pass so they don't have to pay payroll taxes >> this is the josh brown favorite i want to know if josh richardsws downtown josh brown's picks here >> i mean sadly i didn't but it just happened to be the follow, i guess. great name, though guy's got a perfect name. >> this is the kind of thing i'm talking about. >> the closing price today, it is down $4. >> this is what you want. >> the strategy part of it. >> this is what you want when you find something, it's to be efemoral. i have not spent a lot of time studying josh's work, but i do think this is an excellent idea. >> you'd have to spend a lot of time on tiktok. >> absolutely. >> but really the point is he's going to get that lower price -- >> exactly. >> -- today. >> as of the close today. >> it's like he's being given four points. consider it like it's draftkings they're giving him four. josh gets four, i like that. >> let's move on to miami heat board andre iguodala who is back up you chose lennar last round, called it a sleeper. cramer called it creative and a smart pick what are you choosing now? >> i'm going to go with a household nam

we are going to talk to josh richards about his fame on the platform like beyond social media and why he is getting into vc investing. we continue our tiktok series. as we had to break, enjoy my very first tiktok. i have not seen this in years, but there you have it. me and alex. ♪ emily: president biden invited 40 world leaders to the white house to underscore the urgency and economic benefits of stronger climate action. global co2 emissions continue to rise. climate change is pressing companies of all kinds and especially carmakers to do more. corporations like tesla and quantum skate are on a race to develop more efficient batteries in hopes electric cars will replace their gas guzzling counterparts. but concerns are also rising about the negative impact old and poorly recycle batteries have on our environment. redwood materials is focused on the recycling of lithium-ion batteries and electric -- electronic waste, and is looking to tackle these problems. the company was started by ceo jv strabl, a cofounder of tesla who saw an opportunity to give batteries another life. his company

emily: really fascinating work you are doing, josh richards and marshall salmon.s so much for stopping by. just a reminder, you can check out our "bloomberg tech" podcast on apple, spotify, bloomberg, and wherever you got your podcasts. coming up, and tell out with first-quarter quarter results. -- intel out with first quarter results, and it is not a rosy picture. we break down the numbers next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: s.a.p.'s cloud unit had a blowout quarter, bringing more customers to a newer suite of products. this as the private tech company embarks on a turnaround plan to ramp up competition with its rivals. shares hit a six-month high after the german company confirmed first-quarter preliminary results in its 2021 outlook, showing companies are beginning to pick up spending after pandemic cutbacks. i caught up with the ceo to get his forecast. >> we are forecasting the pickup accelerates. there will be more supplies to come in the next month. i expect we are actually almost back to normal. what we see in q1 but also in our plan, the business is acceler

that is josh richards.is rise to fame has placed him to thick about investing off the platform and we will be joined by one of the partners at animal capital. you will not want to miss it. coming up, american libraries doubling down on their role in expanding digital access for those who need it most. that means getting outside their building. how libraries have fared in the pandemic and how they are reinventing themselves. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: during the covid-19 pandemic, american public libraries have found ways to continue providing services to communities. particularly in one area that was needed and that is internet access. turning vans into mobile hotspots. libraries have taken on a new role to serve their most marginalized patrons. i want to bring in our latest guest. this is interesting how libraries have reinvented themselves. you would assume it has been very difficult for libraries with no one being able to go inside. how have they fared in the pandemic? >> libraries have had to step up t

number 9, andre iguodala andre's aces the basketball players number 8, josh richards of tiktok fame, number 7 is going to be petra nemcova. petra for the planet, model and philanthropist >> nice. >> next up is going to be oz pearlman oz knows >> all right >> then we have jason frank, the stock guy from twitch. and then our next person here is kevin o'leary, mr. wonderful himself. we know him pretty well. >> okay. >> and then we've gotline murphy going for gold, olympic swimmer. our penultimate pick here. maria ho, blue chip leaders. and our top pick in the draft goes to tim seymour of seymour asset management >> seymour gets it, ty >> that is wonderful tim seymour gets to go first i think we're doing it thursday, which is the same night if i'm right as the nfl draft so we'll see who the trevor lawrence of stocks is next thursday evening >> i don't know, the contenders, dom -- again, this is about which will perform the best over the next 52 weeks if i'm not mistaken >> absolutely. >> we don't give you a whole universe but we give you representative of the whole universe you can pick

