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It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

What makes San Francisco work is that high-value people like to live there and cluster.

It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of the skyrocketing cost of housing, and there's no real working class left because these are jobs for engineers and managers and designers - very smart people.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.