What's That Smell in San Francisco? - by Spencer Yen
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In which I saunter through 4 observations from moving to SF from NYC
One of my favorite movie scenes of all time is the Jenga scene from The Big Short, where Ryan Gosling pitches the short housing market trade to Steve Carrell’s hedge fund. He holds a confident douchebag aura in the meeting room with 3 props: his lackey Chris, his quant Jiang, and Jenga blocks with mortgage bond ratings printed on them. He starts the pitch with this amazing cold open: Do you smell that? What is that? What’s that smell? The cologne? No. Opportunity? No. Mo-ney. I smell mo-ney. A couple months ago I moved from NYC to SF to join my friend’s startup. Before I moved, people…
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