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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 30 Under 30: Teddy Goff [Watch (HLS stream): 30 Under 30: Teddy Goff](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8L92qXMp.m3u8) (5:12)  _Published 2014-01-03. Teddy Goff played a key role in the digital strategy team that helped elect Presient Obama in 2008 and again in the contentious race of 2012. Teddy Goff talks to TIME about those races and the lessons learned._ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:04 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Rams take Jared Goff with No. 1 pick](/video/YNQAJWT7/) ### Rams take Jared Goff with No. 1 pick [The PageCast: August 30, 2008](/video/4rydNnAn/) ### The PageCast: August 30, 2008 [The PageCast: June 30, 2008](/video/IfMwfCVc/) ### The PageCast: June 30, 2008 --- ## Transcript >> Teddy Goff led the digital strategy team that helped get President Obama elected twice. His team was responsible for President Obama's massive online presence. And now, he and a handful of campaign alumni lead a consulting firm that seeks to do the same for others. Teddy is on TIME's 30 Under 30 World Changers' list. >> You were 23 years old when you started working for the Obama campaign, the 2008 campaign, running digital strategy in battleground states. How did you manage being so young and working with people, sometimes two or three times your age? >> I think people tend to forget. They look back on the 2008 primary between President Obama and Secretary Clinton and they think it was this 50- 50 battle. And I think people forget they're back in 2007. It was not a 50- 50 battle, we were these, you know, we were massive underdog. And so at the time that I started there were about 100 people on the overall campaign and the experience going forward from there I think was almost as if you'd been early employee in Facebook or Google, you know, it just exploded. So, the point where by election day there were 5, 000 people on the campaign and all of us who started early, you know, whether we were young or not so young, round up with, you know, having had 8 or 10 different jobs over the course of the process and in many cases there's a lot more responsibility than we started out with or probably than we should have had. >> So, one of the big things that people say about our generation of Millennials is that we are lazy and entitled. You built the Obama campaign around young people and getting out their vote. What do you think when people say that we're lazy and entitled and apathetic? >> That's a very easy thing to say and I think you know, I think if we've been our parent's generation, we'd be saying the same and I'm sure their parents said the same about them when they were younger. The fact of the matter is, if you look at the data, if you look at the facts, you know, this is a generation that's been extremely engaged in politics and other kinds of crosses. They don't necessarily express that engagement in the same ways their parents might have but the world has changed. So, why should they? If you look at social media for example, which was obviously a large part of what I was focused on, on the campaign, the effect of that was to actually get people, you know, out from under their desks or you know, offer their couches and offer their chairs. We have 2 million taken on the ground, action on the campaign that's twice as many did so in 2008, even despite how you know, how exciting and how much more sort of heady the 2008 environment was. So, I don't think it's the case that, you know, people our age, you know, don't care about politics, don't care about causes, don't care about a brighter world. I think they're finding different ways in which to do it and I actually think if you look at the numbers, those ways accumulate to, I think, actually more in age generation than, you know, than even some that come [ unk ]. >> So, you were a part of arguably the most historic election in 2008 than an extremely contentious one in 2012. What is the lasting memory that you'll have ten years from now? >> Well, you know, I think-- you know, the President said an amazing thing, he came to the office and I wanna say maybe May of 2012. And this got kind of famous, there was a YouTube video of it but he came to the office the day after the election in 2012 and actually sort of teared up as he spoke to us and you know, so that got on YouTube and I think there's like 10 million views. So, I think it was kind of famous, but what was not put on YouTube and what I don't think is famous is he then went around the office, there were about 500 people working out of that office and gave a hug to every single person, every single one. And you know, it took probably two hours out of his day that were not in schedule, so I'm sure the events team and secret service were not pleased. But most people got to have a little exchange with them or he would sign things if you asked him. It was a sort of pure and wonderful show of real gratitude from a person who could have easily just said, you know, thanks for your work. I gotta get back to DC. As I have seen, I don't think there's anybody who was there or even who heard about it from co- workers, you know, a lot of people didn't get to work in Chicago. They were out in the states who ever forget that moment. >> Do you remember what he said to you? >> I do and I told my mom and dad and I'll keep it out of this video. >> Can you talk a little bit about what you're doing now? >> Sure. In May of this year, I founded a company called Precision Strategies with two excellent colleagues from the campaign, Stephanie Cutter and Jen O'Malley Dillon. They were both definitely campaign managers. And we're now doing consulting for a variety of organizations. I think we came out of the campaign a little campaigned out frankly. So, we do a mix of corporate work, a lot of non- profit work and a lot of-- and a little bit of political work I should say. And we do communication strategy, digital strategy and data and analytics. >> Any advice for young people working in politics, working in technology? >> It never pays not to be-- not to try to be a good person. Whether you're talking to your boss' boss' boss or you know, the most junior and junior people or someone you're never gonna talk to again. If you try to go to work, treat people with respect and fix the problems you see, you know, no matter what industry you work in, you probably over the long term did pretty well. >> Is there a presidential run in your future? >> A run for myself? No. I think I'm probably not qualified or appropriate for that job and for a number of reasons. In fact, I don't even think there's another presidential campaign in my future but we'll have to see. >> All right. Thank you, Teddy. >> Thank you, Kelly. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"30 Under 30: Teddy Goff","description":"Teddy Goff played a key role in the digital strategy team that helped elect Presient Obama in 2008 and again in the contentious race of 2012. 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