i'm cory johnson. crunch time for last-minute shoppers. of course.o cash procrastinators is an online shipping service trying to bring convenience to delivery, wrapping up a partnership with banana republic stores. joining us now is the cofounder and ceo. tell me how your business works. is the easiest way to ship everything. >> easier than a paper airplane. >> absolutely. app it is, it is an iphone that literally if you want to ship a sweater to your knees, take a picture of it, enter in the address, and we will pick it up in about 20 minutes, we will take it back to our warehouse, and then we will ship to the lowest cost carrier. we use ups, fedex, and the great thing, it is just a five dollar fee plus the retail cost of the shipping. we mentioned banana republic. do you need to have those agreements or can you send a shopper in? sending out.ut we don't have to be inside a store. it is really the time for consumers. gifting, and that is from your home, your office, anywhere you are. e-commerce. one third of all orders are returned. the last one is

cory book ore on the democratic side. who is incredibly accomplished.ld turn to cory booker as a democrat. instead he turns to al sharpton. i could go back to this tax thing. people aren't getting refunds because the fbi doesn't have any money. but this guy's getting a pass. >> the fact of the matter is when i workedthe white house when i was clearing to come into the building if they had an outstanding lien, an outstanding loblgs, i had to warn them if you have an outstanding lien the secret service will arrest you. how is it the reverend al sharpton has 4.5 million in back taxes? he goes through to the white house -- tim hudson, cory booker they're -- >> i keep putting them up on the screen for people to see because they are so impressive. they're leaders. >> that's exactly right. and i think the president of the united states is supposed to be a leader of all americans and it seems to me that he is now he's now the leader of those in the race, grieving and hustle industry. it offends me because the fabric of this country is being pulled apart by thes

i'm cory johnson. here is a check of your top headlines, is there trouble ahead in the housing market? sales of previously owned homes fell 6% in november from a rate of just under 5 million sales. thanks some of the santander .ack funded by the ok'd >> it is no early christmas for comcast. a $45 milliones proposal. the deadline was pushed back by three weeks. they need more time. will set an additional 31,000 documents for review. starbucks is scaling back its partnership of square. it announced a deal. they now say they will not use the replacement. giant has been testing its own order ahead of application. the u.s. is turning to north -- tries tocap learn more about the massive hacking up sony picked trees. china started its own investigation which claims north korea used facilities in china to attack sony. china's foreign ministry has condemned the cyber attack and says there is no proof north korea is behind the attack. it was inobama says it couldber vandalism get more complicated once a china is

with ourn editor-at-large, cory johnson.y. >> there is a thing called lending the banks use to do. they would find businesses and give them money or find consumers and provide them with capital. silicon valley startups, new ideas and new software. joining me from chicago, a ceo. talk to me about how your business works. what problem are you trying to solve? >> thank you for having me on. we are trying to lower the cost for the average consumer to borrow money and reduce the friction in the process by creating a digital bank that will solve their unique financial needs. >> the investors you have lined up have been fairly amazing. kkr. thiel, what is it about your powerpoint that is so awesome? honestly it has been a great run because our company is only two years old. we are nearing our two-year anniversary on new year's eve and hopefully we will have a lot of fun celebrating. we have had great investors, starting with august capital in our first couple of rounds, and tiger beating our last two. we have had great support from

our cory johnson spoke with him and skillz ceo andrew paradise. >> we operate a platform inside each it's the games you know and love and now you can compete inside them for virtual currency or cash. it's legal. >> if you are breaking the law, live television is not the way to announce it. >> it's like the pga tour. we only operate skill-based games. this is in jurisdictions where it's legal. the new york marathon is an example. the pga tour, there are a number of growing companies that are virtually organized. >> what do you see in the history of games where this fits and why it might be attractive? >> i think after defining and building ea sports, i think there are two big trends. i does want to comment. the first is running a little company. there is a chance for us to do something for kids with game technology and a lot of ea sports fans have kids. >> yes we do. >> we just launch this on the iphone a few days ago. it's an emotional iq game. you can search for "if" in the app store. the other trend we are talking about is i am helping young entrepreneurs like andrew build new comp

