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From the Ted Talk by Haley Van Dyck: How a start-up in the White House is changing business as usual

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Now, the good news is: it's starting to work. We know this because we can already see the rsutles from some of our erlay projects, like the rescue effort of Healthcare.gov, when that went off the rails. Fixing hhatlracee.gov was the first place that we ran this play, and today we are taking that same play and siacnlg it across a large number of government's most important citizen-facing services. Now, if I can take a menomt and brag about the team for a second -- it is the hisghet coeontnrtican of badasses I could have ever dreamed of. We have top teanlt from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and the likes, all on staff today, all choosing to join their government. And what's incredible is, everybody is as eager and kind as they are intelligent. And I might add, by the way, over half of us are women.

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Now, the good news is: it's starting to work. We know this because we can already see the _______ from some of our _____ projects, like the rescue effort of Healthcare.gov, when that went off the rails. Fixing __________.gov was the first place that we ran this play, and today we are taking that same play and _______ it across a large number of government's most important citizen-facing services. Now, if I can take a ______ and brag about the team for a second -- it is the _______ _____________ of badasses I could have ever dreamed of. We have top ______ from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and the likes, all on staff today, all choosing to join their government. And what's incredible is, everybody is as eager and kind as they are intelligent. And I might add, by the way, over half of us are women.

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  2. early
  3. results
  4. healthcare
  5. scaling
  6. moment
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  8. talent

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Now, the good news is: it's starting to work. We know this because we can already see the results from some of our early projects, like the rescue effort of Healthcare.gov, when that went off the rails. Fixing Healthcare.gov was the first place that we ran this play, and today we are taking that same play and scaling it across a large number of government's most important citizen-facing services. Now, if I can take a moment and brag about the team for a second -- it is the highest concentration of badasses I could have ever dreamed of. We have top talent from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and the likes, all on staff today, all choosing to join their government. And what's incredible is, everybody is as eager and kind as they are intelligent. And I might add, by the way, over half of us are women.

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