up next, meet jeff bezos's new shadow.e will tell you about this elite job and in the woman who is filling the role. ♪ ♪ emily: a developing story we are tracking today. senator rand paul protesting a renewal of the patriot act. is it all for show? the senate has not taken up the bill yet. it technically is not a filibuster. they are set to vote tomorrow on legislation that prohibits the nsa from collecting phone records in bulk. but the bill renews provisions of u.s. spying programs that expire on june 1. to a big shift at amazon. for the first time, jeff bezos' right hand man is a woman. maria renz was named as technical advisor to the ceo. also known as a "shadow." she has been at the company since 1999. she has worked on an array of projects. most recently, she is acting as ceo of the company that brought you diverse.com. what does her appointment mean for the future of leadership at amazon? i'm joined by my guests. jeanne, what you make of this? what can you tell us about maria renz and what she will be doing? g jeann

back to bezos. back to dell. if you're going to compare him to people that built companies that are $100 billion or more, that is pretty audacious. i would say, if i looked along a vector, he is most like bezos and i would say the business is most like amazon. it is not a facebook. it is an operational intensive business. but i find him to be most like jeff. he -- the thing that is least well understood about travis is he is an insanely good recruiter. jeff was always going into walmart and getting their cio, going in and getting the best people he possibly can. that is what travis has done. emily: when you think about the competitors like halo, just got out of the u.s. market, lyft and sidecar, do these companies stand a chance? bill: i don't know. i have often thought about it like this. first of all, a lot of the money goes to the driver. it is a lower margin business. if you will. i think it is tough to compete. i think travis is very competitive. emily: what else can uber do? we have seen them delivering chr

emily: what has surprised you most about amazon and jeff bezos, now almost 20 years later?ill: he has convinced wall street that he is playing this super long-term game, and they let him forgo profits for what is now 20 years. it kind of goes back to what we were talking about with the overfunded startups. he gets to play a different game because he has convinced them it is ok. emily: is it ok? bill: every investor gets to decide that on a daily basis. i think there were multiple periods in amazon's life where people doubted whether the model had long-term legs and they forced him to show more profitability, which he did, and then backed off of. emily: does it matter if amazon never turns a significant profit? bill: it only matters if wall street comes to doubt they can. emily: will amazon have the confidence of wall street indefinitely? bill: boy, i bet they will for a long time. imagine when we did the ipo, they were only selling books, right? i have been fortunate to work with a number of companies that have made a pass just being successful to where they have an ipo, an

this is an unmanned test flight from bezos' space startup called blue origin. he says the propulsion system -- the hydraulic system on the rocket booster lost pressure on the descent. it couldn't be recovered, but the crash itft itself did land safely by parachute. the president of blue origin says there's still probably a few years from taking people up into orbit. >>> there are people who call breast milk human breast milk liquid gold. that's because on open market it can sell for hundreds of dollars. it's being sold on the internet and it's being bought by all kind of people from mothers desperate to feed their babies to men with sexual fetishes. this freezer is full of alma's extra breast milk. she produed too much after her youngest daughter was born and didn't want it to go to waste. >> why not try to sell it to someone that might need it so i was hoping this might be extra supplemental income. >> she posted an add on only -- thebreast.com, a website promising women to sell or donate their breast milk. alma's price, $2.50 an ounce with a discount for any

amazon milk, amazon baby food -- we will see what jeff bezos has planned. should apple worry? xiaomi opens us to was about the companies plan to expand in the u.s. and the emerging class of social media celebrities. i will introduce you behind twitter's plan to create original content. that is ahead. now to the lead -- vr. those that only letters you need to know about what is next intact. that is according to a new report. i am talking about virtual reality. this week, it seems like everywhere you turned there were stories about companies pushing into vr technology. in 15 years, we could see virtual-reality everywhere from hospitals to the courtrooms if sales take off and prices come down. so far, facebook, google and microsoft have spent billions in brvr tech. years of development from companies and the markets price will hit the market soon. gene munster joins us and an investor at keenan partners in silicon valley. thank you for joining us. gene i will start with you. 15 years from now, you save er will be everywhere. are people ready? do people really want to strap these

