boy's club in silicon valley. >> this week, tough words about silicone from a self described outsider on venture capital and group think. amy, who helped cantor fitzgerald rise from the ashes of 9/11 predicts the pandemic will change how and where venture capital invests. >>> plus greg sands on what start ups need to do right now before it's too late. this week on "press: here." >>> good morning, everyone, i'm scott mcgrew. back when there used to be conferences occasionally i would be invited to speak at one about how silicon valley holds on to its power as silicon valley oftentypes by silicon valley people who want to build their own silicon valley in their own locations. it is difficult to replicate. you can have the people, have the buildings, but what you likely don't have a a lot of access to venture capital. 90% of the venture capital firms are here in northern california, most in menlo park on sand hill road. the personal relationships developed with venture capital are one of the things that fuel the success of silicon valley. doing it in a far flung location is much more dif

how can you say don't listen to silicon valley when you are silicon valley you're part of silicon valleycall out reid hoffman and eric schmidt i get it, but reid hoffman has a very different business model. papal also a different business model. he is on the board of microsoft that took a different tact, i think you could argue, from the likes of facebook, of google, even amazon, et cetera and then apple is part of silicon value lain it had a very different voice about encryption and the use of customer data, you're saying, really, aren't you part of silicon valley, not all. >> i didn't write the headline, john the point that i'm making is, i believe that both eric schmidt and reid hoffman are brilliant people and incredibly successful and engage deeply in politics. and he has been a spokes man for blitzskin. growing companies as fast as possible caring more about speed and scale than efficiency or any other value. that has been the secret to building enormous wealth for many, many people if is also producing business models that are predatory and very destructive. reid was one of the fi

some silicon valley leaders are not too worried, yet. >> reporter: when an icon that built silicon valley decides to leave silicon valley. >> companies come and go. what is important is that we continue to build a pipeline of the next addition of builders who will create the amazing brands. >> reporter: he says when it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation, nothing beats silicon valley. but despite that, hewlett-packard is headed to houston. another tech company to break from silicon valley. the high cost of living and high taxes, he admit there is is room for reform but does not see it as a trend. >> what you think about is who is the team. where can i find the best talent. who are my investors that i can work with. where are the companies i can get advice from. >> situations like this are a wake up call. >> reporter: the ceo of the silicon valley leadership group, along with changes to tax policy it is critical to see investment in infrastructure if they want businesses to stay. >> allow our companies to keep and to preserve capital so they can reinvest and build and grow. >> two war

that's what silicon valley is to us. >> there is competition obviously in silicon valley, but there's also the spirit of working together. oftentimes you will hear people say about the problem you're having. we know the person to help, we'll have her connect with you, et cetera. people are willing to jump in and help in a way that i don't think they'll do in any other industries or cities. >> yeah. that's right. there is this incredible culture of work and also this companionship that we know that being a founder is so difficult. and that is one of our -- we're battling over our own site that we don't feel that we are competing against the other, but we are all in this together. >> indeed, we are. tell me about starting a business in panama. panama uses a u.s. currency. english is commonly spoken in businesses in panama as well. but what are the key difference? >> well, panama is a very diverse country. we have access to global talent at a third of the cost compared to silicon valley. the challenges are that it is a very small market. panama is a very small country. even though it's i

an implant is made of silicon so you have a silicon shell.you have a sticky silicon gel which is gooey. if you were to cut the implant in half, all the jail would sit where it stays. a breast implant is usually placed in an incision under the breast. it would go in front of the muscle or behind the muscle. people think it goes into the breast, it goes behind the breast to all of your breast tissue sit in front of the implant. how is it something like that could potentially cause breast implant illness? the honest answer is, we don't know what causes it. the jury is still out on whether breast implant illness is a thing. we think it is the bodies reaction to the silicon. it is present in lots of medical devices, cardiac devices, hipjoints, joints. there aren't people walking around with hip joints associated illness, kneejoint associated illness, so we don't really know what it is that is associated with breast implants that can cause the illness. as for beth, she is now in so much pain, she is not sure how long she can deal with it. just chec

