as richard branson said if it were easy, everybody would be doing it.e at the beginning are always optimistic, and problems arise in any development. so i don't think this is something to be terribly surprised by or worried about. we'll get there one day. >> leroy i described you as a space entrepreneur, and there's not necessarily big money in it all the time, but it might make the world. >> i think around ten years ago you saw the companies coming up, and it was a little bit like the microcomputer storm when a lot of different companies sprung up. frankly speaking a lot of charlottetons, and that has been weeded out, and you have a few survivors and a new comers starting up as well. so i think this is here to stay. it's going to be a big deal. you heard richard branson in earlier interviews saying he felt that virgin galactic was going to be the biggest part of the virgin holings. >> genth mepranum thank you so much for taking your time out, they both flew on a challenger shuttle mission together. >>> the new commercial space tourism. >> we believe a

richard branson is now tackling the cruise business announcing they formed virgin cruises with the backing of mitt former company building two world class cruise ship with the first sailing not starting for two years. it is the first major new entrant into the cruise business since disney which course, is owned by abc7. >> people would consider themselves makers have is special republican to go to the library in marin with the city library now offering public access to two 3-d printers. make an announcement and bring in your design on a grab drive.

richard branson is the name, sir richard branson and the book is "the virgin way, everything i know about leadership," and he does know about leadership. agree or disagree with his style or politics, the fact of the matter is that when average folks across the globe were asked who they would really like to work for, who would just be a cool boss, sir richard came up. number two was rupert murdoch. anyway. richard branson back with us, and a lot of his leadership style is pretty much don't be a jerk, don't be dictatorial, don't shout at your workers, but it's more than that. you believe in unlimited vacation time. you believe that throwing a lot of rules at workers they're not as happy, productive, sfwhoboth? >> most of our life is spent at work, so it should be interesting, it should be entertaining, it should be rewarding. that's the virgin way. that's wait we treat our people. as a child, you know, if i criticized somebody, my parents would send me to the mirror and ask me to stand and look at myself for five minutes because they said it reflected so badly on me. so we very much go out

as richard branson said if it were easy, everybody would be doing it.e at the beginning are always optimistic, and problems arise in any development. so i don't think this is something to be terribly surprised by or worried about. we'll get there one day. >> leroy i described you as a space entrepreneur, and there's not necessarily big money in it all the time, but it might make the world. >> i think around ten years ago you saw the companies coming up, and it was a little bit like the microcomputer storm when a lot of different companies sprung up. frankly speaking a lot of charlottetons, and that has been weeded out, and you have a few survivors and a new comers starting up as well. so i think this is here to stay. it's going to be a big deal. you heard richard branson in earlier interviews saying he felt that virgin galactic was going to be the biggest part of the virgin holings. >> genth mepranum thank you so much for taking your time out, they both flew on a challenger shuttle mission together. >>> the new commercial space tourism. >> we believe a

create elders, a group of elder peace. >> you were having a conversation one day with richard branson, and you -- it seems like your -- you have these moments in your life where you decide that change is required and you are going to go really big with change. this yd of the elders? >> yeah. >> came up. >> yeah. >> tell us about the elders for those who don't know. >> it's sort of a naive dream, you know, like you can get a bunch of super heroes and sort out some of the problems, but the serious aspect of it was that wisdom is the neglected commodity in a way. you know, people go through life, a ton of experience, and we sort of push them off to the sea and into the unknown. and there is something there that could be gained. the dream, i think, was that if you could find elder statesmen, states women, that have extraordinary lives behind them but are no longer interested in their own personal agrandizement, career or whatever but trying to get it right for the future and you can make connections with young people action young and old could apply a pincer movement on those in power as

create elders, a group of elder peace. >> you were having a conversation one day with richard branson, and you -- it seems like your -- you have these moments in your life where you decide that change is required and you are going to go really big with change. this yd of the elders? >> yeah. >> came up. >> yeah. >> tell us about the elders for those who don't know. >> it's sort of a naive dream, you know, like you can get a bunch of super heroes and sort out some of the problems, but the serious aspect of it was that wisdom is the neglected commodity in a way. you know, people go through life, a ton of experience, and we sort of push them off to the sea and into the unknown. and there is something there that could be gained. the dream, i think, was that if you could find elder statesmen, states women, that have extraordinary lives behind them but are no longer interested in their own personal agrandizement, career or whatever but trying to get it right for the future and you can make connections with young people action young and old could apply a pincer movement on those in power as