we take a look at what jeff bezos has planned next. and should apple worry? a company's plans to expand in the u.s. i introduce you to the brains behind twitter's plan to create original content. that is ahead on "bloomberg west." now to our lead. vr. those are the only two letters you need to know about what is next in tech. i'm talking about virtual reality of course. this week it seemed like everywhere you turned, there were stories about companies pushing into vr technology. in 15 years, we could see it everywhere from the hospitals to the courtrooms. so far, facebook, google, microsoft has spent billions on vr tech. products will hit the market soon. joining me now to discuss his report is senior research analyst at piper jaffray and an investor at hainan partners and silicon valley. thank you for joining us. jean, 15 years from now, you say vr will be everywhere. are people ready? do people really want to appear and do virtual world? >> they are not ready now but they don't know what the value is for this and i think if they would understand what they c

how would you say bezos and musk stack up right now? who is in the lead?musk got out of the gate first so time will tell. emily: nothing like a billionaire war in space. spencer, thank you so much for joining us and thank you all for watching this edition of "bloomberg west." you can get all the latest headlines on your phone, tablet, bloomberg.com, and bloomberg radio. have a wonderful weekend. we will see you on monday. ♪ am from starburst entertainment. now you can go back in country history. with the biggest collection of life performance is ever -- performances ever. we present opry video classics. >> i am marty

coming up, jeff bezos has a new top advisor. for the first time it's a woman.e will tell you what it means for the future of the e-commerce giant. spotify, adding podcasts and videos, will it be enough to take on google and fend off apple? keep an eye on your robotics u engineers, especially ifber -- if uber is around. all of that ahead on "bloomberg west." breaking news, salesforce raising its sales forecast seeing the first and biggest first-quarter he's ever had, underscoring attractiveness as a potential takeover target. cory johnson is live in san francisco for you. looks like a strong report, we did hear from the salesforce president, no comment on the deal but they are 1000% focused on customer satisfaction? cory: that's a lot of percent. that's like 100% 10 times in a row. here is what i take away from the earnings report. compared to what was effective they would do, it's a little bit better than that, it typically is. the reaction in post-market trading is very muted compared to what we usually see. last quarter the stock jumped 12% and then down 12%

amazon that i was able to learn for nine years from one of the finest leaders of our time in jeff bezos. i took a risk to do something i loved and passionately believed in and i am very glad i did. doing what you love, pursuing your own path, is often the most unsettling option of the outset. the path that others have trouble before you, those are the path that have better visibility. they appear low risk, they play better with your neighbors, but do not fall for it. you are better than that and you have the strength to go your own way. remember, i know that each of you has moxie by the bucket loads. i made the decision in 2007 to jump into a new chapter. this time to build a team from day one and to help build a company with a mission to reimagine how television programming was delivered. we decided to call the company hulu. in the early days of the lunch -- launch, but the company and my decision to lead and help building were very publicly considered truly horrible, terrible ideas. we were called "clownco" by the smartest people of silicon valley. a digital counter ran on a most resp

bezos and rival billion or elon musk are both trying to travel there. the equipment so they can reuse it. they were not able to salvage some of the propulsion engines in this test. emily: the same thing happened with elon musk's spacex launch. it landed by the women was not -- but the equipment was not reasonable. who is in the lead? emily:spencer: musk got out of the gate first so time will tell. emily: nothing like a billionaire war in space. spencer, thank you so much for joining us and thank you all for watching this addition of "bloomberg west." even get all the latest headlines on your phone, tablet, bloomberg.com and bloomberg radio. have a wonderful weekend. we will see you on monday. ♪ >> from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: we begin this evening with baltimore. protests this week after freddie gray was killed in police custody. the baltimore police announced today that have completed an investigation into what happened and findings have been turned over to the state attorney. this reveals tensions between law enf

amazon found are jeff bezos launched his test rocket this week.>> and we'll have a preview of our sunday morning profile ahead. >> now it's time to show you some of the headlines around the globe. "roll call" looks at incidents of weapons being left. in two instances guns were left in the u.s. capitol and in a third instant, a gun was found in plane site at the capitol headquarters. >> george w. bush kicked off the warrior 100 k, that's a 100 kilometer bike ride at his ranch in crawford yesterday. >> britain's "guardian" says an italian man hung up with the pope called twice. he thought it was a hoax. the pope often calls people who are sick. he said the pope laughed it off and said it was funny. >> can you imagine? no, this is the pope. sure, sure. >> another mom is showing tough love in georgia. she called police on her son after he was disrespectful to his teacher. she asked officers to pretend to arrest the 10-year-old to scare him. pictures posted to facebook show it worked. a baltimore mom was lauded this week for pulling her son off the str

coming up, amazon milk, amazon baby food -- we will look at what jeff bezos may have planned it next.apple worry? xiaomi's hugo barra opens us to us about the company's plan to expand in the u.s. and the emerging class of social media celebrities. i will introduce you to the brains behind twitter's plan to create original content.

