thank you for coming thank you for coming and exercising is unveiling of our office. this is officially is third office we call it was 3.0. we started this company almost 6 years ago now and yet it was born in san francisco and it was

born one block that way at a bar. it was where chris and i had our first conversation about the project entity human being. today things are arbitrate different back then there was two of us now there's 1 hundred and 10 of us so we need a bigger office today. so why do we need all this space not only for the 2 hundred and 10 people but because we have now 4 million urges on the website and the projects and 16 million unique visits every month that come to get human being.com website. it's going good for us to be

here this is where get human being was created this is the city of innovation and this is where we find some of the best talent here and it's an honor to be here and revive this historic building to a place we can call home. so with that i'll i'd like to turn it over to my friend and colleague the master said of this space the coordinator of get human being scott. (clapping) >> hello everybody can you hear me okay. >> i just wanted to say a few words about this space and a introduce ourself. it's been about a year when tom and linda first brought up this

space. so in that year it's been interesting to us because all of the offices this is our third office and this is great that we can keep the feeling for the get hub space. it was band for several years so they were relationship everything out so we had the opportunity to think about what we wanted and what we wanted to use the space for and to build it from the ground up. it's one of the oldest buildings this is standing after the fire in san francisco. this was build in 1905 and add a story a few years later. you can see the monitor you can see the waterline only about a

block away from the street and there's a rail line that went into it as you guys noticed as you're walking around the space today, you'll see we recreated sort of a rail line in the concrete in the aeshlth pace in the in front of the build. in 1906 a year after the building as built after the earthquake and fire if you look at the fire line with the fire destroyed things it coming comes up to the edge. this was one of the buildings that was not touched between the fire and the waterline. this is one of the oldest buildings that's survived. this has about a great home 40

for get hub. we really wanted to contributed back to that so as you can see this entire floor to basic dedicated for people to meet and meet each other and we can bring in talk things and this made get hub possible at all. the space you're in will be community space. we're launching a new part of our website come dot hub.com. if you want to use this space so far to tech talk or in any way for the community to get together that result in companies like this and the opportunity you can go to the site and sign up.

we've got passion projects which is women who code and several other meet ups. i think we have some representatives in the audience that are using the space. we're happy and proud to give back and now i want to introduce the mayor of san francisco ed lee (clapping) congratulations >> thank you. thank you and congratulations to all of you. can everybody hear me? well, i'm excited to be here i know after a over a year ago i visited get hub it's complicated i'm not a coder i'm elapsing it like i'm learning sailing but it's exciting (laughter) i did appreciate there was an

effort to explain to me how the growth of this company was going to make match the excitement edify the city. i appreciate where i visited before until now is 3 times the space your increasing rapidly and europe one of the initial partners and joined ron conway and others additional 6 other companies to help me not only the excitement of the growth of item but the eyes of it in everyday lives and how to improve that and, of course, creating platforms to use the information we have yet to expose to the public. i i know one of the things we're doing together is to get the data auto of the bureaucrats hands t where the data can be

used. but i know that again get hub plasma is based on anorexia nervosa and in many citizens it supports the tech destroy was it has to over. i just a minute ago probably the closet i'll be to the presidential look if i walk through the oval office i was laborer for the marine guard but i'm going to take the opportunity to the next time i will see president obama i will soon tell him that there is an office it fits really well, in san francisco. i'm proud on behalf of our city and on the on behalf of san francisco i'm proud to announce

we're celebrating the month of october as innovation in san francisco because of get hub. this year we're continuing that tradition with a celebration that highlights the nicest companies like food and cultural and a design and, of course, technology. but all of those companies that we're celebrated really make our city buzz and we're become a gravitational center. the calendar is completely filled and shows how innovation is in our city. sf music tech conference will be part of this month and the 4rb9 empowerment most will all happen and many other particular events will happen in the month of

october. you can see those exciting event at the i of time of m innovative sf.com. i'm happy to kick this off. posted the next exciting event here putting our whole cities municipal code into get hub (clapping) >> you know what that means? that's credible. when i talk about bureau categorize nobody knows whether it effects our streets our parks or vehicle code the way we build offices this year so many laws

public safety and others that it compacts so to post this on the get hub and to allow get hub to be our way in which people what navigate to break it down to make t it usedable by other coders it's kind of like sailing we have had to learn with taking was and to have that on the screen in front of us and how we, in fact, our waters is exactly how get hub z is doing it. where your code is able to be found at mayor's office of civic innovation dot get hub dot l o slash open law.

i'm excited to see what gets build and shared. and, of course, we're working with the open law project it's guided us to this kickoff. i'm excited to see something that's been to bureaucratic. by the way, i'm a lawyer my background i used to cause a lot of trouble in the city by you used to explain to a lot of bilingual folks in the city what their rights are. when i did the retina strict i had to explain to elderly people who only spoke chinese to help them exercise the law. that's one small example how a whole set of laws can be introduced to people so they won't have to go a library

full of very complicated indexes to find what the law means to them and? the magic behind the usefulness how people need to understand your law. and congratulate you get hub and congratulate you for employing more people and being such a great partner and finally comfortably lives of people who want to live and work here. that's the new nature of the technology. get hub congratulations and all of you for being in this wonderful and beautiful historic building that you see a lot of improvements to. this is exciting to be in selma and let's kick avenue innovation month and keep comfortably lives in san francisco.

