away and to keep our headquarters in san francisco was a conscious one. san francisco was a key player in the yemz story. we realized that yelp might work in cities around the world with yelp in 23 criteria's we need a little bit more desk space. yelp has 17 hundred employees 8 hundred in sf. we're committed to growing the local economy and maintaining a strong connection to our san francisco lines. when looking for a new headquarters it was location, location, location. we needed somewhere to provide easy access to lots of local businesses and restaurants and

remain convenient for mass transit riders and bike riders a lot of our employees ride bikes. combrem is pack at about local plays and celebrate the distinct active and unique. we want to have this into a more than workplace. talking of resident at the 130 montgomery is an important milestone. we'll celebrate our tenth anniversary next year. i'm privileged to introduce yelp leader our 2kwishd nancy pelosi

(clapping.) and what on a honor to be your representative in congress. thank you jeremy. your leadership and your sense of community and for staying in san francisco. i'm honored to join you and your colleagues especially our mayor who has a relationship with this part of the whole city, of course, but this was his baby and he's done a remarkable job. when we cut relishes at another that i have i tip my hat to president obama for helping to make business grow in this part of town. it's great to see you again

jeremy. he brought some of the enthusiasm to washington for yelpless recently. and erica congratulations on our work here. lisa and matt congratulations on our awards how wonderful. but it's a principle for me to be here as your representative in congress to the new headquarters but a building of great tradition and that's in our city. this whole faith is built on technology and really save in community because community is what yelp is all about. yelps success is living proof

that american business doesn't want just service a small community but this whole community. from the beginning this torrid company acknowledged that this can be a good model of bits. and certainly there's no befrt place to test this model but in san francisco. consider where we are today 140 new montgomery street stand for innovation. the first sky skrarpt to be in san francisco. it was then the pacific telephone company. i've been using caving stone as means of communication but that was the innovation of the day.

that was here in 1929 that, sir winston churchill made a telephone call for his 21st wedding anniversary he said why say the age of migraines it past it's just the beginning to today, we mark a new beginning it's called the monument for talk it's called yelp. today, we have the opportunity to celebrate the now global company community community community how many communities jeremy. while millions of companies understand how yelp can help to change minds fewer know how dedicated this is to helping

nonprofits doing the same they're committed to helping leader to find czar grant award and a having champions within the company to open the doors of opportunities pr i congratulate you it's a small amount of money to help incurs who are striving to build better community. 826 val say thank you for helping children to learn more skills. and that's what communication is all about. and the initiative to expand their business.

it's all connected to communication and empowerment. i take it something is going to happen with bell, pack bell jeremy said they have their yellow pages and we have yelp. we affirm our deaths for the economic engine it drives the american dream so thank you yelp for your leadership this tliefrz on the power of community. thank you for your imperial spirit and a your commitment to the community. thank you congratulations to yelp

(clapping.) don't use it as a model but (laughter) you really this is such a passion for the mayor. and i know what this means to many this building yelp coming here for him everyday strives to make san francisco the engine of economic growth of community respect of giving opportunity to so many people. i know this is a special program and he wanted to decade yelp to the san francisco community >> thank you (clapping.) well, that's kind of neat to have it yielded by the leader. i am, of course, very glad to be here at yelp this is my second

invest to this site. i know that erica having something in common being from berkley. it's great to see people coming together after law but it's good to see maybe there's life for me. but i'm happy to be here and join nancy pelosi and congratulating he yemen they're new home. yelp is special they're starting here and staying here that i i love coming here it is now 8 hundred the numbers changed. i visited a few weeks we looked at the building restroom for a thousand. i want to join leader pelosi it

is a happy day. i love to see companies succeed and the collaborating and sharing ideas this is what yelp has done. and then to do something special in the what happened in san francisco because companies that are here and start here they follow in the tradition like the charles swabbings and the fisher's and the hell man's they discover the resources and want others to grow with them. that's why to recognize 3 outstanding nonprofits you've columbian but even if company like yelp now, it's yelp and yelp foundation.