jeff bezos launched a test rocket this week. get into the space business. >>> one thing you haven't seen on youtube. we'll go behind the scenes with which video you'll be talking about. that's ahead. >>> "roll call" looks at instances of guns in capitalthe capitol. two guns were left behind in a bathroom. in a third instance, a janitor found a weapon in plain sight at the capitol police headquarters. >> that's not very comforting. >>> "the dallas morning news" says george w. bush resume as bike ride with the wounded warriors. it's a 100-kilometer bike ride at his ranch in crawford texas yesterday. it honors the bravery of servicemembers wounded in afghanistan and iranqiraq. >>> britain's "guardian" says a man hung up on the pope twice. he often calls up when he hears about problems. the man apologized and the pope said the mistake was funny snooki. >> i can see why it is a joke. >> really, this is the pope. please don't hang up. >>> affiliate wrbl says another mom is showing tough love. in georgia chiquitahill called the police

why amazon's jeff bezos is getting into space. >>> and the rain clouds are pretty thick, ♪ there is no in this country. nothing is reserved for anyone. it's all just out there waiting for someone to reach out and take it. ♪ and the ones who do. these are the kings and queens of america. ♪ ♪ deidre & the dark - classic girl plays in the background ♪ a great entrance never goes out of style. dresses start at $25. the eva mendes collection. exclusively at new york and company. >>> welcome back. today an 11-year-old boy facing charges. he's accused of firing a gun inside a middle school. this happened yesterday in new london connecticut. that student admitted to firing the shot. other students were moved to safety when school officials found the gun. the boy is facing several charges. >>> amazon ceo and "washington post" owner jeff bezos is headed into the commercial space race. i don't mean real estate here. this is an unmanned test flight from blue origin. he says the rocket's hydraulic system lost on descent. blue origin's president says there's still probably a few years from taking pe

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i would love to have a conversation with jeff bezos about the self-destructive nature of this particular strategy. emily: amazon is arguing that books must be cheaper in this environment where there are so many media distractions. do you have any sympathy for their argument? malcolm: complete sympathy for it. i just don't understand why, in order to get to that preferred outcome, they have chosen to screw over the people who bring revenue to their business and customers to their site. emily: do you need a traditional publisher for your next book? is there another way? malcolm: is this an industry that is going to be disrupted, the answer is absolutely. will i have the same arrangement for my next book that i had for this one? unlikely. but the arrangement i had for "david and goliath" is better than the arrangment i had for books that came before it. i can imagine a world without traditional publishers, but i can't imagine a world without traditional bookstores. i would like to see a revision of the publishing environment in a way that ensures the continued success of the physical bookst

coming up, jeff bezos has a new top advisor. for the first time, it's a woman.ell you what it means for the future of the e-commerce giant. spotify, adding podcasts and videos, will it be enough to take on google and fend off apple? keep an eye on your robotics u engineers, especially ifber -- if uber

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coming up, jeff reseau's -- jeff bezos has a new partner, and it's a woman.u what it means for the future of amazon. spotify adding video and podcasts to take on google and fend off apple. you may want to keep an eye on your robotics engineer if uber is around. it seems the company won't stop at anything to build its own self driving cars. all that ahead. we begin with breaking news.

