Atherton
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Sep 24, 2026
Lane SkeltonHOST
I mean, I think it's, like, sec- second highest zip code in the, in the country.
Art CervantesHOST
country.And then Atherton is number one for some reason? [laughs]
Lane SkeltonHOST
Yeah, I don't know what, I don't know what.
Lane SkeltonHOST
I mean, that might be.
Spencer HsuHOST
That's the beauty with so many different cities across the Bay Area, just relative to your commute and your budget.
Spencer HsuHOST
Now, if you want that premium resort style, top of the market lifestyle, that's going to be narrowing you down to a few key areas like Los Altos Hills, Atherton, Woodside, Portola Valley, and Hillsboro.
Spencer HsuHOST
This region is the ultra luxury, big lot, privacy first living, and exactly where a lot of that AI wealth has been landing because this is the top of the top.
Spencer HsuHOST
We're talking many of these homes can be ultra luxury transactions above $10 million, and that wealth is spilling directly into these hillside Peninsula estate communities.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
And that's what's going to happen, I think, as we go forward.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
And so where I live, you know, in Menlo Park, Atherton, Palo Alto, one of the hardest parking places is Stanford Shopping Center.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
Well, that's within two miles of where the VCs and private equity firms for 30 years have been trying to put stores out of business.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
Yet they thrive in the heart of that world.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
When I was a graduate student, we had a very small stipend for teaching, but the way I supported myself was I had an old truck, and we did-- I went to the faculty, all nine of them And said they all had Japanese...
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
And that, in those days in Menlo Park and Atherton, a Japanese, they all lived in very nice homes.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
A Japanese gardener was the prestige item, um, 'cause he would prune.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
But he didn't want to take away all the trash or the, you know, the cement or whatever they were working on.
Markus BoucherHOST
I don't know what to make of it.
Markus BoucherHOST
He sold his house in Atherton.
Markus BoucherHOST
He sold some condo in downtown San Francisco.
Markus BoucherHOST
He sold a warehouse where he was doing business in, like, south of Market.
Brian MurphyHOST
I don't know what to make of it.
Brian MurphyHOST
He sold his house in Atherton.
Brian MurphyHOST
He sold some condo in downtown San Francisco.
Brian MurphyHOST
He sold a warehouse where he was doing business in, like, south of Market.
Vishal VermaGUEST
In the 90s, If you made $10 million, you were living at large.
Vishal VermaGUEST
You could buy a home in Atherton for $2 million.
Vishal VermaGUEST
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Siddhartha AhluwaliaHOST
home would be like $1 million or $2 million and a half, right?
Vishal VermaGUEST
Yeah, $1 million and a half.
Vishal VermaGUEST
In Atherton, a home was $1 million and a half, $2 million.
Vishal VermaGUEST
In Los Altos Hills, it was $1 million and a half.
Vishal VermaGUEST
The same home in Los Altos Hills is $10 million.
Brian MurphyHOST
I, I don't know what to make of it.
Brian MurphyHOST
He sold his house in Atherton.
Brian MurphyHOST
He sold some condo in, in Downtown San Francisco.
Brian MurphyHOST
He sold a warehouse where he was doing business in, like, South of Market.
Marcus ThompsonGUEST
Like, he, he could go play in Charlotte or whatever and still have his homes in California, because it's, it's a great investment, you know? So I think this is Steph, uh, like reorganizing.
Marcus ThompsonGUEST
You know, I...
Marcus ThompsonGUEST
He's just sold everything he's ever lived, from Orinda, you know, Ather- You know, the Atherton thing, from what I, what I was told, it's a lot about, you know, that whole situation where they're building the high-rises behind his house.
Marcus ThompsonGUEST
And, you know, a lot of people said, like, he didn't want...
Marcus BoucherHOST
I don't know what to make of it.
Marcus BoucherHOST
He sold his house in Atherton.
Marcus BoucherHOST
He sold some condo in downtown San Francisco.
Marcus BoucherHOST
He sold a warehouse where he was doing business in, like, south of Market.
Simon JackHOST
She would've certainly been a millionaire at this point.
Zing TsjengHOST
So in 2004, a few months after she married fellow tech boss Dave Goldberg, and the year she moved into that sprawling mansion in Atherton, California, the neighborhood Forbes Magazine would soon name the US's most expensive zip code, we can safely say that Sheryl Sandberg was a millionaire.
Simon JackHOST
[upbeat music] But let us find out how she went swiftly from a million to a thousand times that to a billion.
Simon JackHOST
By the time she left Google, the company was the USA's fifth-biggest company with a market cap of over two hundred billion dollars.
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