silicon gel — it's fairly gooey. to cut the implant in half, all the gel would sit where it stays. a breast implant is usually placed through an incision under the breast. the implant can go either in front of the muscle or behind the pec muscle. people often think the implant goes into the breast — it actually goes behind the breast, so all of your breast tissue sits in front of the implant. so how is it that something like that could potentially cause breast implant illness? i think the honest answer to that is we don't really know what causes it. the jury is still out on whether breast implant illness is a thing, it exists. we think that it's the body's reaction to the silicon. but silicon is present and lots of medical devices — cardiac pacemakers, hip joints, knee joints. there aren't people walking around with hipjoint associated illness, knee joint associated illness. so we don't really know exactly what it is that is associated with breast implants that can cause the illness. as for beth, she is now in so muc

it struck us that the narrative coming out of the silicon valley are oft dominated by the pr machine or aandful of executives who can say what they like because they are the ceos and it can be very difficult to get accurate information that's not height orot the view of this very particular class at the top fromnside precisely because of the wall of death a da is so high and impenetrable so it was precisely because we wanted to get a different insider specificity and not just type. i wil let him decide to say how we got people to talk to. >> monica mentioned, this comes out o ongoing feature and logic magazine where we have anonymous conversations with various tech workers and mething we continue to do with the magazineo we have been working on this book for years, i mean, it's really outf a years long project and that's imrtant to emphasize because for us we are not just helicopter in or parachuting whatever the right metaphor is into this world, we areeeply embedded in this world. we work in it, we live in it and our friends are in it and we have been having these conversationsith

when it does, it is in silicon valley. and there were -- even when you had national news coverage and news magazines like fortune, profiling entrepreneurs in silicon valley, it is as if this was a strange, beautiful far away species, a very different type. if we look back to the way in which entrepreneurs like steve jobs, bill gates were presented to the world when they first came to prominence, their companies first came to prominence, this was as shaggy haired iconic -- very different and disruption from the larger narrative of american capitalism. one thing we discover looking back that there is a distinctive business culture that grows in the technology industry, a technology industry that's come in modern age to have an immense influence on politics and government and on media. it is very distinctive, yet it is deeply connected to old economy institutions, whether they be national government or state government or local governments, old money. where did money for the technology revolution come from, where were funds t

the title of your book, you point to silicon valley being destructive by design so how, we want to get to your recommendations, how is the design destructive to political life and even democratic life as a whole? >> it is a great question and a big one. we are all contending with it in society today especially as we come towards the next election but i think very broadly speaking the broad strokes of my argument are the companies like facebook have monopolized sectors, facebook, google, amazon, any sector of the consumer internet that we think of like social media for sure but online video, email, e-commerce, web based text messaging, all these are first of all very important sectors, very important markets economically speaking because there's a lot of economic activity that happens on them. they are new markets, but very important in our economy in 2020. one of these three companies has monopolized each of those sectors and through that monopoly they are extracting tremendous amounts of wealth, exploiting the rest of society by using their monopoly position to diminish quality of ser

ra sar svoboda, bbc news, silicon valley. laura: life on the heart break motel in silicon valley. before we go, if you think the only sound coming out of washington these days is political bickering, think again. the city's mayor hasam go-goic as the ol music of the district of columbia. a real browser -- muriel bowser calls it t heartbeat of the district. what exactly is go-go? ♪ laura: there you go, a commendation of funk, salsa, and other influences. this group has deep roots in the city's african-american community and has most recently than a soundtrr those who are pushing back against washington's very rapid gentrification. now you know a about go-go. i am laura trevesoan. thank youch for watching "bbc world news america." narrator: funding for this presentation is made possible by... babbeldean online program gned by language specialts teachingpanish, french and more. narrator: funding was also provided by... e freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum-kovler foundation. pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers

of silicon valley. it morphed into something much broader. but that political spine is still there. in the course of writing about the evolution of the high technology, computer in hardware and software companies on the west coast, from the 1940s to the president, particularly when you get to the last 25 years, it also becomes a story about media. i'm intensely interested in, as scholars say, putting the state back into the story of silicon valley. a place which has for quite awhile portrayed itself to the techno libertarian paradise in politics and government should be avoided. wind government got involved a just missed things up. funny and of politicians of both parties had held up is this beautiful example of free enterprise and entrepreneurialism. but there is actually very critical government and political story that runs throughout. there is also a media story, or information dissemination story. going to something that we see that is manifesting right now, you have these large tech companies like

