioritize tinkering over immediate tool ROI
“What I've noticed, you know, and being in San Francisco I've noticed that the people who have been, like, really successful creating startups are people who just, like, want to experiment and tinker, and they don't have so many people who are, like, type A, wa…”