the roku ceo anthony wood joins us now on those results in a cnbc exclusive anthony, good morning. >>rning. >> so you are investment mode in a sense. average revenue per user up 30%, at the same time, gross margins coming down as you move into some new areas, including video ads. you have pending acquisition of data zoo explain to investors what you're doing here, the impact on margins, where you hope it takes you in the longer term >> sure. we had a great quarter our results exceeded expectations and outlook we, advertising impressions more than doubled year over year on the platform, a big area of growth for us. you know, there's a lot of new content services launching, things like disney plus, apple tv plus, great accelerators, we are an essential partner for those types of companies we set a goal of running the company this year at roughly ebitda break even, we exceeded that, slight ebitda positive this year because we are putting most of our increasing gross profit back into the business. you can see that because it is such a big opportunity, you know, most of the world still doe

losses nearly tripled that of a year ago sending more efforts to get more subs we will talk to anthony woodawk alley" later on this morning. this got hit pretty hard. >> he said look, point blank, he used, this was all in the square by the way he said look, 2020 growth rates are liable to be lower than 2019 you can't have a stock that has that, expected to go up. he, by the way, is so under stated that he will not reverse the direction of roku stock. i am promising you that. >> that same thing has been said of silverman interest, understated in an environment. let's talk >> noah bratski dynamic talking about pinterest. i have gone over that pinterest with a fine tooth comb the problem with pinterest it does not under promise and over deliver. i urged them to do so i said, play the game ask him. >> not everybody listens to you, jim, at their peril. >> not everybody listens to me my dog doesn't listen to me. >> no, he doesn't. >> let's get the opening bell. the real time exchange, the big board celebrating an ipo, silver gate capital, a california commercial bank where they focus on digital c

. >> anthony: we meet carmen, as we'll call her, a powerful local heroin dealer turned paid confidential police informant out in the woods i needed to support my family. couldn't get a job. >> anthony: how easy was it to get into the dope business? >> carmen: not hard at all because it's cheap. >> anthony: was there money in it? >> carmen: oh, hell, yeah. yeah, oh, yeah. >> anthony: it's like mayberry out here from looking around. who's using heroin now? i mean -- >> carmen: kids. >> anthony: kids. >> carmen: kids. >> anthony: today's heroin epidemic is different than the one that raged through america in the 1970s in a few significant ways. back then, heroin was mostly seen as a poor people problem, somebody else's problem. the sort of thing that musicians and criminals got into. marginal people, far from the white main streets of mayberry, usa. what those people did to themselves, well, it was unfortunate, but not our problem. until somebody broke into your house. today, it's absolutely the reverse. the new addicts are almost entirely white, middle class, and from towns and areas like this. how do you think you make it

wood rue missing. like the weather, the game got scrappy at times, anthony tumbling under a challenge byjefferson.appeal was lost. otherwise, it was a relatively quiet afternoon for the likes of him and marcus rashford. the wind conditions played havoc with ball control, but it did find its way into the sales of former manchester united traineejosh king. the strike set the tone for the rest of the match. they needed to up the tempo and the power, but there just wasn't enough of it. bournemouth‘s first win in six games and sent them back above united in the table, they just didn't live up to recent form. you are always very down when you lose a game. in the form we were in, we were hoping to take three points here. we just couldn't capitalise on a good start. i thought we opened them up and got down the right—hand side, we just couldn't get the goal. game evened out, and that won the game for them. let's get all the rest of the premier league news now, withjoe lysnkey on a day of late—comebacks at the top of the table, joe? it's not very often we get the premier league's top two both playing in the

. ♪ >> anthony: two hours outside of seattle lies hollingsworth cannabis company farm. the woodsion seattleites, the hollingsworths. and at the helm of the company, these guys, brother and sister duo raft and joy hollingsworth. >> raft: oh, hi! didn't see you there! >> joy: wait, hold on. "oh hi, didn't see you there." >> raft: didn't see you there. >> joy: do you say that? >> raft: -- and then you say the rest of the -- >> joy: no, i can't remember -- >> raft okay, we're gonna do it. >> joy: i'm joy hollingsworth. i got it. >> raft: oh, hi! say it, say it. >> joy: let's take a look -- let's take a closer look, shall we? ♪ >> anthony: while some corporate outfits are rushing to cash in on the new crop, the hollingsworth cannabis company is doing it in a slower, more personal way. solar-powered greenhouses, hand-trimmed buds and hand-packed bags ensure the freshest and highest quality of chronic. they're keeping it all in the family. raft runs the manufacturing and growing. joy does the processing and sales. auntie came out of retirement to assist with the oil cartridges. dad puts

wood room missing. like the weather, the game got scrappy at times, anthony tumbling under eight challenged by jeffersona relatively quiet afternoon for the likes of him and marcus rashford. the wind conditions played havoc with ball control, but it did find its way into the sales of former manchester united trainee josh king. into the sales of former manchester united traineejosh king. the strike set the tone for the rest of the match. they needed to up the tempo and the power, but there just wasn't enough of it. bournemouth‘s first win in six games and sent them back above united in the table, theyjust didn't live up to a recent form. you are always very down when you lose a game. in the form we were in, we we re lose a game. in the form we were in, we were hoping to take three points here. wejust we were hoping to take three points here. we just couldn't capitalise on a good start. i thought we opened them up and got down the right—hand side, wejust them up and got down the right—hand side, we just couldn't get the goal. game evened out, and that won the game for them. very good performance today, mu