okta's ceo. the stock has been on a tear.re when "the claman countdown" comes back. (♪ ) keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. (♪ ) you need to hire i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base so you can start hiring right away. claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo liz: the vaccine pendulum swinging to the optimistic side in this final hour of trade. pfizer and german partner biontech's stock are on the move on news that the two will hit enrollment of 30,000 participants by this week for their phase 3 covid-19 vaccine trial, and they have proposed to expand that patient pool to 44,000 participants. pfizer up 2.8%. biontech up 3.5%. then flip it to astra-zeneca's phase 3 trials resuming in the uk after being halted last week, after one patient had a serious physical reaction. astra-zeneca is up half a percent at the moment. now, even though as va

that are positive about okta and we should mention by the way that fox uses okta for some of our securityre, but does seem that right now you're getting sucked in downward vortex going on with tech stocks. >> yeah, stocks go up and stocks go down and we keep focusing on making sure that customers have -- this is really important, they want to have choice in technology, customers don't want to be locked for a certain vender for different types of technology and we are like the front door, we let them in to any technology they want to in a flexible and secure way and that's really appealing to people especially in this covid-19 world where they've gotten this taste of freedom where they can work from anywhere, they can have flexibility, they can go to the websites and mobile apps they want and we enable them to do that with choice and flexibility of freedom and that's really appealing now and for approval. david: we we have a taste for freedom and we have a fear of vultures out there who are looking to capitalize and steal information from people working at home. do you secure that? do you

i think okta you can put in your stock. you can put some of it in okta but not all of it. in kentucky, david >> caller: hey, jim, this is david from kentucky. i need a bit of your expertise. >> sure. >> caller: here is the deal. i've been a buyer of nokia in june and july the stock was around $5. in august they had a better than expected earnings call and a new ceo. every time for the past month, any time any good news has been released, the stocks went down like for the past month, it's lost a dollar. >> right. >> caller: that new exclusive deal with china for the grid they've got 43 exclusive 5 g network deals and at&t and t-mobile in the united states. and the only thing they really had negative over the past month was actually yesterday which was the samsung deal with verizon but samsung ceo or somebody with samsung got busted with some shenanigans. >> david, david, that samsung deal with verizon was huge and i regarded that as a nail in the coffin for nokia that was amazing one of the reasons why i like marvel technology. you can see how well that's done that's a gaug

. >>> and on this week's everyone talks to liz podcast episode, okta's ceo todd mckinnon actually quitt salesforce during the 2008 recession. he did so to start his own company that turned into the identity and security management giant. todd's leap of faith during this very uncertain time led to the creation of the multi-billion dollar business now powering a lot of companies around the globe during this work-from-home and work from anywhere era. i want you to hear his story. it's really inspirational. check it out on spotify, apple, google, alexa. let me know what you think. we'll be right back. ♪ here? nah. ♪ here? nope. ♪ here. ♪ when the middle of nowhere... is somewhere. the all-new chevy trailblazer. ♪ to listen, is to hear more than what's being said... and offer the answers that make someone feel truly heard. i understand, let's get started call a dell technologies advisor today. i understand, let's get started so you're a small bor a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and relia

i do think that the crowd strike should be up here, okta is too high david, i don't know, people come in and buy zoom as a default and i question that, too >> yeah. i guess you can and you can continue to given the multiple of revenues that we are talking about there. >> 50, up 70 you look at nikola and you say -- nikola -- you say to yourself, well, wait a second, there was a stock that was at 80. >> wedbush suddenly see that the light has turned from yellow to red and they're now down grading it. >> i always love a heads up like that. >> yeah. >> 18. >> it's been a twilight-zone-like few weeks for nikola investors they say. some highs, the flagship gm partnership and a couple lows. i didn't see your "mad money" piece on t but i did read it yesterday. you were pretty -- >> i blew this one to kingdom come about 20 points ago because i didn't believe in the bp deal which the short seller hindenburg blew up the bp deal -- didn't really blow it up, bh -- >> they may or may not have. from nikola's point of view you could say, listen, we were very close to getting another anchor of our str

are they just going to okta to ? >> maybe. >> sell some crowd strike?> would you >> no, that's what they do they sell what they have they sell adobe after that great quarter. >> to make room for unity. >> exactly, david. exactly. you couldn't be more right >> well, guys, as barclays said this morning, it's like they were listening to our show yesterday, jim, measures of equity valuations are now at 2000 dot-com bubble levels and we are reluctant to chase the rally, 3100 year-end target. >> david, how much did we cost yesterday when we gave them that information? >> nothing >> and i don't want their money. carl, they can keep their money. >> that's so gracious of you, jim. >> i can afford a tie. i can afford a tie. >> "squawk on the street" back in just a moment watch tesla, 5% premarket as piper goes to 515 from 480 and wedbush goes to 475 from 380 "squawk on the street" is back in a momt. en >> announcer: the opening bell is brought to you by nuveen. a leader in income, alternatives and responsible investing. >>> all right. let's get to a mad dash. you