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he is asking, do they get to play by different rules if a tax rule were rescinded, would tech companies leave? >> i believe it would. this thing about tax breaks for millionaires, no, thank you. twitter has 800 employees. 10, 20 will be millionaires and the earned every nickel. they created the hundred jobs -- 800 jobs. this is about giving people a break. this is about jobs. tech companies are very frugal. part of it is the resentment that they are being taxed for creating jobs. i do not blame the tech community. that is why we're sitting here. >> i think the point is san francisco ...

beyond that. there's no reason while -- why salesforce.com could not have 10,000. we do feel like an anomaly. i think that with san francisco -- what san francisco needs to think about, we talk about startups. if salesforce gets bigger, what are the obstacles to do that? a lot of things that we were talking about our basic quality of life challenges. that become more relevant to a larger company once that -- you look at our demographics changing. the demographics were much closer to the start-ups. we are in demographic mohde whee will hearing people, the head of to do with the daily ...

going to be a lot of activity. you would have a hard time understanding why is there so much buzz in north dakota, where even cows have jobs? anergy, there is a lot going on common and and it is creating a lot of activity. finally, when the central bank has the ability to drive short- term interest rates below long- term interest rates, they are teaching the incentives for taking risks, and they are having to do this because in the wake of the financial crisis, everybody has lost their nerve, and our confidence in the future has changed, so it requires so little bit of nudging to get...

community. that is why we're sitting here. >> i think the point is san francisco is small. a 7 mile by 7 miles city and if you could go anywhere around it and not have to pay taxes, that is your duty. you have investors to answer to. that is the point. you can go outside the border and not have it. it was clear was not an empty threat. another mentioned challenges for air travel in sf. please give us some international flights. china is the only place i can fly to directly. that is my plug for the morning. i want to thank our wonderful panel for getting up early. we work 10 hours whi...

>> to introduce this illustrates how, please welcome the ceo of our nation's second-largest green builder, a member of the silicon valley leadership group border directors, and the ceo of webcor builders andy ball. >> thank you [applause] -- thank you. [applause] welcome back to our third session. i hope you enjoy the first two as much as i did. i think we found out how much of a character governor brown can be we are going to talk about silicon valley and the bay area innovation to the economy today. as you look at the panel, talking about the silicon valley, we have the mayor of s...