anson liang and angela pan immigrated from singapore five years ago. the couple felt constrained there. >> it's my dream, so i came to silicon valley to do my start-up and i think that's the place to develop my business and my career. people here are more open, more used to exchanging ideas, sharing your dreams, sharing your resources with each other. >> the drive to succeed among young asian americans is a major factor in san francisco's booming economy. for anson and angela, it's all about moving up. they want to make it on this side of the pacific. like many other asian immigrants, they combine conservative values with a real ability to adapt. they enjoy america's creative freedom but still value their own traditions. >> anson is aiming for the top. his new company uses space in a shared office for young entrepreneurs, sponsored by established silicon valley firms. anson's business idea is an online lending platform for family and friends. his target group is start-up entrepreneurs like himself. but anson's learned from his business partner daniel l

anson moran. i have gotten to know him for the past five 5 years and not only do i have great respect and leadership for his knowledge and the way he's engaged in the fiscal component of the public utilities commission but he also makes himself available to me and my colleagues to sit down with us after hours and help us under and get around some of the pressing issues. everybody has their own expertise, their own areas of concern. andy seems to get it all. he understand every single aspect. but that being said, on behalf of the laborers, the great work that we are doing not just in the community, for the community workforce but the great work that we are doing throughout the entire region, andy is a supporter of the opportunities we want to create, bring jobs to the community through the infrastructure whether it's through the water system improvement program where ed harrington and now with the service sewer program and kelly, i know that i can count on andy to prioritize the community workforce

mayor's office on a lot of issues, and it's going to be tough to not see you here because you and anson were fartd of the initiation of hiring me and i want to. >> >> thank you for all your service. >> well thank you and i forgot to mention the mentor in the assembly and before then in law schoo former mayor willy brown and his advice was always sound when i needed it serving with this commission. >>i would like to call for public comment if there is any. >> [inaudible] there are lots of people in san francisco that are very proud of your work. >> thank you. >> and when we look at a documentaries and when you mentioned willie brown we see you in those documentaries while he is addressing and challenging the constituents of california and san francisco to do this, that and the other, which you ve done a lot, and as a general manager mentioned it always pays, and it always does san franciscans right when we have experienced people whose heart is in the right place. i have not known you for too long, but i have known you coming here to city hall, but i have seen you in action in sacramento

. >> one of the guys thought he was anson adams.t's not going to hang in the philadelphia museum of art. it's going to hang in an office. get it done. >> is he funny. the picture of the bellies, rick, that might hang in your offers. you liked it right? >>> it's a good thing that they won last night. thank you. the wait is almost over. speakers and guests converge on the convention center. they will participate in workshops and group chats. joanna is the director. she sat down with monica malpass to share tips how women can find success in the workplace. >> what is your job worth in the marketplace? make sure you have your numbers in check before you ask for any type of increase. i think it's important to also go in and know when is the right time to have that conversation. >> well you, hear more of time to have that conversation. >> well you, hear more of joanne's we thought our cable internet was fast. but, our uploads are half the speeds of our downloads so our internet is really half-fast. so half-fast. someone did a half-fast jo

i'm happy to say anson moran is one of those people and we strongly recommend him to this position. >>supervisor norman yee: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. let me say a few words about commissioner moran. he's one of these people that i can say, what's not to like about him. you are very knowledgeable and when i had a chance to meet with you, your passion comes out and you care about the organization as well as the people who you are serving. i'm very happy to know that you are fully committed to the community choice aggregation program. i will be supporting your renomination. okay? supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you very much, mr. chair and i want to thank everyone who came out. thank our general manager and our former general manager ed harng rington for being herement i think it hard to imagine any other commissioner getting the support across from the political spectrum. my experience is there are a lot of people who get on commissions and don't really do much, but there are people like mr. moran who really wor

i would rather be there in anson but this is appropriate way to communicate with you today as well.i look forward to working with you to address these challenges. i'm a big fan of technology myself, i use it every day as we all do. but not without risk and challenges. so thank you very much, and enjoy your conference. [applause] >> thank you, congressman. that was a wonderful description of the balances that we are theing about here, and congressman is from my home district in rhode island. he covered a lot of things we have not even talked about here, about waiting lines and the amount of convenience, about this able than others that might have difficulty getting to the polls. he covered a lot of interesting things. that disagree with him on there are not enough cyber professionals. we do have plenty of cyber professionals, they are not just all working on the correct side. before we start taking questions, any additional thoughts? >> i thought it was great that he raised the issue of how policymakers are involved and need to be involved and at the same time, it's really difficult.

. >> and why is the father anson not happy? >> why are they estranged? >> i know of no family in the world in any continent, in any city where families are not complex. >> and dysfunctional. >> maybe you do. i don't know -- >> but in this specific case, i mean he's a very successful son, you're a judge an you're in the small town where you grew up, where you mean something, your morality and your prestige means something. he's in chicago. he's a famous lawyer. represents and gets off a lot of bad guys. he said they pay better than the innocence. >> so-- it is a very complex relationship. it goes way back. >> yeah. >> we like that. david always said that it's kind of like a western, you know. where -- >> it's really more about family than it is about the drama of the trial. >> yeah. it's a family drama it just takes place in a courtroom on a specific arena of the law. the two very different points of view. one man that's about honor and another man that is about success. >> when you were writing this, did you think about these two, were they in mind? >> y

there may be some way of getting the chief executive leung out of office and putting someone like ansoncted leader and does well with the more progressive segments of society in hong kong. and there is precedent for that as well. but i suspect there's going to be some behind-the-scenes negotiating to try to find some middle way as the protesters remain exactly where they are. >> we lope so the last thing we want to is he is any type of confrontation, jon huntsman, thank you so much. >>> you can catch "no labels radio" with jon huntsman on sirius xm's podus channel. >>> former house speaker nancy pelosi could have her eye on the job again in 2016. why is she confident democrats can retake the house? even if it takes a few years? john king is going to investigate for you on "inside politics." then there's trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. our expertise, technology, and high quality parts means your peace of mind. it's no wonder last year we sold over three million tires. and during the big tire event, get up to $140 in mail-in rebates on four select tires. ♪ yo