I’m headed out to the San Francisco area. Who wants to meet up? Maybe Labor Day morning in Menlo Park or Palo Alto?
In looking for a hotel, Google Maps included this place in Menlo Park, California, rated 4.7 stars:
What if we add taxes?
It’s $14,970 for three nights in the cheapest available room at the Rosewood Sand Hill, which might sound expensive until you consider that it includes “Complimentary wireless internet access”.
(I rented someone’s guest house in Woodside, just a few minutes north of this hotel, in 1982 after graduating from MIT and starting work at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs. If memory serves, I was paying less than $300/month ($10 per night rather than $5,000).)
What if you bring two kids and want each to have his/her/zir/their own bedroom? That will be $54,410 including tax:
Background reading: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/silicon-valley-cougar-nights-love
Maybe don’t bring the kids.
Phil, I’ve got just the hottie for you! We’ll make your stay at Rosewood worth every penny.
Yet another industry taken over by foreigners
https://nypost.com/2025/10/24/business/china-russia-sending-attractive-women-to-seduce-us-tech-execs-report/
Thanks, David. “Cougar Night” sounds frightening. Do they also have “Grandmother-age Female Night” so that men who want to replicate Jeff Bezos’s success with Lauren Sanchez can do so?
It’s only temporary inflation. The amazing abundance is just around the corner. Also, Goog discontinued downloads for Goog Earth to divert more resources to our future of unlimited software. The money is absolutely not being pocketed by CEOs.