valley and to make the democrats the party of silicon valley. prior there had been close ties with republicans both at the national and state level. but there's a moment where they're trying to figure a medium that is defined as the wild west and that where the advocates of the internet from the valley are talking about it as a frontier, talking about it in a very frederick jackson turner sort of way, although not consciously. sort of wide open spaces waiting to be conquered. limitless possibility. but are arguing for keeping something that on principle sounds very good to members of both parties as well as defenders of free speech which is keeping the internet free and out of the influence of the media companies including cable as possible. so there's a political battle essentially in which media is defined as the telecoms and as the cable providers who want to control -- have some control over the information flow and where newly formed organizations like the electronic frontier foundation, the eff, are argue to go keep it a jeffersonian inter

silicon valley is full of democrats.e probably going to support joe biden, but kamala harris is not exactly someone who has been antagonistic to the tech it is free, so they can feel comfortable they are not working against their own interests in the industry. emily: she is a bit antagonistic, but she has not been overly friendly, either. things she will have a say on our kind of unclear. what stance do we believe she will take on antitrust issues, given we just on the ceos of amazon, apple, and google drag before congress? generallyis difficult because she positions herself as un-ideological, so it gives her a lot of room to maneuver. sheok back in 2010, when was just running for california attorney general, and she went to google and talked to them and had a really friendly tone on antitrust, which is the biggest corporate tech issue. to position herself -- she positioned herself as more friendly, but obviously things have changed. now she is saying we should look into whether facebook needs some sort of break out for

some silicon valley leaders are not too worried, yet. >> reporter: when an icon that built silicon valley decides to leave silicon valley. >> companies come and go. what is important is that we continue to build a pipeline of the next addition of builders who will create the amazing brands. >> reporter: he says when it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation, nothing beats silicon valley. but despite that, hewlett-packard is headed to houston. another tech company to break from silicon valley. the high cost of living and high taxes, he admit there is is room for reform but does not see it as a trend. >> what you think about is who is the team. where can i find the best talent. who are my investors that i can work with. where are the companies i can get advice from. >> situations like this are a wake up call. >> reporter: the ceo of the silicon valley leadership group, along with changes to tax policy it is critical to see investment in infrastructure if they want businesses to stay. >> allow our companies to keep and to preserve capital so they can reinvest and build and grow. >> two war

valley structure it's not just in silicon valley because it's in cambridge and in seattle and in la and i will just use the space x model, space x was an interesting dynamic in the way they worked with the united states air force. and i lived that from the time i was in the pentagon as a two star all the way through my experience as a four-star space command with a little bit of a stretch, and i will tell you that what space x had to do to effectively do business with the united states air force is embarrass us in public. when they embarrassed us in public no service secretary likes to be embarrassed in public and they look at us and say hey, i don't like that, go fix it. but the interesting thing about that partnership is and i hope it's not lost in history but that turned into a mutually beneficial partnership because we actually, we, the united states air force, i'm joined now but i still wearing air force uniform and i'm proud of that but we in the united states air force helped teach space ask what mission insurance really was. what it took to actually build a rocket that would

these long lines of cars and trailers can be seen all over the silicon valley. it has become another unconventional form of shelter for l those who have bet behind by the high cost and lack of available housing he. in a place that is leading the world in cutting, dge technoloen the homeless must innovate to survive. >> if you brought all the creek beds in san josendot to the open land, you could find people. that has ner been the case here. anybody home? sarah: this pastor has been working closely with the homelessr community here e last three decades. >> this is silicon valley. this is a place where apple and google combined have $150 billn. look at these conditions. is there such thing as fourt h world conditions? inshe is livinike a garbage dump. i see this every day. sarah: the new normal is pushing everyone to their limits. >> i feel like a social worker, i feel like a babysitter, a mediator. vei lot of titles when it comes to driving the 22. >> no shirt, no service. you have gott to ose signs up. >> i'm a little at my boiling point right now. i'lle all rig