i'm cory johnson in for emily chang. oil prices dipping again -- the selloff accelerating after the hostage situation in sydney. perhaps there were fears of ties to the middle east. crude down another 2%, roughly $50 -- $56.50 a barrel. this has pushed the russian ruble to another record low, slighting the most since 1998. -- sliding the most since 1998. the company is being sold for $3.6 billion, 12% higher than friday's closing price. the computer networking company hired advisers after elliott management acquired a 10% stake in riverbed last year. pop --is banning uber the announcement rum the french -- announcement from the french ministry. ' notovernment says uber meet the basic requirements, including background checks and training. uber says it will take the issue to court. surveymonkey has raised $250 million, reportedly valuing the company at $2 billion. also pitchedstors in on this round. the online questionnaire service will use the money for acquisitions and have insiders sell some of your stock -- some of th

i am cory johnson.f age at a time when there was no such thing as itunes and spotify and became one of the world's best selling artists, sting. sting still hasn't millions of potential revenue at stake in streaming. betty liu set down with the 16 time grammy winner and asked him where he stands on the changing music business model. >> the model is changing obviously and i don't think the model we have at the moment is necessarily the one that will be there in 5-10 years. we need something with a little bit more equity for musicians. musicians need to be paid for their work. it's fine for me. >> you have made your money. >> i am have made my money and i am well-off. those beginning their career, the idea of making a living from this business is tough and increasingly so. whatever model is created needs to be equitable. the streaming model is a good one but they also need to be paid. >> you are on streaming services. in some ways you support these models? >> i think they are evolving. i was interested in

shama hyder is the ceo of the marketing zen group, a digital public relations firm and cori lathan ishe co-founder of anthrotronix, a firm specializing in human computer interface design and health care related product development for mobile platforms and renotic business accepts. an e-mail from fay writes how do you ensure that a small business has the cash flow that it needs? okay let's start with you shama. >> first of all, this is a great question. every small business owner should be asking themselves this. how do i protect character flow? and the answer is really simple. that it takes a little effort and execution and that is watch your net terms for payment with your customers or clients. because a lot of times clients or customers will say we'd like a net 30. >>> it's time now to answer some of your business questions. let's get our board of directors in here to help us out. the marketing zen group and online and public relations form and cory lathen is the co-founder of anthro tronnics and health care related development for robotic systems. let's start with the first questio

our editor at large, cory johnson traveled to tracy, california, about 60 miles from here. tracy is one of the centers that is using robots to help fill their orders. cory spoke about the robots with dave clark, amazon's senior vice president of worldwide operations. >> we have been doing fulfillment for 20 years and improving every year. this is a function of improvement for our last type of building. when you think about the challenge we face, it is all about this massive selection we carry. this site we're in today has over 3.5 million units of unique selections. over 21.5 million unit s of total inventory. walking that selection to find products for the exact thing customer wants shipped used to take a lot of time. >> there are 21 million items here? >> there are 21 million. over 21 million. >> 21 million types of items? >> exactly. it is bewildering to watch children's toys and power drills and i don't know, you name it. everything from toys to vitamins to toy rockets. my family and i -- i have two sons. we probably do 90% of our shopping at amazon. >> that is going to

brian whiteside, and cory johnson is still with us.ove to know what happened behind the scenes between you guys and the faa. what kind of conversations have you been having. how long have you been having those conversations to get this to happen? >> thank you for having us on the show. the process has been a long one. but the faa has been true to their word. it's been about a year and we started it. but we finally have the exemption in the waivers. we are excited at this point and grateful to be able to move forward. >> did you have to do demonstrations? what were the questions they had? what was preventing them from doing this earlier? >> hurdles were procedural. not to get technical, but the faa's mandate is really to ensure safety in international airspace. we had to prove to the faa that our desires, our goals, our missions were going to comply with existing rules, that we weren't going to impact the safety of international airspace. >> the faa is filled with lots of flight geeks who are excited about the idea of drones. i wonder -