>> jeff bezos from amazon is a millionaire. how is his competitors going compete with his science project? >>> neil is next, stay tuned. >>> to baltimore and the question everyone is asking at this hour not what becomes of those police officers charged in freddie gray's death, but why there aren't more moms like this one trying to prevent the situation from even getting worse. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. she is the mom with whom it is safe to say you do not want to mess. particularly if you're her son, and you're messing around with the police at a riot. >> at first i felt like i was embarrassed but now going through all this that i'm going through i feel like my mother do care about me. i shouldn't have been there. >> toya graham taking matters into her own hands you might recall grabbing her son with her own hands. in a week of violence and protest who knew this single mom of six would emerge it's unlikely hero. ben stein, charl i-payne, adam and charlie. what did you think? >> i love her. i tweeted out mom of the ye

>> jeff bezos from amazon is a millionaire. how is his competitors going compete with his science project? >>> neil is next, stay tuned. >>> to baltimore and the question everyone is asking at this hour not what becomes of those police officers charged in freddie gray's death, but why there aren't more moms like this one trying to prevent the situation from even getting worse. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. she is the mom with whom it is safe to say you do not want to mess. particularly if you're her son, and you're messing around with the police at a riot. >> at first i felt like i was embarrassed but now going through all this that i'm going through i feel like my mother do care about me. i shouldn't have been there. >> toya graham taking matters into her own hands

the alternate model is the amazon model, the jeff bezos model.f you want a desk, it is a recycled door on two sawhorses. go crazy. we are much more on the side of, let's get out the sawhorse desks. and maybe tamp down on the spending. emily: you had a spirited back-and-forth with the activist investor, carl icahn. last week, you called him evil captain kirk. he said some things. i wonder though, do some of these activist investors actually have the same concerns you do? mark: i think they are a result, not a cause. they are a consequence of companies being very cheap on the stock market. they are a consequence of companies needing to restructure. or needing to react to market changes. the activist is a little bit of a sideshow to the core question of how is the company being run. emily: is there a disconnect between wall street and silicon valley? is there a fundamental misunderstanding? mark: i think in the long run -- i do not think in the long run there is a misunderstanding. emily: i'm curious about your thoughts on payments. it is an area th

emily: did you idolize jeff bezos and bill gates? aaron: yeah, everybody knew the bill gates story kind of by heart. what's cool about microsoft is that you can actually go and they let you be a product tester. so a lot of people in high school would actually go to microsoft and test out new products and then they would give you like a free mouse at the end of it. emily: ok, you met your co-founders in middle school. tell me about that. aaron: so, dylan smith, kind of the first co-founder of box who's now our chief financial officer, we actually played trumpet together in middle school. neither of us were any good at that. and then throughout middle school and high school though, i did a lot of stuff on the internet with jeff and later in high school with sam ghods. emily: tell me how box began. aaron: if you go back about ten years ago, not a lot of innovation was happening. so it was really, really hard to do basic things like, how do you share your files, how do you access your data from anywhere, how do you collaborate and work w

. >>> amazon ceo's and "washington post" owner jeff bezos is headed into the space race. this is an unmanned test flight from his start-up blue origin. he said the rocket's hydraulic system lost pressure on descent and couldn't be saved. they're a few years from taking people into orbit. >>> all right. stay with us. "news4 today" continues at 5:00 a.m. >> "news4 today" starts now. >> good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. it's 5:00 which means the curfew in baltimore is once again lifted and this comes just as we're learning some new information about one of the officers involved in the freddie gray case. and caught on camera, a man brutally beating a 69-year-old at a metro station and it's not the first time he's been accused of something like this. what we're learning about the suspect and the technology that found him. >>> and the construction that could put a big kink in your commute. megan mcgrath and melissa mollet have team coverage of that this morning. >>> right now, will it's get you up to -- let's get you up to speed on the weather headlines. tom? >> it's kind of d

bob: to quote "big bang theory," i think jeff bezos is one lap away from being a super villain.er] betty: he laughs like one, too. olivia: is ait hubris? is he jealous of branson and musk? what we know about spacex is they can't get the expulsion part to come back to ground safely. bob: so they can recycle it, and that would cut costs. betty: who are all these people lining up to want to experience space? bob: it is strange to have it become its entertainment thing. i want to go up in space for a minute. i want a trampoline. betty: as bob said, it is the .001%. will buffett repeat his song? ♪ betty: we continue our countdown to the opening bell. we are now halfway through, which means we it is time for our deep dive. at number five bank -- at number 5 -- berkshire hathaway. ceo warren buffett calls it the woodstock for capitalists. he attended the coca-cola shareholders meeting earlier this week, and he did this. warren buffett: ♪ i would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony i would like to buy the world a coke and keep it company ♪ betty: taking me back to matt ho

