well, we have talked about mosaic silicon valley before.t's a complicated, ambitious cultural combination created by sangam arts, which has the mission of connecting cultures to strengthen diverse communities. here to explain this unique world is first the president of mosaic silicon valley, usha srinivasan, who has trained classically in indian dancing, served on the board of world arts west, produced san francisco's famous ethnic dance festival, and is on santa clara's cultural commission. and also with us is priya das, the cofounder and creative director of mosaic silicon valley, who also sits on the santa clara cultural commission. welcome to the show. usha srinivasan: thank you for having us, we're really excited. robert: yeah, we really like this program that you have and things, but give, for people who haven't heard that much about it, sort of an overview of it. usha: so, sangam arts is an organization that was founded in 2013, and originally, the purpose of the organization was to help broaden the reach of indian classical arts, th

>>> brexit is coming and silicon valley needs to be ready. our expert breaks down how high-tech companies will be affected. plus, the push to encourage diversity it in video games both on the screen and behind it. and silicon valley shoots itself in the foot by attracting the attention of washington's regulators. reuters reporters join me this week on "press: here." good morning. i'm scott mcgrew. if you have been through a bad breakup you know it affects more than just the couple. friends get dragged into it, too. case in point, brexit. the united kingdom, england, wales, scotland and northern ireland are leaving the yueuropn union. this is happening thousands of miles away, but the breakup affects people and businesses worldwide. the effort to leave the eu is picking up speed this morning. the u.k. and the european union have agreed to the terms of the divorce and all that is left is for the british parliament to approve it. we expect that will come in the next few weeks. the deal may hurt silicon valley's trade with great britain, but may

if you don't fit in to the pace in silicon valley, you will struggle. believe that we are all equal in life in my office should not be nicer than the executives. we put employees around the windows before was parker and created a culture with no reserved parking. it's rare you get to take a company from $70 million to $47 billion and change the world at the same times in terms of how the internet made a difference and all our lives. emily: the dot com bubble burst. john: when i watched what happened at ibm, where it should have been the leader forever, and yet it felt for almost 20 years. it has just slightly improved since then. i had been told that leadership was learning, but it was about as lonely as it gets. emily: how so? john: people who had been complimentary turned. to me, you are consistent in your behavior and life. something changes, you don't turn on the person you said good things to. there were tough comments made, that is part of leadership. if you can't take constructive leadership, but this is the amazing thing we did again and again a

where do you think the next silicon valley is? john: india, if i had to bet on one country.lso why it is so important to realize how important selective immigration is for this country. we want to be the place where the best and brightest from all over the world want to go with proper security clearance when they come in. in india, they graduate 600,000 engineers a year. we only do 60,000 a year in the u.s. a huge amount of startups are out of i.t. pools in india, like stanford, m.i.t., polytech, but they're afrance but much larger scale. emily: are you worried india or china could surpass the u.s. and that our policies might enable that? john: absolutely. i think it is something we have to be realistic on. it has to be a level playing field. india and the u.s. should be the most strategic partnership in the world. emily: here we are in a trade war with china. is that the right strategy? john: it's not the most gentle to solve it, but the issue is real simple. you have to have the same level playing field in china for american businesses as china has here. government has to

emily: is silicon valley too arrogant for its own good? john: yes. you have to be very careful.s inclusiveness. secondly, people around the country don't want to be told who they should vote for. or we'll give you a stipend if your job is displaced. people in west virginia, ohio, they just want a good job and be proud of that. secondly, we've got to realize that while what we do is very good, but we're also destroying jobs, and we have to deal with that. with the internet, we knew it would destroy a certain number of jobs, so cisco put network academies in every state in the u.s. and train 7 million students when i was there, many went on to college. we went into the middle east, and then palestine created a partnership between startups and the arabs and jewish population about how we work together and the gdp went from .5% in high tech to 6.5% in three years. so this is where i'd like to see silicon valley come back to do what we do best, change the world in a positive way. we have to be careful that our overconfidence is probably erring on being too arrogant. ♪ emily: where do

emily: is silicon valley to arrogant for its own good? john: yes. ♪ emily: there was a time when cisco was one of the top tech companies getting all the glory. was it hard to watch amazon and google and facebook and apple become that? john: not at all. my dad taught me you always take pride in your peers' success. and it's so important the industry does well. emily: that's awfully benevolent. john: no, it is practical. i believe you don't win by yourself, you win as a team. why should you object to someone else being successful? also i'm getting another chance to do the next cisco with these start-ups. i always enjoyed it when my peers were successful. not by competitors but my peers. emily: the ground is shifting beneath facebook and google and apple and amazon. what is your take on the controversy about how facebook was slow to act when it comes to election meddling and fake news, and how management was asleep at the wheel? john: one of the things for your audience watching this, and you have asked me a really tough question, so i will