what exactly happened at the new republic, joining us is cory johnson.r so editorial staff have resigned and there have been complaints. >> fairly amazing. >> there have been complained that chris hughes came in with this tech start-up mentality and it just didn't work. >> in the history of magazine publishing, there is no magazine that has been beloved by it's subscribers and more turmoil on its masthead in the st 40 years than the new republic. the drama -- bought it amongst incredible sort of opportunity because subscribers love it. it is enormously influential in washington dc. if faces a business problem as print publications have, but the notion that users are consuming information digitally and creating stuff in print isn't working for them. these attempts to make a new digital media company really upset a lot of the staffers that are there. they ran for the exit. not least of which because of the messaging around it and the way it was communicated. it sounded like it was no ifferent from a buzz feed or gawer or these buzz awards that are so belov

with our own cory johnson.next, making money on your smartphone by playing games could be the next frontier for gaming companies. we speak with ea founder trip hawkins about the potential, next. ♪ >> you are watching the best of "bloomberg west," where we focus on technology and the future of business. i'm emily chang. these days practically everyone , plays games if they have the time. what if you could win some money while killing time? that's the goal of a company called skillz. it allows users to compete in cash tournaments on a bunch of mobile games like bowling and cool, and the company just got a big boost by hiring trip hawkins, founder of electronic arts. our cory johnson spoke with him. >> we operate a platform inside each game. it's the games you know and love and now you can compete inside them for virtual currency or cash. they operate where games are already legal. the competitions are off-line, as i mentioned, the pga tour. there are a growing number of -- >> what you see in the history of games

shama hyder is the ceo of the marketing zen group, a digital public relations firm and cori lathan is the co-founder of anthrotronix, a firm specializing in human computer interface design and health care related product development for mobile platforms and renotic business accepts. an e-mail from fay writes how do you ensure that a small business has the cash flow that it needs? okay let's start with you shama. >> first of all, this is a great question. every small business owner should be asking themselves this. how do i protect character flow? and the answer is really simple. that it takes a little effort and execution and that is watch your net terms for payment with your customers or because a lo times clients or customers would say we'd like a net 30 or net 45 and the longer they wait to pay you the harder it is to manage your cash flow. if you can get the payment up front, that would be a perfect scenario. >> right, okay. cory, during the recession particularly we saw so many companies, good companies go out of business simply because they ran out of cash. what can you do to pr

i am cory johnson. here's a check of your bloomberg top headlines. a milestone day for the dow jones industrial average topping 18,000 for the first time. it closed with a gain of 4/10 of a percent and up 8.7% for the year thus far. michael reagan on the outlook for next year. >> we will still have earnings growth forecast for about 6%. the big question is this expansion valuation. the s&p is trading at about 18.5 times reported earnings. >> news of the u.s. economy grew a 5% clip in the fourth quarter helped fuel those gains in the dow and the best gdp rating since 2003. move over new york, florida has become the nation's third-most populist state. they have 19.9 million residents. california has the most over 38 million people. that is according to the census bureau and that boosted florida's housing market. qualcomm could be facing a huge loss of revenue in china. the chinese government is pushing them to accept lower royalty payments from chinese smartphone makers for those using qualcomm technology. negotiations are ongoing. china would end its

it has breast knuckle tactics. -- brass knuckle tactics. >> cory johnson and our contributing editor,aul kedrosky and sonia, with the national organization of women. what do uber's early investors think? i speak with one of them up next. ♪ >> welcome back to "best of west." bill gurley invested in uber before they raised their first round of funding. today, he is one of a handful of outside directors on the company's board. i spoke to him on my show and asked him which tech ceo travis is more like? >> if i look along a vector, he's most like bezos. the business is much more like amazon. it's not a facebook. i find him to the like bezos. the thing to be understood about travis is he is an insanely good recruiter. jeff was always going to walmart and getting their cio and getting the best people he possibly can. that is what travis has done. >> gurley has not commented on allegations of uber targeting journalists. i asked him about the four horsemen. who does he think is the most dominant? take a listen. >> i would say amazon's position with prime is pretty remarkable. i would put them