jeff bezos and elon musk are both trying to travel there.e the agreements they can reuse it. they were not able to -- the equipment so they can reuse it. they were not able to salvage the repulsion agreements. emily: the same thing happened with the musk spacex launch. who is in the lead? spencer: elon musk got of the date first. time will tell. -- out of the gate first. time will tell. emily: nothing like a billionaire's war in space. spencer, thank you for joining us. thank you for watching this edition of "bloomberg west." get all the latest headlines on bloomberg.com and bloomberg radio. have a wonderful weekend. we will see you on monday. ♪ . mark: to our viewers in the united states and those around the world, welcome. let's get you to the top stories we are following on this friday may 1. a swift and stunning announcement on this friday. marilyn mosby says the death

charlie: of all these people like jess bezos and elon musk who want to build vehicles in space -- don'taugh at me. neil: no, somebody has got to do that. you want someone there. they affect how other people think. in classes i have spoken to, one day i went to work at spacex. they are the smartest kids. i want to explore what he is doing. i want to invent a new car. the next rocket. that is the influence that fuses a culture of when you go into space in a big way. everything else comes in after that. charlie: when you get up in the morning -- neil: i hope the phone doesn't ring. i want to play with my kids. fsdate with my wife. then go to my lab. charlie: are you serious? neil: what happens when i get a phone call because something switched in that universe and they want a soundbite for the evening news -- i serve those interests. i'm a servant for the public appetite for news. i don't go door-to-door. i will never tell someone who to vote for. that's not what i do. i'm an educator. charlie: when they continue to do cosmos was carl a mentor of yours? neil: that is an easy way out for pe

blue origin owner jeff bezos called it a success and plans to send the unmanned spacecraft up dozens of times before test pilots will be used. this weekend we celebrate international space day, and erica pitzi spoke to a former astronaut that commanded the international space station. >> the pioneers of the first rocket flights, the space walks were the ones that paved the way. rockets were unreliable. space suits invented them, they tried them out for the first time. it was not without complications. those of us that followed in footsteps, including me salute him. we look forward to seeing him here in houston for the celebration of the 50 years of space walks. >>> we saw several missions involving robotic provisions. how important are these missions? >> they are important. there's this talk of a human exploration programme versus the unmanned probes. to me they dovetail. we need both. we need the unmanned probes to measure the environment, let us know what we are in for, before the humans come behind. you see that on morse and other areas of the solar system. >> international space

saying a similar argument in the past for amazon.com generates enormous reserves but maybe to jeff bezos' credit, builds the company bigger and bigger and yet to make serious money. is that the model that others hope to follow amazon takes a lot of time. amazon has a 230, $240 price. >> or the facebook model which is to make money at the million dollar point and explode and become a utility. neil: or explode into nothingness? . >> probably. other than the big companies uber has a growing customer base. one of the biggest challenges is their ceo who has been very volatile, very talented guy, but he also has had bumps along the road in terms of dealing with the customer base making sure people feel safe in their cars. if he's able to get through that smoothly you will see the valuation continue to grow. neil: you get a sense from $50 billion out that it has a frothy feel to it. >> no doubt. neil: enough isolated cases that you can say yeah but in the agsait gate now? >> that's true. this morning roger mcnamee a legendary investor said he thinks he can get uber for cheaper once it goes publ

charlie: which raises the question, of all these people like jess bezos and elon musk who want to buildicles in space -- don't laugh at me. neil: no, i am with you. somebody has got to do that. whether or not they will succeed you want someone there. , they affect how other people think. in classes i have spoken to, one day i want to work for spacex. they are the smartest kids. i want to explore what he is doing. i want to invent a new car. i want to invent the next rocket. that's the influence that i am telling you infuses into a culture when you go into space in a big way. everything else comes in after that. charlie: is that part of your mission? neil: i don't have a mission. i would rather just stay home. charlie: when you get up in morning -- neil: when i get up in the morning, i hope the phone doesn't ring. i want to play with my kids. date with my wife. then go to my lab. charlie: are you serious? comeon. neil: what happens when i get a phone call because something twitched in the universe and they want a soundbite for the evening news? or a documentarian has an idea that they wa

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