James McHugh

even a company that's German based needs to step over and get involved in the US market, both for growth and for financing.

So the challenges in Europe are structural.

Yes.

In fact, I had a house in San Francisco for years and I rented it out over COVID.

And I've just taken it back.

And I've taken it back because everything is happening in San Fran right now.

All of these companies are sitting in San Francisco.

I took my daughter to a concert in San Fran about two years ago, just before Xi Jinping's visit.

And it genuinely was a zombie apocalypse.

It was terrible to witness what could happen

Just awful.

It's back.

Like what's happened?

Yeah, the AI companies came in because it was happening.

They dragged all the young smart kids in, told them get in the office because we need you in here 12 plus hours a day.

These kids are working six days a week.

They need somewhere to pick up sandwiches.

There's a new mayor in town.

They've managed to clean up most of the streets, but there's an energy.

There's, you know, young people and people working on something and mission statements brings an energy.