carol: and kelly slater finding his perfect wave. david: all of that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ david: we are here with the editor-in-chief of "bloomberg businessweek." a great issue this week. carol: you guys talk about mr. fix-it in the auto industry. now he has to fix mitsubishi. ellen: he first fixed nissan, and now at mitsubishi motors , where they have had the scandal over emissions, he has been brought in to help. it is all because nissan has -- is going to want to invest in mitsubishi motors. david: what makes him so good at doing this? he does it time and time again? carol: the picture that you have with him, he looks like wolverine. ellen: he does. i bet you he will like the picture. in france, they called him "le cost killer." something like that. he knows how to cut costs, how to make auto companies working together share platforms, etc. and he just knows how to do it for less. david: looking at venture capital, a lot of circles here. no surprise the internet is a subject of a lot of venture capital investment.

david: can kelly slater sell his new wave machine to the world?head on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ david: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." carol: you can find us on radio, on sirius xm channel 119. david: also in new york boston , 1200, washington, dc 991, and bay area 960. a look at the wave machine designed by surfing legend kelly slater. carol: could it make the sport mainstream? >> there has been a quest for an artificial wave that was more or less like what the pros experience in the ocean. there have been a lot of tries and there are wave pools around the world, but nothing that fell to professionals. carol: in december, he posts the video on youtube, kelly slater. what was that video? >> he posted a teaser on his instagram feet first, which was him, a shot of this perfect wave, and then it cuts to him looking extremely happy, jumping up and down. you see him on this wave and it is revealed this is an artificial wave. his voiceover says this is the greatest man-made wave ever made. turns out it is his wave. for the last 10 years, he

why kelly slater wants everybody to hang ten. >> that is all ahead on "bloomberg businessweek."e are here with editor alan pollack. in the opening remarks, you talk about south africa. you talk about this momentum for president zuma to step down. >> this compares the situation in south africa with india, where the reporter who wrote the story used to be stationed. this raises the question of whether the congress can keep going. and talk to the how they have not solved all of the problems and there is growing discontentment. a means down the line it is possible they will start losing some important elections. term, laying out here how a lot of these candidates are doing. you can gauge how popular these candidates are by how large the crowd is. >> it is a new way to guage this. it is really cool. >> a look here at new banks cropping up in indonesia, trash banks. it is a way to develop financial solvency and to get people to stop littering. >> the idea is you bring your trash to the bank and they pay you for your trash. and they can recycle some of it. and you can leave your money

we were the first broadcast team to check out, up close, what the kelly slater wave company has builtve that's as good as surfing in the ocean. no one has come close until now. >> reporter: the perfect wave for pro surfers like kelly slater, that means a powerful wall and a precise, barrelling tube that goes on and on and on. >> the vision for me was to just make the best quality wave you could possibly make by man. >> reporter: that's exactly what kelly and his team have pibuilt here. this is no tropical paradise. it is a former water skiing lake in the middle of california's farm belt. when the first images hit the internet back in december, they sent shock waves through the surfing world. >> i probably watched it about 2,000 times. just to make sure it was real. >> do you worry at all that something like this is not going to give you that real-life experience? >> nothing replaces the ocean, you know. we live our lives traveling and following seasons. this is never going to be intended to try and replace surfing in the ocean. it's a supplement. >> reporter: and a massive adrenaline

a man-made wave technology designed by champion surfer kelly slater.just stand still on a board on water that wasn't moving. >> yes. >> i fell this way and that way. do you surf? >> a little bit. i am a terrible surfer. we have good partners. >> some guys who are a lot better at it. >> kelly slater is a lot better. >> 11-time world champion. unbelie unbelievable. >> he does stuff in hawaii that's 20, 30 feet. >> he is arguably one of the best athletes in the world. 44 years old. the youngest and oldest world champion. he is an amazing guy who has d dedicated the last ten years to figure out if he could offer this incredible sport to people in-ground. >> we're doing incredible things. the president is going to cure bad weather with carbon. this wave machine. can you make a great wave in the ocean or is it somewhere else? >> somewhere else. >> sooner or later we may be able to do it in the ocean itself. >> we'd like to protect the oceans as much as possible. >> what is this thing? it would be an indoor -- >> it's outside. it's a huge, huge system. so it'

. >> and kelly slater finding his perfect wave. david: all of that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ david: we are here with the editor-in-chief of "bloomberg businessweek." >> yes. you guys talk about mr. fix-it in the auto industry. now, he has to fix mitsubishi. ellen: he first fixed nissan, and now mitsubishi with fixing their emissions standards. whether they have stated their emissions standards correctly. he has been brought in to try to help fix that. it is all because nissan has invested in mitsubishi motors. david: what makes him so good at doing this he does it time and time again? carol: the picture that you have with him, he looks like wolverine. ellen: he does. i bet you he will like the picture. in france, they called him "le cost killer." he knows how to cut costs, how to make auto industries, auto companies working together share platforms, etc. he knows how to do it for less. david: looking at venture capital, a lot of circles here. no surprise the internet is a subject of a lot of venture capital investment. w

. >> and kelly slater finding his perfect wave.all of that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ david: we are here with the editor-in-chief of "bloomberg businessweek." >> yes. you guys talk about mr. fix-it in the auto industry. now, he has to fix mitsubishi.

carol: and kelly slater finding his perfect wave.all of that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ david: we are here with the editor-in-chief of "bloomberg businessweek." a great issue this week. carol: you guys talk about mr. fix-it in the auto industry. now he has to fix mitsubishi.

comes back on "the kelly file "qwest -- >> mario's got kelly today sending a message to hillary clinton. >> it's time, madam secretary. >> a.c. slaterthe "extra" interview making headlines anywhere. >> so you never actually thrust a knife and stabbed someone? >> no. >> mario's "saved by the bell" co-stardustin diamond giving us his first tv interview about the bar brawl that landed him in jail. >> it's pretty scary going into that environment. >> his sex tape and his poison pen tell-all where he trashed his co-stars. >> i'm hoping that this will clear it up. >> plus, inside people's most talked about