. >>> and bridging the digital divide in the silicon valley. the major factors that's keeping minorities from thriving in the tech world. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri tracking the fog rolling back in. i'll show you exactly where it's at tomorrow morning and more details on some gusty winds ahead coming up in about six minutes. >>> this pandemic has forced stores to close and sent online shopping through the roof. that means drivers are delivering almost as many packages now as they do during the holidays, and social distancing means it's even tougher to get those boxes to your home. here's nbc bay area's cheryl hurd. >> reporter: ups trucks rolling in late at the south san francisco facility. the reason? a barrage of packages to be delivered to quarantined customers. >> you'll see guys out working like it's christmas peak season, out till 9:00, 10:00. >> reporter: under these circumstances, ups drivers would get help. under new covid-19 guidelines, workers have to drive solo, putting a delay in deliveries and stress on workers. >> t

places like silicone valley often depend on hiring workers with h-1b visas.re's concern about the impact on growth and investment. >> president trump's executive order to temporarily ban foreign workers is raising concerns in silicone valley. >> it's a big deal, in a time when you have 36 million americans out of work, you want to still have job creators creating jobs for americans. >> the ceo of a health tech company has used the program to hire people. >> it will have an impact on whether you can launch a product on time. >> he admits that the visa program is in need of reform. but he believes it's a political move by trump ahead of the november election. others agree. >> foreign born workers make up 60% of all tech workers in silicone valley. so, this represents a very serious threat to the workforce. >> reporter: peter munoz is with the silicone leadership valley group. he knows the ban is an attempt to make more jobs available by americans. most high skilled jobs in silicone valley have been vacant before the recession. >> the proposed ban does not reall

the third key take away, partnering both with silicon valley and university partnerships throughout the country. as part of this task force, travel to silicon valley and heard stories from a number of innovators, entrepreneurs and investors, and working with the pentagon. developing our workforce, stem skills within the workforce, we have unique ideas on how to do that. with several remote -- this is an entirely bipartisan effort. many are surprised, if you contentious issues, as we travel the world, with democrats recognizing the severity of the situation, where we stand, how far we lagged behind in the report serves as a wake-up call. >> you both identified china as the competitor, the major power we are contending with and harnessing new technology is going to be potentially a challenging effort in a budget environment that will be more constrained. do we need to allocate more resources towards national security, or -- >> it has to be affordable. the country depends on it. the reality of the budgetary environment, there isn't as much money to spend on defense no matter how you look a

so is ageism in silicon valley real? just last year google reached a settlement with over 200 job applicants over the age of 40. >> you didn't have enough googleness, you couldn't fit with the energy of the company. those are all typical buzz phrases when you're trying to essentially flag someone's age, but not actually say that. >> reporter: robert milton is an employment attorney in san francisco who handles age discrimination cases like this all the time. flipping through court documents, he says the lawsuit also alleges google referred to some of its workers over the age of 40 as grayglers. they're saying in tech once over the age of 35, you're looked at as being over the hill. do you think there's truth to that? >> oh my gosh, i better pack that in. >> reporter: riviera partners scouts for talent in silicon valley. spray painted on the wall, their client list that reads like a veritable who's who in the industry. will is the ceo. i asked him his thoughts on going under the knife. >> i think it's absurd. i think alte

it will be in a longyourself an silicon valley. a lot of employees. a number of do you have any notion how many of your employees have become millionaires? yeah. that's something, you know, i personally have done a mix. -- who are we creating the platform for? we wanted to be much more -- about it. one of the things we wanted to do day capital from the limited partners to invest in the venture capital firm. for the, you know, people who -- being able to participate in the -- silicon valley many times. we're among the first to encourage them to start and from hospitals and the foundations. if we do these things on silicon valley and the companies and where does that go and? so the process and the people. >> we wish you the best of luck. cofounder of unusual ventures and now the new company traceable, as well. >>> up next on "press here" we take you inside the massachusetts lab where they are frantically working to defeat coronavirus. "press here" will be right back. >>> welcome back to "press here." american industry has helped us get through tough tim

places like silicone valley often depend on hiring workers with h-1b visas.re's concern about the impact on growth and investment. >> president trump's executive order to temporarily ban foreign workers is raising concerns in silicone valley. >> it's a big deal, in a time when you have 36 million americans out of work, you want to still have job creators creating jobs for americans. >> the ceo of a health tech company has used the program to hire people. >> it will have an impact on whether you can launch a product on time. >> he admits that the visa program is in need of reform. but he believes it's a political move by trump ahead of the november election. others agree. >> foreign born workers make up 60% of all tech workers in silicone valley. so, this represents a very serious threat to the workforce. >> reporter: peter munoz is with the silicone leadership valley group. he knows the ban is an attempt to make more jobs available by americans. most high skilled jobs in silicone valley have been vacant before the recession. >> the proposed ban does not reall