brad: has there been a failure of leadership in silicon valley? i think there's been a failure to anticipate some of the consequences of what has happened. technology races along fast. i'm not sure any of us would have gotten it right, but perhaps some warning signs that things were devolving were missed early on that could have at least tempered the situation somewhat. brad: there are canonical leadership qualities in silicon valley that have been prized for so long. certainly steve jobs with his brashness, along with his freshness and creativity. mark zuckerberg is almost epitomized by the phrase "move fast and break things." did we prize the wrong things for too long? john: i think we did. i think "move fast and break things" was fine when you were a small company and you had a small impact when you broke something, or even when you're impact was confined to one sector. when you're impacting the other technology companies, when you're impacting the american public at the scale these companies do, breaking things has many unintended consequences

plus, one of the most successful founders in all of silicon valley. throw in an hr director who fired some of the best minds in tech and add in a venture capitalist not afraid to speak his mind. this week on "press here." >>> good morning everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. in a blatant attempt to get this show listed by glass door as one of the best places to work, we've given the crew the holidays off. we're packaging some of our past interviews into a bundle of best stuff, a hand-picked artisanal show. we'll talk quantum computing and venture capital. let's start with penny mcchord, the original hr director at netflix, a company famous for dismissing employees after they're no longer useful. patty calls herself the queen of good good-byes. >>> one of the reasons i wanted to have an agile workforce where we could be very selective about who was on the right time at the rhyme time to do the right thing, when you do that as the company evolves and grows, you don't end up with the mass layoffs because you don't carry a bunch of people until their skill set is

reid: so, "blitzscaling" is the practice in silicon valley.t is grow to a globally relevant company, transformational company. the thing that got me writing the book and doing the podcast and all these things was that silicon valley is still the startup story. silicon valley, is half of nasdaq. why is that? we have the startups, and startups succeed. that is true. that is true in 100 plus areas in the world now. what is important is the way we get this to massive scale quickly, airbnb, uber, facebook, linkedin, and this set of techniques about how you go to markets, hire talent, scale the company, what business models you create, and allow silicon valley to do this. david: when is it stupid to blitzscale? reid: it is prioritizing speed over efficiency. in an environment of uncertainty. it is frequently driven by competition. in this hyper connected world, competition comes from everywhere in this hyper connected world. actually, the first to scale is the business that wins. the first to scale is the business that sets all the rules. so it is p

how big is the problem in silicon valley? so, we did a survey of over 300 cancer survivors in silicon valley to say, "okay, when you were finished with your treatment, did you get support?" patients are supposed to get something called the survivorship care plan. it's like a treatment plan. when you first get diagnosed, the doctor says, "here's what we're gonna do. here's the chemo, the radiation, the surgery, whatever." patients are also supposed to get a survivorship care plan that says, "now that you've finished treatment, these are the things you should be focusing on." our survey showed that over 70% did not get a survivorship care plan. so, the cancer doesn't end when the treatment ends. so, by doing this report, we really wanted to highlight this issue in silicon valley. patients told us they were still dealing with side effects, things like chemo brain, or fatigue, or other kinds of things that may have been a result of the surgery. people all have--cancer patients have a fear of recurrence. that's one of the biggest

>> he went from maple syrup to one of silicon valley's most famous executives. reid hoffman created his own underground major at stanford to working with peter teal and elon musk. he then created the professional networking site linkedin where he made big bets on facebook. now, he is finding the best balance between social media and human interaction. just how much is too much technology. on this edition of bloomberg big decisions, reid hoffman. new book out that you have co-authored. what is the thing that drove you to it? reid: blitz scale back of the envelope idea to a global company. it is grow to a globally relevant company, transformational company. the thing that got me writing the book and doing the podcast and all these things was that silicon valley is still the startup story. silicon valley, is half of nasdaq. why is that? we have the startups, and startups succeed. that is true. that is true in 100 plus areas in the world now. what is important is the way we get this to massive scale quickly, airbnb, uber, facebook, linkedin, and this set of techniqu

that's the whole ethos of silicon valley, by the way.u only give us everything, we will give you free stuff. b there is a trang made between the user and facebook. the question is, a they protecting that data? >> thank you, mark.ra >> nr: facebook had been free to set its own privacy standards, because in he u.s. there are no overarching privacy laws that apply this kind of data collection. but in 2010, authorities at the federal trade commission became concerned. >> in most other parts of the world, privacy is a right. in the united states, not exactly. >> narrator: at the ftc, david vladek was investigating whether facebook had been deceing its users. what he found was that facebook had been sharing users' personal dataith so called "third-par"- developers- companies thatme built gaand apps for the platform. >> and our view was that, you bow, it's fine for facebook to collect this dat sharing this data with third parties without consenwas a no-no. >> but at facebook, of course, we believe tt our users should have complete control of th

