I lived in a shoe box in SOMA
2016 to 2017. I lived in this box. Alone. A 317 square foot apartment above Tony Baloney’s deli at the corner of 7th St and Howard.
2k/month. And you are living in a shoe box. In SOMA. With meth addicts screaming in the middle of the night, and garbage trucks, and deliveries. You have to keep your windows open because there is no AC. You can’t install a window A/C unit per your lease. You keep all of your drains closed at all times so roaches don’t crawl up and out of them. (Ever wonder why hotels always close the drain on the shower? Ya, that’s why. Plus sewer gases.) You do your laundry in the middle of the night because the entire floor shares one ancient coin operated washer and drier.
This is the the reality of being over the age of 25, on a limited budget, no car so you walk or BART or Uber, and you are trying to start a security robotics startup in SOMA alone to stop school shootings, or at least mitigate the damage and help people fight back.
As I type this in January of 2020, this goes down as my biggest and most expensive business and humanitarian failure as I was unable to get funding. Even after building 3 prototypes and pitching every VC I could track down and having successfully built two previous companies into the millions.
You bet big. You fail big. Getting back up is a bitch.
I lived in a shoe box in SOMA
2016 to 2017. I lived in this box. Alone. A 317 square foot apartment above Tony Baloney’s deli at the corner of 7th St and Howard.
2k/month. And you are living in a shoe box. In SOMA. With meth addicts screaming in the middle of the night, and garbage trucks, and deliveries. You have to keep your windows open because there is no AC. You can’t install a window A/C unit per your lease. You keep all of your drains closed at all times so roaches don’t crawl up and out of them. (Ever wonder why hotels always close the drain on the shower? Ya, that’s why. Plus sewer gases.) You do your laundry in the middle of the night because the entire floor shares one ancient coin operated washer and drier.
This is the the reality of being over the age of 25, on a limited budget, no car so you walk or BART or Uber, and you are trying to start a security robotics startup in SOMA alone to stop school shootings, or at least mitigate the damage and help people fight back.
As I type this in January of 2020, this goes down as my biggest and most expensive business and humanitarian failure as I was unable to get funding. Even after building 3 prototypes and pitching every VC I could track down and having successfully built two previous companies into the millions.
You bet big. You fail big. Getting back up is a bitch.