what if satya nadella and jeff weiner runs tiktok instead would tiktok grow faster, capturing markets microsoft hit a $2 trillion market cap for context we're talking billions of new dollars. the ad revenue totalled more than $84 billion and what if the deal faces little antitrust pushback. across the globe, beijing angry over losing one of its hottest internet properties begins its tech crackdown a year earlier scuttling the didi ipo before it happens instead of after with trillions up for grabs, it's important to ask what if? >> forcing us to ponder. carl, we are the watchers at the moment i worked with the team a little bit and there was a key moment when former president trump gives this 45-day window before the ban goes into effect what if there hadn't been 45 days, he goes immediately, i think jeff weiner would have been an interesting choice i think microsoft dodged a bullet tiktok like issues and microsoft might have been in jeopardy. >> if it's good enough for marvel, it's good enough for us. i like the way every franchise fortt delivers is some kind of existential play >> a

the founding ceo and cofounder of linkedin, but i did not start venture investing until he hired jeff weinerbe the ceo of linkedin. david: and linkedin was sold to microsoft for roughly $26 billion or something like that. did you ever anticipate something like that when you started or helped start the company? reid: one of the things to think about when you are strategizing -- i have this framework called abz planning, thinking about the spread of outcomes. what is the best outcome, the worst possible, the intermediate, what could change the landscape? i always knew linkedin could be the network or platform that would be transformative and it was the kind of thing the most aligned with microsoft's vision. does that mean i knew microsoft would end up buying it for, you know, the largest acquisition in its history? and the answer is no. i dealt with hostility. it was the outcome, not the goal. the goal was something that would enable every individual professional to transform their career by collaborating within a network. david: when you sold the company to microsoft, you went on the board of