cory johnson is at one of those fulfillment centers and tracy, california, about 60 miles east of where i am in san francisco. is a little different for amazon, isn't it? >> there are a lot of important things going on at this fulfillment center. it is cyber monday and it is the biggest day of the year for amazon and big for online retail as well. this is still important because of its location, because there was a time when amazon did not want to have facilities in states like california because they did not want to pay sales tax. they bit the bullet and it allowed them to change their business model. this is in tracy, california. it equal distance, about an hour francisco, san jose, sacramento. all reachable from this facility. notable because of the robots they are using. a $75 million application. they deployed robots in this facility to change the operation in terms of how the workers work , how they still searching goods when they come in off of the truck. how they pick them when they will go back to a customer. also how much they can manage. canon executives say they hold up to 7

cory johnson is with us as well.l, which i've yet was more important -- ali baba or lendingclub? >> obviously, obama was more important. -- ali baba was more porton. -- important. in terms of representing the bigger changes in how the world works, transforming economies and thinking of disruptive opportunities, it just is hands down no question, lendingclub. we were so preoccupied with ali baba, which will turn out to be a capital footnote to history, where is lending club will represent this wrenching change for financial markets worldwide over the next five years. >> does that make it worth $9 billion? or $11 billion? >> like 100 x sales or something. separate evaluation of the company from the opportunity it's addressing and the changes it will precipitate. would any sane person be a liar of lending club at $24.75? no. let's say which one is more important in terms of where the biggest opportunities are going to be, what incumbents are going to get blown up among where probably the most wrong about the total addre

cory johnson is live at one of those fulfillment centers. in tracy, california, 50 miles east of where i am here in san francisco. the story is a little bit different for amazon. >> yes. a lot of important things are going on here at this fulfillment center. it is cyber monday, the biggest day of the year for amazon. facility is really important first of all because of its location, and there was a time when amazon did not want to have facilities in states like california and they did not want to pay sales tax. that allowed them to change their business model. this is in california, equidistant, about an hour and an hour and a half depending on traffic. they are all reachable from this facility here. roadstable this is, the they are using. the acquisition two years ago, they deploy these robots in this facility to really change the operation in terms of how the workers work here, how they have certain goods when they come off the truck, how they pick them when they go back through customer, and also how much they can manage it. executives sa

they ship a lot more goods out of here than ever before. >> cory johnson, bloomberg editor at large. we will see later in the show. as amazon and other retailers rush to ship orders, they are working to promote special deals and discounts to shoppers. many countries are turning to twitter to do so. it allows users to buy directly from their newsfeed. twitter is allowing brands to send discounts directly to you through its twitter's offer product. how much can this e-commerce boost business? twitter's director of retail joins us in the studio. it is a busy day for you. how busy? >> we have had a lot of great things happening on the platform the last couple of days. we are excited to see brands engage with consumers, not only pushing offers, but thinking about how i can add value to the shopper. can they provide behind-the-scenes information, maybe tips and trips, all to generate a lot of interest. >> twitter is not the first thing you think of when you think, i wanted to get a deal on black friday. how do you change consumer habits? i spend a lot of time on twitter during the week. i

i am cory johnson. this is a check of the top headlines -- president obama will nominate former pentagon official aston carter is the next defense secretary. he would replace chuck hagel if confirmed. connecticut senator richard blumenthal talks about the selection. >> a very solid choice. he is the and ultimate professional. he knows the department of defense inside and out and is a former assistant secretary for acquisitions and weapons development. professional who drills down on questions. i think he is a solid choice. confirmed, carter will be president's fourth defense secretary in six years. money tories to raise $40 billion, citigroup is becoming the latest major company to allow workers to take uber writes on business trips. the nation of vietnam is considering legalizing uber. sprint is raising the stakes in the wireless price-cutting wars starting this week. they are promising to cut the monthly bills of verizon and at&t customers and a half. tois offering gift cards cover early termination f

