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transportation is easier to commodityize. the services industry in general is a $400 billion industry. it is massive and untapped. it needs to be brought online and so that's what we're looking an ahead. >> uber gets a lot of push back largely the industry that doesn't want it to be disruptive but a lot of drivers clearly like it. you don't have an organized industry that is pushing back on you, that says hey, you're taking real handy men out of the equation. >> yes, it's almost as if we're creating new opportunities rather than taking anything away from folks. that's what we continually hear from our community. you know, as an example we have very successful handy men who have been on the platform for six years when i very first started. they used to work full time for bigger company. during the economic down turn in 2008 they were laid off. found the task rabbit platform. they started to build their reputation and clientele and business there. they would never go back to working for someone else again. now it's a way to pro
transportation is easier to commodityize. the services industry in general is a $400 billion industry. it is massive and untapped. it needs to be brought online and so that's what we're looking an ahead. >> uber gets a lot of push back largely the industry that doesn't want it to be disruptive but a lot of drivers clearly like it. you don't have an organized industry that is pushing back on you, that says hey, you're taking real handy men out of the equation. >> yes, it's almost as...
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the core business to some degree is experiencing some commodityization. even though you're getting significant demand, prices continue to drop. and i think at the same time you've got a company that's investing for the next 100 years and it's really difficult to reconcile those two things if you're an outsider, not there seeing how these things all come together. going forward, google needs to acknowledge that. i think they probably either need to start reining in some spending offering setting expectations differently so people can get their heads around what the cycles will look like for this company that's investing for something that's over the horizon but has a core business that's changing today. >> the skoal ssh sales growth is still there but the decline in that rate of growth is pronoubsed. >> yeah you look at a lot of other companies in commodtizing businesses, those businesses grow they grow really, really well but the margins continue to drop. google's experiencing that but they're not providing a lot of transparency on the progress in moderni
the core business to some degree is experiencing some commodityization. even though you're getting significant demand, prices continue to drop. and i think at the same time you've got a company that's investing for the next 100 years and it's really difficult to reconcile those two things if you're an outsider, not there seeing how these things all come together. going forward, google needs to acknowledge that. i think they probably either need to start reining in some spending offering setting...
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i think me of commodityized every market. from double short, triple short, treasuries. corporate.n the real game. you're in an alley down the street kind of laying dice. i think that makes the highs higher and the lows lower. >> rick we're going to start seeing people sitting out this year from the fed. i can feel it starting already. the thing that makes we think maybe they're set to do it. i think they can get away with it either way. but what scares me remember we thought they were in somewhere where they weren't able to get out. we thought they weren't able to get out because we didn't think the economy was going respond. the economy at least here seems to have responded 5% gdp. 5.6 unemployment. which looks like they can get out. how do you get out when everybody's at zero? how do you get out at zero? >> not only that you have wages. we're waiting to see january and dis. >> they can't get out. >> at the moment how do you go to the american public and say it's time to raise rate's. >> believe me the american public isn't the problem here. it's wall street at the top of the pyr
i think me of commodityized every market. from double short, triple short, treasuries. corporate.n the real game. you're in an alley down the street kind of laying dice. i think that makes the highs higher and the lows lower. >> rick we're going to start seeing people sitting out this year from the fed. i can feel it starting already. the thing that makes we think maybe they're set to do it. i think they can get away with it either way. but what scares me remember we thought they were in...