thank you very much and congratulation (clapping) >> thank you, mayor ed lee. we're excited to be here in san francisco. i forth to introduce myself i'm tom and on behalf of this tech community we want you to join us over by the big statute we're going to do the ribbon cutting in just a few moments. thank you. thank you. again for all of you for coming and i'd like to give the ceremonial scissors to ed

lee. >> congratulations get hub and thank you and let's celebrate innovation month in san francisco. with that how about a 3, 2, 1 count down. >> 3, 2, 1. (clapping)okay. our final speaker is a friend a friend to the business community. a man who understands was it

take to a create a job which is an investment. mayor ed lee is a person who have's brought a lot of stability to san francisco especially, after steady eddy were because ed has a background in administration and being tasked what getting things done and maneuvering through the san francisco policies. so to talk about the future of san francisco from the mayors prospective and the city's prospective in relationship to continue to build our economy i want to introduce the mayor of the great city and county of san francisco. mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you.

thank you for that introduction and good morning, everyone. i know you've gotten a lot of statistics their not only interesting and accurate but very guiding for what we need to do. thank you greg costco and bob and all of the members of san francisco chamber of commerce for extending this invitation and it's great to see a lot of the officials and the department heads to make sure and insure our cities skews. before i get started i want to take another moment to acknowledge and thank the men and women who over the past several weeks fought california's third largest wildfire the rim fire up in yosemite. and among those fighters the

fire was our san francisco firefighters who stood alongside other fire department's across the country navigate over 5 thousand people fighting the fire. and, of course, the staff and crews of the public utilities commission helped and that helped and water industry. i'm proud of their work and while we're grateful everyday for our first responders who risk their lives to protect and serve and for our police officers and firefighters who lost their lives years ago it's important we reflect on that. and certainly for our city. we've had our own including the rim fire the police and, of

course, the fire department were there the first responders on a crash that will stick with me. we're living in an extraordinary city and you can is new year it that a lot of our residents are back to work. when we took office on january lifting our unemployment rates was 9 and a half percent today's it's 5.5 percent. this streamer important year our city netted over thirty thousand additional jobs and think about what the professor said about the multipleer effects. it's not just one industry we're seeing board based job growth at

every sector off our city is growing and beating the industry. we're successful because we've created the conditions that give the investors and enterprise in our city to innovative and grow and create jobs whether or not their neighborhood or small business owner or international firms or other companies. well, here's a new stat. since 2011, 2023.6 million secret of office space - 23.6 million square feet that's 34 trans america pyramids put together. while we're licking lucky it's not all luck.

navigate over the last 2 1/2 years we built the infrastructure of our city. where did we do that? let's see we worked together to create enlightenment for jobs and attracting businesses and making the san francisco the innovation capita of the world. we worked together to build homes by providing verifies with the conversation treating e creating a housing trust fund and a working with our zoning and planning department and rezoning aspects of our city and creating a fund for permanent housing and we can be insure we don't have poverty housing. we want all san franciscans that

be living side to side. we're working together to support our young people through our summer job program by investing in 0 our skuldz and making historic investment in our budget for the san francisco unified school district. we've worked together to strengthen our neighborhoods through our innovates that's focused on 25 commercial districts throughout the city providing loans and phil vacancies and retaining the strength in the local business. we've worked hard to reenvision our waterfront with mixed seawall lots and 4 pier and, of course, we'll welcome in the gotten state warriors back home

thanks for itself leadership of folks working with argue port and a city planners. a derelict pier will be transformed that will bring thousands of people out to enjoy our waterfront. we worked to get with our community. we created the transit city plan that incorporates gov. both businesses and neighborhood for places to work with open shops and more and the development community has imbraced that with 5 office buildings adjacent to the transit center. we've worked together i get the theme now? to fund roads and parks and libs and asking san francisco voters

to invest they're hard earned dollars to build infrastructure to help families skewed. we've worked together to make san francisco the gateway to china and beyond. through china that sf it's a partnership for economic development we've attracted 2090 imply companies to 90 san francisco and we're setting our sites on latin listen to this latino sf. we've worked together to rebuild our 70 san with 5 hospitals, of course, our san francisco gunmen e general i'll be asking you for more help with furniture. of course, c pmc chinese

hospital and uc san francisco. we've worked together to fix our that deficit with reform and 5 years planning all of which has maintained our strong bond rating and this summer we're going to tangle our health care obligation. well, it's bogging because of our layers focus on the infrastructure of our economy that that has allowed us to become the faster growing state not new york or los angeles but we cannot have done that without the san francisco chamber of commerce and without our business community that has vifrtd in our city in helping me

create those jobs everyday. so, now this is not the time to rest in our success. i think it's time that we double down on our success by focusing and tackling with more vigor and more resolve by looking over that horizon to see what else we should be doing. this is not a buckle ladies and gentlemen. that first city college we're going to save city he college period no, ifs or maybe so it's too important to give up open our students or training of our workforce in the future. it's the fit and second the affordable care act is important. we're focused in marking our

residents and encouraging resident to purchase affordable insurance via the california marketplace but we need to provide guidance to our local businesses how it integrates namely the health care security ordinance. this is a complicated policy issue that's why i've ask you to serve on our council with barbara garcia and many others. we'll lead a data process so we can make informed policy positions and file the gaps of everyone so we can all be covered. we're san francisco we're going to be a model for that prelims. i want to close with a few thoughts. people as me it is good economy

going to continue? how are we going to extend the prosperity that so many of our enterprise part of the answer is the everyday decision by each of you to keep investing 90 in our city. yes investing in businesses and start up and innovative ideas but investing in our young people, our schools and community and neighborhood organizations. san francisco is the greatest city in the world not just because of our bay and at all beautiful buildings but our human talent we know is at the heart of our success.

so i ask you help us save city college and help us rebilled and reimage our bettered education for our children. help us higher young people making our neighborhoods safer and stronger. i ask you to get involved and volunteer and i ask you to help with more resources to be able to do this. that's how we're going to be able to sustain this economic recovery and extend our prosperity we'll be able to continue to build the infrastructure structure for our city today and tomorrow. thank you very muchyou.

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