we're speaking to reid hoffman who sold linkedin to microsoft.id he weigh in at all into that discussion in terms of robotics or ai or have a different viewpoint? he's interesting to listen to too. >> yeah. the focus last night, almost asymmetrically was from andreessen. definitely there's some -- there's some mea culpas in the past 18 hours about what microsoft did wrong in say the last decade and a half and how that's playing out big time today. >> i wonder if there's any mea culpas on politics. you know, this was a group that was in favor of hillary clinton. she'll be there and you'll get a lot of political discussion out from the valley and i'm curious to hear where they are right now on president trump, on some of his policies. we just talked about the fact he's planning on pulling out of the paris climate agreement. what are you expecting? >> you know what, obviously there's -- i'm sure there's a political veneer to what she said. she's already made a couple of big high profile appearances and if it's cara doing the interview, she has been

>> from reid hoffman, the founder of linkedin, one of the early investors, he learned about growing a marketplace business, linkedin is very much a marketplace and airbnb is not a core marketplace business. a lot of venture capitalists, he learned everything but he went for example to george tenet who used to run the cia to talk about culture because he thought who better to talk about culture, an organization where everyone were spies, he took a lot from george tenet, told him the importance of walking around the office saying you did a good job writing notes to people and things like that. he learned a lot from john donohoe from the day and they learn from each other, had a rivers mentoring sing going on. >> he went to omaha. >> and talked to warren buffett. and he learned -- he learned it is important to remove your self from all the noise. he was struck that warren buffett sits in his office in omaha and reads all day long. he doesn't get wrapped up in things. he thinks big picture. that was an incredible meeting. he wrote a 4000 word memo to send to his executive team about this.

>> it's interesting because i asked reid hoffman about what he thought about whether or not twitter shouldin sold to microsoft. he says there's been a great experience, lots of opportunities there. now as he said i won't comment on twitter specifically but he says it really makes sense for a company like linkedin or perhaps twitter can find a parent company that makes a lot of a of sense. so there was definitely a lot of talk about twitter here yesterday. balmer saying he believes in the company long term. as for snapchat, i asked hoffman about what he thinks of evan spiegel not issuing any voting shares in the snap inc. ipo, it's an expert to see how it turns out. and investors get to choose if they want to invest in the company where they don't get any voting shares and the control is held by the founders. i think there's definitely a lot of conversation about both of the companies out here. we'll hear more today. >> thank you, julia boorstin, thank you. >> he's got the dts bad, dts bad, reid hoffman. trump derangement. >> a huge hillary backer. >> wants him to release the tax returns. >