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Speaker 2: San Francisco's mayoral race is ongoing. We've been talking to
Speaker 2: some of the candidates about their vision for the future
Speaker 2: of this city. Some say it's tech centric nature needs
Speaker 2: to be harnessed. Others say it's too tech centric. Let's
Speaker 2: get the view of another candidate, Daniel Lury, founder and
Speaker 2: former CEO of Tipping Point Community and Mark Farrell, has
Speaker 2: been on the show and basically said were over index
Speaker 2: historically to tech, but they've left. We desperately need them back.
Speaker 2: You share that view, but you want to specifically focus
Speaker 2: on the corner of the technology industry that's looking at
Speaker 2: a green energy and climate.
Speaker 1: Well, first, thanks for having me. San Francisco is coming back.
Speaker 1: There is another question in my mind. This race is
Speaker 1: about how quickly I'm running against a number of city
Speaker 1: hall insiders who frankly guide us into this mess. And
Speaker 1: it's not going to be done by anyone from inside
Speaker 1: that building. It needs accountable leadership, it needs new ideas.
Speaker 1: I'm excited today to talk to you about my proposal
Speaker 1: to bring a climate innovation hub here to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: And you've just had many guests on talking about AI.
Speaker 1: San Francisco is already the center of AI, but we
Speaker 1: need to marry that with you.
Speaker 2: I've had that a lot with respect, mister Leary, what
Speaker 2: are you actually going to do? You know, what is
Speaker 2: a concrete policy that's going to get a company to say, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, well this he's going to fix the city.
Speaker 1: We're first off, we're coming back. We have the best
Speaker 1: research institutions. We have Meta, we have Google, we have
Speaker 1: open Eyes AI, and we have a saying. We have
Speaker 1: open office space. We have twenty two salesforce towers of
Speaker 1: open office space. We have to streamline permitting to invite
Speaker 1: clean tech companies back here. You need a mayor with
Speaker 1: vision that no longer is going to say business is
Speaker 1: a bad word, but we're going to embrace tech, clean tech.
Speaker 1: We need to do this. We need to do it
Speaker 1: with new vision and new leadership. And that's what I
Speaker 1: bring to this race. What kind of I guess coalition
Speaker 1: you building, miss Larry. You know who are the companies
Speaker 1: an existing industry lead is that you feel all backing you? Well?
Speaker 1: I have a track record of bringing together the business community,
Speaker 1: the nonprofit community, of the civic community. Mayor ed Lee
Speaker 1: actually asked me to chair the bid for Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty back in twenty thirteen. We had to go up
Speaker 1: against Miami. I led the cheerleading for that effort. We
Speaker 1: won the rights to bring that game here. We brought
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty million dollars worth of economic revenue
Speaker 1: to San Francisco, to the Bay Area. And guess what,
Speaker 1: we created the Bay Area Host Committee. We got the
Speaker 1: NBA All Star Game coming here next year. We have
Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty coming back, we have six World Cup
Speaker 1: matches coming here. The eyes of the world are going
Speaker 1: to be on San Francisco again. But we have to
Speaker 1: do the basics. D We have to have clean streets,
Speaker 1: we have to have safe streets, and not just when
Speaker 1: the JP Morgan healthcare conferences in town or APEC is here.
Speaker 1: Simply put, we need new leadership, and that's what I provide.
Speaker 3: There's a political risk here that it's not just meyoral
Speaker 3: candidates coming up, but there's also a presidential election that
Speaker 3: might not be that supportive of climate tech. How do
Speaker 3: you ensure that we're not going into a bus situation
Speaker 3: that you're betting on the right ecosystem here at Daniel.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, we all know we need to have decarbonization.
Speaker 1: We have a climate crisis. We all know that when
Speaker 1: you're looking at companies like Meta Google, they need more energy,
Speaker 1: they need more power, and they have their own climate goals.
Speaker 1: And so this is a technology that is just getting started.
Speaker 2: I'm certain in trouble. I just want to get to
Speaker 2: the idea of what the city will become. One vision
Speaker 2: associate with Your name is Wall Street for climate tech Bros.
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
Speaker 1: Now? Listen, this city needs to get back to its roots.
Speaker 1: We need to be focused on arts and culture. We
Speaker 1: also need to embrace business as well for us to
Speaker 1: be a great American city. We also need the tax
Speaker 1: revenue that we have lost under the current leadership. We
Speaker 1: have seen businesses fleeing this city. It's time that we
Speaker 1: go win business back. I've done it before and I'll
Speaker 1: do it again.
Speaker 2: San Francisco Merrill candidate daniel Leary, grateful for you coming
Speaker 2: into the studio.