i am jeff welch,

i am jeff welch, a journey man pile driver from north beach. i urge you to deny the appeal of the plan and move forward with the recommendations. the plan, as you know, will help us to continue living and working in the city of san francisco. it will provide us with the necessary income and benefits to support our families. i am in complete support of this plan. i ask you and urge you to move forward with this plan today so that we can start building tomorrow. please deny the appeal. after all, san francisco is a progressive city, let's progress. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, i am timothy ripe. field representative for carpenters union. i represent 38,000 members throughout northern california, 1200 living in the city and county of san francisco. the opportunity to work on the project in the central soma plan. the carpenters units and members are here to express support for the plan and certification of the final e.i.r. this plan has been nine years in the making. staff developers and community groups invested an incredible amoun

my name is jeff welch. i am a resident of north beach and i am also a piledriver local 34. i am here today to voice my support for this project. i am all for it. there is over 2 million square feet of new construction and it will provide a local and future jobs in the area. i am also glad it is a local project because i will have the opportunity to work close to home so i don't have to travel. at least not that far. less travel, the better for me. i have been doing it for 32 years. it will provide jobs, at completion. 1500 units of housing opportunity for san francisco residents. san francisco has a housing shortage and these project contributes to the solution and not the problem. think about it. these acts today and let's move forward with the india basin process. thank you. >> supervisor tang: next speaker, please. >> my name is francisco. i am a member of local 22 in san francisco. i'm standing in front of you to show support for the project. as a carpenter apprentice, this will give me an opportunity towards getting a good paying job and hands-on experience that is nec

maria: how did culture change at g with the transition from jack welch to jeff?lobal because the markets were going there, so much more open to global markets. i think more focused on manufacturing, technology. i hope the culture ultimately became more adaptive, embrace adaptation. it wasn't fast enough. i think that may be a cautionary tale for any established companies, saying are we moving fast, can we get rid of complexity fast enough. it's really hard. maria: it's hard to point fingers. the old ge-ers are looking at their shares plummeting in value and blaming jeff. how is he doing? do you think there's blame to go around? >> i hate blame games. that's what i tried to do with my book, i could have called it fail forward. i tried to highlight the failures you need to have on the path to success. there's enough blame for everybody to go around. i worked for jack welch. it was an amazing time. the runup to scale was amazing. it couldn't last forever. trees don't grow to the sky. businestrees nor businesses groe sky. we might have seen that a bit. maria: were th

let me ask your response, jeff, if i could to a tweet from another management expert, susan welch whoweets quote, musk is a very sad case of a genius who thinks he's a profit what do you make of that >> i think it's true you take a look at these guys, travt and evan speeg l and plenty that steve jobs wasn't the easiest guy on the planet, but he got to come up, came back and was a better manager than before he learned i thought you know, zuckerberg has godtten a kick in the pantsa couple of times and learned how to do better they're very bright and normally wealthy on other people's money. be as flamboyant as you want if you've gotten so wealthy on other people's money and your own ideas, you have to be accountable. freud called this how society is changed by its discontent. they need a board to give them some oversight and the public company. you've got a board here, a lot of experience. not a lot of control if musk controls what 22% directly and you could argue he's got informal control over maybe 40% of the vote. still a lot of people with experience in the vc world, experience with