San Francisco

“No investors wanted to give two guys who were making t-shirt quilts any investment money, and so I was back in Boston sleeping in our office, and, you know, there was about 8000 dollars left in our bank account, probably just a couple more weeks of runway”

“So we have Nikita, two co-founders, CTO, CEO. They started it in Belarus. So that's where our tech team is. There's 25 devs there. And then we have, oh gosh, about 40 people in San Francisco. So sales, marketing, ops, or all here stateside.”

“And even if you asked me, you know, four months ago, would I be in San Francisco right now? And we were still in Cleveland. We had just come off our best quarter ever. And I would have told you were crazy. So it's just kind of funny how things work. And you kn…”

“Right now we're only in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. In each market, we have one primary space.”

“It's American and it's market rates for San Francisco.”

“We, you know, I helped start Taxi Magic, and we grew up a very large business in some ways there as well, like we were booking, you know, 10% of all taxi rides in San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas a bunch of other cities, and, you know, we really created that spa…”

“Like, we, we've been running the business in Hong Kong for a long time, and, like here, like, I feel like people are more serious, and people are more open to the new ideas, and, like, I can definitely see people here are more strong in marketing and growth, f…”

“We moved everyone from France to San Francisco.”

“So it was about 6000 dollars a month in rent, but then associated expenses with that and, you know, little things that started to add up, like coffee and lunches and things like that. It was probably another three, 4000 dollars.”

“Oh, it's like in the six digit figures. So it's a good salary to have a good life in an expensive city like San Francisco. It's not like a managerial salary that is making me rich.”

“There's five of us in SF. We do have another 25 team members who are distributed between Kiev and Bangalore, which is our biggest office.”

“We have about 60 full time a little more, you know, employees in San Francisco.”

“I think they started a little lower, but as a lot more tech companies came to Israel, and I think Tel Aviv, you know, is the second largest tech ecosystem in the world after San Francisco, the prices have kind of gone out rapidly.”

“We started in Italy, and then we raised about a million. We went to San Francisco.”

“We're fortunate that we're the first platform in Silicon Valley in San Francisco to receive the approval to allow they call it non-accredited investors to invest.”

“I'm a founder of SF Angels Group. We're 32 members. We focus on primarily companies in San Francisco”

“We have about 200, a little bit over 200 employees, most of them in our San Francisco office.”

“So we are about 200 people. I have 192 people in India and 12 in San Francisco and one in Boise, Idaho.”

“In so almost all of them in the, in Bangalore, and we have one person in San Francisco.”

“We started in Michigan, but then what happened is we had people flying out from San Francisco to Michigan to have the procedure done. And we realized very quickly that we needed to expand and our second market was San Francisco.”

“If we're in Michigan or North Carolina it's a much more pragmatic market. People signing up there are signing up in order to treat perhaps a family disease. They may have a family history of cardiovascular disease. Or osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, wh…”

“I sold the first hundred customers of outreach door to door in the Soma in San Francisco, and I raised my first 400,000 dollars of new capital Walking, you know, walking the streets around Soma and meeting a lot of angels in that area, because that area also h…”

“I'm sitting at our office in San Francisco. It lasts on 5000 dollars a month, and that's the only, like, office space we lease.”

“We are a team of about 60 plus people now distributed across San Francisco and Bangalore. We have about 50 people in Bangalore, the rest being in San Francisco.”

“Less than three, 300 K from the founders ourselves, and then from a small round from NFX in in San Francisco. And then we became profitable on that.”

“We're at around 65... No, we're about 60% remote. So many different states, many different countries. We have about just shy of 20 folks in San Francisco.”

“So we've got five in SF and another 12 around the world.”

“I think you don't have to stay in San Francisco quite as long as you did.”

“We're about 40. Nathan Latka: 40 people all based there in Denver? Nathan Latka: No. Kyle Sherman: So we have an office in San Francisco and Los Angeles. and then our headquarters is in Denver.”

“In the very expensive markets, you know, like a New York, San Francisco sort of markets, you know, leasing, and there's a lot of money to be made leasing. But you know, in those cheaper markets let's call them like, you know, Nashville places in the South, you…”

“We're projecting about 1700 throughout two days of date.”

“It's just that the cost of living situation has sort of made it advantageous to really try to make a quasi remote organization from the ground up.”

“So we have eight employees in SF and we have 12 other remote employees kind of all over the world.”

“Our typical percentage fee is anywhere from 20 to 30% of first year base salaries, so they're getting anywhere from three to four hires, a little bit lower if they're in the Bay Area or New York City and the comp is higher a little bit more if, you know, we ha…”

“And we looked at, I mean, I probably talked to hundreds of founders, but we looked at, ah, 40 companies closely. In other words, we did our diligence on 40 companies, and we ended up acquiring six.”

“We're in 400 markets nationwide. We're pretty much everywhere except for farmland, Manhattan, and San Francisco.”

“That is the mistake most people make is they give the project out and they go and try and find someone in the middle or the bottom price point, just hire the most expensive, but it's still way cheaper than a 300,000 dollars San Francisco engineer.”

“I think it is anti-competitive, frankly, to say to people in Romania and Morocco and South Africa, you have to compete with people working on the west coast who need to pay a whole lot of stuff in, in terms of rent the one bit of leverage you have, which is yo…”

“We don't focus on big towns like Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, all these other areas. We focus on mom, pa shops in rural America.”

“You know, in Europe, the evaluation are slightly lower. If we would be in San Francisco, that would be maybe a 35, but we are in Rome.”

“Four. Myself, my co-founder who are not paid we're roughing it out, and I just moved to San Francisco, so that is tough to be living here without a salary. And then we have two developers. Yeah. They're on contracts, but they're working full-time hours.”