He lived and worked in the Bay Area and L.A. - he's intimately aware of how pathologically bad car-oriented low-density city planning is, which is why the most economically successful place in the world is so hilariously bad to travel in.

But his hatred for transit demonstrates an almost absurdly opaque blind-spot for somebody who wants to get his businesses involved in urban transportation planning.

edit: corrected his experience with California commutes after reply informed me he was no longer involved in SF bay.