Remove all the housing regulation in California and allow builders to build. You'll smoothly see rents going down to $500/month.
Start having integrity and finally do what's best for your country, not best for just yourself. Otherwise... All other countries are quickly catching up (esp. Europe and Asia) and soon, it will be irrelevant.
Off topic: I can't subscribe to this blog with any of my emails (at the bottom of the page), getting a "Invalid email" for literally any valid email address I would enter.
I'm also not a huge fan in general, but it's a distinctly good method for getting feedback when building an API or product.
Let me tell you this story:
October 2019 we did something similar, but took it to the extreme: We created 8 conventions on 8 days in 8 major cities in Germany to learn more about private investors and our customers. Time-wise, almost no rational person would've invested so much time.
We talked to almost 1000 real and some prospective customers. The learnings were amazing. In the following 4 weeks, we managed to improve product and reduce churn by 3X (~24% to 6%), which is generally unheard of. It was one of the best ways ever to build up user empathy and understanding real, underlying needs as well as a ton of UX problems.
Why not study at a top German university instead? It's 100% free and you get a ton of international experience, learn a new language, and can still go to MIT/Harvard/Stanford/... for your master's or thesis
One more idea: "$BIG_TECH has huge developer economies-of-scale".
Whenever I or one of our devs has a problem with AWS or configuration, there's a 99% probability that anyone had this problem before and I find high quality google search results. That's not the case for OVH, Digital Ocean, ...
With developer salaries at 350'000 USD/year, you can now calculate the massive amount of savings.
Tiny improvement suggestion: remove the "collapse" button and show the residual items on mouse hover of any of the top right menu bar area automatically. Save me the extra clicks. That would be exceptional user design :)
Right now, it's not worth the extra 2 clicks for "a cleaner look", so I did not download
It's exactly the same with hiring at FANG/McKinsey/BCG/... :). You optimize for the (well known) interview process. You study 10 hours/day for 2 weeks. And you get the job with 99% accuracy.
FIRST build a successful business, THEN try to sell it.
You try so sell something that's essentially worthless, and even worse: you have zero negotiating power. So at best, you would accept an offer of ~10'000 USD. This is the cold hard truth in this case, and I don't mean it in any bad way.