emily: founder, ceo, mad scientist. max levchin is one of silicon valley's most iconic entrepreneurs. he has played a role in some of tech lost biggest successes, from yahoo! to yelp. today, you can find him in his innovation lab, tackling issues like fertility, health care, and banking. many years ago, max levchin had no country to call home. he fled the soviet union, and ever an entrepreneur, built a new life in america. joining me today is paypal cofounder, max levchin. thanks for joining us. max levchin: thank you for inviting me. emily: you were born in the ukraine. how much of a connection do you still feel? max levchin: anytime i am told -- oh, you are russian, i feel the need to say no, i am a jew who was born in ukraine. it is still a part of what defined me. on occasion, i miss it. emily: what do you miss? max levchin: the people are very genuine. emily: what would you be doing if you were still there today? max levchin: probably some form of coding. i probably would have started a company. emily: have you bee

emily: what is that? reid: so, dungeons & dragons. emily: ok. so, when i was -- and actually, the way i got into dungeons & dragons was my dad, when i was nine, hired a babysitter for me who introduced me to dungeons & dragons. and i was like, 'ooh, creating new worlds, and thinking of how stories come together' -- and kind of like an interactive novel. emily: so you went to stanford. reid: yes. emily: you majored in symbolic systems. marissa mayer also majored in symbolic systems. what is that? reid: so, symbolic systems -- it's a unique major to stanford. and, it's -- the simple explanation is cognitive science and artificial intelligence -- although most people will think, 'that isn't simple.' but really, it's actually a step deeper, which is -- part of what is transforming the world are these notions of systems of symbols. whether they're computer programs, whether it's mathematics and logic, whether it's models of how we think and psychology -- i think i was the eighth or ninth person to acquire the major. emily: so while you are at stanfor

emily: founder, ceo, mad -- emily: you were born in the ukraine. how much of a connection do you still feel to the people and the country? max: anytime i am told, oh, you are russian, i feel the need to say, no, i am a jew who was born in ukraine. it is still a part of what defined me. i haven't been back in a long time. on occasion, i miss it. emily: what do you miss? max: the people are very genuine. they don't pretend to be anything they're not. emily: what would you be doing if you were still there today? max: probably writing code of some form. i probably would have started a company. more or less. emily: have you been following what has been going on their recently? are you worried about a civil war? max: yes, i am very worried. i do not think it is possible not to follow it. as an engineer, i always think through a solution -- it is not obvious that there is one. it seems to be at least somewhat contained, but it is horrifying. emily: how does that affect you? max: it makes me worry about people i grew up with. i don't feel like i can help t

emily: and you escaped. max: my parents found out through a friend of a friend in the government that something really awful happened. at the chernobyl power station. because i had a family full of physicists, nuclear power station accidents are no joke. she packed me and my younger brother onto a train and sent us off the next morning. you would get tested as you were coming off the train, a homemade geiger counter. one of my feet was setting off a geiger counter. people were saying, we may have to cut off his foot. beeping means he's radioactive. apparently there was a rose thorn on the bottom of my sneaker. it was a pan-am flight. from moscow. we were going through the final border control. they said, you can never come back. my grandmother said, yes. we know. emily: by the time you got here, the soviet union collapsed. max: my passport was a passport to no country. emily: the paypal story is sort of long and legend. looking, was selling the right thing? ♪ emily: you came to silicon valley with no job, no

emily: short lived. if amazon came to you and said we wanted to give you season three, like we did with "arrested development," would you do it? aaron: i would. you just happened to name all the right elements. from time to time i think about not so much doing the third season of "sports night" but doing "sports night" again. taking the exact same premise, behind the scenes at an espn type place and doing it again. emily: have you pitched it? aaron: no, i just did. this is the first time i have said it out loud. i just pitched it to you. emily: we will let the networks know. should traditional networks be worried? aaron: i would not want to paint them all with the same brush. i think there are some very good things on network tv, but i think that people just don't watch tv the same anymore. this generation, abc, nbc, cbs, just doesn't mean anything. i take anywhere from six to eight showers a day. i am not exaggerating. i'm not a germophobe. it has nothing to do with germs. ♪ emily: you were born in new

