not 100 tweets a day. >> i am between peter thiel and mark andreessen regarding my tweet volume. one outlet that my pr team does not control for me to be able to just share my thoughts on the technology industry. >> i guess i just wonder, why aren't you more scared? >> that might be generational. i grew up in chat rooms. i'm sure i will say some things that i wake up to in the morning and pull a donald trump or something, regret tweeting for the rest of my life. >> how much of it is strategy? >> it is less strategic than you might think. because my brain is all over the place. it is actually very representative of the random notions that i have. >> i've had the benefit of seeing you do magic. >> i am less active now is a magician. >> that is a very hard thing to learn. what have you learned from that? how has it affected your career? >> magic is weird. have you been to magic conference? >> no. that sounds like an interesting experience. >> you think the tech industry has a diversity program? there is something called the international brotherhood of magicians. i do not think abou

you went to the same school as mark andreessen are at one point. why did you come?ly: you came to silicon max: i started four companies on campus. every time we would fail, which we consistently did, the founding team more parts of the cofounding team would drop out and go to palo alto. it was this magical place, where even though we failed, we could succeed. emily: the promised land. this is something i didn't realize. paypal is actually your fifth company. what happened to the first four? max: varying degrees of hope-crushing failure. the one before paypal was almost not quite dead. it was still kind of dead. emily: how did paypal get started? max: it was really hot. palo alto gets really hot. san francisco is pretty moderate, but palo alto gets pretty brutal. i would go to stanford and sneak into summer lectures because they were air-conditioned. i snuck into one because i recognized the name of the guy doing the guest lecture. it was peter thiel. he was doing a lecture on currency trading. it turned out to be a really small class. i just chatted him up afterward

>> mark andreessen calls this guy the godfather of silicon valley. president of stanford university but so much more. he was the founder of mist back in the day. a very important silicon company in the 90's. he does it all. he did sit down with me to talk about what this means to have the president here in his university and what this means for silicon valley to be so important to so many companies. listen to what he had to say. >> there are problems. the problems come down to there have been enough issues that there is breakdown trust and i think we all realized to make progress on some of the cyber security issues, particularly when they involve international aspects, we need trust and collaboration. trying to think about how the university can form a neutral ground where you can come together and have that discussion and think about how you might address the problem. >> there were some interesting changes in the executive order with liability of companies that share information. how important is that? >> i think it is vitally important. it is crit

systems such as bitcoin are very fascinating in how they take on -- charlie: do you know mark andreessenjames: we met recently. charlie: can you tell me what it was about? james: [indiscernible] charlie: was his response good? james: he said his wife would like one and he wants one as well. charlie: that's what you have to do. develop enthusiasm for your product. thank you for coming. james proud is the ceo and founder of "hello." ♪ cory: live from pier three in san francisco, welcome to "bloomberg west" where we cover technology, innovation, and the future of business. i'm cory johnson. we have the check of your bloomberg top headlines. the nasdaq extended its winning streak to seven days, the longest rally so far this year. one of the biggest reasons priceline rose 8% after reporting strong growth in bookings. walmart was one of the big losers on the dow. they said -- set a pay hike for all u.s. employees. it might help employees, but it hurts their profits.

systems such as bitcoin are very fascinating in how they take on -- charlie: do you know mark andreessenjames: we met recently. charlie: can you tell me what it was about? james: [indiscernible] charlie: was his response good? james: he said his wife would like one and he wants one as well. charlie: that's what you have to do. develop enthusiasm for your product. thank you for coming. james proud is the ceo and founder of "hello." ♪ >> i'm john holloman. >> i'm mark halperin. >> with all due respect to roger goodell, happy 56th birthday. ♪ on the show tonight, rudy sweats the small stuff in a cosby sweater. but first, scott walker let his opulent dinner. by all accounts, it went pretty well except for when rudy giuliani got up and said president obama doesn't love america. here is how go

tech companies work more closely with governments, and in the meantime, talk to someone like mark andreessen, who is saying no way we have a real problem here, we're essentially other countries are going to say use our version of this technology. you don't want to go near the u.s. because there is that data security threat. at some point, the reality is you have to bring both sides together. yes you need privacy, but we all need to be secure as well. >> fundamentally this is affecting business and hurting american companies were trying to sell the goods overseas. we just talked to the ceo of symantec and here's what he had to say. we had an interesting conversation about a lot of things. he talked about these issues and how the nsa's policies in the federal government's policies are hurting their ability to do business in europe. take a listen. >> i'm pretty pleased that the white house, through the executive order, which was just issued is really getting behind sharing information. because we need a lot of tools to be able to protect society, whether it's governments, corporations, or indiv