you can visit the ywca of silicon valley's website to register. should be a nice event and i'm really excited to be part of it. back to you. >> good to have you, too, doing that, laura. >>> all right. let's get a look at that forecast for us out there. kari, you've been telling us, it's a nice one out there today. >> we are enjoying some beautiful weather across the bay area. and so we are starting out nice and cool. it was probably a little chilly for you this morning. it's starting to feel a little bit better. we're at 64 degrees in walnut creek as we look at what to expect the rest of the afternoon. it's going to go into the upper 70s for today. we'll see that high temperature right there at about 3:00 to 4:00 today. let's head to the south bay. we're going to see a high temperature of 80 degrees in downtown san jose. we're still looking at 80s for the south county. this is a little bit warmer than where we should be feeling for the end of october with walnut creek reaching 80 degrees, oakland a high of 76 and mid 60s for the coastline, mid 70s

greetings and salyut ation all right let's kick things off in the world of silicon valley hawk watchers where billionaire facebook c.e.o. your friend and mine mark zuckerberg traveled to germany recently to attend the munich security conference because if there is one thing you think of when you hear the name zucker berg. security right guess speaking at the conference these are bergen self commented from up on high about the regulation of content on social media telling the audience quote we don't want private companies making so many decision balancing social equities without democratic processes i do think that there should be regulation in the west on harmful content there's a question about which framework you use ah yes yes as the standard silicon valley punt on 3rd down approach rather than you know make a hard decision hey let's let the government make it for us that way we can be the babyface no matter what the outcome. but what poor zox didn't realize is that one of the new regulations both democrats and republicans and the u.s. government is contemplating isn't going to just

let me ask you, is silicon valley bernie country? [applause] me, they said, you represent silicon valley. how are you for bernie sanders? mored, silicon valley is than the tech ceos and executives. [applause] >> there are public school teachers that make silicon valley. [applause] that do are janitors the work in silicon valley. there are bus drivers who do the work in silicon valley. security guards and building trades and by the way, they have these groups -- they have the apple affinity group for bernie of engineers at google for bernie. they said, how is that possible? i said, they care about making sure their kids actually can go to college without going into debt. [applause] for public college is something that is good not just for the working class. it is good for the middle class, and it is good for anyone who cares about building a 21st century economy. i met someone from newark. they said, when people say why is there so much support for bernie, you have to listen to this. school board member in newark and her son, a 10-yea

i think the silicon valley, well, silicon valley is the heart of technology. technology runs the world. for there to be that much racial disparity across the two areas is devastating to know about. i know i had a personal experience being the only black woman in the silicon valley location. the statistic speaks to me. there is definitely work that needs to be done. i think that the tech companies could do better. i think that may be looking to recruit in those low income communities like san jose state has a large demographic of brown and black individuals. seeking diversity in that way might help. there is a lot more that needs to be done. that money needs to be distributed in better ways. i think this pain index gives a good idea of what areas need the most attention. >> all right, thank you so much for joining us toon our website good advice on where we do from here. >>> the santa clara county board of supervisors unanimously approved the recommendation to change the use of force policies for the t it will be required to review and make changes. deputies ca

the response of silicon valley is most pitiful.st companies in the world began posting diversity employment stats in 2014. they said they wanted to held accountable well their hiring of black workers and lack of upward mobility. it hasn't changed. it has gotten worse. the worse response probably in the last couple of days to all the initiatives to donate money come from one of my business heroes. marc andreessen, you remember he developed mosaic, he founded netscape. he went on to become one of the biggest venture capitalists in the entire world. his firm pledged $2.2 billion to founders of tech projection. the amount is so low, are people opening up laundromats? two million dollars? they somehow think they exist on higher moral ground and it is their job to keep everyone else in line. i guess this means the nine large swaths of nation's real chance at success particularly in the hottest areas of growth. we're going to have more on that coming up but right now as states and economy continue to reopen many are wondering what we'll g

but i would say silicon valley is a very competitive place. netflix doesn't compete with them but we compete with disney and hbo so those tech leaders our family because is not too competitive. but again we are in entertainment company it can be a more challenging relationship. >>host: we cannot finish this without talking about my favorite person in the book patty mccord. >> i have to tell you patty is a great storyteller she has an incredible memory. often going from one story that whenever that happened she always had a story to provide and is an important character in the book. >>host: who wish she? >> she was a founding and head of hr and was with us over a decade and pioneered a lot of the ideas to give us permission to ideas that are great for employees about rules to give them a fertile environment that stretches them that's the way we oriented everything. >>host: in one of those was vacation time. >> it's a funny thing we don't count how many hours someone works in a day we don't know if it's later ten or 12 and yet in the old days we