emily: he is known as tech's turnaround guy. blackberry ceo john chen has spent more than 30 years working in enterprise technology. famously taking the enterprise software maker sybase from the verge of death to $5.8 billion powerhouse. now he is taking on what some say is an impossible job, leading blackberry's comeback. can he prove them wrong? and just how did he become the tech industry's fixer? my guest is today on "studio 1.0" is blackberry ceo john chen. thank you for joining us. john: thank you for having me. emily: even though you're running blackberry in canada, the bay area is where you call home. john: yes. emily: you technically live here. john: i live here. my family lives here. i live all around. it is our headquarters in waterloo, canada. emily: how much time do you spend here versus waterloo? john: i try to spend about one week every month in waterloo. we still have 5,000, 6,000 people there in canada, between waterloo and mississauga and ottawa. we are building a site here in silicon valley. so that is -- i sp

emily: chamath in a box.th: as we become successful, our goal is to have a pool of capital to reframe how many of these broken things should work. and that is the end game. emily: a few years ago, you called out airbnb's founders for taking money off the table and not giving employees an opportunity. what did you take away from that? chamath: i took a lot away from that. that was really -- if there was anyway where we could wind back the clock and that wouldn't have happened that's the one thing i , wish would never have happened. it wasn't fair to the team. it wasn't fair to me. i said what i said. i wanted them to hear what i said. that's all i wanted. emily: do you wish you didn't say it? chamath: no, but i wish we did not have to deal with it in a public record. emily: were bridges burned there? chamath: not bridges burned. but it's like -- well, probably, yes. it was a crappy thing all the way around. emily: this is my question. you had a problem with how they were taking money off the table. is silicon

emily: seven days a week? reid: yes. emily: you have had so many wins already. do you do all of this? reid: the way i think about it is how do you have a life that was -- that you are proud about having lived it? that you think that what you did in the world was worth it? emily: you think about steve jobs at apple, mark zuckerberg at facebook, larry and sergey at google. is there a magic that a founder brings that would be lost if you weren't here? reid: i think so. every founder is useful. because of that vision, that commitment, the willingness to take bold risks. emily: you joined greylock as a partner in 2009. and you have a really unique investing philosophy in that the best companies to invest in are actually the companies you don't agree on. reid: most people think that the way that a venture partnership works is everyone votes to do a deal, and when everyone says yes, this is a good deal, then that is the deal that happens. however, the best deals are not all where everyone's voting, 'yes, i would do the deal, too.' the really bold deals that transform i

emily: like what?alcolm: there are many cases where you have a responsibility as a thinking person to constantly revisit and revise what you believe. the minute you are unwilling to contradict things you've believed in the past, you've ceased to be a thinking person. emily: would you rewrite all of the books if you could? malcolm: yeah, sure, if i had the leisure, i would absolutely go back and revisit and reshape and reargue things because we know so much more. emily: has your life adapted based on some of the conclusions that you've drawn? malcolm: a little bit. i was so impressed while writing "blink" about the potential for bias and dysfunction in our snap judgment that i very actively try to question my first impression of things. when i meet people, the conclusions i draw about them, spending time to understand people's behavior from their perspective. emily: one of your chapters that has had great impact is from "outliers," where you present a study of canadian hockey players and the oldest play

emily: three kids?hamath: three kids in a two-bedroom 400 square foot apartment, lived above a laundromat. and they grinded it out. they did everything. they put us in good schools. they found a way to give us music lessons. i mean, how do you do that on $32,000? emily: your mother was a housekeeper, right? chamath: my mom was a housekeeper, initially. my mom was always trying to better her english so that she could take the equivalency exams to become a nurse. unfortunately, that never happened for her. but she was able to become a nurse's aide. my dad struggled to find a job, worked at a photocopy store for a while. then finally got a job as a civil servant. well, the best he could do was escape a really difficult situation and try to set a good example and then, you know, hopefully these kids will learn, and they'll do the same thing. that is, sort of, a lot of my motivation to say what is on my mind. you know, the reality is i have -- you know, silicon valley, it trades on two things, right? one is