we also then had sir richard branson who went to an's -- invest and he had a multi-$100 million contract ready to go should we demonstrate that not only can we get to space but get there without doing all the twisting in tumbling and turning. >> which mike had done a couple of days before. >> mike's flight was on a wednesday. thursday we kind of thought we figured out what was causing that particular problem which gave me -- thursday night was when it was announced that i was going to be the pilot. up until that point the clever way of doing business the way the chinese had conducted their programs, they leave it to the last minute to tell you who the crew is. on thursday night i find out i am going to be the guy except all the work that i have done to date to keep my hand in the game on the outside chance him again opportunity to fly this little beast of an airplane, now it is all out the window because we need to change it. the way it was changed is it is subtle but it is on the book. and very well explained. staff all night and read it. it is quite entertaining. it takes a lot of orch

we also had sir richard branson. million dollar contract ready to go should we demonstrate that not only could we get to space but get their without -- >> which mike had done a couple of days before. >> mike's flight was on a wednesday. and thursday we kind of thought we figured out what was causing that particular problem which gave me hope. thursday night was when it was announced that i was going to be the pilot. up until that time the clever management, way of doing business, not unlike maybe george abbey at nasa or the way that the chinese have conducted their programs they leave it until the last minute to tell you who the crew is. so on a thursday night i find out that i am going to be the guy except all of the work that i have done today to kind of keep my hand in the game just on the outside chance i might get an opportunity to fly this beast of an airplane now goes out the window because we need to change it. the way that it was changed was subtle. stay up all night and read it. it. it is quite entertaining

up, how one for-profit company with a nonprofit mission is winning money from bill gates and richard bransonan watch us streaming your phone, tablet, bloomberg.com, apple tv, and amazon fire tv. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. change.org, the mission drifted -- mission driven, for-profit website has just had a victory of its own. the company raised 25 billion dollars in series b funding from two dozen different high-profile investors, including bill gates, area on huffington, richard ranch in -- richard branson and others. i spoke with founder and ceo of change.org and i started by asking about its unique investment strategy and why the company decided to raise a little money from a lot of people. >> we want to a large group of people with amazing experience across a number of different domains -- tech, business and media. to those people for advice and support. that's why we wanted a large group of what we think are remarkable people. >> you're are talking to sell me different people at once. for the kinds of people, this is a drop in the bucket, but you are talking

george whitesides, thanks for being with us. >> nice to be with you ali. >> richard branson when he says success of the program the speed at which you're able to reestablish depends on what the cause was, where are we to determine the cause of spaceship2? >> the faa, is making i think fast progress. they have already essentially said that they're not looking at a engine failure, that they're looking at essentially the unlocking of a particular feature early. and so i think that they're making very good progress. and at the end of the day, you know, we'll take that information and we'll make our vehicle safer. >> that's i guess the next part of it. the first half of next year is around the corner. what's going to be different about this new vehicle you're calling hope? >> i think we're going to have to let the investigation proceed a bit further before we fully answer that question. you know if there are recommendations from the ntsb we're going to look at those carefully and try integrate those into the vehicle. but i think right now we're pretty hopeful that we'll be able to put this ve

shaking up of the sleepy airline industry in the past decade in asia this man has been compared to richard branson. >> we have to find out what went wrong. and we have to carry on doing what we've been doing. >> now all the families can do is wait, unable to influence events, less numb right all. having waived their loved ones goodbye, they had every right to expect that they would be seeing them again, but as time drags on, the agony of loss gets more profound. >> a little earlier an expert on aviation issues gave me his opinion on what could have happened to that air asia flight. >> basically there was a lot of tropical storm activity in the area. the pilots, of course, were a rare of it. that is one thing we do know about what happened to stop -- were aware of it. that is one thing we do not about what happened. the pilot was heard asking permission to climb. frankly, this should not happen. because the pilot has the means to see the storm through cloud. they can see where the dangerous bits are and avoid it. if they have to use their judgment and if there is too much danger around, they can to

