Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

This week we have a great show for you, which we will get to very shortly.

But first, I have a quick story to share.

So San Francisco, it's a beautiful place.

It is also a living, breathing, often infuriating, cliche. And the other day, I just had this one small moment, a vignette, if you will, that kind of sums that up. So part one, I had agreed to meet a guy who runs a cannabis startup. This was for work, networking, etc. So we met at a bar

just to hear about his business, et cetera. I had a drink. He had weed. He had a lot of weed.

I guess it's not surprising. So actually, he didn't have weed. He had all these various little

pens and cartridges and devices that companies like his have begun inventing all these ingenious new ways to ingest and otherwise consume weed and weed-based products since California legalized cannabis back in January.

So it's actually fascinating really hearing him explain how this black market industry has

suddenly been legitimized and the absolute gold rush that has broken out to take advantage of it.

So after an interesting conversation, I walked out of the bar a little bit tipsy and with a

backpack full of contraband, he gave me a bunch of samples to take home, which was very generous.

Anyhow, so I hopped on my bike just a couple hundred yards after I bid my new weed friend Farewell.

I see a guy getting out of his Tesla Model S, which was matte black with tinted windows,

and a personalized license plate that spelled out

blockchain. And the best part, he was running in to get an Asi bowl at this place that I know

charges like 15 bucks for a bunch of fruit and granola drowned in Asai goop. Anyway, I had to laugh.

No else could I imagine that I'd have that same series of experiences in the same month,

let alone the same afternoon.

But just know that if you watch the series Silicon Valley, that's a comedy, yes.

But it is also a documentary.

This place is truly ridiculous. But I digress and I feel good and I'm ready

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