emily: you take a nap every day. aaron: i do. emily: what is this, spain?aron: you forgot the three vacations i take every year. emily: but really, if you take a nap and work more in the evening. tell me about that. aaron: it is the best practice -- right around 7:00 p.m. or so -- you take a 25 minute power nap and you wake up fully recharged and that lasts for about another five hours. that is me time. that is when i design what we are going to do next. what are we behind on? what do we need to start thinking about? that is when everybody gets inundated by e-mails from me. emily: you have a diary? like a personal, aaron levie only diary. aaron: the range of different industries and what you have to learn about is very vast. you have to keep track of that somewhere. emily: this is something only you see? aaron: yes, i would not want you to see it. so these are sort of my personal things. emily: how big is box? aaron: we have 1100 employees. we have 240,000 businesses that actively use the product. about 39,000 companies are paying for our enterprise edition

♪ emily: by now, you know his story.he kid who started the social network in his harvard dorm room. grew it to 1.4 billion users. and became one of the wealthiest men in the world. but mark zuckerberg may not be done changing the world just yet. since taking facebook public his bets have only gotten bigger. spending billions to expanding his empire into photos, messaging, even virtual reality. internet.org may be his most audicious bet yet. featuring an epic battle with google, drones, lasers, and stratospheric hot air balloons, to bring the internet to the farthest corners of the earth. and win billions of new users in the process. our guest today on this special edition of "studio 1.0" is facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg. emily: so first of all, you are a year and a half into this now. tell me your vision. and tell me what inspired you to do this. mark: when people are connected, we can just do some great things. and we have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, new kinds of communication. w

emily: ok.hank you very much, mark. ♪ emily: he's been called the start-up whisperer of silicon valley. reid hoffman is the co-founder and executive chairman of linkedin and an investor in some of the most successful companies of all time, including facebook. yet the man with one of the most impressive resumes in silicon valley wasn't always on track to be an entrepreneur. a student of philosophy, hoffman at one point pursued a career in academia. but he took his first job out of school at apple, then later joined the now legendary paypal mafia. now a partner at greylock, hoffman sits on seven boards. he is the author of "the start-up of you," and now a new book, "the alliance."

emily: does that mean no advertising? mark: i don't think it is necessary to subsidize and make this a cheap model. in most of these countries there is not a big ad market yet. it is not that we won't do it eventually, but right now what we need to do is to -- we our focused a lot on the quality of the ads. doing that in the developed world -- in asia, europe, it is going to be the biggest driver of profitability, not trying to make at markets out of countries just coming to life. emily: once you get people connected, once you have the power to reach them, how do you use that power? mark: do you mean us -- emily: i am talking about facebook. mark: for us, it is all about enabling people. we worked with zambia to rollout a suite of basic services. within weeks we heard amazing stories coming in of people using the internet. and expectant mother using the internet for the first time to look up safety and health information for how to raise her child. a poultry farmer using a spoke, setting up a page to sell multiple times m

. >> so emily, you have three kids and you were really on the fence about whether or not do have them vaccinated. what was your method of thinking? >> well, it's a hard decision. because we care about the health and safety of our children, but we also want to have good information. that's backed by solid studies that don't have a conflict of interest, talking about both the risks of vaccines and the risks of the diseases that they are suppose dodd prevent. and accounts hard, because i feel like there's not a lot of good information out there. i would like do be able to find information that's kind of oin the middle somewhere. >> what about the fact that the vaccines have been around sense the early 196dy's and it's presented 15.6 million deaths isn't that enough for you? >> i think there are -- other factors do take into consideration. vaccines are not without risk. they do have risks. that are many many children that get injured by vaccines every year, and i feel like that's something that's not talked about very much. >> they don't cause very many deaths. >> dr. blumberg, one thing