richard branson is now tackling the cruise business announcing they formed virgin cruises with the backing of mitt former company building two world class cruise ship with the first sailing not starting for two years. it is the first major new entrant into the cruise business since disney which course, is owned by abc7. >> people would consider themselves makers have is special republican to go to the library in marin with the city library now offering public access to two 3-d printers. make an announcement and bring in your design on a grab drive. here is some items created. if the pilot program is successful more will get 3-d printers. president obama is the first to be printed in 3-d with teams from the smithsonian using his portrait and special lights and cameras. the bust is now on display at the smith sonia in washington coming from the inspiration of the lincoln life mask >>> snow are pretty slow. >>> a high speed commute is slower for caltrain riders with a big smile stone reached in a land to go electric. >> a new twist to save an embattled post office and why the future looks unc

and then i read a book about richard branson. i just wanted to be an entrepreneur. >> you became quite the celebrity on the atlanta hip-hop scene. >> i was a good party promoter. got to a point where i was not throwing their parties. they were going to mine. giving me an opportunity opened up a whole world for me. but it could have been steve rivkin. he was the first person to give me a record deal for asher roth when no one did. >> how are you looking for talent in the early days? >> everyone thinks that every act i have ever signed has blown up because we have been on a crazy run. but i had to learn the hard way. >> there are myths about the greatest entrepreneurs that are boiled down into legend. what is the myth of scooter braun and what is the reality? >> the myth is that i plug them into this machine. it is hard work. every single day is hard work and i think there was a point in my career when i felt i had done such a good job that i went from being ok scooter braun entrepreneur to being justin bieber's manager because i d

i still believe, as does sir richard branson.hink if you talk to him, within a reasonable amount of time, and it could be a year from now, two years from now, he and his son are going to get aboard spaceship be and will be among the first private citizens to go to a -- you will get an incredible vantage point that only people going into space can do. we'll give you the chance to live and work in space if they want as we do today on the international space station. i will hope that everyone understand that we have setbacks now and then, but it makes -- i think the future is bright for people who want to have an opportunity to travel in space someday. >> let's talk about the mission to mars. where are we, and how are we advancing? >> you know, we are far best off today than we've been in the history of humanity when you talk about going to mars. if you go back and look at science fiction writers from 100 years ago, people always talked about going to mars. previous administrations have always talked about going to mars. but it was

.' >> richard branson has a private island. steve ballmer is buying a sports team.benioff gives a lot away. what do you do? with all the money you have made? >> so, most of it is still in linkedin stock. because i am building the world through linkedin. i serve on a number of different nonprofit boards, like kiva and endeavor and do something. i try to finance projects that i think are interesting. >> are we ever going to see you start something else? another company? >> probably not. you know, with series a and seed founders, i work pretty closely with them, but there is a long way to go with linkedin still. so i would say that it's unlikely. although, you will see me partnering with a bunch of great young entrepreneurs, and trying to help figure out how to build something big. >> reid hoffman, thank you so for joining us. it's has been a pleasure to have you on the show. >> thank you. ♪ >> he invented the self driving car, is considered the godfather of artificial intelligence. he cofounded google x, google's innovation laboratory. he helped launch broadband ballo

how one for-profit company with the nonprofit mission is winning over bill gates and richard branson.will speak with the ceo and founder next area do can watch us streaming on your phone or tablet, apple tv, and amazon fire tv. >> will come back. imm leachate. welcome back. i am emily chang. company has raised when he $5 million in series b funding investors. spoke with founder and ceo of change.org about this news and theted i ask him about unique investment strategy and why they decided to raise money from a lot of people. take a listen. ofwe wanted a large group people with an amazing experience across different domains. to those people over time for advice and support it is why we wanted to support of what we take to the group of people. you are talking to somebody different people at once. it is an out-of-pocket for your talking about a lot of different people. >> the invested the same amount as a line if they were any normal company. a number of them significantly more. number of investors that were involved. it was about how you spend time instant of trying to sprint to raise m

