between him and jd vance, essentially, it would be peter thiel plus peter thiel. your appeal, you know, to try to keep him out of the senate based opthe fact this is a rich guy endorsed by a supposedly billionaire president with gold toilets? >> i make this race, i don't see politics so much as left and right as whose side are you on. as you know in the times we have talked off the air, i talk about working to get ahead. bernie moreno stiffed his employees out of $4,000 he owed them in overtime. he then destroyed the evidence the judge required of him. just like abortion rights, i support the voters of ohio, 57%, i join them, of course, in abortion rights and bernie moreno wants 100% pro-life, no exceptions. he wants a national abortion ban. that's why i ask people to come to sherrodbrown.com. more money spent against me than any race in the country. there's a lot more of us than them, but they have a whole lot of money. i'm not complaining, i just know we have to fight back. >> senator sherrod brown, best of luck in this race. 35 days to go until we'll find out h

peter thiel, but it has nothing to do with conserving what is good least of which is the basics of the american experiment and you can hear this in the rhetoric. it's not that i think kamala is steeped in conservatism but what she does do is not only have a reverence for things like the peaceful transfer of power and saying we are going defend our democratic allies abroad but she's also inviting conservatives in, you can be part of this coalition because i'm going to respect the higher principles whereas donald trump makes no -- has no such interest in doing that. >> tim, after the convention i noted that you wrote about her speech. >> yeah. >> tell me how this would have been different if condee rice had given it? >> there were no lies about bomb in iran, maybe there's that. one difference. besides that, honestly, she made an effort, right, again i'm not out there saying that she would be the third -- like the mccain term i never got in 2008 or anything. she's not going to be. she's a california liberal. that's okay. she's demonstrating she has the respect at least for the themes and

in the very first investors were sam and peter thiel.avid: they came in early and you had nothing but an idea. john: we had a few customers but we had a little bit of revenue. david: you get the company off the ground, at one point -- at what point do you get enough customers to say, we have a real business? john: the early-stage investors were focused on that. when you look at those early investors, i think basically what they looked at was, they saw the product, we might've had 50 customers at the time or something. we had a compelling demo to show how quickly you could get started accepting payments. if i want to sell someone on stripe today. you go to stripe.com, you log on and you set up and start accepting payments from customers all around the world in a manner of five minutes. that's kind of the demo now and was the demo back then. and then we encourage investors to talk to any kind of tech entrepreneurs they know and just asked him how the experience of dealing with payments was. we talked to the investors and we show them the p

but the names of those trump supporters, from david sachs to peter thiel and elon musk, carry both weight and wealth in silicon valley writ large, not just among vcs and not just among the wealthiest vcs. the overwhelming energy is for kamala harris. nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston also considers silicon valley reliably blue, but with pockets of republican support that didn't exist before this election. liberal silicon valley. yeah, you see some people shaking the trees differently than we've seen in the past, but we're seeing that a lot. we're seeing that a lot in the country that that's what's one of the things that makes this election. so difficult to predict. the movements that are going back and forth in ways that we haven't seen in the past between various groups. in san jose, emma goss, nbc, bay area news. a major san francisco commuter train will return to service this weekend after a five year hiatus. the l taraval muni metro line runs underground from the embarcadero through the twin peaks tunnel and then surfaces on taraval street and ends at the san francisco zoo.

two of the founders, alex karp and peter thiel are the outspoken people in tech. the artificial intelligence platform, or aip, palantir has a growing commercial business. those doubling since the release of aip and the boot camps where employees show customers how to use it. cnbc spoke to customers at the recent customer event at palantir and aip. >> what it allowed us to do is evaluate a patient's clinical information all at once as opposed to over many hours and decide and allow us to treat decision making from a data point of view and how the patient should be cared for immediately. >> the power of palantir is able to adjust and take that data in and make sense of it and understand it and build logic and applications to act on that. it's really the first tool we had and the partnership and not the software, but the partnership we have with palantir and the resources. >> since going public, shares have climbed 400%. they also buy shares and the question going forward for a stock with a forward pe above 90 is can the stock live up to the lofty valuation and expec

