one of the biggish issues, cuts to corporate forecasts the head of alphabet on stage with kara swisher talked about the impact of higher costs, uncertainty and how he want to make the company 20% more productive >> there are a set of positive factors, a set of negative factors and inherent uncertainty in the economy that's the macroeconomic outlook. t as a company we get impacted by all of that. everything we do, scale, you can be slower to make decisions. there are more people to uproot things you look at it end to end and figure out how to make the company 20% more productive. >> let's bring in the aforementioned kara swisher and what she's calling her final, at least, code as host. how do we characterize >> i'm doing something else. i've done it for 20 years. i just feel 20 years is a good time to try something fresh and different. >> you're definitely making a statement with the lineup this year >> yes, i am. >> what are you trying to say? the lineup is insane. >> it has been over the years. we had gates and jobs together elon musk has been here. mark zuckerberg, not so good perfor

of the biggest tech events of the year, vox media's code conference here in los angeles -- ♪ >> kara swishering her final code as host, you're definitely making a statement with the lineup this year. >> yes, i am. >> apple's tim cook, johnny ive. >> comes from nowhere, none offous -- >> i have to ask about tiktok. that is the company that everyone has been talking about. >> tremendous threat advertisers love them. there are lots of risks, where is that data, where does it go >> we've tried to put the user in the driver's seat to own their day at a. >> so much of what tim cook's apple is able to do, i think, is put together ingredients that steve jobs himself didn't have. >> a lot of the questions were, what would steve think, particularly around privacy, where steve famously said you've got to ask, ask again, ask a third time. >> fascinating look, though, at the ways in which company are looking at costs. >> we made the decision is that we would air on the side of building more, if we were higher than we needed, that we'd eventually grow into that footprint. >> talking to a major investor in

. >>> before we let you go, kara swisher sat down with billionaire investor mark cuban at theconferenceast night. he shared some of his thoughts on crypto and its future. >> crypto has a place for sure, but what's missing is new applications just like in the early days of the internet, we would say, the internet is old and boring because we haven't seen anything new, and it really took for mobile to come along to really propel it going forward, and we don't have that right now for crypto, so it's kind of boring, and it's going to stay boring with defis and nfts as collectibles and other little things. >> nothing interests you. >> no, i'm very interested in investing, but it's still mackee there. what's going on there? >> it unlocks a lot of potential for ethereum why it's important, it's the backbone firefighter defi. they don't feel like there's been a lot of innovation in that space, not a lot of exciting things happening in defi right now. of course, defi has promised to be this bastian of cutting out the middle man, financial services where you don't need a barracker or a lawyer. a

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