San Francisco
also referred to as: sf
18 statements across 16 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2024 by Jordi Hays · said 387 times in 157 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by John Coogan (163), Jordi Hays (51), Justin Mares (8), Martin Shkreli (4), Dylan Patel (4), Will Depue (3), Nichole Wischoff (2), Koki Mochida (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 113 mentions in 60 episodes 2 per episode
- Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
- The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross
- U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN
- WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN
- FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
- Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN
- Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever
- 52 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 141 mentions in 77 episodes 2 per episode
- Justin Mares talks Tru Med, MAHA, and the Future of CPG.
- Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- The Internet’s Most Famous Drug Dealer (Ross Ulbricht)
- Silicon Valley vs The Vatican, Bryan Johnson’s Shroom Trip | Diet TBPN
- We Went to DC to Interview Tech's Power Players
- Why the MARKET Is More FRAGILE Than EVER | Bryce Roberts on TBPN April 7th
- How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- Palmer Luckey Live on TBPN
- 69 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 133 mentions in 20 episodes 7 per episode
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about San Francisco, oldest first
Nov 14, 2024 bullish
Hays: Investors Should Buy SF Real Estate to Recapture Startup Capital
“No, but I think one way to go long technology is to go long SF. That's what Gary's done. And if you want to benefit from that boom, fund the startups, but then buy up all the real estate. So you sort of recapture some of that
Value, because a lot of founders' …”
Nov 14, 2024 bullish
Hays: San Francisco Will Benefit Massively From Local and Federal Momentum
“You've had Gary
Focus deeply on San Francisco and having San Francisco you know, making a lot of positive progress on, on on things simultaneously having new momentum at the federal level, San Francisco is going to benefit massively from both of those trends.”
Nov 16, 2024 bullish
Coogan: Solving San Francisco makes Waymo's expansion to Chicago or LA easy
“Going into San Francisco, like crazy streets, tons of pedestrians, like shoddy streets, like all sorts of weather, fog, and also people that will vandalize you. So if they can solve that, it's going to be a breeze to go to Chicago or LA.”
Nov 19, 2024 bullish
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Dec 14, 2024 negative
Coogan: Tech previously ostracized peers rather than defending speech on city decay
“And yeah, the tech industry hadn't learned to like circle the wagons at all. And so there was just, it was just complete, complete scapegoating and then just ostracization. And you just became an apostate very quickly for doing anything like this.”
Dec 14, 2024 negative
Coogan: San Francisco post-COVID encampments became far more permanent
“The thing that I landed on as being like something that I noticed that was physically different was the number of barbecues that were on the street, like more permanent encampments because you're actually like living and cooking and like sometimes even hooking…”
Jan 8, 2025 neutral
Mar 11, 2025 negative
Mar 14, 2025 bullish
Mares: Building an AI startup outside San Francisco is a bad idea
“The reality is I think that like in SF, if you're building an AI company and you're not an SF right now, it's just, it just seems like a bad idea. Like you should just move to the place where all the AI stuff is, is happening outside of that though.”
Apr 26, 2025 negative
Asparouhov refuses Zoom calls with SF VCs who avoid visiting LA
“When you have less Zooms, then when somebody, like, I had this, like, VC asking me for a Zoom this week, and I was like, cool, you're an SF, just let me know next time you're LA. Like, if it's so important, just, like, take a five minute flight. And they're li…”
May 4, 2025 positive
Feb 3, 2026
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Thompson: Anthropic Commands SF Talent While OpenAI Aligns With America
“Anthropic has a local advantage in that most people, I think, in the industry are with them, and they have a national PR problem in that I think a lot of folks outside of tech don't understand why tech companies always try to Or resist helping the US governmen…”
Mar 6, 2026 positive
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Shkreli: Gray-market peptide users are mostly wealthy people in SF and NY
“The people that are take peptides and have these peptide stacks are mostly people in SF, maybe New York. They're very wealthy people. They don't know what the rest of the world looks like. Nobody else in middle, middle America is excited to do this.”
Apr 13, 2026 positive