we are an ngo founded by richard branson. we find market driven solutions to a low carbon economy. we have our five operations up there. i'm not going to talk to two of them. my colleague, susan hunt who is the operation hunter will be here tomorrow visiting on. that i'm about to visit quite deeply on island. we have to look at bio diversity from what we're doing in terms of conservation. but what also we're doing from stopping the degradation from happening. when i talk about market barriers what i'm saying when you look at shipping efficiency, the shipping owners or the building owners do not pay for the fuel or pay your utility bill as a tenant or shipper. they're not motivated to give you a shift that's more fuel efficient and energy efficient. ships alone are the 6th worst polluter between germany and japan. basic retrofits to a ship, a paint that is left porous or the engine to make it more efficient can save 20% of fool costs and emissions and more importantly they can stop the degradation. how do we motivate the owner of a ship to make it more fuel or energy efficient? we f

spoke with the richard branson of russia.listen to that interview right now. >> before, there were sanctions and it did not matter to us. sanctions are fine. was an economic slowdown. it was not good. we are ok. now, oil price, i think, will close. so much as tied to the oil price. it affects companies and production. it is time to lay off the people now. and theyve the job start to default on their credit. that is my business because of my default and the bad loans go up. that is my concern. the oil price could affect my bank. some people think it is good for russia because the russian awaymy will sort of get from the oil needle, it is called. i do not believe that. >> we have seen the price of oil fall before. in 2008.pened i did not see any major changes in the russian structure. that thebelieve structure of the russian economy will change because of the oil prices. i am not so confident. i think we move faster for a couple of years. >> it is interesting that you mentioned unemployment because unemployment is something tha

richard branson entering the cruise business. i have no idea why. you be you. think that is why people go. instead, he will give passengers more experienced to life at sea. that is what it is all about. >> cold and wet. you better be right. why do people go on cruises? >> you have three cruise lines right now. exploring that possibility. melissa: who wants to do this? who thinks this sounds appealing. melissa: all right. very nice, gentlemen. the it department that sony had one job. thousands of passwords in a folder named passwords. yes, that will throw them off. can you believe this? >> i have news for you. sony pictures is the smartest part of sony. they are not doing so well. this is the crown jewel of the company. sylvester stallone along with some other celebrities. it will be a big problem. >> i will make a recommendation here. password 123. [laughter] melissa: take a deep breath and buckle up. uber now worth more than $40 billion. a spartan effort from one target employee. it will have you ready to sell some tvs. smart money coming up. >> whatever comes

origin.os and blue richard branson and virgin galactic.uld nasa and the in competition with these companies, partnering with these companies as they are in some cases? how does the country maintain its edge? >> this is a really important goal of the space program that i believe we are working to focus more on and we are partnering with some of those companies. that is where the excitement is, in my view. you leverage the government investment technology and allow the industry to innovate. that is how the jet engine when and how the satellites have gone and launch vehicles as well. human spaceflight is that next that the space travel private sector wants to get in. there is no way nasa should try to compete with them, which is somewhat difficult for them. if we had this much excitement those commercial launches, the public would understand all the great things we are doing in space. nasa's pr to see machine do so well and talk about this as a flight that will eventually go to mars, but they do so many other things that we could be connectin

the 10 island challenge was born because richard branson said we are in. that is how we started. when stanley, if there are any real coincidences, tn see in the tiffany foundation convened half a dozen heads of state in may of 2013 to get them to commit to addressing the energy issues on their islands. we combined our efforts and determined to move forward. we then determined we would only do 10 islands in the caribbean. that would be our first 10 islands and then we would start moving across the globe, if you will. we also started the process of weaning richard's island. recently, and most successfully, we started a strategic alliance with rocky mountain institute. we put on a creating climate wealth where we brought the islands together from the caribbean and brought ceos of witnesses who would he interested in doing the work on these islands and we also were able to launch the 10 island challenge and identify specific islands to work with. these islands are largely dependent on imported fossil fuel. one island is 100 $.10 a kilowatt hour. you have the added burden of a man don

we are an ngo founded by richard branson. we find market driven solutions economy.carbon we have our five operations up there. going to talk to two of them. hunt who is susan the operation hunter will be here tomorrow visiting on. i'm about to visit quite deeply on island. diversity look at bio from what we're doing in terms of conservation. doing from o we're degradation from happening. when i talk about market arriers what i'm saying when you look at shipping efficiency, the shipping owners or the owners do not pay for the fuel or pay your utility tenant or shipper. they're not motivated to give more fuel that's efficient and energy efficient. the 6th worst and ter between germany japan. basic retrofits to a ship, a porous or theleft engine to make it more efficient of fool costs and importantly more they can stop the degradation. how do we motivate the owner of fuel or make it more energy efficient? banger that's te willing to do third party financing and that's been the work.art of the you'll see that. that way we're able

