What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? When I first visited San Francisco in 1999 for the y2k Millennium – I fell in love with the city and knew I would call it home…some day.   I never dreamed it would take so long. Upon graduating from college at Northwestern University in Chicago,…

Co-founder & CTO at WibiData What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I first moved to the bay area (San Jose) for a software engineering job at Google. While working at a company that has offices around the globe, I decided to take advantage of it and move around. Since some of my team…

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I was born in Brooklyn. My parents came to the USA as refugees from the Soviet Union and landed in NYC shortly after. The City I grew up in is different than the playground that it is currently, but a lot of the personality remains. SF…

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I immigrated to the U.S when I was 16, on a flight from Beijing to SFO.  And since then I have spend multiple stretches of time in SF, most recently for a year in 2012 when the startup I worked at was acquired. New York was…

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I grew up in NYC. I used to work in finance in NYC. Now I travel back for family, friends and MTailor related business. I went to Stanford, just a little bit south of SF. Now I live and work in SF (MTailor is based in…

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I was born in beautiful San Francisco and was raised in Marin County and ultimately the East Bay Area. My mom was determined to have both me and my sister’s birth certificate read “San Francisco,” so her and my father’s love and adoration for all things…

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I’ve lived in NYC for 16 non-consecutive years. The Upper West Side, Williamsburg, Park Slope, West Village, Carroll Gardens, and, most recently, Bushwick. New York will always be home for me. In San Francisco, I lived on Hayes St, just north of the Panhandle, from 2008-2009…

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I grew up and was raised in San Francisco. I went to NYC for law school and have stuck around in the Big Apple since. When asked, “Where are you from?”, I’ll usually answer “San Francisco.” Describe your experience in SF and your experience in NYC….

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection?We started Abacus in New York last year, but then moved out west to join the YC W14 batch this past January. After spending 3 months cranking, it was time to come home. Describe your experience in SF and your experience in NYC. It’s really not a…

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I was born and raised in San Francisco, so I would say I’m a San Franciscan at heart (not just a Californian). I moved to NYC for work at the age of 27 and now have been here for four years living primarily in the East…

Where do you work now & what do you do there?  Computer artist, working with artificial intelligence and computer graphics. Currently working on a commission with two of London’s biggest disruptors, fashion’s Ozwald Boateng and Kano: the computer anyone can make. We’re going to have kids learning ancient computer codes written nine thousand-years ago in…

What do you do?  For the past few years, I’ve been running my own consultancy and using my experience of running a startup and creating opportunities for Virgin Media’s community of entrepreneurs (headed up by Pioneer-at-Large, Sir Richard Branson) on projects that are mainly in London and NYC. As anyone who runs a startup knows,…