john schwartz interviewed stephen hawking. >> i did. i did. it was a long process, though. and that's part of the story. so intel in conjunction with his movie -- not his movie. the movie about him. "the theory of everything." they're developing a technology to make it easier for him to communicate. so as it stands now, it's a very long, torturous process for him to communicate through his computer, multiple steps, and if there's a misstep, he has to go back to the againing. they came up with a system that makes it easier for him to converse with people. >> do you feel any of the answers were canned? >> you know, actually, i asked a couple of questions that were far off topic. there's a pink floyd album that came out and there's a song about him. i asked him about that, thinking he can't have a canned response. i was amazed about how honest, for somebody as intelligent and engineering-bas engineering-bas engineering-based as he is, there's a nice voice. that's the way he can communicate through word. it was a conversational style. and it actually had a certain pace or rhyth

green partner at emergence partners and early investor in the success factors, and box joined by john schwartz of usa today and kristina far of reuters. give us some perspective here, what, what makes a company ten times as valuable as $1 billion company or put another way, give me an example of a $10 billion start up. >> its been an extraordinary year, this year, five companies have raised capitol at $10 billion -- >> what are they? >> drop box, air b and b, uber. i've coined a new coin, it's called the deccacorn. >> it's only worth $4 billion. according to your map? >> no, everybody freaked out when companies got to be a billion dollar valuation. he's saying 10 billion is the new one billion. >> they called it unicorn because it's supposed to be mythical. there's 50 companies that have -- >> should we celebrate or be alarmed? >> i think there's cause for optimism and cause for concern on that front. there's clearly a lot of frenzy in the market today. they are growing faster than we've seen grow before. there's fundamental growth behind the valuation. >> this is part of the problem. one of t

let's introduce him from financial times john schwartz from "usa today." let's start with the leaving certificate. it's like the s.a.t.? >> yes. >> highest in ireland in all of irish history? >> i'm not sure. >> if i were close, i would have checked. >> was it a perfect score? is that possible? >> yeah you can get perfect score. >> and did you get it? >> yes. >> that would be the highest ever. >> anyway it was so long ago. >> yes it was, what three years ago? >> we started stripe 4 1/2 years ago now and so you know we -- it was in 2009 and we've been in the bay area since 2010. >> okay. so let's start -- there are all kinds of things i want to talk about. i want to start with the basic friction point. i have been buying stuff online for many many years. we all have. we buy airline tickets, book hotels we use paypal all the time. it pops up on all kinds of websites. i'm having no trouble buying things online. but apparently the vendors are having trouble buying things online or you wouldn't be worth anything. >> i think that's right. you know i think there

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