you can catch names like tiktok star josh richards, three-time nba champ andre iguodala each will pickrmed best between today's close and the super bowl, february 13th of '22 carl, always interesting to watch, fun to watch whose picks go up and down. >> it is going to be good. with cramer as a ref, it will be good to watch this year. >>> time for answers to our crowd source today we asked you to make your best bear case for apple. multiple responses today saying the company's big beat means higher expectations and, thus, easier misses in the year to come and what user missed the dip calls an expectations treadmill. another few users pointed to china as potential weak spot alongside the epic gain spot finally a different response, the pandemic ending meaning fewer virtual meetings and more traditional non-iphone forms of entertainment. jon, without rod we have to turn to someone. >> yes even on the expectations treadmill, carl, you can still use your apple watch so maybe that's okay >> yes stay tuned tonight for amazon and twitter and energy names in the morning. let's get to "the half.

cnbc stock draft is back ten all-star contestants from three-time nba champ andre iguodala, and josh richardslect two names each and compete to see who has the highest price appreciation between today and the friday before the super bowl. tune in for a special edition of "power lunch" this afternoon, and that is a very cool concept. 2:00 eastern time. >> i'll tell you, one of the things, we have some etfs in here today, we are obviously, we have some crypto, but i have to like, the people themselves are actually very competitive, carl, and they know something. the man i would single out is the o's, reading my mind about this stock, disney and he was remarkable. he's nothing but entertainment but he knows he knows he knows o's knows. >> i love it i can't wait to hear more on wer again, 2:00 this afternoon. opening bell in a few minutes. that building you're trying to sell, - you should ten-x it. - ten-x it? ten-x is the world's largest online commercial real estate exchange. you can close with more certainty. and twice as fast. if i could, i'd ten-x everything. like a coffee run... or fedora s

steph link josh richards. professional poker player maria ho and tim seymour.now how this works we gave our teams a list of 60 stocks and investments and before the first pick, s&p all-time highs stocks are surging what should the strategy be? >> i'm a huge believer to take advantage of momentary declines and talking about a period of now and the super bowl to find something that could be a coiled spring, something down right now because if you're going for

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richard neal says he expects changes to how this is. we are going to take another look at how we are going to pay for this. josh wants some bipartisan play in this. maybe is he giving it lip service. maybe he is not. nancy pelosi doesn't have a big cushion. she can't lose five or six people let alone what the wild left wants to do. ainsley: you think they will negotiate with them, brian? because usually this is the problem. joe manchin is such a nice guy. i love that he doesn't argue. he has friends on both sides. but whether it documents his voting record he always votes with them. they convince him. steve: he does. he always says we need to be bipartisan but when push comes to shove he gets in line with the democrats. does he mean it this time? his state would like to think he does and a lot of people across the country would like to think he does. when it actually comes time to press the button and vote, what will he do? maybe he is negotiating right now and d.c. is supposed to be about negotiation. brian: to his credit, do you remember he said i will not sign any 1.9 trillion if it has an increase in minimu

when my husband, richard, who had just dropped me off at work an hour earlier, called me and said the words that changed my life and his forever. he said, someone shot and killed josh. . they would go as close as they could to the actual scene, which is just a few houses down from where they actually lived. and they would encounter a peace officer -- i like the term peace officer as opposed to police officer. both are good terms, but to me the term peace officer carries with it something that i think is important for us to consider as we consider the great issues of our time. and policing is one of the great issues of our time. and that is a peace officer is always there to make the peace, to help us acquire peace, to help maintain the peace, to do the peaceful thing whenever possible. i know it's not always possible, but whenever possible. so they went as close as they could to the scene, and they encountered an officer who was investigating. and they wanted to know what happened to their son, which is what any parent would want to know, what happened to my son, not an unreasonable question. not unusual, by the way, for parents to have some emotional characteristi