Jon Oringer Quotes

I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a pretty rough commute. In many ways, I think New York has a lot of things the West Coast doesn't have.

I am committed to ensuring San Francisco remains a center for tech and the innovation capital of the world.

All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

My home is San Francisco - that is definitely what I consider my home.

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.

California is an unbelievable state.

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

I grew up in New York.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.

There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

I actually didn't grow up in New York. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

I always want to have San Francisco as my home and my base. I'm a business reporter - that's what I do and what I enjoy - and I don't know another place on the planet that would be as fascinating to cover.

I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Francisco, and then there's Vancouver.

I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.