The last few weeks have seen a bit of change here in San Francisco.  I have yet to settle into a more permanent living situation since I left my place in SOMA.  It has actually been a wonderful way to get a better sense of the city.  It has taken me a little while to get into the swing of things in this city.  I feel that finally I am really starting to learn how it all tends to function together.  There are just so many different cultural influences to it and so many perspectives to take in and they all seem to be compressed into a small space.  While it keeps the city interesting, it also creates a great degree of glaring disparity.  In most of the other cities that I have lived in there has tended to be space for different communities to expand within, here most of the communities haven’t quite blended, but rather rub up against each other, sometimes integrating well, sometimes cause great friction between the residents.

A few weeks ago Zoosk closed a third round of funding and we all ended up renting a boat to do a great boat party.  There ended up being around 35 people in attendance with a DJ and a full catered dinner.  It was really an eye opening experience to see how our celebrations have progressed to just a few of us having pizza and a beer at a shop across from one of our apartments to a full party, suits, boat, limo and all of the other little pieces which go along with it.  Sometimes it is hard to gauge a sense of scale of the company when you are working in the same office for a long while.  Even though the number of employees has ballooned (18 now I believe) the impact that we feel from customers is a bit isolated from me.  There are a lot of big challenges over the course of the next year to overcome, not the least of which is really understanding what our customers need and making sure that we can deliver a product which will enable them to get the greatest benefit from Zoosk.

The next few weeks I am starting to ramp up my climbing traning again, so expect to see more posts on my climbing blog.  I have around six months to get to my personal climbing goal for the year (send a V10 outside) and I am getting stronger without any form of structured training.  The other day I did two V8s while sick.  Now it is time to get back on track!!

Brad