because of the internet, as soon as the web became popular, i tell myself html.ell myself how to make a web pages and that was my summer job. by the time i finished my masters degree, i had no idea what i was going to do. except be an academic. the big five philosophy firms aren't always hiring. it was 1998, and the dot com kind of initial boom was in the upswing, and i had some very marketable skills. emily: and so instead, you joined a startup. stewart: it was called communicate.com. too long a story, but by the end of february 2000, a couple of weeks before the crash, i quit. it was driving me crazy, i was walking away from about $10 million in equity, and it ended up getting bought out for $35 million, which was more than anybody else made if you stuck around. and it was started by the person i sat next to my first day at this job, and i convinced him to quit. running the app was kind of a hobby, so we started it up as a business, so we did. emily: and that actually sold, for a decent amount of money. you made something. stewart: i made something, and that wa

so i think down the road it will be great if it's html-based, like a customizable tool. but this is laying the foundation for that moving forward. thank you. >> this is a huge accomplishment, so i want to give you silent applause. i know how much effort it takes to coordinate multiple departments with streams of information. so i hope it picks up. i'm curious -- have you gotten feedback from any event producers that have looked at it and tried to use the calculator or any parts of it? >> yeah. a lot of people are zeroing in on the calculator piece of it. it's purely anecdotal, but people i have talked to are excited to have it. one thing i didn't mention is that i will be doing a survey six months from now to gauge how user-friendly and is it being used a lot or what's the feedback? i'm also going to be asking our collaborating department for feedback. >> one area or sector and make sure that it gets in the hands of them. if you can work with the supervisors' office to get them out because they don't think to turn to our commission or even the city when it comes to event