i love that because i got it, it's sales force and sales force foundation the technology companies are taking up that social responsibility like no others and i love seeing that because that's been the values of san franciscans. we've shared in our success and as we present more companies whether their along market street or monday night grorm we have 1 thousand companies in san francisco plus. think about how many foundations this represents >> we all know the understanding is becoming clear innovation is not about the temple it's about a way of thinking. it suggests that community collaboration, building of that

community, sharing of ideas is really a spirit. i've been very happy to collaborator collaborate with yelp and looufrt has been with us a couple of times we have a relationship that's not just in the city. i'm happy to bring yelp with me and present them to other mayors. we get to not only brag but to announce we're solving things that we're not in the drudgery of retention reform and run away accounts but we can solve them in partnership with the private sector. we took this one example data that no one looks altered from

restaurants and we discovered there's no eyes on that so we matched that up with the real eyes that are at yelp and made that connection so when you go to let yelp website i can see the relationship in government and we announced that and other cities asked how we have more people using that process. that's one of dozens of example whether it's in transportation finding parking spaces and ride sharing to function more efficient. this partnership goes beyond it and you have made it exist. i'm interested in seeing the

other donation you're making to consumer free speech and thank you yelp for being here i want to call up jeremy and a nancy pelosi it's about time that on the occasion of establishing you're wonderful headquarters and i'll watch the demonstrate you're wonderful services this is today yelp day colleagues, that places you on the next item >> does that mean he can park whatever he wants. >> that's the green bike thing. >> it's earlier in the day sometimes, it happens at dinner

7, 8, 9 but now you're telling me. >> thank you for your leadership. >> thank you. >> it was our original bell when we started selling yelp across the street. and it's been rung many times

and we were going to allow you to bring it forward (laughter) >> it's been an honor. >> let it ring. >> (ring, good morning, every

thank you for attending the conference on market street. i think it's all part of the the initiation for the new ci o. when i got interviewed by the city administrator and mayor lee, i was told that for tradition of the 12 days of hercules it was to accomplish and the first one would be the easiest one. i would like to ask you to join me the very inspiring mayor who is going to tell you the first tasks of

those 12 is. mayor lee? [ applause ] >> thank you, mark. well, you just met mark, he's our new cio for department of technology. he's already approved himself to be a hard worker. we've tasked him with showing us what he can do in a short period of time. i would like to thank our supervisor wiener and working closely with the p.d., department department of public works and the ability to present an internet connectivity wireless ability along market street has been very important to me because it is part of what we were trying to do on the whole market street. so, today is of course

announcing that the department of technology has been able to complete this with a very special partner ruckus wireless and i know selena is here today and i want to thank her for providing the professional guidance, the hardware as well as the good technical advice to the department of technology along with all the other partners that you see behind me working together to collaborate on this. so as of today, we have wireless technology free to the public. also not filtered. you can use it anonymously. all along, from here all the way to the ferry building, probably about the length of kaepernick pass to

vernon davis as the whole market street and it's all of it's crosses streets and sidewalks will have access to wireless accessibility. why is this important? market street is such an important thoroughfare for the city of san francisco. not only have i focused on its revitalization for it's economic viewpoint, not only are there additional residents living on it and more people shopping along it and eating and enjoying themselves but now they have this free internet access use to it. also because it's such a diverse city use. it's over a quarter of a million people walk this corridor on an everyday basis. it has a huge diversity of population. it has small

businesses, large businesses, as well as financial as well as restaurants all along the way, established and new. we wanted to signal this was part of that revitalization. i know supervisor wiener is very happy with this because he along with supervisor chiu has been asking to do more with communities of ethnic diverse backgrounds. this is a demonstration of what we can do in a major corridor. we have a vision that other corridors in other of our diverse communities can also benefit similarly as this will be. and again, it's the right way of doing it. it is the kind of public private partnership that we've been seeking with companies like ruckus wireless to help with us, dt will be maintaining it from here on to make sure it is accessible to

everybody. like i said earlier, it's one that we will keep market street as something that department of technology on behalf of the city would like to do for it's residents, for it's businesses to allow them to have that access. so, what are other candidates? certainly our school district. we already have about 27 public libraries have all been wired up and as you heard several months ago have a partnership with google to wire up one of our public parks, city hall, regional parks and we have more to do. we want to update the public housing sites as well to provide access to people who couldn't afford to do this on their own and that's reflective of some of the values that we have. that is important. making

