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Discovering the best local travel secrets

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    Jonathan Chin shows us how to discover the best local secrets in your city

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Welcome back everybody -- get -- you -- San Cisco bureau we have Jonathan should waiting for us he is the co-founder of got some of the list.

And this is a really really cool website I was actually looking into it.

Basically when I go to a city and I finally have friends there who are you know -- -- actual locals and who really know where the non tourist spots are.

-- can you struggle to try to find.

Cool places to go that aren't swarming with tourists that that there are actually really can you taste of the city that's basically what got -- does is -- It is ideally I think there Colombians felt good about the list is the tool that helps you discover all the best local gyms and sentenced on York.

And we're gonna expand and many other cities in the United States so essentially San Cisco has sixteen million tourists come to our beloved city every year.

It is it out -- -- as.

They see Fisherman's -- and they will go check out the -- -- Those are all beautiful and wonderful sites but you know what else is beautiful hills coffee.

-- -- -- -- -- slocum -- -- -- has -- -- -- some of the most fantastic treats for people to try.

But being as it's very difficult to find those if you don't have a friend who actually lives and sentence -- -- knows -- -- local spots.

So we've created a tool that helps people discover all these great -- so you also Madison new York and as you said you do want to expand.

We definitely -- yes so for instance when someone Texans -- Kansas City so they go to Arthur Bryant so they go to -- where should they go for that best Barbeque.

And the best part is -- city source so essentially we take crowd sourcing and local sourcing.

Allowing people that basically vote their favorites so it's always up to date always -- always changing with the.

The times if you need any insider information for Hoboken, New Jersey I'll -- -- now -- -- definitely you have to.

So so what -- you're at the -- you gave some of the that the little secrets there in on the San Francisco area talk a little bit about some of your top favorites and why are they so interesting to you.

Posters so I'll start with American -- -- that has cotton candy cupcakes.

It's on union street in the marina and Francisco beautiful neighborhood.

And some others would be feels coffee I swear by their mates he it's delicious -- and they are definitely.

Very popular San Cisco you know but it's.

Perhaps difficult for them to expand beyond there.

Local relationships and cult following so we -- -- help give them -- presence online give them a voice online we're not just talking about food and you also go to -- You'll get information on what restaurants and nightclubs and I -- stuff.

I definitely so essentially to give you an example.

Well last week and went down the Los Angeles and I had the time of my life the reason I -- as my friends here -- Who's very well connected knows everything and everyone in Los Angeles he works for Sony music always knows the top new song looking ahead of me out you know.

-- me out for the best part stiffed me out to the local -- the neighborhood that I would never been able to discover so I want to take that experience and I wanna put back for someone.

You know via phone we play very nicely with the mobile we have a mobile version.

Or if they wanna check that on -- -- to be able to go to any city and really experience that local.

Adventure.

That's really -- and I I was reading my notes he have a you have sort of that something that you talk about the American dream two point now can tell -- a little bit about that.

-- yes so essentially on my grandfather.

Came to this country he believes very strongly in American dream worked his -- -- and steel -- in Chicago on was that eventually able to retire and build a home.

And CO2 generations later I still believe very strongly in the American dream although it's not you know uttered.

-- my generation as much but in Silicon Valley where I work and where I'm very excited to work.

There is this idea of the American dream although we use -- buzz words like mobile and social media and cloud computing but we still working towards -- single.

Our dry it is to enhance the lives of many people in this country.

On the to better society.

Rick I'm really excited about the -- the list dot com good luck -- I have no doubt that you'll expand to Hoboken, New Jersey at some point there are lots of little got a golden finds there.

Jonathan thanks for joining us say we appreciate it.

Thank you so much and -- he was magic.

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