emily: do you recognize my voice? cory: we all recognize the voice of emily chang.he byte? emily: first of all, do you miss me? cory: come back. i keep begging you. emily: the number is four. do you know what that is? cory: i heard a child in the background. i love that. tomorrow is the four-year anniversary of launching the show. emily: four wonderful, long years. cory: they are running the hair video, video of all of your hairstyles. i told them not to. emily: i knew you would not be able to resist even though i am not there. you would not be able to resist that clip. cory: you look great as always. we really miss you. i got a phone call the other day, calling from god knows where, saying, what happened to ms. chang? is she coming back? and you are coming back in april, i hope. emily: i am sorry i cannot be there today to celebrate this very momentous occasion, but i promise that we will have a big blowout for the five-year, all right? cory: i like that. i have got to thank everyone who has worked on the show, and the team we have working so hard in your absence,

emily: emily chang, bloomberg california. stephanie: cool. using balloons to help deliver the web. facebook is using lasers and drone. tomorrow, we will be going inside their science lab to see how they plan to make this work. thursday, emily chang's interview with mark zuckerberg on a special edition of "studio 1.0." what do you think he is going to be wearing? he should wear a tight t-shirt. aren't you impressed with how fit that guy got. he has worked out. erik: we are going to be back in a moment with an exclusive interview with carson block of muddy waters research. you know him for controversial calls. what is his latest position? it is a new one. you are going to find out. it is a bloomberg exclusive. stephanie: i thought people knew him because he was from new jersey. ♪ . . >> live from bloomberg headquarters in new york this is "market makers" with erik schatzker and stephanie ruhle. crises the short seller who rocketed to fame and now our friend carson block is here. >> if you were concerned about government surveillance programs, y

. >> hold on a minute, emily. you argue jonas if we let them go, it's just like letting prisoners go in the united states. oftentimes they go back and commit crimes. >> i don't want to sound like an attorney. when we let anybody out of jail some will do more crimes. if we never let people out of jail we would all be safer. at some point you've got to let people out of prison. now there are other things to do, track them, know who they are calling, put chips in them. i don't know what. there's got to be something better than clocking away $3 million a year per person in the caribbean. >> out the front door gitmo, into the back door of terrorism again. their aim is to kill americans. >> i agree with you. i want to take issue with one thing jonas said. that's not the way america is. i think we have the highest incarceration percentage of any country out there. note to sound like an aclu lawyer, but we have a lot of people in prison. at some point we've got to let them out. your point is when prisoners get let out, ar

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emily, how are you?elcome. >> one issue that you get messed up is you're pushing pot on these people. kennedy: there's a big difference between fighting for freedom and pushing an agenda. i will qualify it every time, emly, i do not smoke weed, i don't think teenagers should, i don't think kids should smoke weed. i don't think it's necessarily great for you, that doesn't mean it should be illegal? >> well, i don't even understand your reasoning here, you agree with it doesn't help your life. you agree kids shouldn't do it. you are supporting people legalizing it in colorado, as you said, the governor said it is reckless. it's been a complete disaster. fatalities and car accidents are up. more college kids are using it. more deaths from this. this is the result from what you are calling more freedom. kennedy: so emily, you think that something that's deadly should be illegal, therefore there were 88,000 people killed by alcohol-related incidents. 43,000 prescription drug deaths, and these are things that

emily says share them.g a regular soda to your order you'll be adding up not just money but 400 calories. emily's best advice, don't go to the theater when you're hungry. >> as the nation celebrates the birth of george washington some pint sized patriots got to take a trip back in time. today at the visitors center at valley forge national park, the man of the hour, george washington along with lady washington brought visitors to an important page in history. this was the kickoff to the center's new touring option. today also included a cake cutting like no other with the aid of the blade of washington's sword. >> serious cake cutting device. >> i'm a little scared but no one got hurt. still ahead, a stunning order from an overseas court. why a mother is facing jail time if she refuses to write to the man who nearly killed her. >> plus, if you're in cabin fever on a budget. cheap easy way to keep your family entertained indoors when you're stuck inside this winter. >> forget hot sauce or caster. >> reporter