Office presence

Over the next month or so, I have a decision to make on whether I want to move our family back out to New York. There are many personal reasons which I don’t feel like discussing right now, but from purely a work perspective it makes a ton of sense.

We are building our office presence in New York primarily. All our recent hires have been focused in New York. While having a San Francisco office and presence is nice, we have made the decision that we won’t build out the office here any further. Simply put the office culture in San Francisco is more or less dead as everyone wants to work remote.

It does make sense for me to be out there in New York to help build out the office. Most of our partners and LPs are based on the east coast now as well.

From a personal work perspective, I dearly miss having coworkers to talk and hang out with. I’ve been pretty much by myself in the office for the last 2 years and it definitely gets lonely and has been impacting my moods. Even with Zoom readily available, it is definitely not the same vibe.

Work reasons of course are just one factor. And the harder part will be the personal impact on my family and I.