beckerman, ben brody, thank you for joining us. speaking of protecting customer has paid a hefty price for failing to do so in 2016. they paid $146 million over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 24 million u.s. comfort -- customers. hackers obtained driver's numbers, andne addresses for tens of millions of users. uber failed to disclose the reach for more than a year after disclosing -- discovering the hack. toernet unicorn about complete another round of funding. we will hear from the cfo and a minute. -- in a minute. you like us, check us out on bloomberg radio. this is bloomberg. ♪ selina: on light -- online payment and financial company strike is about to complete its latest round of financing. what a valuation. $20 billion, got to hand it to you. what is interesting, it is serving what, 80% of americans? what the quarter of a billion is going to be used for. >> stripe is a technology builds that tilts in -- economic infrastructure. we are three decades into the consumer infrastructure. only 3% of gdp is on

bloomberg's ben brodie.for full coverage of the senate tech hearings beginning at 9:30 a.m. new york time. happening right now on capitol hill on the senate judiciary committee is holding the first of several hearings with brett kavanaugh. withattle erupted democrats to manning to adjourn -- demanding to adjourn. >> as the national archive finishes, and to have for the first time in my 44 years here a have somebody say there is claim of executive privilege when the president hasn't made such a claim just put everything under doubt. why are we rushing? caroline: greg, calls that it's a sharad -- a charade and mockery of the norm, they discussed the potential nominee. greg: it's remarkable of how little of this discussion is about brett kavanaugh. democrats are learning about the process and there are millions of documents that could be relevant to his nomination that they have not seen yet that have been withheld by republicans. , when iter degree hafford it -- what happened in favoring democratic interest in

emily: bloomberg's ben brody as well as mark bergen and kate mitchell of scale venture partners.ell, facebook, google, and twitter recently all took down iranian government backed accounts meant to influence global affairs. the cyber company they have to thank? fire eye. our conversation with the c.e.o. is next. and after three weeks of chaos elon musk says he won't be attempting to take tesla private after all but investors and regulators still have a lot to question. this is bloomberg. emily: it began with the news facebook had shut down 652 iranian and russian backed accounts trying to spread global misinformation. then twitter and global's turn taking action against 284 and 52 accounts respectively. and it provoked the following reaction from facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg. >> security is not something that you ever fully solve. our adversaries are sophisticated and well fund eand we have to constantly keep improving to stay ahead. the shift we've made from react toiv proactive detection is a big change and will make facebook safer for everyone over time. emily: one company

ben brody from bloomberg, and then philip crowder from france 24. >> thank you for having me. have you thought about a successor? is he sitting to your right? all, i will not pick a successor, but i have not retired yet. somebody pressed me the other day about retiring. i said if you see me lying in a box with flowers around it, i am only thinking about it. i have a lot to do and a lot of energy. we have very competent people at the chamber. if i fall off the chair things , will keep moving. there are candidates inside and outside. i would not worry about having a very successful leadership. linda: final question. >> he was mentioned by the u.s. president yesterday as well. praise, i think, when he called him nasty and a tough cookie. there seem to be praise there from the president. turning up to negotiate and talk. i wonder what your assessment is to what came afterward. are there actual negotiations happening, is that a good trade relationship between the u.s. and european union, can it get better? tom: i will answer the question on your last phrase. of course it can get be

. -- and ben brodie. >> he might have a little bit of a point in that some of the new conservative sitesre farther out on the right, more conspiracy minded, probably aren't showing up very much in google search results. beyond that, fox news, which of course he loves and watches religiously, comes up all the time. we in dc, we hear this from politicians all the time. you only write the bad things. the answer is that is kind of what the news media does. it is a common critique and something we hear a lot from the president. emily: what has been the response from google? >> i was talking to some folks there that claim that this is outrageous, that the idea that google does this intentionally. they dealt with this two years ago with the notion that they were suppressing negative search results about hillary clinton. they did not come out at that time with a full endorsement, but privately they said that. part of the issue here is that google for 20 years has been pretty secretive about its algorithm and has not shared a lot of details. so that can flame these conspiracy theories. to ben's p