. >> he worked for peter thiel. he's literally an investment banker., and they want low wage labor, but they dont want it to be brown, i guess. literally, the only reason anyone ate during the pandemic is because of all the migrant labor in the meat packing plants. they were essential employees who didn't get to stay home and catch a stimmy while they sat in the basement. they had to go to work, and that's why we made it. thank you all very much. >>> coming up, tt tt and his allies have gotting so bad, attorney general merrick garland had to give a speech reassuring their staff, he has their back. more on that and trump's alarming comments on january 6th next. s on january 6th next recommended by the nei. i'm taking control like millions of others. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement. a bend with a bump in your erection might be painful, embarassing, difficu

peter thiel. mark and greece. and then and others. are using their own money in order to gain authoritarian power and they're promoting their anti-democratic ideology and supporting an authoritarian the 45 million a month question. yeah, oh, thank you. this actually has to do with the polish people. i'm very impressed supported with everything they do and they have been doing it for such a long time helping ukraine and pretty much everyone who followed. right. why that be? my question to you is how will this affect the lives of polish people? okay, take a couple more. remember them. i do. i do. but if we talk. or. yeah, alex. yeah. and as you were talking, i thought seeing some of this in local government though that would be an interesting little thing to talk about. and also, what do you say? what do you mean? you know, i said like corruption. you mean rather than campaigning, really? yeah. we've been trying to think and then also just i'm thinking about the intersection of christian nationalism and of with autocracy to. okay, let's

peter thiel is cashing in.ory filings, he sold almost $600 million of stock this week. he was the cofounder of palantir and has now sold more than $1 billion of his stake this year. the filings do not disclose a reason, and peter thiel has not responded to request for comment. jonathan: more from the bloomberg brief in 30 minutes time. we will catch up with david malpass around the corner. every future is negative. .10% from new york this morning. good morning. ♪ where ya headed? susan: where am i headed? am i just gonna take what the markets gives me? no. i can do some research. ya know, that's backed by j.p. morgan's leading strategists like us. when you want to invest with more confidence... the answer is j.p. morgan wealth management just stop calling each other rock stars. and using workday to put finance and h.r. on one platform. tim, you are a rock star. using responsible ai doesn't make you a rock star. it kinda does. you are not rock stars. (clears throat) okay. most of you are not rock stars. oooh. da

so you -- we mentioned steve case peter thiel.think you have a -- talked about your fear of the power of big tech. >> oh, sure. >> so is it a -- is it a complex relationship >> look, a difference between little tech and big tech look at my friends in the tech industry, marc andreesen, peter thiel, folks investing in upstarts some invested in upstarts that became monopolies mike facebook. facebook and going's censoring american citizens making it harder for americans to speak in their own political process is a major problem. yeah, i do think an antitrust solution donald trump started the anti-trust lawsuit against google during his administration the first time and we've got to be concerned about these mega companies since that are americans. lina khan agree and disagree on some things. you and i might agree on lina khan, i share her view, should be concerned about big tech companies and mergers, the censor ship of american citizens not all mergers and acquisitions are bad. sometimes in the technology space, be private equity spac

we got peter thiel was $5 billion in his ira, $5 billion.nd because there are these tricks that have been allowed, these loopholes that allow you to do things like put in stock options, value them as basically worthless. and yet they have enormous value. and then suddenly your ira, what social value do we have in tax sheltering hundreds of millions of dollars for the richest americans for retirement? they're already rich, so they don't already have retirement all set. i do not see much value in that. why are we enabling them to dodge taxes to the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars in these accounts? and if we fix that so that we protect iras, so that people can have a decent retirement, not have it be a tax dodge for mega millionaires, couldn't we fund a good share of the social security shortfall? >> senator you're trying to drag , me into the policy arena, which i realize is your prerogative and not mine. [laughter] >> i invite you to join me in that. [laughter] >> i will say this. i think social security is the greatest act of compa

hiring platform backed by investors iran colluding jack dorsey, peter thiel, larry summers, trying toody. benchmark general partner, great to see you both. brendan, explain this. right before the break i teased this i said is it possible a.i. can do, can hire people better than a human can? >> yeah. so thanks so much for having us on and i think it certainly is. and the premise there's a legacy services industry where people will manually review resumes, manually conduct interviews and manually mount people with roles. all of these processes can be done far more effectively with our lens. update the resume, read through work experiences, projects and papers written and ask dynamic follow-up questions with a model that can predict what jobs they'll perform well at and match them with opportunities. >> so this is really more of a matching platform rather than -- i mean, can an employer use this directly, though? >> exactly. yeah. also we facilitate all hiring compliance payrom associated with this. people come to us. say they want to hire a software engineer or lawyer for a particular j

in addition, peter thiel, jd vance's mentor taking $15 million to run for senator.s billions invested in digital currency. now trump is starting his own digital currency platform. he mentioned something about a week and a half ago, something i had never heard them talking about. he knows nothing about it. he's a complete idiot. he started talking about we have to make sure the dollar stays the reserve currency of the world. oh no. he is starting -- summit put a bug in his ear about getting rid of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. this guy has destroyed the country. you have it up there. a line for republicans to call. there are no republicans anymore. host: skip on the independent line, missouri. caller: how are you doing this morning? my comment is, we do not live in a democratic republic. we live in a republic that is not actually democratic, because the democracy is from the will of the people. we don't actually have a majority of voters that actually counted. we have an electoral college that makes a decision not representative of the will of the