. >> is the geographical area of silicon valley, indispensable to what you do? >> certainly are culture and i come out of the silicon valley culture, and at this point, half of employees at silicon valley, super important to what we do, two thirds of a majority of us employees in hollywood, we are an entertainment company, they are tech power. and they are pretty good, pixar and disney plus, all the other entertainment companies are getting tech infused. >> when i started working with netflix they were ready for enormous international expansion, since i study and write about cultural differences, in 2016 we were moving around the world. something we are interested in researching is how provocative and surprising corporate culture leading to this enormous innovation and flexibility could be implemented in countries around the world like japan and brazil, talking about how to take your corporate culture which might be useful to you at your headquarters and to figure out how to make that work in direct contrast with the national culture you move into so that is an

. >> plus a new memoir about working in silicon valley. we will talk with the author al about the y of the startup culture. >> why not skip that champagne and chocolate on s valentin day? fun alternatives to save her with your valentine. good evening and welcome. would begin tonight with the state of the democratic presidentialrace. this week bernie sanders was declared the winner in the new hampshire primarngnarrowly edout pete buttigieg and klobuchar finished third after a stro debate performance last week. joe biden support has slipped and rrelizabeth en's campaign is trlosing ouble after a poor showing in new hampshire and iowa. e candidatesturning their attention to south carolina and nevada, with large embers of black and latino voters. decided to skip the early g states and poor hundreds of millions of dollars on ads in california and other states. here to discuss this are paul mitchell the vice president of political data inc. and joining us from las vegas is the election reporter. welcome. >>> thank you for having us. >> let's sta

that's the whole ethos of silicon valley, by the way.u only give us erything, we will give you free stuff. there is a trade being made between the user and facebook. the question is, are they protecting that data? >> thank you, mark. >> narrator: facebook had been free to set its own privacy standards, because in the u.s. there are no overarching privacy laws that apply to this kind of data collection. but in 2010, authorities at the federal trade commission became concerned. >> in most other parts of the world, privacy is a right. in t united states, not exactly. >> narrator: at the ftc, david vladek was investigating whether facebook had been deceiving its users. what he found was that facebook had been sharing users' personal data with so called "third-party developers"-- companies that built games and apps for the platform. >> and our view was that, you know, it's fine for facebook to collect this data, but sharing this data with third parties without consent was a no-no. >> but at facebook, of course, we believe that our users shoul

is there anything else we can use to explain why dreamers are getting a tough time in silicon valley? >> i found three reasons why. the first is there is a certain bias where recruiters are financially incentivized -- >> because they might not stay. >> because they might not stay. most recruiters look for people that want to stay at least six months and most people that get hired by technology companies are people that look like the executives or leaders of the companies. the second thing is that there's not enough financial support for the diversity programs in silicon valley, even though most of the technology companies are very up front and loud about how much they support diversity. but that's not actually the ca case. >> i urge everyone to read about what jose has written about carlos and latin engineers in general. in the meantime, garcia is new to the show. you are with our parent company, nbc news. you came from cnn, right? >> correct. >> and you came from new york. give us the new york to san francisco comparison. >> my favorite subject. >> silicon valley is very tech focused

valley, second harvest food bank of silicon valley.ith me is blanca garza jacobs, my old pal here at telemundo. blancita, welcome back to the airwaves. first of all, well, first, welcome back, como estas? blanca garza jacobs: [speaking in spanish]. i am so happy and so grateful to be with you, thank you so much for having me. damian: yeah, for those of you who might remember, blancita was with us on telemundo channel 48, she's one of our greatest anchors here. so, tell us about you, you have a new venture here. tell us what you've been doing since you left the news. blanca: well, my friend, let me tell you, my idea was that i was going to start traveling with my musician husband all over the world and stuff like that, and just have that life. but then so i left telemundo at the end of november, and i had the opportunity to travel with him everywhere he went. the last trip we took was to indonesia. and the last week of february, when we came back, it was the 2nd of march, the week after we were in shelter in place, and we've been here.