cory johnson and i spoke with our contributing editor, paul kedrosky and sonia, a national organizationor women chapter. >> rape is a problem everywhere, globally. we are talking about uber. will they put finding drivers in front of passenger safety? you can open a cupcake shop and open too many and go out of business. we are talking about the safety of people. everybody should be aware. all consumers have to think about it. when you open the door and get into any car, don't have a false sense of security. we have to hold them accountable. uber, what kind of background checks are they doing? a background check is basically what you decide is going to be. if a company wants to spend $10, it is not much of one. yellow cab services are regulated by agencies in major cities everywhere, and they use a service called life scan, which is a background service that goes to the fbi. and it updates companies if crimes are committed. >> uber is facing criticism they do not do a good enough background check. others are saying uber was able to give the authorities his name and his identity and where

cory johnson spoke with sir-mix-a-lot about the changing world of the music biz. >> a record label ise than a fat wallet and a huge staff. i am not trying to demean them, but it's true. today, if you are an artist, you are a brand. if you don't subscribe to that, you will not succeed. social media is everything. >> james brown would've said that in the 1960's. that was the case then, too. >> not necessarily. i came up on that model. you create a record and you run warner bros. and you tell me it's time to go on tour. >> you came up rick and russell with def jam with your first record. >> my deal was with rick -- >> rick rubin. >> yeah -- when he splintered off. he signed me. it was fun. it was cool. >> what do the labels not do now? >> they did all of your marketing and pr work. they had people that scheduled tours for you and were on the road with you. they paid for your videos to be shot. everything. ask now the music distributors now are these companies in some cases, specifically at spotify -- i want to talk about spotify for a bit. the ceo of spotify came out and said some strong

cory johnson is with us as well. jason, what do you make about these new details that's it started in a saint regis hotel and this group may be behind that he echoed -- behind it? >> it shows the nature of this attack and whoever did it was clearly sophisticated and clearly looking to target sony and embarrass them. quite frankly a more thorough pancit of a company, i don't think we'd ever seen before. this is uncharted ground. >> what do you make about the fact that the north korean government has denied responsibility for the government. they called it a righteous deed. the state is behind -- does it look like to you the state is behind this? from the north korean perspective, the more attention it gets them the better. let people think they did it. even if they didn't they are still getting credit for an act to they may or may not have done. they clearly have a political agenda and are happy to see this -- go down.wn to >> listening, what are those fingerprints? similar toit look previous attacks by the group? to

i am cory johnson. holiday shopping is coming up to the line. online shipping service.e wrapping up a brick andp with mortar stores. is the easiest way to ship anything. transport.ew say you app that, wanted to ship a sweater to your niece. you take a picture of it and enter the recipient's address and they will pick it up and package it up and shipped to the lowest cost carrier. ups, usps. to have those agreements or can you send in a shopper? >> we are -- we do not have to be inside a store. we call ourselves the first mile and so it is designed for consumers, yourself, three big use cases we have, gifting from your home or your office. so huge.e returns one third are actually returned. the other is casual selling. issue, do you think those are returned because the item is not what people thought it was or because of size? .> the biggest ever is apparel furniture, too. zappo haveike changed returns. do abouto you returns? could give us a prepaid label and it would be a free return and we use it as a customer acquisition but we want to be able to change it and get make

i'm cory johnson.ell, hackers have turned the inner workings of sony entertainment into a public soap rep, releasing everything from employee medical records to salary details and salacious e-mails. sony is trying to make it go all away. they have hired a prominent attorney who quickly fired a letter to media organizations, demanding we stopped publishing the private information these hackers have found out about sony. he says it is stolen information and one sony company will hold them responsible unless it is destroyed. turning now to washington is mark former head of the u.s. , department of justice computer crime unit, this raises all kinds of interesting issues. not the least of which is that sony's business is being damaged. >> sony sent letters out to journalists, telling them not to release information that was stolen. the hackers are sending e-mails to sony telling them not to release a movie. the best way to keep it confidential is to protect us from being hacked in the first place. what jour

