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Exploring strategies to incentivize people to move to San Francisco and participate in local elections, including providing a stipend for apartment rent and calculating the cost of mobilizing voters.
Dan Romero and Erik Torenberg discuss whether San Francisco can be exited or reformed, how to impact local politics, and what it would take to get talented, innovative people to live in the same city. Wherever and whatever you’re selling, get Shopify for $1/month trial period using code https://shopify.com/momentofzen
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(00:02:23) SF is back
(00:05:08) SF can be cleaned up pretty fast
(00:08:47) Who runs for office?
(00:16:07) Sponsor: Shopify
(00:17:43) You can buy a city
(00:25:11) Elites don’t move
(00:28:57) Analyzing the success of charter city state movements
(00:34:34) Sponsor: MasterClass | NetSuite
(00:36:13): Can we get people to move to SF and change the city?
(00:44:30) Tech is politically absent at the local level
(00:50:45) Talent wants to agglomerate
(00:57:00) Educational challenges
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