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Mr Peter Lewis arrived in San Francisco as Australia's Consul General at the height of the technology boom. He recalls the up when one start-up incubator was offering stressed entrepreneurs ``professional massages at any time of the day, fresh rolled sushi and sashimi available 24 hours in quantities like it was coming from a tap and even an oxygen bar where, if you were feeling a bit jaded, you could come over, strap on the mask and take a few deep breaths of 100 per cent O2 to get you back on track".