Convention that was held last summer in detroit. A program note, this program does contain language and content that some viewers may find offense. I am happy to be here, i spent most of my writing days on twitter, i use it as a crazy tool to actually test out jokes, test out content, get the feel of how many people that follow me actually follow the news, which means you get a lot of really super smart people who say hi to you on twitter. And i think what separates us from them is that were not afraid of reality and science. Yeah and one of my favorite twitter experiences ever, was that when bill nye and myself were doing somebody tweeted to me, hey, heres your proof that the earth is 6,000 years old. And im like, you know, automatic awkward, fire was invented 10,000 years ago. And he tweeted back at me, wh ore, and i tweeted back, yeah, i might be a whore, but youre still wrong. And so what if im a whore, what does that have to do with anything . I know, maybe smart sex workers who are way smarter than me. And who believe in science. Yes. That my favorite thing is whenever you talk about its my personal belief that Birth Control is a human right and they should be free for anybody who wants it. And that anybody who needs an abortion should get one without apology. Super popular things to say outside of these walls. Super popular. Im telling you, people love it. But my favorite thing is when i do, i put it out there in the universe and people come back at me and say, why should i have to pay for your Birth Control . Why should i have to pay for your Birth Control . And i always think that is so funny, because i would say any amount for yours. So with that, im going to reset what were doing, this is ignite, 13 performers, 20 flights, 50 seconds to fly, five minutes of performers, so without further adieu, jane pittsburgh. Hi. We are in pittsburgh, the founder of how covered world and built a 4,000 Person Community in less than a year, because make no mistake u lesbians are taking over the world, right . So what i would love, we are a kmichbt of career women, and the people who love them. If you take nothing else away from today. Turn p to your neighbor, give them a highfive, its atradition. You nailed the high five portion of today, good job. We can go to tech events, but they look like this, 90 men. We can go to lgbt events and zbes what, they also look like this, rifgt . So we decided to do a series of experiments to find out, are there lesbians in tech and if so, how can we provide them some value. We simply decided to host happy hours and see if we could get women to come out. Because the truth is, we with respect sure if i have zone a lot of gay events, and its really hard to get gay women to show up. There arent lesbians, which are probably not true, two, theyre home with their cap or girlfriends, no judgment, you can totally do that. Or three, we werent providing them with right type of value. So my assumption that was hope friday the third, the cat and the girlfriend, we have really got to start figuring out how to provide them value. And something magical happen, for me especially. Lesbians twae s actually showed something, it was crazy and they just kept showing up. And people in other cities started emailing me. It turns out that finding lesbians isnt totally easy, theres no secret hand shake which im totally upset about. We can invent one. Theres one lesbian attack happy hour, i will do it. Turns lesbians in tech, so much so that we have happy hours now in 14 different cities, 3 int international citys, london, berlin, toronto. Now the other problem were turning out is that we all love Passion Projects but it turns out that sleep isnt totally overrated. We had to figure out how to make this sustainable. The other problem we had is we became too broad. Lesbians, they all need to connect and we were losing a tech focus and people were starting to call us lesbians with jobs. Which is fine. Ill take that. And people werent really loving the happy hours. Its a lot of uns. You connect talk at night. We hosted google events. What they actually said is they wanted deeper connections, just outside of the happy hours. And so thats how we got to our first ever lesbians who tech summit in february in san francisco. We brought together literally one of the best days of my life. We had people like megan smith and kara swisher. People wanted role models. Who is the career woman in tech you would want to hear speak, 95 of the people had no idea. They didnt have one name they could say. 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 . Ill 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, whats your fiveyear vision, whats your Strategic Plan . Screw that. They suck. Theyre a waste of time. Right . Run experiments. Test your assumptions. Thats how youre 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 . Im going to listen to my community. If you can if we can raise 20,000 presell tickets ill 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. Whats next for us . Were going to host another summit. Turns out you really love summits. Thats what people want. Youre all invited. Lot of high fives. Were going to continue to do experiments because thats really whats important. How can you build a community that takes over the world . You have to start with value. Dont go too far ahead. Dont create that Strategic Plan yet. Experiment, measure, pivot when necessary and when in doubt, give high fives. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ]. Please welcome, deepak bhargava. [ cheers and applause ]. Last year i met a smart, courageous young man named robert day. Robert works at a potbellies in Union Station in washington, d. C. Hes worked there for several years and he makes less than 10 an hour with no benefits. When i met robert last year, he told me that he barely exists. Rent, food, milk, diapers, electricity, heat, it has to be paid, he said. Then he asked, how can i get ahead on poverty wages and no benefits . Last year, even though potbellys had a mediocre year, the ceo doubled his pay to 2. 3 million a year, a salary wage of 1,000 an hour. Now, roberts not fighting for 1,000 an hour, but he knows he deserves to be paid more. Thats why robert has joined with his coworkers in washington and all across the country bringing others with him to the fight for higher wages and the fight for 15. This fight has inspired millions of people who see themselves in roberts story. 106 Million People like robert, one third of our country live below 200 of the poverty line, earning less than 47,000 for a