reid hoffman, thanks for joining us.back over to you. >> i would like to listen to that debate. julia and reid, thank you both so much. time now for a cbs news update and let's get to the sue herera. hi, sue. >> hi, kelly. house democrats making a unique attempt to demand action on a measure to toughen background check for people purchasing guns. one by one they used the same speech and held up a photo of a victim of gun violence and one by one house speaker denied the request. >>> florida senator marco rubio is skipping the gop convention in cleveland. a spokeswoman for rubio said he had initially planned to attend but decided to focus his efforts instead on campaigning and meeting with voters in florida. >>> secretary of state john kerry took a stroll through kiev stopping to buy some local souvenirs. he was accompanied by ukraine's foreign minister and large security detail. his mission was aimed at reassuring the country over its tear torol disputes with russia. >>> and people started visiting a noah's ark atraction

chairman reid hoffman just sold it to microsoft for 26 billion saying it's harder than ever to competeith the tech giants. >> i think once you get into a public company, if you're not throwing off a lot of r & d, ability to do r & d and progress your technology at a very fast rate then it's difficult to compete with them. i think startups compete with them and private companies compete with them but i think the question is as a public company you're held to, okay, what is your quarterly, you know, earnings? how does that growth look like and what does your ebitda look like? >> hoffman says he's exciting but suggestions so far and is confident that linkedin's team will remain independent. melissa, both interviews up on cnbc.com. >> almost sounds like he's relieved to be out of the public spotlight like that. >> well, you know, hoffman really does enjoy investing in companies. he has this job as a partner at gray lock and he wasn't snowe of linked in, he was chairman. >> right. >> but he said, you know, it's really hard when you're a public company to compete. i found it most fascinating

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