george hugh, and katie jacob stanton, vice president for twitter the road -- now twitter. we will end the program with the mayor's vision of economic growth for 2012 and beyond. 2011 was a year of substantial accomplishment, despite the slow pace of recovery in california, the economic opportunities have helped make sense of cisco a bright spot in california to advancing tax incentives to supporting economy-boosting infrastructure, and the chamber is helping to ensure job creation and steady economic growth in san francisco. the chamber is particularly proud to advance an ongoing pro-business policy agenda in

conway, his a-rod lacey common on the editor and chief not -- sarah lacey, george hugh, and katie jacob stanton, vice president for twitter the road -- now twitter. we will end the program with the mayor's vision of economic growth for 2012 and beyond. 2011 was a year of substantial accomplishment, despite the slow pace of recovery in california, the economic opportunities have helped make sense of cisco a bright spot in california to advancing tax incentives to supporting economy-boosting infrastructure, and the chamber is helping to ensure job creation and steady economic growth in san francisco. the chamber is particularly proud to advance an ongoing pro-business policy agenda in partnership with a coalition of business, labour, and non-profit organizations, and i am pleased that our labour colleagues to join us this morning. geared with our labor colleagues just waved for the audience eminent -- would our labor colleagues just waved for the audience? they are out there. our theme this morning is prosperity to gather. give we helped pass key initiatives, including the tax exemption, a tax ex

we also have katie and jacob stanton. katie joint witter -- joined twitter last summer. it is pretty important, because 70% of all tweets come from outside the united states. she was appointed by president obama to serve as his director of participation. casey went to my college, so it is a bizarre coincidence. we also have the chief operating officer of sales force. i encourage you to learn more about these guys here regard i want to get right into the meat of the conversation, so let's talk about why san francisco is so important for sales force, because you are one of the first companies that refuse to move to the peninsula. >> we have been a san francisco company since our founding. i have been out the company for 10 years, and san francisco has been a huge differentiator. it is not only a start-ups, but is all of the talent. it is a huge differential to create the products and differentiation. the talent continues to be the reason we are so excited about growing in the city, why we have well over 5000 employees, and why that is going to continue to be a great opport