his cori johnson our editor at large spoke with james walking. >> we are really excited about it.e think that the simple idea of combining profit and purpose is a really great one. and, it is bounded on our offices that really big companies are going to be built by solving grand challenges in the world. challenges like climate change. like quantities. there is an enormous amount of work to do and profits to be made. --t is the kind of focus companies we are focused on. i think twitter has given hundreds of millions of people a voice worldwide and be can point to a lot of social change, big and small to -- that has happened to that. but it is interesting to me in the case of twitter that they are all media focus. you are talking about things that go far beyond media, giving people voices to technology. >> yet. we have three scenes in obvious ventures. one is sustainable systems. that is about for-profit solutions to climate change. it is about new kinds of sustainable resources. i will give you an example. we invested in the company called beyond meat. they are taking plant protein

cory johnson is back with me in the story -- in the studio. elon musk is scaring utilities.l us about this other bet. >> this is interesting because of the big betsy has made on this giga factory. he wants to turn this thing into a giant factory to create somewhat cheaper cars because of somewhat cheaper batteries based on old battery technology. one of the big bets that he is making is that no one else will invent a better battery for the next 20 years and that all of the efforts of the $2 billion spent in government research to find a better battery which have failed will continue to fail. >> battery technology has advanced slowly. over the last century, it sounds like a reasonable bet. >> it's interesting because there are many problems in physics depending on the way they degrade slowly. there has not been a lot of innovation since the lithium-ion battery. the other big that is that they would have tesla get to half a million vehicles per year. the notion that they could grow their business 22 times or whatever it was in 2013 is a fairly amazing that. it might even seem

we are back with cory johnson. away. >> there is this thing called lending that banks use to do. providing consumers with capital, but consumer loans from banks, since 2008, have really fallen by the wayside. so stepping in our silicon valley startups. joining me now from chicago is the avant credit ceo. tell me how your business works, what businesses -- problems are you trying to solve? me on.k you for having but we are doing is simple, the lower the cost to borrow money and reduce the friction in the process by creating a digital bank that will solve their unique financial needs. >> the investors you have lined up are pretty amazing. tiger global, peter thiel, kkr. talk about what it is about your powerpoint deck that is so awesome? >> honestly, it's been a great run. our company is only two years old. we are nearing our two year anniversary on new year's eve. we have had great investors starting with august capital, tiger leading the last two rounds. we have had great support from peter thiel, kkr, etc. their b

for more on what it is, cory johnson spoke with cofounder james. >> we are excited about it.think the simple idea of combining profit and purpose is a great one and found it on our hypothesis they're really big companies will be billed by talking grand challenges in the world like climate change and chronic disease. we think there is an enormous amount of work and profit to be made and those are the company's world focusing on. >> does twitter solve a massive world problem? >> twitter have given hundreds of millions of people a voice and we can point to social change that happened through that. that is positive. >> it is interested in the case of twitter going back to blogger , media focus. you are talking about things far beyond and giving people voices through technology. >> we have three things. one is sustainable and that is for-profit solutions to climate change. new kinds of sustainable resources. we invested in a company called beyond meat and are taking plant protein and craving protein products that are an alternative to eating animals and that is good for the climat

cory johnson traveled to tracy, california, about 60 miles from here. it is one of the centers using robots to help fill their orders. he spoke about the robots with dan clark of worldwide perations. when you think about the challenge we face, it is all about this massive selection we carry. this has over 3.5 million units. it used to take a lot of time. >> there are 21 million items ere? >> it is interesting to watch children's toys and power drills and you name it. everything from toys to vitamins to toy rockets. we probably do 90% of our shopping at amazon. >> that is going to my house right now. >> is the method as effect wive the rockets? does that change the way it works? >> it fundamentally changed it. it eliminates the walk. you're seeing a value-added element to the customer. this stuff is available. same day delivery. order it by noon and get it tonight. the same thing on the pick side. when it is delivered to the picker, it is there. when we were previously processing orders in an hour or an hour and a half, our fastest times are down to unde

