"I was pitched >10 times a day during my events." ⬅️ my jaw dropped/I'm giggling reading this. How on earth did you manage this?! Side note: This hard pitching feels very classically NYC energy but maybe I need to spend more time in SF...
Three weeks ago, I landed in SF straight from Argentina with one mission: to join the team at a startup called Bytespace.ai. My main goal? To learn and absorb as much as I can while growing at the same pace as the company.
I came here with a few dollars, some prior experiences, tons of energy, passion, and an insatiable ambition.
At 20 years old, I left everything behind in my country to seize the opportunity I had been waiting for my whole life, haha.
I must admit, SF is an incredible ecosystem. In just three weeks, I’ve challenged myself and learned at a pace that only seems “normal” in this city.
This is the perfect place for the “black sheep,” the misunderstood, those who see beyond the present.
Very thoughtful comments. I split my time between SF and NY and have a very similar impression :) There is no perfect place, but we get to pick what resonates best with our personalities and goals.
Very insightful. AI will never replace on the ground, human-to-human interaction and observation. SF, NYC and...DC. This will add a new perspective to SF for sure, and to some extent, NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM
This is really good, nicely done. I've tried to explain something similar much less eloquently. Don't underestimate how much the power laws that VCs live by influence the negatives of that founder mode culture. If you look at the most successful founders in the world across industries, most sacrificed life to be the best/win. There are plenty of founders who can balance work/life, but it's seldom their business grows from $0 to $10B+, the businesses that are really celebrated in Silicon Valley, especially by VCs who need these wins to outperform the S&P.
"I was pitched >10 times a day during my events." ⬅️ my jaw dropped/I'm giggling reading this. How on earth did you manage this?! Side note: This hard pitching feels very classically NYC energy but maybe I need to spend more time in SF...
Agreed. Having lived in both places, the jumping right into business talk is way more typical of the NYC tech scene than the Bay Area tech scene.
Three weeks ago, I landed in SF straight from Argentina with one mission: to join the team at a startup called Bytespace.ai. My main goal? To learn and absorb as much as I can while growing at the same pace as the company.
I came here with a few dollars, some prior experiences, tons of energy, passion, and an insatiable ambition.
At 20 years old, I left everything behind in my country to seize the opportunity I had been waiting for my whole life, haha.
I must admit, SF is an incredible ecosystem. In just three weeks, I’ve challenged myself and learned at a pace that only seems “normal” in this city.
This is the perfect place for the “black sheep,” the misunderstood, those who see beyond the present.
Very thoughtful comments. I split my time between SF and NY and have a very similar impression :) There is no perfect place, but we get to pick what resonates best with our personalities and goals.
Link to your favourite resource on "build a moat through distribution" please 🙂
Very insightful. AI will never replace on the ground, human-to-human interaction and observation. SF, NYC and...DC. This will add a new perspective to SF for sure, and to some extent, NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM
There's a huge SF tech & non-tech community here beyond this! But you def described founder culture/hacker houses pretty well..
This is really good, nicely done. I've tried to explain something similar much less eloquently. Don't underestimate how much the power laws that VCs live by influence the negatives of that founder mode culture. If you look at the most successful founders in the world across industries, most sacrificed life to be the best/win. There are plenty of founders who can balance work/life, but it's seldom their business grows from $0 to $10B+, the businesses that are really celebrated in Silicon Valley, especially by VCs who need these wins to outperform the S&P.