"San Francisco can feel overwhelming at times," said Briar Smith, 27. Since moving back to San Francisco from Waterloo, Canada, in February, he has been a founding engineer at three AI startups. "You're in a bit of a pressure cooker in the sense that everyone is working so much that you feel like when you're relaxing, you're not really fully relaxing."
Though, he said, "I think the best founders actually have a good work life balance ... because it keeps them in touch with the rest of themselves and the world, because founding is like a self-growth opportunity in many areas."
On a grant from the Singaporean government, SzeYing Teo, 33, visited San Francisco to test a business model to connect Singapore tech talent to U.S. startups. During her two-month stay in town, she moved from the Financial District to a hacker house in Hayes Valley, attended some five AI social events every week and even organized some.
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