San Francisco

“Before every season, they actually come up to San Francisco for, I think, like a week or two weeks and meet with a bunch of startups. So they, like, every writer goes through this kind of like you know, crash course to get up to speed.”

“Like I do not recommend trying to bootstrap in San Francisco, paying ridiculous rent here.”

“There's a lot of people who live in San Francisco for little to no rent just through special arrangements, like they're friends with somebody who has a space or they're trading services for rent or they own a place and then Airbnb out the rest of it or whateve…”

“Yeah, if we can keep the self-driving cars around so that they can reduce our crash rate and they can make our cities not be filled with inefficient parking lots, then that's a win. But if you're just doing a mega commute from like Pleasanton over to San Franc…”

“So we decided to have an office in Paris in January this year. And so now we have about 20% of our team in Paris and 80% here.”

“Within San Francisco. You're gonna need to hire 30% of your workforce from social equity people. You also, as a dispensary, may need to have a certain amount or certain percentage of your shelf space of products created and manufactured by people from social e…”

“So in the extreme beginning of Uber, what was so interesting was that it launched in San Francisco, and it launched as Uber Black, which is a really expensive product, actually. It wasn't well subsidized. And the real value is that it was impossible to get a t…”

“If Uber had launched in New York City, it wouldn't have worked. Because, like, the pain did not, yeah, did not exist in New York City. The pain was so great, great in San Francisco that everyone was willing to use Uber Black.”

“I think that a lot of that content marketing is unfortunately written by like people our age, people with kids, people living in San Francisco for like the last two years who were generally pissy about COVID. And it was like less responding to someone who migh…”

“I think a lot of folks are moving back right now. New York too. It just seems like people are going back to the big centers because they're getting bored and lonely and feel kind of over it.”

“We get the benefits of living in the Bay Area and having the network effects of the city. Without all living in, like, the, like, our lives are not the Twitter thread. Showing photos of what's going on in downtown San Francisco.”

“I don't think everyone's startup needs to be in San Francisco to be successful. And that you could build a successful startup and not live in San Francisco.”

“And so clearly in the history of this stuff, all these great companies were built outside of San Francisco. Like if we actually look, how many of the most epic companies in the world in tech were actually built in San Francisco? It's actually not that many. An…”

“And so the big advantage is that you just have such an incredible talent base, and really, although it's very competitive, it's still a lot less competitive to get such high quality talent than it would be sitting in San Francisco, I'm sure.”

“When college students are thinking about dropping out, and they're making it in a fear, they're making a fear-based decision, they have FOMO about startups happening in San Francisco, maybe their friend dropped out, and they're, like, worried that they're gonn…”

“And in total, we had more than a hundred unique rooms represented in the dataset.”

“There's a surprising number of decision makers for global firms around sort of technology implementation in San Francisco. It's not out of New York or out of London, it's out of San Francisco.”

“My view for what it's worth is I think people should do what it takes to move to San Francisco. If that's not possible, that's not where your customers are based. At the very least, as you said, move to a tier one city and try and be as close to you know, folk…”

“When you look into the sort of ten-mile radius we're in now and maybe you include New York tons of token consumption and you could probably argue, and we see in the data also faster revenue growth.”