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exemption on that. by the way, if we grow, if we sustain and assist you in growing, can you help us with job training? that is what started the conversation on sf city. they have an ongoing program to create the curriculum for hiring kids or our public schools and aimed at returning veterans, career folks that want to get into technology-based industries, and then the snowball effect has really helped. twitter, not even moving in -- there are four companies that have moved into the market because of this. san disk, zoosk, allie pincus started an on-line returned as an company. hundre...

asked. if the tax waiver were rescinded, would tech companies leave? why do they get to play by different rules? as i was writing about this last year we had tons of commons saying twitter is corporate welfare. why should we give a millionaire's tax breaks? he is asking, do they get to play by different rules if a tax rule were rescinded, would tech companies leave?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 ab...

ron conaway and others have stepped up and said, why don't we have a consistent voice? yes we have the chamber of commerce, the wonderful group we have worked with for many years, but why not also have an additional voice? so we formed sf city, a citizen's initiative for technology and innovation, which was aimed at the new developing companies to give us a constant dialogue about their ongoing needs. anything we have done is they have also embraced the needs of our city. it is a two-way conversation. that led to us revising our stock options. we were one of the few cities in the cou...

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>> there is this interesting study that noted that between 1980 and 2005, nearly all internet jobs were created by companies that were five years old or less. and that is an amazing stat. someone like twitter fits into that type of group where we're trying to hire fast and we're moving fast. we have great ambition. i think what happened here in san francisco is a perfect example of how government at the city level, local community groups, advocates like ron and the private sector can help facilitate these job creation opportunities. it is not a bailout that helps out economies, it is...