Jeb Bush, Uber Mensch, Comes To San Francisco
The GOP frontrunner wants voters to know he's not afraid of the sharing economy.
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Jeb Bush prides himself on campaigning joyfully, and on his visit to the San Francisco headquarters of a tech start-up took the form of a near-Schumpeterian celebration of creative destruction.
“Y’all are the disrupters that create the angst,” Bush cheerfully informed a town-hall meeting for the 118 employees of Thumbtack, a six-year old company, which links consumers to local professionals in fields from home repair to tutoring. “I don’t think people want to wait in line anymore,” Bush said. “I think they want to customize their dreams.”