the other 5% said megan smith, who is amazing. it turns out people really wanted this, so much so that we had 800 people show up. how did we get that money? >> i'll be honest, i stalk people on twitter a lot. whatever term you love, put it in your twitter handle. that would save me a lot of time. tell your friends. so we found lesbians, we provided value. people kept saying, what's your five-year vision, what's your strategic plan? screw that. they suck. they're a waste of time. right? run experiments. test your assumptions. that's how you're going to build your community. our friends in new york saw that we had a summit in san francisco. they got jealous. can you do one in new york? >> i'm going to listen to my community. if you can -- if we can raise $20,000 presell tickets i'll do it. they proved me. they had a summit. the white house called us. can you help us plan the first lgbt tech summit. i think i can work something out. we hosted this amazing summit. what's next for us? we're going to host another summit. turns out you r

the other 5% said megan smith, who is amazing. it turns out people really wanted this, so much so that we had 800 people show up. how did we get that money? >> i'll be honest, i stalk people on twitter a lot. whatever term you love, put it in your twitter handle. that would save me a lot of time. tell your friends. so we found lesbians, we provided value. people kept saying, what's your five-year vision, what's your strategic plan? screw that. they suck. they're a waste of time. right? run experiments. test your assumptions. that's how you're going to build your community. our friends in new york saw that we had a summit in san francisco. they got jealous. can you do one in new york? >> i'm going to listen to my community. if you can -- if we can raise $20,000 presell tickets i'll do it. they proved me. they had a summit. the white house called us. can you help us plan the first lgbt tech summit. i think i can work something out. we hosted this amazing summit. what's next for us? we're going to host another summit. turns out you r

. >> in mechanical injured out of mit, megan smith is a silicon valley leader and entrepreneur. she took on her role as the chief technology officer after serve as vice president of google x, developing google self-driving car. google glasses and drone delivery system project win. megan was part of the mit student in the design built and raced a solo across the a chilling out back. she joins us today to talk about her new job with buzzfeed editor in chief. i'm hoping he asks her if she got president obama off his blackberry. spell run amok. this is quite a crowd. i may skip that question, steve. one thing i guess i did want to start on in the news, the white house was in the post today that the wireless network has been breached again. and i guess, maybe wonder, are the technologies here and their contractors, will they ever make products that are as good as gmail? or should they just give up and switch to the stuff getting built out of there? >> actually relates to specter m of the technology teams to our fabulous as -- i am aware the issues going on that attack not only folks

yard megan smith this point, a lot of doubletalk about this issue. investment and get our culture reemerge as to be passionate about inventing, solving problems, working hard at things that matter, we are going to become what we deserved to become. specs of the basic ideas how to create a demand toward that science education. >> at first was set up with a single goal, create demand, particularly among women and minorities, to excel at something that could be a career choice for them. we claim we have a job shortage in this country. that's not true. we have a skills shortage in this country. i've had a little company with six indigenous and by 100 openings. every tech company i know would kill to get more people. we do not go rent any major university, go to any place whether doing genomics, code, nanotechnology, advanced materials. everybody is desperately looking for smart people. technology has moved so quickly and, unfortunately, our education system hasn't kept up with it. we are seeing a problem. i think the political rhetoric is even insulting.

we have had people like megan smith and claire fisher. people wanted role models. who is a career woman in tech you would want to hear speak? 90% of people had no idea. the other other five or six said miggen smith. people really wanted this. we had 800 people show up. how did we get that many? i stalked people on twitter a lot. if you're queer or in tech it, lgbt, gay, lesbian, put it in your twitter handle. that would save me a lot of time. tell your friends. we found lesbians who provided val i u and people kept saying what's your vision? plans suck. they're a waste of time, right in the run experiments. test your assumptions. that's how you build your community. so our friends in new york, they saw we had a summit in san francisco and got a little jealous and asked us, can you do one. new york? i said i'm going to listen to my community. if we can, raise $20,000 tickets in presay, we ended up having a summit. then the white house called and asked us can you plan the tech innovation summit? i said i've got to the check my calendar, i think i can work something o