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one question I get a lot is if you were 25 years old where would you live to maximize your financial returns this is
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the most obvious answer in the world which is the Bay Area the reason is this is the place where you go to get work
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done there's a reason why most of the Magnificent Seven were founded and built and scaled not just specifically in the
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Bay Area but in the peninsula meaning South of San Francisco the interesting thing about paloalto is that there's
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literally nothing to do there it's a place where you come to work if you're trying to do something really important
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it takes enormous dedication almost to the point of having no other priorities and that is much easier to do in a place
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where there are no distractions than in a place like New York or Miami these are
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not the places I typically think of as aggregating Talent who will basically dedicate themselves at all costs to an
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idea startups are those they are these very ambitious ideas that can very quickly die if people don't breathe life
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into it and I think you're much more likely to do that when you have nothing else to do except to give your life to
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that idea