and spaceship 2, which richard branson is working on now is outgrowth of spaceship one.got a spaceship -- i've got a ticket on spaceship 2, but he's gone over to the competitor now, so i may have to get a ticket on that one. i like a really warm welcome for brian because this guy has the rights tough. -- the right stuff. [applause] >> i'm in the private side of the house. i don't take your tax money, we do business for better or for worse our way. i'm working on my fourth spaceship. i have pictures of my private career, post military available with a business card at the back. as jim says, it has been 10 years now since the x prize flight. coming up on 11 if you count the first powered flight. are the c-span cameras running? get this on screen. i have written a book about the experiences of that program. there certainly were a lot of logs that came out at the time that told bits and pieces, but the fun stuff is in here. i kept thinking if i could just find myself in a city that has some expertise in books writing, publishing, editing come in that kind of stuff, if i coul

richard branson is there. you had to make it happen. >> you know, what i want to talk about is -- i will get back to that but walt's comment about cell phones, i'm not a cell phone kind of guy. one day i was flying a plane. the only requirement was to have a commercial glider rating. if you start to think about it it seems like it is a pretty low bar flying wise. i doubt that in the foothills -- i am out there in the foothills and i am practicing this baby airplane glider. it weighs as much as i do. the plane takes us up over the mountains which are 8000 feet and then get released. immediately i get things that are 1500 feet per minute. just making a turn. i'm coming down like a brick. the stick is swinging back and forth trying to keep the wings level. i decide today is not the day to be flying this thing. i start aiming back towards the field. i may be pointing that way but i am still flying this way. there is no place to go. at some point you have to give up and say today i'm not going back, i'm going somew

. >> richard branson said the speed of recovery depends on what the cause is. what was the a cause?ey are investigating this accident, and i think they are making fast progress. they have already essentially said that they are not looking at an engine failure, they are looking at essentially the unlocking of a particular feature early, and so i think that they are making very good -- very good progress. and at the end of the day, you know, we'll take that information and make your vehicles safer. >> the first half of next year is around the corner, what is going to be different about this hope? >> well, i think we're going to have to let the investigation proceed a bit further before we fully answer that question, if there are recommendations from the ntsb, we're going to look at those and try to integrate those into the vehicle. but right now we're pretty hopeful that we'll be able to put this vehicle into service, and -- and move forward, because that's what -- you know, we'll all here -- here to do. >> we have been talking about where your spacecraft is set to take tourists into

. >> airlines and mobile phones and now richard branson is tackling the cruise business announcing he which plan to build two world class cruise ships with the first sailing probably not if a couple of years. it is the first major new entrant into the cruise business since disney was formed in 1996. disney owns abc7, of course. >>> there is special reason to go to the library in marin because of a $6,000 donation that offers public access to two different 3-d printers and all you have to do is make an amoment andry if your design on a flash drive. >> these are items people have already created. officials say if the program is successful, more branches will get printers. >>> almost 5:57. a san francisco surprise: the city finds itself with millions of dollars it was not expecting. where did the money come from? where is it going? >>> first, though, the cleanup from the big storm continues as more wet weather approaches the pay area. what still needs to be done and weapon newest rain arrives. >>> this is the bay bridge toll plaza starting to backup on friday morning and this is abc7news

so, we contacted sir richard branson about, you know, these flights?ost $250,000. so, that was just totally off the table. but we did get you something that i think you're going to like and i think really will hit home with what you -- >> this a vhs? >> i know what this is. >> jimmy: it is a vhs tape. >> that's special. >> jimmy: it is. and it is -- >> "space jam!" such a good one. >> jimmy: aaron also told me that you like fireworks. unfortunately, the fire marshall would not allow us to light fireworks here in the studio. but we are allowed to light this sparkler, if i can get it lit. well, the hell with the sparkler. now -- the big gift. aaron told us that you love diana ross. >> yes. >> jimmy: and we thought it would be a pretty great thing if we could get diana ross to come here tonight to sing happy birthday to you. well, of course, we could not get -- >> yeah. i was like, what am i missing? >> jimmy: we were able to get what i think is the next best thing. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome america's roast master general, jeffrey ross. [ cheer

