it's an interesting story to cover, although mullally never confirms any of the speculation. he doesn't deny it either, but that just keeps it going on. >> the groupon change -- the power of the company was always with the largest shareholder. the fact he was officially running things -- >> but it was the most fun of all ceo resignations we saw this year. basically, andrew mason had had troubles and tribulations along the way. the way he conducted the ipo, a lot of investors were not happy with, his pr was not fantastic. he was a young kid who went from playing the drums in the band to being the ceo of a million- dollar company. his resignation letter was fantastic because he basically said i've decided i would like to spend more time with my family and it's the just kidding. i was fired today, which i thought was hilarious. the rest of the letter went on to say things you fell like ceos are saying but they cannot get around this corporate speech. he just went and ditched it and recorded an album instead trade >> which people took seriously but i think it's a piece of satire.

mullally saying he's not leaving ford. shorter. >> mullally says he's out. the question now is who is in? there's a list of obviously contenders one would be stephen elop. his fans say he knows mobile and microsoft culture. when he was at nokia, that stock nose dived 60%. other contenders nadella, the kevin turner the coo. and finally one dark horse outsider that people talk to me about would be paulm ari maritz. he has a deep background experience with the cloud. so a deep tech veteran there. all possible contenders. >> stay right there. want to get some thoughts on the panel from this. stephanie, who would be at the top of your list? >> well the head of cloud internally is what's kind of the heavy favored from what i hear but the point is that i don't even think that mullally was the right fit to begin with. yes, he's an amazing leader and he's done a great job at ford and i'm glad he's at ford and i think ford is a buy off this especially since it's underperformed gm by 20% since the announcement has been made. but gett

we have an all time favorite blaine jones, former city attorney, alan mullally coming together to recognize this man rodney. you know, i don't want to preach too much and i'm certainly not going to eulogize you, but i can only imagine the day when you pass this earth what people will be take about you, because you make every single day count, everything that you do counts, and you will definitely leave a mark on the community as well as in the city. and i just want you to know this is the most -- this is a great day to be able to honor you and just to say publicly thank you. i could not do my job. we could not function as a city without you. you are definitely appreciated. please put your hands together and welcome rodney hampton. (applause) >> wow, this is amazing. i'm -- all day i've been like stoked, i've been amazed. i've been like geeked. i've been telling everyone, where did this come from? i really want to start off and like to start off with a phrase from isaiah chapter 49 verse 1. listen to me, [speaker not understood], you people from afar, the lord called me from the womb from th

i think ford, now that the mullally thing is out, the stock has some of its mojo back. i pickford over gm. >> i had long positions in gm and ford. i sold ford today. it filled in that gap. from that earnings disappointment. gm, i'm still long. i think this thing has legs. i think you're going to see investors waiting for the dividend. to get in this thing. gun lock's huge presentation last year. he thinks this is a 50-plus stock in 12 months from now. >>> investors brushing off news in a rate haul for tesla. and elon musk addressed live in the past hour. >> it doesn't make sense to call it a recall in this situation. it's an over-the-air update. it's not a word that makes sense in the 21st century for the model s. >> recall, update, whatever it is, we'll get reaction from the analyst who upgraded the stock today. that's next. [ male announcer ] the new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to bold ideas. that's why new york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay

to name pack new chief executive, when it lost a front running candidate whether for ford's alan mullallye is liz macdonald with the bottom line. has to be pointed out that you've been pointing that mulally has been out of the running for quite some time. >> we've been saying he would stay put at ford for a couple months this is fast-moving story, we're hearing microsoft could name it by the beginning of february, that's what we hear, beginning of february. that could change though. as the talks drag on at microsoft, indicated to us they would name a ceo by the end of last year. ashley: right. >> you know, it becomes clear about who the names still on the list are. still nokia's steven elop, who ran company as ceo. cloud computing guy at microsoft, microsoft head of business development, tony bates, and unknown character. ashley: a wildcard. >> a wildcard that may come from outside the company, guys. tracy: you're saying beginning of february we're going to know this? >> possibly. that is always a moving target with the company. they told us at end of last year they would see a new ceo at