i don't want washington running my life but i sure as heck don't want silicon valley running my life. we have to make sure have opportunity for all sides to be heard in the public square. i don't want to see liberals or democrats censored. i want to beat them with better arguments. the left always tries to throw the wet blanket for ability of conservatives to make their argument. >> do you think there is a room here for regulation? because we have to know what the

the silicon valley organization was not surprised by the expansion out-of-state. he points out that they have made billions of dollars in investments with their new cupertino campus, along with land purchases in north san jose. >> we do need to make sure that san jose, silicon valley in california continues to create a positive business environment so that companies like apple will continue to invest your. or mac this year alone, apple added 6000 new jobs to the work force. the city now employ 90,000 people in all 50 states. at headquarters in cupertino, ktvu, fox 2 news. >>> the oakland a's teamed up with the salvation army to bring joy to families in need. the team sponsored a christmas party at the salvation army emergency shelter on garden street in oakland. there are about 14 families staying there right now. a's players were on hand. that was to meet the children and bring guests. >> many of the kids that are here would not receive christmas gifts if it were not for the salvation army and the partnership with the a's. 4 the salvation army serves about 50 fam

like, let's stop the little (bleep) parade about everyone in silicon valley, yw, creating, disrupting and improving the world, right? it's, in many ways, a businesske ny other. it's just kind of more exciting and impactful. (techno music playing) >> narrator: by 2007, zuckerberg had made it clear that the goa of the business was worldwide expansion. >> almost a year ago, when we were first discussing how to let evyone in the world into facebook, i remember someone said to me, "mark, we already have neay every college student in the u.s. on facebook. it's incredible that we were a eve to do that. but no one gets a second trick like that." well, let's take a look at how we did. (cheering and applause) >> jacoby: what was the growth team about? d wh you do at growth? >> the story of growth has really been about mang facebook available to people that wanted it but couldn't have access to it. >> narrator: naomi gleit, facebook's second-longest serving employee, is one of five ofcials the company put forward to talk to frontline. she was an original member of the growth team. >> one of my f

the tech giant saying they are set to build a new $1 billion campus, but it's not here in silicon valley. the new campus will be in austin, texas. for more, we are joined by reporter bridget spencer at the apple campus in austin with more. >> reporter: good evening. apple does already have a presence here in austin. they have two locations. this is one of them in northwest austin here. they have about 6000 employees in the area but with this new campus, they are looking to create somewhat of an empire here in central texas. this is the future of apple in austin. thursday, the company laid out its plan to build a 3 million square-foot campus more than doubling the size of their corporate presence in northwest austin. >> we'll start with 5000 seats in the first phase and we'll have the ability to expand to 15,000 in total over time. >> apple executives and city officials say this would eventually make apple austin's largest private employer. >> it's a part of a plan we have to expand across the u.s. but a key part. >> reporter: the campus will overlap counties and be planted in williamson

. >> and old silicon valley meets new silicon valley. how family businesses are using self-driving technology to help them stay in business. no mom in the history of moms has ever turned down a hand-made ornament. she never wondered if there would be enough room for it on the tree. this year find a place for a new one from santa's wonderland at bass pro shops and now cabela's. where kids can hang out with elves, make a craft, and get their picture with santa, all for free. that's right, free. time passes. hold onto christmas. this week kids can decorate a gingerbread house. and monday through thursday get a free plush animal. . >>> a woman in the country illegally who was set to be released from jail was arrested by federal u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agents. a henry lee is live with us with more on what happened. >> reporter: this woman has been released but she still faces possible deportation after i.c.e. agents arrested her here at the jail. an undocumented immigrant ended up at the jail after being being arrested for ha

s in silicon valley they are the outlier. when i ran pando, a very fiery investigative journalism outlet we had a thing in-house. when a tech company tells you something is too hard, what they're telling you is they don't care. because this is an industry who has revolutionized industries, who can beam internet down from the sky, who is having serious conversations about colonizing mars, connected billions of people on the planet into one social graph. this is not a place that's ever stopped to say it's too hard. that's where we come to when it comes to diversity. that it's just not a priority. how do you think we get it to be a priority? alexis: the first thing we need is to change diversity from a women's conversation to an everyone conversation. [applause] alexis: you know, i applaud the women and men who took their time tonight to be here. but there are far more women than men in this room and most rooms where i have the conversation there are far more women having the conversation. when you look at the pipeline, you star

