caroline: that was the former director of the nsa and ceo of network security, keith alexander. chang joins us from colorado. great interview. who else have you spoken with? emily: thank you. it has been a fascinating day here at fortune brainstorm. coming up, we will speak with marne levine, the coo of instagram, talked to her about snapchat and the allegations instagram is copying snapchat. we also spoke with glenn fogel, the ceo of priceline. as well as penny pritzker, former commerce secretary for the u.s. she is now investing. we will get her thoughts on the administration and what she's doing now. caroline: amazing lineup. enjoy it out there. thank you so much. a stellar set of interviews. coming up, we are talking google glass. are they ready for the come back? this is bloomberg. ♪ >> i am paul allen with the latest first word news. apple has appointed one of its top wireless software engineers as head of china operations, in the face of a persistent sales decline in its largest overseas market. they assume the newly created position of director for greater china, which i

-- director of the nsa keith alexander.e is now at the helm of iron net cybersecurity. i asked him about the boldness of russian hackers in the u.s. election. keith: it's not just that it's blatant, they were not prepared to defend. you know, so if you left a bag of money on a park bench, and then surprised if somebody stole it, you would say secure your money. and where i think that gets us to a secure your network. we should not be pummeled with this. we got to make these changes in cybersecurity. it cannot be done by the industry itself. it has to be an industry-government partnership. actually, i think this is an area that the trump demonstration has taken on. it is important government and industry work together for defensive architecture that can block these kinds of things in the future. so, actually, whether they are blatant or not, we should not be faced with them. we cannot have people losing intellectual property to low-profile hackers. emily: what is your impression of whether or not the trump administration is

caroline: that was the former director of the nsa and ceo of network security, keith alexander. interview. who else have you spoken with? emily: thank you. it has been a fascinating day here at fortune brainstorm. coming up, we will speak with marty levine, the coo of instagram, talk to her about snapchat and the allegations instagram is copying snapchat. asalso spoke with ben vogel, well as penny pritzker, former commerce secretary for the u.s. we will get her thoughts on the administration and what she's doing now. caroline: amazing lineup. thank you so much. a stellar set of interviews. coming up, we are talking google glass. are they ready for the come back? this is bloomberg. ♪ alisa: i'm alisa parenti and washington. let's with a check of your first word news. prime minister theresa may is being encouraged to fire disloyal ministers, after leaks of disparaging media stories about varying members of the members hoping to replace are jostling for position. she has warned that toppling her could end in a labor victory for jeremy corbyn. russia has issued a warning to the u.s.

we bring you our best interviews from the week am including -- including retired general keith alexanderat the helm of cybersecurity. tune in this saturday for the best of "bloomberg technology." this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: the online financial advisor has secured $70 billion in fresh funding. values the company at $800 million. that is up from the 2016 valuation of $700 million. he gives it more clout to compete with rivals in an intensifying market. competitive threats include vanguard and social finance would cap launched automatic advisors or hybrid versions. been the's, 2017 has year of the flop. blue apron tent since it started trading last month. the new york stock exchange says it is expecting an avalanche of ipo's in these market conditions. uttle inwith john t aspen earlier this week. >> i think it will be helpful to look at where we were last year at this time. i think we had zero ipo's in the first quarter. it was the worst year for capital raising in a decade. this year, we have come out a lot stronger. we have had 49 ipo's. sunlight snap and blue apron have not had a result

keith alexander. >> that was fascinating. >> it took you years to get him out here. >> that position. we have gotten people from the dod. we have gotten a lot of other people. never the director of the nsa. it was right before the snowden revelation. it was at the very peak of goodwill between the hacking community and law enforcement. after that it has been downhill. host: why? jeff: a couple of reasons. there was a sense that we were all working together. we were all trying to make the world a better place, trying to protect networks. have fun while we were doing it. the intelligence folks had a bit of mystique but we knew they were using the same technology we were. it was an alien technology. they were just using it differently. we could relate. over the years, whether it was dhs or fbi, in cips, they were interested in what they were doing. we were sort of becoming friends. of you neverot really let on you were monitoring the citizens so severely. hackers felthe that was too extreme. whether it was because of government oversight lacking, maybe it is not their fault. oversights f

this weekend we bring you our , best interviews from the week, including retired general keith alexanderhe helm of a cybernet cybersecurity company. we discussed the risk of cyberattacks globally. tune in this saturday for "the best of bloomberg technology." this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: the online financial advisor betterment has secured in fresh funding. $70 million values the company at $800 million. that is up from the 2016 valuation of $700 million. the influx of cash games betterment more clout to compete with rivals in an intensifying market. competitive threats include vanguard and social finance , which have launched automated advisers or hybrid versions. for u.s. ipo's, 2017 has been the year of the flop. blue apron tanked since it started trading last month. less than $15 i apiece, the lowest since its debut in march. the new york stock exchange says it is expecting an avalanche of ipo's in these market conditions. i spoke with john tuttle in aspen earlier this week. >> the ipo pipeline is strong. i think it will be helpful to look at where we were last year at this time. i thin

. >> guest: keith alexander. >> host: i'm sorry. >> guest: yeah, yeah. that was fascinating. it was years in the making -- >> host: it took you years to get him out here? >> guest: not him, just that position. it was right around before the snowden revelations. so it was, like r at the very peak of goodwill between the sort of the hacking community and law enforcement and intelligence. and then after that, it's been just downhill. >> host: why? >> guest: i think a couple of reasons. one was there was a sense that we were all working together. that we were all trying to make the world a better place, we were trying to protect networks, we were trying to figure out what the bad guys were doing, have fun while we're doing it, and the intelligence folks always had a bit of mystique, but we knew they were using the same technology we were using. it wasn't alien technology. it was just they were using it differently. so we could sort of relate. we had the same sort of problems. in setting up and managing the technology. and over the years, whether it was dhs or fbi, ncia, they were