"I saw the concept, I liked it,"
"I said, this is good, I could do that!"
"I was walking on 10th Street and telling my kids, 'Look, we're going to be in that building. It has two swimming pools,'"
"Whatever I owned, whatever - I put [it] all in the Twitter building, and I built the place myself."
Billy Alabsi lost his assets in the late-2000s real estate collapse and then ran a limousine business before moving into blockchain, creating a token, an app and a white paper. After a severe 2018 car crash ended his limo company, he sought steady income and opened Falafelland at a former Flying Falafel location in 2018. Falafelland won rave reviews and a chance to move into a Twitter Market Street building, into which Alabsi invested everything. He moved in November 2019 but the March 2020 COVID lockdown halted business, his landlord demanded rent and evicted him. He experienced homelessness for a period and reopened Falafelland in the Tenderloin last month.
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