chamath: i had known sean parker since the early 2000's. emily: he was president at that time?hamath: he said that he was going to be in washington, d.c. where aol's offices were. i'll be with mark zuckerberg, do you want to meet? we had a meeting and i thought this was super interesting. these guys are up to something. i did a deal with facebook. we integrated aim into pages of facebook. in that process, that's how i got to meet them. emily: what was he like at that time? chamath: high potential, but still very young. emily: did you know? did you have a feeling that it was going to be huge? chamath: i don't think we knew until about mid-2008. then we could say to ourselves, there is a formula here. and by "formula" i mean that we understood the psychology of why people wanted to be a part of this. once you understand the psychology, that is just a matter of building features and software that bring that psychology to life. people loved this emotional and responsiveness that facebook could give them. the formula was to figure out how these early behaviors could then drive the a

silicon valley entrepreneur and napster co-founder sean parker who has severe food allergies, donatedillion to stanford to advance scientific understanding of the disease. in the lab that now bears parker's name, dr. nadeau has a team of scientists working on a variety of experiments aimed at understanding the underlying causes of allergies. >> we are where cancer therapy was twenty years ago. there's a black box right now behind what it the cause of allergies, and how can we improve and treat allergies, and that's exactly what were studying in the lab on the cell level, on the dna level, but importantly is that we do our science to directly, in real time, help people with the disease. >> reporter: its research that may one day aid my own children, and the millions like them with food allergies. >> many, many families, in fact all of them, they live 365 days in fear. they really live a life where they observe life, rather than live it, and so at the end of the study what i'd really like to be able to accomplish for those families is so they can live life. so a child doesn't have to si

shortly after they launched, he got a call from shaun parker that sean parker.e really believed that spotify's model is spotify. i think that he thinks they will own audio and video streaming, and we know last year, it -- the digital music caught up to the physical good market last year. we are also seeing apple's model where you sell physical copies of the music that lost a percent last year. streaming is the future. i believe that spotify thinks they have the best technology and they will own it. erik: i like spotify. as usual big calls on the street this morning. scarlet fu is here with some analysts action you need to know about. scarlet: specifically has to do with alibaba because yesterday they reported that an irs official praises questions on whether the company can go forward with its plan to tax-free spinoff of alibaba. specifically what the irs officials that is the government is looking to perhaps change roles on these tax-free corporate spinoffs. they are recalibrating the likelihood and of the tax-free spinoff. some of them are interesting proposal

sean livingston off the bench. he helped to lead that 16 point comeback. game 2 6:00 tomorrow night at memorial. if the warriors win houston mayor annice parker will have to take a picture wearing warriors gear. she will also send craft beer and ribs. if the rockets win schaaf will send park aeroselfie wearing rockets gear as well as red day and pureless coffee. a fish tank water guard fran back to the roots a pie and a sampling of barbecue sauce from everett and jones. >>> still ahead after several, several budget cuts, how about good news for the san francisco fire department? up next the funding just approved and what that money will pay for. >> plus after years and years of research, scientists say they have found a purpose for us men. up next the reason women you are being told you realize can't live with without us. >> good morning. right now the traffic is going to be a little bit slow in some areas but look at san francisco it's not bad. now if you're trying to get to the san francisco airport it could be a different story. i'll tell you why. >> and my purpose is to give you the forecast. i don't have a very warm one. it will continue