accessibility to everybody in the city is important to us as we roll out more and more of what i think is the connectivity for our future. now, having said this, i also want you to know that last year we signaled that our city would join on a national movement and when the fcc gave a mega bit challenge to the rest of the city. i happen to be the head of the task force innovation and technology for mayor's and we signaled our support for that challenge and also signaled our support for broadband and more internet connectivity for all over the country. we want to do this for every neighborhood as fast as we can because this will help education wise, small business wise and the more free and affordable it is, it will definitely help a lot of our communities with different economic levels to be connected

so that they can be part of the 21st century. and then as we get the education, unions involved this will definitely help our job skills particularly for our kids in the future. i want to thank the department of intentional for their leadership on this. i want to thank all the agencies that have worked together to produce this, our police department as well because i know they will work collaboratively with transportation. i know that we want to do more and this is where i continue to join the efforts of supervisor wiener and supervisor david chiu. mark, you have done a great job starting us out. keep going not only with market street, we have other corridors in the city to make sure that everybody becomes part of the 21st century. this is the innovation capital of the world

with a special emphasis on those that need it and are part of the 21st century. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor lee. now i would like to introduce somebody who has been a friend of technology at this service since i started and who is thinking out of the box to try to help us simplify and accelerate president david chiu. [ applause ] >> thank you, mark. happy holidays! i am so excited about what we are doing today and part because when i first ran for office in 2008, i told my constituents that the vision of having free munis in san francisco is what i was interested in having and i was having a conversation with former mayor for this and i want to thank our current mayor

lee and the city agencies for working with us and supervisor wiener for really moving forward and getting this done. i also want to make a note that our current head of technology is the fourth chief who i have spoken to about getting this done. i don't know how you managed to do it in the first 6 months but congratulations for what you have been able to do. [ applause ] >> i want to mention that this weekend we has hundreds of folks dressed in santa claus outfits running through here in the castro, i want to thank selena because you were the ones that delivered santa's gift in helping make this vision a reality. in the 20th century, access to roads, electricity and water was how communities and cities succeed. in the 24th century it's access

to broadband. we noticed, and we know that we are not leading the way and not even in the top 10 countries in the world when it comes to high speed broadband. as mayor alluded to that we have a challenge as a city and nation capital of the world we need to make sure that we have the most fastest and most accessible broadband wechlt -- we know it's good for our economy, education and infrastructure. we know it's going to help everyone succeed in our city. i have two visions that are beyond where we are. first has to do with market. i know mayor lee shares this as many of us share this on market street. not only with congestion on our roads, we want to see a huge number of people on market street, spending time in cafes,

shopping and enjoys what it is to be a san franciscans and what it will be on the major thoroughfare. i have more ideas, it shouldn't be just market street. every street? san francisco should be like market street. we would like to bring free wifi to all of our communities. if we need to do republican -- renovations in our streets, we'll put in the infrastructure to make sure we are wiring every corner of our city, every street in our city so every household and residence can succeed and i look forward to working with our mayor and all the

departments and the private sector. happy holidays!. thanks for being here. >> thank you, david. now i would like to invite the supervisor of this beautiful district scott wiener. [ applause ] >> thank you, mark. thank you mr. mayor. welcome every one to district 8. this is the upper market which is sometimes the forgotten part of market street. we see a lot focused east of octavia. i'm thrilled that this initial roll out of free wifi will extend all the way into the tas castro from the ferry building. we have seen a renaissance in san francisco of public space of having new and graed -- great

and better public spaces. we are in the plaza which was the very first of the program that began about 4 years ago where we decided to really start creating new plazas and having new public spaces. this plaza has been in incredibly successful in the castro and having free wifi here in this public space and other public spaces and in our parts is an incredible part to make sure that people can use these public spaces and that people can congregate here and get work done here and tried -- read the paper and whatever else they want to do. i'm glad that we are celebrating here in the plaza. next year we are going to be wiring the sidewalks on castro street which is part of the strategy to keep improving these places.