funding in silicon valley went to black start-up tech firms, and that's far from the only troubling stat. >> zero, number of black women employed by ten large silicon valley technology companies. >> reporter: the study by san jose state's sociology found the disparities are systemic and start with disparities in education. he found blacks and hispanics in silicon valley experience much higher dropout rates than their white counterparts. that's not all. >> in math projectcy, 57% of black kids and 75% of latino kids are no proficient in math, compared to 31% of white kids not proficient in math. >> reporter: jethro moore with the naacp says the digital divide -- >> in the lower east side there are places people cannot afford computers or technology. the technology is not up to date. >> reporter: he would like to see high-tech companies invest more in minority kids helping them to get internships and eventually hiring them. dr. meyers lipton says he plans to issue the silicon valley pain index every year to hold schools and businesses accountable for changing a broken system. >> you ha

we come out of the silicon valley culture. less thans point, half of our employees are silicon valley. so it is super important to what we do. about two thirds of our spending is on content, and we have a majority of employees in hollywood. we really are an entertainment company. of course, all monitored and companies are tech powered -- all modern companies are tech powered. and animation, now they have disney plus. all the entertainment companies are getting tech. >> i think i will add to that. when i started working with netflix, they were just getting ready for this enormous international expansion, which was quite interesting for me since i study cultural differences. in 2016, we are moving all over the world. one of the things we write about in the books that i was very interested in researching was how this provocative and surprising corporate culture that would lead to this enormous innovation and flexibility could be implemented in countries around the world, like in japan and singapore and brazil. we talk in the book

what is the level of collaboration or friendship among ceos in silicon valley? >> guest: is quite variable i am sure. particularly the three people that you mentioned i've had long-standing relationships with but i would say silicon valley is a very competitive place and netflix doesn't compete. we compete with other entertainment companies like disney and hbo and it's all very friendly because it's not too competitive whereas again with entertainment companies they can be more challenging relationship >> host: we can't finish this without talking about my favorite person in the book and that was patty mccord. did you have a chance to talk to patty mccord? >> guest: patty is a great storyteller. she has an incredible memory so reed i say i just can't remember but i wasn't always calling patty. >> host: who is she mr. hastings? >> guest: patty mccord was our founding head of h.r. who was with us over a decade who haiyan aired a lot of these ideas and pushed us that we could be great for employees if we focus on giving them a vocal inquirer meant -- vocal requirem

, silicon valley editor at "the verge."ternoon, gentlemen. carl, i remember sitting with you 20 years ago in the boardroom of the "san jose mercury news," as we were looking at the dotcom implosion and issues related you have seen a lot and the organization you lead, which represents 3508 or so big companies in the valley, where does this rank and what kind of a recovery are the leaders there telling you they expect? >> thank you in my role as ceo for the past 23 years, we have seen very steep and deep economic downturns. the dotcom bust of 2000 through 2002 saw 119,000 job losses in the barrier, and then in 2008 through 2010, similar amount of job losses, took 82 months to get those jobs back. we think this one may be even steeper and deeper, because it's not just an economic downturn, it's because of this global pandemic and health crisis that we're experiencing, and it's harder to know when there's going to be treatments and cures to help turn this around >> but carl, at the same time, silicon valley is very different no

on harmful content there's a question about which framework you use ah yes yes as these standards silicon valley punt on 3rd down approach rather than you know make a hard decision hey let's let the government make it for us that way we can be the babyface no matter what the outcome. but what poor results didn't realize is that one of the new regulations both democrats and republicans and the u.s. government is contemplating isn't going to just let facebook off the hook for policing free free speech it's it's going to possibly wipe out free on line speech entirely you see on wednesday this week u.s. attorney william barr convened a workshop featuring many of the tech companies critics to explore potential changes to section 230 of the communications decency act which was passed back in 1996 and that is a long time critic of section $230.00 attorney general barsa could instruct his justice department to explore ways to limit the provision which per tax on line companies from liability for user generated content meanwhile the kings of silicon valley are quickly realizing that all is now wel

>> well, i've been in silicon valley 22 years and you might notice i don't have a silicon valley accent. i'm originally from ireland. i want to get my agriculture credentials out early here. i don't want to be accused of being a tech city slicker. eight and nine and ten years of age i drove my horse tractor. i bailed hay in ireland. i worked on a dairy when i was about 14 or 15. my early years were in agriculture. that's where i got my big values. >> right. >> in silicon valley, look, i had an opportunity to be there for basically a revolution of the smartphone. i think everybody in the room here today has a smartphone in their hand. it's changed our lives. but, you know, in the '90s that didn't exist, and we had to kind of project forward to say okay, will this -- how will this happen? we looked at some of the key trends in terms of connectivity and how that was going to project forward, driving costs down and kind of getting the size of computing to fit in your palm and that was how they called the company. we invented the smartphone and created about a $5 billion business from that,

