8 Ways I will convince Ted Grubb to move to San Francisco
My cousin (and former co-worker) Ted Grubb is arriving in San Francisco for a week long visit in about 30 minutes, so I’ll have to make this one quick. While he’s here I will convince him that San Francisco is the place to be, not Philadelphia or New York or San Diego.
- I’ll show that the startups are here
Ted is a web/flash developer who has spent the past 5 years working in suburban Philadelphia. That was a fine place to wait out the bust, but boom times are here again and all the good startups are right here, right now.
Adaptive Path, our friendly office mates, are hosting Flickr’s second birthday. What better place to convince a web developer that he is not alone in the world, that there are hundreds or thousands of people geekier than him.
For some reason this week is full of parties. Flickr, TechCrunch, False Profit, GETV, Pillow Fight, Overlap…
The only problem with this idea: all the other startups will poach Ted, and he’ll move here but work for someone else. So all the startups out there: hands off Ted Grubb.
We’ve been in business since last summer and still don’t have a website. We’ve been too busy with client work. Ted will build our site and see how much it rocks working here.
All you valley dwellers, drop me an email and we’ll stop by and say hi. If nothing else we’ll be at Yahoo for an air hockey face off.
You, my friends, are what make San Francisco great. Plus the weather and the food. And all the cool art. And the hills.
Ted will be overwhelmed by the fact that everywhere he goes he’ll be a celebrity. “Hey, aren’t you Ted Grubb from Jonathan’s blog?” I set up MeasureMap a few days ago, and I can see that there’s at least a dozen of you reading this.
posted by Jonathan at 3:34 PM
4 Comments:
Visiting the Bay area can be dangerous. My wife and I came for a weekend visit in 96. A year later we decided to move - but only stay for one year. Somehow that's turned into 8 and counting...
LOL, Great stuff Jon. Your "8 ways" obviously has worked.
This post was from a year ago, and I just met both you and ted recently - happy for both interactions, and glad you convinced old teddy boy to join us in the nucleus of innovation! And tonight, i specifically benefited from his residence in SF to conveniently share a cab ride back to the mission with me! but even more importantly - thanks for bringing out yet another midwestern lad - SF needs more of them! Up with the MW's! ;)
-kimlaama
i'm going through a "sales pitch" of my own.
we lived in sunnyvale and then potrero hill for nearly 5 years before msft transferred my wife to seattle...which i loathe. i hate it here and want to get back to sf desperately.
someone please offer my wife a dream job so we can get back there...please.
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