let's check in with aaron levy, cofounder and ceo of box, to get a better sense of the situation.hanks for having me >> i want to know what went wrong. the stock had a good move, you had a good quarter, a lot of stuff with a lot of companies that are very interesting. somehow, i know things went astray with starboard. can you give me your view of how to get things back on track or how they went off to begin with? >> well, yeah. it's a great question. and i probably can't represent how things went off track. we have ben executing our plan that we put out in the market now a couple years ago, which was to drive greater operating margin and greater growth rates. and in fact, in many cases, we have been actually upgrading the plans, especially on the bottom line, over the past four to six quarters so we believe that we're executing a very effective strategy we just guided up in our last quarterly earnings both on our growth rate for this fiscal year as well as our profitability targets. and we believe that we are building the most disruptive and the leading platform in content managem

levys on household, a democratic priority. part of what bloomberg is writing about. let's hear from aaron on the independent line from westminster, massachusetts. jen: good to see you, happy pride celebrating here today. i'm going to give you a quick overview. on monday, the president will welcome the new israeli president. it will high height the enduring partnership between united states and israel and deep ties between our people. the visit will honor the dedication he has shown to strengthening the friendship between the two countries over the course of many years. on tuesday, the

levys on household, a democratic priority. part of what bloomberg is writing about. let's hear from aaron on the independent line from westminster, massachusetts. jen: good to see you, happy pride celebrating here today. i'm going to give you a quick overview. on monday, the president will welcome the new israeli president. it will high height the enduring partnership between united states and israel and deep ties between our people. the visit will honor the dedication he has shown to strengthening the friendship between the two countries over the course of many years. on tuesday, the president will travel to southwest wisconsin with secretary of agriculture to talk about growing agriculture and rural economies. on wednesday, he will convene cabinet officials and governors from western states to discuss the the intersection of heat, drought and wildfires in the western united states and strengthening prevention preparedness for the wildfire season that is outpacing last season. the 2020 wildfire season alone burned over 10 million acres across the united states resulting in the loss of do

for republicans, or increasing levies on households making less than a thousand dollars, democratic priority -- less than $400,000, a democratic priority. let's hear from aaronn the independent line in westminster, massachusetts, go ahead. westminster, massachusetts, hey, aaron, go ahead. make sure you mute -- mute your volume, and go ahead with your comment. erin, ensure you mute -- aaron, make sure you mute your volume and go ahead. this is getting a little confusing because i don't think you are hearing me that will. try to call back and see if we can fix that for you. liz on the democrat's line from new jersey. caller: thank you. i think it is hopeful we have a bipartisan effort in the senate. i hope it reaches the finish line and does get signed into law. but, i understand, as a democrat, that it isn't the entire package that the president requested when he sent it to congress, so he is obviously going to try and get more of what he thinks is necessary for one of his programs. i am not opposed to him doing that either. one thing i think we have tolerated too long as americans is disability, especially by mr. mcconnell, to simply obstruct any and all leg

levy, something europeans will be looking at and the u.k. is also looking at. interesting to bring that to the european context. thanks very much for bringing us the story. aaron a look at some of the things on our radar, some of the things we are watching out for today. at 10:00 a.m. u.k. time, the european union economic and financial affairs council will meet, where they will focus on vat rates, strengthening the banking union, and markets and crypto assets. we will have earnings from the world's most popular cruise line, carnival corporation. polls close in iran for the presidential election to choose hassan were sunny's successor -- alzheimer's sunny -- hossein rouhani's successor. we spoke to philip lane yesterday and he was down plan expectations. some very important subjects on the agenda and it will be very interesting to see what they decide to do on inflation goals. let's get a bloomberg first word news update. here's annabelle droulers. >> thanks. the u.k. recorded the most coronavirus cases in a day since mid february. this amid warnings the current wave, driven by the highly transmissible delta variant, may still be weeks from peaking. more than