Sara Mauskopf

A lot of people fixate on money as the reason to start a business. But a bigger reason should be about controlling your time. As a founder, you can take off in the middle of the day to coach your kid soccer or do something fun when most of the rest of the world cannot. And then you can come back to it at 10pm or 2am and there's no hassle.

Claude Code is Farmville for 40 year old former software engineers

This makes me sick and want to move my kids out of SF. Not because it’s too expensive. But because tech striver culture is so warped, I worry it’s unhealthy for them to be around. By any objective measure this is not “broke,” not even in SF (ELEVEN MILLION PRE TAX!!!! 3M house! Chunky nest egg! An email job that lets you pay for private school AND a f/t nanny!) This is not a “996 and camping” lifestyle. This is a “we’re taking the kids to Japan for 2 weeks with the au pair” lifestyle. It’s not the expense that keeps people trapped, it’s the mindset. There will always be someone with more. The only way you can be truly poor is being unable to see your blessings for what they are and let someone else decide what is and isn’t “enough.”

They will still be SF brokie - 50% in taxes (37% federal / 13% state) $3-4m cash on a home in SF Likely needs renovation $250k- $1m Leaves you with $1-2m Many with kids or on the way Nanny -$100k/yr Day care / School - $45k/year/1 kid Camps/Extra curricular - $30-100k Tesla - $50k They will still be at the office 996 to not really enjoy any of this and and will only have money to hike and camp.

Come down the Peninsula folks!!! Easy drive to SF plus you’re closer to the VCs!!

Oakland should seize this opportunity

The lack of inventory and sky high prices for housing in SF is so dire that founders are asking if its appropriate to live in their offices and specifically searching for space with showers…