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Tech Exec Blasts San Francisco: ‘Worst Run City in the United States’
New York Post ^ | July 13, 2022 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 07/13/2022 3:00:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A top tech executive who uprooted his company from the Bay Area blasted San Francisco as “probably the worst run city in the United States” during a conference of Silicon Valley bigwigs.

Drew Oetting, the president of 8VC, a venture capital firm that was once headquartered in San Francisco but has since pulled up stakes and relocated to Austin, Tex., said that rampant homelessness, rising crime, COVID lockdown measures and high taxes led him to say good riddance.

“San Francisco is probably the worst run city in the United States,” Oetting told fellow participants at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, Colo., this week.

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1 posted on 07/13/2022 3:00:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

That’s who you voted for asshole.


2 posted on 07/13/2022 3:02:27 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: nickcarraway

Bloomberg Beta head is right. Perfect title for this dweeb.

3 posted on 07/13/2022 3:03:23 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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And bring your “vote blue no matter who” attitude with you.


4 posted on 07/13/2022 3:03:58 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: nickcarraway
Austin, huh? Wait until you see some of the nonsense they're starting to pull. they have been purchasing property to house illegals and the homeless. This is supposedly fine in Travis County (location of the Texas Capitol).

But a small part of Austin falls into Willamson County, where this is not allowed, and Austin has decided to do it there too. Williamson County is not suing Austin to stop them, but given the courts in this country, who knows if they'll be successful stopping Austin.

5 posted on 07/13/2022 3:05:18 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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*now suing


6 posted on 07/13/2022 3:05:57 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: nickcarraway

and he moves to Austin and will vote for Beto and every other looney DEM


7 posted on 07/13/2022 3:07:49 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: nickcarraway

East Cleveland, the Cleveland to other Clevelands, may not be on his list of comps.


8 posted on 07/13/2022 3:15:53 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Austin, Tex.?

He didn't get too far away from liberal nutcases.

9 posted on 07/13/2022 3:26:04 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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“I’ve heard from a lot of women who are not very happy about Texas’s stance on everything related to women,” he said.

Does Texas actually have a stance on everything related to women? :)

10 posted on 07/13/2022 3:27:29 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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It won’t take much to keep him from voting while stupid-if he shows preference for the Beto idiot or any other rat-just locate his business and his home address-then pay a few bucks to some of Austin’s very own homeless bums to relocate their tents/vans/etc to both his business and home properties-I’m sure the neighborhoods are much nicer than the downtown parking lots, streets in the tourist areas, parks and other green spaces, etc-and the neighbors will surely welcome and thank Mr. Oetting for the new residents...


11 posted on 07/13/2022 3:41:57 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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No, Texas does not-women are respected the same as men in employment and all else-and most Texas men are REAL men-they know we are REAL women and not cisgenders-or whatever-he is going to find that the women who told him they are not happy are just self-absorbed whiners that deserve to be ignored...


12 posted on 07/13/2022 3:48:01 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: nickcarraway
Drew Oetting, the president of 8VC, a venture capital firm that was once headquartered in San Francisco but has since pulled up stakes and relocated to Austin, Tex., said that rampant homelessness, rising crime, COVID lockdown measures and high taxes led him to say good riddance.

“San Francisco is probably the worst run city in the United States,” Oetting told fellow participants at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, Colo., this week.

New York, LA, and Chicago giving SF a run for the money. But yeah, San Francisco probably Number 1.

13 posted on 07/13/2022 4:46:37 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Texan5

Cisgender are actually real women, i.e. XX chromosomes.


14 posted on 07/13/2022 4:47:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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“...worst run city in the United States...”

What does this say about your judgement, choosing to be there in the first place.


15 posted on 07/13/2022 5:01:06 PM PDT by trailboss800
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Doesn’t the left use cisgender as a kind of insult?


16 posted on 07/13/2022 5:03:53 PM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: nickcarraway

Cisgender is a woke term for women who were born with as you said XX chromosomes, a female anatomy and are just fine with that-and probably heterosexual, too-as you say, real women-the term cisgender is as insulting to me as calling me Latinx because I’m Hispanic...


17 posted on 07/13/2022 5:26:17 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Leep

Yes, they do...


18 posted on 07/13/2022 5:27:51 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: nickcarraway

Austin is probably not far behind SF on the insanity curve. So he bought himself maybe five years.


19 posted on 07/13/2022 5:32:55 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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Austin is San Francisco light right now. Eventually there will be no difference.


20 posted on 07/13/2022 6:32:53 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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