"why was San Francisco so definitively the center of the tech industry why did it all like agglomerate here San Francisco is the place in the world where you can manufacture luck within a month of us m..."

"neighborhoods we're in one of them in the Dog Patch to build the future to build the future of AI why is that what's going on I think it's worth just charting the course of San Francisco over the last..."

"2007 there was a real negative connotation about choosing to base your company in San Francisco instead of like pal Alto yeah paloalto Mountain View San Jose even like anything south and I think it li..."

"Google had based its headquarters there and people don't look at Google the same way anymore but in 2005 Google was the Undisputed king of innovation all the smartest people wanted to be affiliated wi..."

"Palo Alto strip was also initially in pal stri was also initially Palo Alto but then I think like YC actually um not because Paul wanted it to but like it ended up contributing to the move to San Fran..."

"just every time we would learn so much like you had the fers of Dropbox in there scrip was in there uh Weebly there's actually a very important Point here I think which is for people who are Builders ..."

"like everyone's doing a startup everyone's like in the same boat we can all like support each other like it's just like in the water like it was my first time experiencing being in an environment that..."

"actually a very anomalous than in other parts of the world it's a strange job and to your point harsh starting a company could be looked at oh you're just a bomb you're not really working at the begin..."

"can build and there's also the experts in different areas and everyone is just as deep as you with building and it's just as exciting and an optimist instead of being judg on why you like this weird t..."

"hand celebrated that you're working hard and really taking taking the lead got such a deep Point Di and I think that is actually the true reason why startups and startup Founders conglomerate in Silic..."

"to think longterm and um not pay attention to like short-term stus games you care you kind of care about like your relationships over a long period of time and if you contrast that to say like a finan..."

"until Co it was clear that San Francisco was the center of the startup and Technology world right like you completely right like every neighborhood was becoming busier like rents and property prices k..."

"things have happened that have turned things around and are starting what Gary's calling this boom Loop like what what happened in the past year well the clear thing is AI right like the um chat gbt l..."

"it's not just open AI basically all the AI ended up in San Francisco open AI anthropic scale AI basically all the big AI companies all the big all the big Tech AI research Labs it's all in the Bay Are..."

"in the center of the city there's lots of incredible food and you know shops and like that's where a lot of uh the best AI companies are choosing to be uh right now we're sitting in the Y combinator o..."

"feel like YC like now we're in like the Dog Patch which we sort of locked into I would say like what is probably the best neighborhood in San Francisco yeah how we talk about moving YC to San Francisc..."

"actually our main event area and then we just took over the uh the office next door and so you now we have a really sweet YouTube studio right here and across the street there's also two other YC comp..."

"based I mean personally I love you know Mission Dolores noi Valley these are great areas they're a little bit more expensive I think you know Glenn Park is actually an incredible neighborhood that's s..."

"actually this office and we have you know uh a launch event where people demo their software and grab a beer and then afterwards they go out to the bar or grab grab pizza and then you know Friday and ..."

"and so where you live who you hang out with I mean it's pretty wild that these things end up mattering and you know San Francisco is the best place in the world to sort of build that Network that Fe I..."

"hundreds in the next 10 years and so we're really talking about a real boom Loop here this already happening I was talking to companies from the last couple batches and there's this um office Bas in s..."

"great thing is I mean we want San Francisco to be hyper inclusive and what that means is uh you don't have to pay that much for rent uh you can feel safe walking down the street there's great small bu..."