. >> run by tony fernandez, a protege of richard branson has brought that model to asia and has really dominated there. any understanding based on his business practice with air asia. it is consistent with the security procedures that you just described. >> well, most of the airlines in that particular renal have reasonable security precautions. however, we found that they are not uniquely and uniformly enforced as they are on oh american and western european, australian carriers. it's just sometimes the flight crews and the flight attendants and the ground crews simply don't enforce the rules that are in place. >> anthony roman has been up 30 hours working with msnbc for 16 of the hours, still staying sharp. haung for your perspective on all three areas we have been discussing today. we are following breaking news off the coast of italy. we'll return shortly with more . there is a rescue operation involving a ferry on fire. an italian coast guard official says a person died attempt ing to escape from a blazing ferry in the adriatic sea and another injured. hundreds remain trapped on s

he wanted to go on virgin gallon lactic with richard branson's big idea but apparently if he's stayingecause he did want to buy from what i understand a honeymoon present for mill la. what's going on? >>> it seems like it's the worst lay away plan ever. like he plop down $200,000 and because of that accident that took place on october 31 mila kunis is like no way. toots dangerous. i mean, a pilot actually died when the shuttle took off in mid air. no one wants to put themselves or anybody you love in that position especially considering the fact they just had a new child. i mean got to think about the kid. it's cooling to don't go first. maybe go fifth. send justin beiber first. >> justin beiber signed up for this as well. spaceship had that tragic crash. one pilot did die. they think it was cockpit air they don't know -- error. but i understand also leonardo dicapridee cap pre stilled signo go. we'll see what happens with that. head crack as usual always a pleasure. >> same here to you lucy. have great day. >> you too. after our 10:00 o'clock news we've got two hours of news and info

he is often compared to richard branson. t.c.s. bank is sort of the capital one of russia.ot an oligark. he is not a big fan of the russian president's financial i asked him what it is that the west doesn't understand about vladimir putin and the country's policy in ukraine and near russia's borders. the west -- russia too much for no reason. yause wants to go to baltic countries or poland. this is so -- i mean, it is ip possible. you talk to -- impossible. you talk to anybody in russia. they don't think about that. >> that is a very arguable point. >> there is a need that they would go. >> to restore the soviet union. >> they need to support -- they need the money. we are the biggest country in the world. we have so much land. >> you mentioned ukraine. the west is concerned about russia going into ukraine. it has already happened with crimea and all of that stuff. what is it that the west doesn't understand about russia and the ukraine? > moscow and russia. we don't need to make ukraine part of russ cra. nobody wants that. they want them to be neutral. they speak our langu

he's sort of like the richard branson of asia. >> around he's a celebrity. >> he is. with information which is what he's doing. >> how does a plaep this size just disappear? >> that's the key here. i can't rent car without the agency know where i'm driving or how fast. >> nor any of us with our smartphones. you need live 24-hour data streaming to the cloud. that would have solved the problem. they were in a dead zone. deborah hersman talked about it. >> what do you mean dead zone? >> it's not tracked. you can get on the radio. there's not much going on out there? >> does that mean there was pinging? >> pinging is difficult. a different situation. what pinging is if they can find the elt, asuchling it's on the floor of the ocean, they can hear it on sonar, they have to get within five or six hours and there's a better chance because they can actually narrow the search. >> we now have three airline disasters in this part of the world in the past year. how many of these dead zones are there that we're not tracking? >> more than you can imagine. other most of that area it

ryan spoke with the man known as the richard branson from russia.uite a playful mood. >> he was. we have the russian president addressing the parliament in two hours. tim ash saying this is high noon for the russians. perhaps the most important speech to parliament from the russian president in his 14-year reign. a lot of that has been reflected over the last couple of weeks and throughout the year in the ruble, which we have spoken about quite a bit. the ruble today, surprisingly strengthening. we have heard the central bank oning that what is going with the ruble is divorce from the fundamentals. the ruble is now a threat to financial stability. they have just lowered their minimum rate on all affects repo -- fx repo options. they say -- >> the threat to financial stability, that means they can and probably will do more this week. now that it is free-floating, that is the warning sign. >> that is exactly right. they say, we are going to be a like other central banks. if things get really bad, we will move in. we can move in in a large way if we wa