but i would love to see a biden-cory booker ticket. host: all right. what do you do in danville, mary? caller: nothing. i am home on social security with a book that may come out from a small publisher. i have been a reporter in my life. living on social security. host: all right. happy holidays to you. caller: you, too. be blessed. just int's go back to washington. you are on the air, and we are all listening. caller: good day. how are you doing? love that c-span. host: we are all listening. caller: i think what we need is a realist. we do not need all of these say let's with increasing polarity trying to be a politician but not trying to solve anything. we need somebody that is actually going to be out there with tenacity, someone like elizabeth warren. we need some new blood, some young blood, we need summary to really go down and get dirty, make it happen. all right, jeff, thanks for calling in. this is gail in bethlehem, pa. 2016? caller: i like bernie sanders, although i do not think he has much of a chance, but he is the only one that makes the

cory johnson, you have a merry christmas.ent months talking about russia, ukraine, syria and iraq. we want to tell you about a global hotspot you may have missed. libya. stay with us here on "market makers." ♪ >> it was nearly four years ago that the us-led coalition overthrew muammar gaddafi's government in libya. of the country has descended into anarchy. wide areas are out of the control of the central government. it may emerge as a key geopolitical hotspot in 2015. we bring in a former state department official who is now with the middle east institute. thank you for joining us on christmas eve. let me ask you about a very serious and santos subject. -- sad a subject. subject. is this the same thing happening in libya? >> president obama himself said that we should have paid more attention to the aftereffects of overthrowing qadhafi. we were overreacting to what when we in iraq overthrew the saddam hussein regime and dismantled the army and dismantled the party and other institutions. in libya, we assumed that an army and

tiny de cory is the coordinator of the group. she says that struggles with alcohol and drug addiction are common here. >> we've had six suicides from january to a few days ago. six. but we have saved a lot of people's lives, a lot of youth. >> i stopped many suicides just by talking to them. i even went and cut down a person last summer. i caught him just in time. that's why as a grandmother i'm here today to help each and every one of you and many more. at the end of the day, the participants "smudge", passing a bundle of burning sage around the circle to cleanse and purify themselves. >> and if we're going to walk out of the darkness together, we have to help each other, we have to talk about it. >> i'm tiny de cory and this is our regular radio show on kili radio. we have a weekly show from 4 to 5 pm on thursdays. tiny's group teaches young people how lakota culture can help build coping skills. >> we are referring young people to the traditional medicine men, traditional men in the communities for sweat lodges. >> i never fee

the shops sell the same items found in bar cory. few tour u.is visit. some shopkeepers are considering switching to selling every day necessities. 2014 was a special year of pilgrimage for tibetan buddhists. the streets are filled with programs. shopping as a religious goods store. he visited lhasa for the first time 12 years ago and was taken by its charm. he converted to tibetan buddhism. he made a pilgrimage from his home in beijing. the buddhist monk, considers his mentor, passed away. he came here to learn so words from a fellow follower. he'll inscribe the characters on the prayer flag he'll carry on his pilgrimage. at his hotel, he decided to write down the characters he just learned. for him, buddhism offers a calm oasis in the midst of his busy life. but some younger chinese consider tibetan traditions cool and fashionable. he hopes they'll come to appreciate the values that underlie tibetan buddhism. one man found success after moving to lhasa 20 years ago. the now operates ten companies. business materials, trading and restaurants. after a te

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cory johnson is still here. you met with satya nadella.he have to say when it came to diversity? this is a guy whose big public mistake was saying that women should not ask her raises. >> i think he regrets having made that statement. they will see that for those locking down people of color represent market and not the cost of doing business, it is achieving growth. while we focus on stem and engineers, beyond that, 60% to 70% of jobs -- the whole range of workers can be employed in these industries. >> is it interesting to have a conversation with a guy of indian descent? >> in microsoft, an indian president, female cfo, and african-american members of the board with a white attorney in terms of mr. grant. i think they do get it and they see that the market is like that. so is talent and creativity. we also take a hard look and begin to invest in stem development. 600 children studying stem. they need their school to do just that. there is a pipeline to start with a pipeline. the chairman of the board where they teach computer science an