👋 Personal update: Just moved to SF after a 15+ years in Europe. A few thoughts:
- Remote is dead. Location matters more than anything, again. Being able to meet founders IRL is the core of the art of pre-seed, when most decisions run on intuition. The SF re-migration is real - plus many EU/NYC founders are spending at least a week fundraising in the Bay.
- Culture is upstream of everything. SF might be the only place in the world where builders have more status than commentators. As Peter Thiel famously said, Berlin is the place where people move to retire in their 20s. SF is where the most ambitious move to reinvent themselves and (maybe) the world.
- Frontiers are expanding. The commoditization that happened to bits is happening to atoms and cells. Biotech, robotics, and hardware are entering their consumer moments - and most teams taking on these impossible challenges are in the Bay.
- SF is boring. As a Parisian, I'm dying inside when someone offer to meet for dinner at 6PM. I was actually supposed to move to my fav city in the world, NYC. But as a 1st time GP with
@intuitionvc - I have only one shot at this and decided to optimise for quality of obsession, and not quality of life.
I don't usually ask for many things, but I feel this is one of the most cornerstone moment of my life. Here's how you can help:
1) Intros to founders building at the frontiers of consumer - I want to be the only culture-first VC in technical cap tables.
2) Flat recommendations as
@Clara_Gold and I are starting a war to find 1/2BR (I know) in town, ideally a furnished sublet.
3) Ophthalmologist recommendations - I have recurrent corneal ulcers and need my "eye guy" in every city I move to.
4) Share this post. Much love 💛