#138 - How A Big Bitcoin Bet Paid Off, How To Best Learn From Billionaires, And Should Engineers Have Managers?

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
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**Sam Parr** (0:55)
We're live.

**Shaan Puri** (0:57)
You look really bad.

**Sam Parr** (0:59)
Thank you.
Yes, I'm very cold, very tired. I think it shows.

**Shaan Puri** (1:07)
This is tangentially related to business, but I wanted to bring something up to you. I've lived in Austin now for, I've been in my house that I just bought for like five days. I've been living in the city for six weeks now. I don't know how long.
Everyone is talking about moving to Miami and Austin and maybe a little bit in Nashville. Where else?

**Sam Parr** (1:28)
I think that's right. I hear Austin and Miami the most.

**Shaan Puri** (1:31)
I hear Austin and Miami the most, and I hear Austin the most. And basically, for anyone who's not in our little silly bubble, which I bet actually most people are, people are leaving New York, San Francisco and LA and maybe a little Chicago, and they are moving to Austin.
And so far, I'm going to sound like a snob, but so far, my takeaway is that Austin is cool. It sucks right now. It's a very ugly city in the winter.
It's a nice place to live. It's easier living, but I miss a lot of the, I don't know how to describe it, worldly stuff of New York and San Francisco and LA. Like for example, when I go and get coffee from a famous coffee place in New York or do something in San Francisco or something in LA, that's supposed to be like the hottest thing going. It's safe to assume that that person might be in the top 5 percent of their category in the country.
And I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. Whereas in Austin, I've been here and there's been multiple times. And I'm not that snobby of a person, but I'll ask for like a particular type of coffee, like really simple, like an Americano. Like I don't think that that's considered snobby anymore. Right. And they don't do it.

**Sam Parr** (2:44)
Doesn't that mean I don't drink coffee? Isn't that the most basic coffee doesn't just mean like just coffee and none of the fancy shit?

**Shaan Puri** (2:49)
It's like the third most basic thing. So there's like drip coffee. And then there's like fancy versions of that, like pour over. And then Americano is just hot water and espresso.
So you need you need an espresso machine, which I see it's not like that fancy anymore. It was considered fancy, but now it's just table stakes. But like small stuff like that, it makes me appreciate San Francisco.

**Sam Parr** (3:11)
There's a little bit of bougie in you. And that little bit of bougie is missing the bougie treats that you get in San Francisco and in New York.

**Shaan Puri** (3:19)
Well, and also, like, for example, Austin's been pretty good. But do you realize that all of our friends in San Francisco and almost all of my friends in New York and like my family friends in New York, they're all immigrants who came from a variety of different places, lots of different religions, tons of different ethnicities.
And it was so cool. And like a lot of people like you went to Duke, we have friends who went to some of the like really elite universities. And then we have friends who are high school dropouts.
And that like, I don't know what you want. Yeah, I love that. I love it. I love it. I love it. And it was and it's awesome. And I haven't had that here yet.

**Sam Parr** (3:57)
Well, I hope you miss it. And I hope that people move back to the Bay Area at some point. But I feel like this was a one way ticket for most, I believe.

**Shaan Puri** (4:04)
I am not sure yet.
Maybe, maybe not. I think come when the weather gets warmer, I think Austin is going to be so fun and so great. But I don't know, you know, maybe now is a good time to buy a place in San Francisco or New York.