San Francisco Bay Area
3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 22, 2018 by Craig Cannon · said 99 times in 43 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Wade Foster (15), Michael Seibel (10), Craig Cannon (10), Laks Srini (8), Olivier Pomel (5), Dalton Caldwell (5), Michael Babineau (3), Sean Mitchell (2)
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2026 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
- Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
- AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
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2025 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 19 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 23 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Announcing Work at a Startup · Y Combinator
- Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator
- Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
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2017 24 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
- Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator
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2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about San Francisco Bay Area, oldest first
Jun 22, 2018 neutral
Aug 1, 2023 positive
Seibel: Moving to the Bay Area is an easy startup multiplier
“Getting into the Bay Area is so relatively easy to all the other things you have to do to succeed. Choosing where to live is so relatively easy to all the other things you have to choose correctly. Why not pick up the easy wins? It's an easy percentage multipl…”
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Altman: The Bay Area remains the best place to find co-founders
“Like, I think, I don't know if this is still gonna be true for the next 10 years. I suspect it will be, but the best thing you could do if you wanted to, like, find your people to do a startup with was to move to the Bay Area. You just, like, magic happened. Y…”