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Seems cool. But honest question here. Who cares about staying with founders? Why is that a benefit? Founders of another wave of generic startups don't seem lik
by vortegne 8y ago
Seems cool.
But honest question here. Who cares about staying with founders? Why is that a benefit? Founders of another wave of generic startups don't seem like the most interesting people
- Rainymood 8y agoPeople that value ambition, drive, maybe want to pursue their own start-up and want to pick someone's brain? I stayed in San Fransisco last year and while my BnB host was great, I didn't really get the feel that San Fransisco was "the" start-up city in the world, which it is. I thought of it more like a very European city-thing with functional public transport and a lot of homeless people. I walked by Twitter's office though. Other than that, networking?
- chrisseaton 8y ago> functional public transport San Francisco? The city that had to invent Uber because it's so hard to get around otherwise?
- Rainymood 8y agoCompared to other cities I traveled to in the USA? Yes.
- ulfw 8y agoYou have the absolute wrong impression of SF
- echelon 8y agoI work for a tech company but live on the east coast, so I frequently fly out for projects and meetings. This is absolutely the feeling I get from SF: no real difference in talent, and something of a monoculture. SF is more expensive and way less diverse as it's priced out a ton of people. It seems unhealthy to be surrounded by so much sameness and unwillingness to change (NIMBYism, etc.) While there is certainly a concentration of talent and capital in SF, I don't see any less drive or capability where I live. We'd love to expatriate some of that. It's cheaper to live here and not everybody has to be in tech. This is just my own opinion, and it's certainly biased since I'm not someone who would live in SF.