Matt Mahan
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So but they are.
Yeah, although I've got to say, same for Cisco, which is here in San Jose.
I think it depends on the maturity of the company and the maturity of the sub-industry.
If it's a new robotics company or vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, they're just focused on trying to get the tech to work.
They're trying to actually figure out, is there a market for this thing and does it work?
Once a company has been around 20, 30 years, is profitable, is more mature, they're a lot more likely to actually look around and say, okay, how do we show up in the community?
What are our responsibilities?
But you're right.
I mean, I think what you're pointing out is an industry that until recently, at least, has been sort of being nascent.
It just wasn't a totally mature.
I mean, that's my pitch.
So, for example, we have Super Bowl and World Cup coming to San Jose this year.
We just hosted Super Bowl, World Cup's coming.
We have six matches.
We have actually March Madness this week.
And I went around to our local employers and asked them to contribute to a fan experience to make it open and accessible to all of our residents so that even โ
Residents who couldn't afford a ticket to one of the big games could have a great experience.
We raised about $5 million from local employers, mostly tech employers, but not all view that as being their sort of civic responsibility.
I'll give you another example I'm really proud of.
We've created something called AI for All.