work. You just test it. That's the smart thing to do given that the stakes are so high.

Now while we're talking about the ability to test things small let me talk about something that's really, really exciting that's happening right before your eyes. And it goes like this. It was not long ago that if you were a citizen and you had a great idea for the government that idea would just be stranded in your brain. If you're just a voter, you're one of hundreds of millions people in the United States, you're just a voter and you have a great idea, how could you get your great idea to the government? Well it was possible. I mean I'm not saying it couldn't happen but the average person really didn't have any relationship with the government. That has completely changed.

And I'm gonna take you to my whiteboard in a moment and show you. You saw it recently and you've seen it. How many times have you seen the President of the United States, President Trump, retweet an idea that came from just a citizen? You've seen it a bunch of times, right? So we know that the president in the United States on a regular basis receives the ideas, the framing, the way of thinking of things from the public and then actually retweets it. It's not an accident. It's happening on a regular basis. And I want to show you that pathway didn't used to exist. And it looks like this.

I apologize for my whiteboard being hard to read but let's say you're a citizen and you've got an idea and you want to get your idea to the President of the United States. This is how easy it is right now. Now keep in mind that only good ideas are going to get there. Bad ideas are going to die a premature death. But there's now a direct pipeline for any good idea to get to the president and to get filtered along the way so that by the time the president gets it it's already been checked out. In other words the president won't get the bad ideas. The president would only get the ideas that other people have filtered through.

And it looks like this. If you're a regular citizen and let's say you're sophisticated enough to know the difference between LinkedIn and Instagram so you know enough about the digital world that you could find me. How many of you watching the Periscope have sent me a personal message through one of the various social media mechanisms? Those of you who are clever have figured out that I'm on LinkedIn and that I accept as a connection everybody. So you could just connect