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F-094the proof kernel is a pure Calculus of Constructions type checkerrepo:marketing/FACTS.md#F-094
F-098LOGOS is a deterministic compiler — same input, same output, every time; no sampling, no hallucination, no temperaturerepo:marketing/FACTS.md#F-098
F-100one front-end, five back-ends: tree-walking interpreter, register bytecode VM, copy-and-patch JIT, AOT-to-Rust, direct WASMrepo:marketing/FACTS.md#F-100
F-112this campaign describes LOGOS 0.10.1repo:marketing/FACTS.md#F-112
R-001Jack Dorsey was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri (Nov 19, 1976)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey
R-002Dorsey co-founded Twitter (2006) and Square / Block (2009), both in San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey
R-003Sam Altman was raised in the St. Louis, Missouri area — his family moved to Clayton, Missouri in 1989 (he was born in Chicago in 1985)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
R-004Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and is its CEO, in San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
R-005Marc Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsinhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen
R-006Andreessen co-founded Netscape in Mountain View, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen
R-010Caltrain runs between San Francisco and Gilroy (Tamien–Gilroy is weekday commute-hour service only)https://www.caltrain.com/stations-zones
R-011Caltrain fares are zone-based, and Clipper is the reloadable all-in-one Bay Area transit cardhttps://www.caltrain.com/fares/how-buy/clipper
R-012As of Jan. 1, 2026, Caltrain eliminated its Clipper discount, aligning prices across all payment methodshttps://www.caltrain.com/news/caltrain-eliminate-clipper-discount-jan-1
R-020HI San Francisco Downtown Hostel lists dorm beds from about $33 a night
a landing pad, not an address; nightly, seasonal
https://www.hiusa.org/find-hostels/california/san-francisco-312-mason-street
R-021In San Francisco proper, Candlestick RV Park charges about $2,500 a month for a full-hookup spot (raised from $2,000)
the priciest, most contested option; printed here precisely so the cheaper ones downstate read honestly
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/how-rvs-became-silicon-valleys-housing-safety-net.html
R-022San Francisco adopted a citywide two-hour parking limit for oversized vehicles (over 22 ft long or 7 ft tall) via the SFMTA "Large Vehicle Refuge Permit"
why the camper play works better in a park, further out, than on a San Francisco curb
https://www.sf.gov/news--sfmta-board-directors-approves-new-city-policy-address-oversized-vehicles-parking-across-san
R-023San Francisco Police Code Sec. 97 prohibits using a vehicle for human habitationhttps://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_police/0-0-0-421
R-030Gilroy Garlic USA RV Park (Gilroy, CA) rents long-term full-hookup concrete sites for $1,400/month plus metered electricity, 3-month minimumhttps://gilroy650.com/
R-031Parkway Lakes RV Park (Morgan Hill, CA) lists long-term sites from roughly $1,495–$1,595/monthhttps://www.parkwaylakesrvpark.com/
R-032Novato RV Park (Novato, CA) lists monthly sites at $1,600–$1,700 plus electricity, and weekly at $450–$540https://novatorvpark.com/
R-033Pillar Point RV Park (Half Moon Bay, CA) lists nightly sites at $115–$149.50 on the coast
the ocean tax is real; the coast is beautiful and the coast is not cheap
https://pillarpointrvpark.com/
R-034Alameda County Fairgrounds RV Park (Pleasanton, CA) offers full-hookup RV sites in the East Bay near BART
East Bay option; call for long-term availability
https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/d/united-states/california/hayward/camping/rv
R-041The average apartment in St. Charles, Missouri rents for about $1,469 a month
the whole point — a cheap Bay RV space is the SAME money as a place back home
https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/mo/saint-charles/
R-042The average San Francisco one-bedroom apartment rents for well over $3,000 a month
reported $3,000–$4,000 across sources; we print the floor
https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/san-francisco/
R-050Hewlett-Packard was founded in 1939 in a Palo Alto garage now marked "Birthplace of Silicon Valley"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard
R-051Intel was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
R-052Andy Grove, Intel's third employee and later CEO, was born in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the U.S.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove
R-053Apple was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Cupertino, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
R-054Genentech, which launched the biotech industry, was founded in 1976 in South San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genentech
R-055Oracle was founded in 1977 in the Bay Area (Santa Clara, California)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation
R-056Adobe was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Inc.