. >> and the state of silicon valley. a decade of incredible growth. >> and 63 days until tax day. michael finney is live ready to help. >> $1,000. >> that's one guy talking about how much he's spent on fixing his car after it was broken into in san francisco. now the dna wants $1.5 million for window replacement. that would pay for roughly 5,000 windows. consider there were about 25,000 break-ins in 2019. bottom line, it's not a lot. >> thanks for joining us. this could be part of the solution, although it does have its critics. it is one way to build a better bay area. >> let's to go lauren martinez with the story. lauren? >> reporter: a fun of $1.5 million will go toward san francisco residents only. it will help cover the staff that will be in charge of managing these funds, conducting repairs. >> 70% of the cars serviced at in and out auto glass in san francisco are from car break-ins. >> every day. >> reporter: to help victims of this crime, san francisco's district attorney's office is asking the city to fund a budget of $1.5 million that will rei will burst victims of car b

60% of all tech workers in silicon valley.o, this represents a very serious threat to the workforce. >> and the concern is that talented workers will then go to companies in other countries. the ban is temporary. the plan is to have it in place until the end of the year. reporting live in san mateo, amy hollyfield, >> amy, thank you. >>> 2:00 p.m. today to respond to the league if they can report to camps by july 1st. our sister network espn reports that multiple players agree to the call and the league health and safety protocol. yesterday owners voted to implement a 60-game season. now, players would receive full prorated salaries, which they agreed to back in march. and if this all comes together, opening day would likely be during the final week of july. >>> when "hamilton" gets released on disney plus, it will have a pg-13 rating. people who heard the show or the soundtrack they know they drop the f word several times which would have required a r-rating.. but "hammilton"hamilton" creato swearing down to just one f-word b

of hewlett packard but we all know what silicon valley is now is that there's human feces all over the sidewalks because of these ultra social justice warrior sort of programs that are party to there and it's you know it's really horrible to go there if you've ever been you have to see it to believe it so they're fleeing for low tax texas right the smug and the restless the smug are leaving and the restless are living in the. coastal areas of smugness and the border is being rearranged all the pieces on the board silicon valley is being broken up wall streets being broken up all the old power centers are being rearranged the fracturing rearranging so it's on one hand it's very healthy because the only thing missing is a total collapse of the dollar which is coming and then we get the restart you know reboot from scratch but i'm not too surprised and you know somebody else is fleeing high tax social justice for a. air nanny state new york city manhattan were all of those condescending people who are telling you to trust the experts and the experts are now telling you that there's aliens

like how do you find out why these businesses are losing money and it's not just us unicorns and silicon valley by the way it's fracking max and i have covered this with such exasperating like why do these investors continue to lose money year after year for 10 years and of course with the 1st business to basically introduce this model with private equity and private equity are like the capo de capo there that's where tim geithner goes to work that's where ben bernanke us work that's where former presidents go to work is for private equity groups and private equity what they do is they find nice healthy profitable companies with pension funds and huge amount of assets like sears remember sears had all these. 100 something year old company with lots of beautiful buildings worth a lot lots of real estate and they strip all this out swap it for that and lo and behold it falls apart under a big debt load and so my theory is that the larger picture of the money laundering is. the system is a fee out debt based system is that putting in essentially what i'll say is feudalism and laundering and

that's one of the reasons i moved out of silicon valley.s got a bit of a mono culture, expensive place to live, it is hard for your employees to get by, it's hard to find get your kids into good schools. that's why i'm in orange county and started oculus before i sold to facebook. there's a reason i came back as kind of as soon as i was able. >> hey, palmer, you talk about being an optimist on technology. facebook's global affairs and communication chief nick clegg has a post that reads we may never be able to prevent hate from appearing on facebook sblier, but we are getting better at stopping it all the time how would you characterize the ability of technology to accomplish what they're obviously under pressure to do >> oh, man, this is outside of my area of expertise i follow this stuff as a layperson, but i'm not much of an expert on content moderation schemes and auto detection and all that stuff i'm glad that they're at least trying their best to stop some of the things like terrorist groups and things that are really harmful to peopl