caroline: that was brad stone and sarah frier with me earlier.ry we have been following, vladimir putin says the parties responsible for cyber meddling in u.s. elections more from another country. as the president-elect quite rightly said, nobody knows who these hackers were. they be they were in another country. maybe somebody on a sofa or in bed hacked into theranos. into their-- hacked emails. it is easy. what is important is that the essence of the information the hackers have brought to light. caroline: he went on to say that russia was the only country that win the donald trump to white house and accused hillary clinton being a bad loser. u.s. intelligence experts have said that russian hackers played an active role in meddling with the u.s. election. our best, more of interviews of the year, including a one-on-one with mark benioff. he talks about his relationship with larry ellison. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: so force is one of silicon valley's most inquisitive companies. brad stone sat down with the chief executive mark benioff and t

earlier i sat down with brad stone and sarah frier to recap the tech week. take a listen. his company has had executive turmoil as long as they have been a public company. if you look at any time they have mentioned executive leadership in a presentation, you can cross off most of the names since they started in going public. they have had a lot of trouble defining their vision and moving in a direction that contributes to growth. that brain drain really contributes to instability that twitter does not need when it s stock is so under pressure. caroline: a billion dollars in market value wiped out this week. they could not find a buyer for themselves this year. brad: we have had a joke that it is dangerous to profile a twitter executive these days because they might be gone by the time the story comes out. this is really anthony moto's company right now. he does have a vision of organizing twitter around live video. we will see how that goes. this is a company, even as a failed to find a buyer, with very little runway. they have to do something dramatic. if the price falls,

sarah frier, who covers twitter, broke the story yesterday. why all the brain drain? s is a company that has had executive turnover for years. this year alone it lost not only the two you mentioned, but their head of products, and several other product executives, their head of news. this is a company that has lost maybe 25 executives since its ipo. caroline: 25 since its ipo. james, what does this mean for an analyst such as yourself? how does this impact the product? a good thing.t just look at the ceo level. we needed a full-time ceo since the day after dick costolo left. unfortunately we have still seen no sugars as abilities between the square and twitter. at the most critical time in the have this kind of turnover does raise some questions about the long-term potential and ability to turn around. anecdotally, i just met with wpp today, the world's largest advertiser, and they are telling us that the growth there in twitter is rather not there for twitter in terms of dollars and they are primarily using it for pr and to gauge advertising effectiveness for their ca

sarah frier is the first to kick off on the brain drain. what is behind it? been in executive turmoil as long as it has been a company. any time they mention executive leadership in the presentation, you can cross off most of the names since they started in 2013 going public. this is a company where they have had a lot of trouble deciding on their vision and moving forward in a direction that contributes to growth. the brain drain really thatibutes to instability twitter doesn't need when the stock is so under pressure. caroline: $1 billion wiped out in market value this week and they couldn't find a buyer. brad: sarah and i have joked that it is dangerous to profile a twitter executive these days because they might be gone by the time the story comes out. cfo, now thecoo, has a vision of reorienting around video. this is a company, even though they failed to find a buyer, with a little runway. they have got to do something dramatic to is the price falls, the process might start up again in 2017. caroline: perhaps some of the advertising this -- ms. measureme