R-057Cisco was founded in 1984 by a Stanford couple and is headquartered in San Jose, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco
R-058Nvidia was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia
R-059Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang was born in Tainan, Taiwan and immigrated to the U.S. as a childhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang
R-060Yahoo was founded in 1994 by two Stanford students in the Bay Areahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo
R-061Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang was born in Taipei, Taiwan and immigrated to San Jose as a childhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang
R-062eBay was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay
R-063eBay founder Pierre Omidyar was born in Paris, France to Iranian parentshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar
R-064Netflix was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix
R-065Google was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
R-066Google co-founder Sergey Brin was born in Moscow and immigrated to the U.S. as a childhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
R-067PayPal traces to Confinity, founded in 1998 in Palo Alto, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal
R-068Salesforce was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce
R-069Tesla was founded in 2003 in San Carlos, California
HQ later moved to Texas; the seed still cracked open here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.
R-070Facebook (now Meta) relocated to the Bay Area in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California
started in a Massachusetts dorm; grew up the moment it moved west
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms
R-071YouTube was founded in 2005 in San Mateo, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
R-072Airbnb was founded in 2008 in San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbnb
R-073WhatsApp was founded in 2009 in Mountain View, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp
R-074WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and immigrated to Mountain View as a teenagerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Koum
R-075Uber was founded in 2009 in San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber
R-076Instagram was founded in 2010 in San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram
R-077Stripe was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe,_Inc.
R-078Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison grew up in rural Irelandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Collison
R-079Zoom was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, Californiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Communications
R-080Zoom founder Eric Yuan was born in Shandong, China and immigrated to the Bay Area in 1997https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Yuan
R-081Databricks was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Databricks
R-082Anthropic was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Franciscohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
R-090Stanford University is in Stanford, California, adjacent to Palo Altohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University
R-091Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California is the historic center of the venture-capital industryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road
R-092UC Berkeley's 1964 Free Speech Movement won political speech on campus; Mario Savio's "bodies upon the gears" speech was given at Sproul Hall on Dec. 2, 1964, and the steps were renamed the Mario Savio Steps in 1997https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement
R-093Lake Tahoe is about 200 miles — roughly 3.5–4 hours' drive — from San Franciscohttps://epiclaketahoe.com/san-francisco-lake-tahoe-road-trip/
R-094Santa Cruz is about 32 miles — roughly 40–45 minutes — from San Jose over Highway 17https://www.distance-cities.com/distance-san-jose-ca-to-santa-cruz-ca
R-095The Bay's microclimates run cool and foggy on the coast and in San Francisco (summers often in the low 60s) while inland South Bay valleys an hour south are much warmer (80s–90s)https://www.kqed.org/news/11827882/why-does-the-bay-area-have-so-many-microclimates
R-096Waymo operates fully driverless robotaxis available to the public in San Francisco, hailed from an app with no waitlisthttps://waymo.com/rides/san-francisco/
R-100In 2025 the San Francisco Bay Area drew about 41% of all U.S. startup venture funding — the largest share of any metro
where the money for new and contrarian ideas actually points
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/sf-bay-area-startup-funding-bigger-share-ai/
R-101In Gelfand's tightness–looseness research, California ranks among the "loosest" U.S. states (weaker social norms, higher tolerance for deviance and difference), while the "tightest" states cluster in the South with the Midwest in between; tighter states show higher religious attendance and a more black-and-white view of right and wrong
the value-neutral academic frame for "fitting in vs. standing out"; tight cultures buy real cohesion with their norms — it is a fact about the soil, not a moral rating
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1317937111
R-102Redbud VC in Columbia, Missouri closed its flagship Fund II at $25 million (2026), about 95% of it raised from Missourians, to back "outsider founders"
Missouri's most celebrated recent venture fund
https://redbud.vc/latest/redbud-vc-fund-ii-25m-for-outsider-founders
R-103Andreessen Horowitz, a single Bay Area firm, raised over $15 billion in one fundraising haul — its largest to date
about 600x Redbud's entire Fund II
https://a16z.com/why-did-we-raise-15b/
R-104In Q1 2023 all Missouri startups together raised about $118 million — roughly 0.91% of U.S. venture deals, which the state's own venture analysts called one of the lowest deal totals of the decadehttps://redbud.vc/latest/the-rising-tide-of-missouri-vc-funding
R-105Companies founded by Stanford alumni and faculty number roughly 39,900 and generate about $2.7 trillion in annual revenue — as an independent nation they would be a top-ten world economy
Eesley & Miller study; the university actively turns students into founders
https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/study-reports-stanford-alumni-create-nearly-3-trillion-economic-impact