exactly, i went been exploring in silicon valley, right?en exploring in silicon valley, right? exactly, i went to see what these major committees were doing in this sphere of accessibility, and finding out how they addressing some of these really, really big challenges. silicon valley in california, home of the technology giants who increasingly often shape oui’ giants who increasingly often shape our daily lives. i've come here to speak with apple, facebook, google and mozilla, to find out, or try at least, where we are at in the world of accessible technology. but before all that, what do we actually mean when we say accessibility? i started by asking some of the people i met what it means to them. accessibility is all about making the world's information and technology available to everyone, regardless of their physical or cognitive abilities. a mac accessibility means making things to help people with disabilities, so that can mean modifying existing products or softwa re modifying existing products or software to help people, or it cou

a city used to be a magnet for counterculture but that counterculture has turned to corporate silicon valley is home to some of the world's richest tech companies but not everyone in the bay area is living the dream for many people here are falling by the wayside including the middle classes extortionate rent prices are forcing professionals out to the cheaper far away suburbs. some even live in motor homes entire streets of them these people have literally been kicked to the curb. among them is the royal family with three children and another on the way the mother has been cleaning other wealthier people's homes for fifteen years the family had to move out of their apartment three years ago the monthly rent was three thousand dollars for a two bedroom apartment they just couldn't afford it. staying here because my husband has a good job nearby but we can't move because we don't have any savings what can we do without money. they improvise with the small space they have barely getting by while the people they work for earn six figure salaries plus shares and bonuses the enormous gap between

silicon valley is having an activist moment right now with the google walkout. me too is having an influence. they have extracted some kind of minor concessions you might say. how much do you think employees can move the dial on this? how much of a meaningful contribution can they make? and if they can make a contribution going forward, what can we do to keep the momentum going? i think it does not work for wall street when you are talking about the big companies. i think consumers don't care. i think it is only employees who have power. i don't know if you guys agree or disagree. >> i think employees have a lot of power, and i think collective voice, you know, and bringing together kind of patterns, particularly when you have the benefit of having a lot of people who are diverse people with similar experiences, i think it is a moment. and i think the key thing in this moment is when you are seeing success, not to come off of it and make it a one off, because i think the power is in being consistent. this is going to take a long time. i am with you. i actually t

he urges the silicon valley crowd to pressure congress to support his plan. the president then traveled to moffitt field where he waved to onlookers before boarding air force one to fly to southern california. he was scheduled to meet briefly with former president ronald reagan. now reaction has been coming in during the past couple of hours including from four presidents, present and former. george w. bush says in a statement, "george h.w. bush was the man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. the entire bush family is deeply grateful 41's life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared for and prayed for dad and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens." president trump tweeted this. "through his essential authenticity, disarming witt and unwavering commitment to faith, family, country, president bush inspired generations of his fellow americans to public service." former president barack obama and his wife michelle wrote, "after 73 years of marriage george and barbara bush are together again now,

a tech pioneer and a brash silicon valley titan. and then you get somebody like kathleen wilson thompson who is a career corporate executive, many years at kellogg before she went to walgreens. and an hr executive who oversees thousands and thousands of employees who will bring rigor and discipline to the organization. selina: tesla's board has been criticized for having poor governance. now, larry ellison a close relationship with musk. he has been building up a personal stake in the company. does he bring the independence the board needs? crayton: that's a great question. technically, larry ellison is independent, although he does have a stake in the company. we have been talking to experts today that questioned the spirit of this pick, because he is somebody who has praised musk publicly. he is a huge fan not only of tesla but of spacex and the whole musk empire. somebodygoing to be that will be in board meetings questioning and criticizing him when necessary? it's a legitimate question. selina: you said it earlier that he is spi

robert: yeah, so, sexual harassment in silicon valley. bad you couldn't pick something a little more topical. [laughing] basab: well, believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in the play. robert: oh, yeah, yeah. well, what inspired it? what inspired you? basab: well, so, the last play i wrote was about class conflict and income inequality. and i knew that the next play i wanted to write was about gender discrimination. then early 2017, the uber expose by susan fowler, she posted publicly about her experience at uber, and there was a lot of discrimination going on. there was the bro culture at uber. and also, her personal experience with sexual harassment. so, that's what got the ball rolling for me. and then, of course, then harvey weinstein happened. the me too movement started off, and so here we are, and it's become a lot more topical, and sort of a much more important topic to be discussed, and so we love it that we're doing this play at this time, when it can be so important to the community. robert: yes, we'll talk a little bit abo

think despite his t, he has run a successful software company over the past three decades in silicon valley through a lot of changes in technology in the industry. he knows what it is like to be disrupted and to disrupt. that will be helpful at tesla. and he is an experienced for number as he was on the apple board. that's the plus side of the equation. selina: musk has been vocal about being critical of the sec and said they will rein him in and changes twitter habits. are these changes to keep them in check? crayton: the other thing tesla announced was the process that get threeoing to board members who will review the company periodically and make sure they are handling them in the appropriate waste -- appropriate way. they will have to speak for times and musk goes off kilter. selina: thanks for working hard over the holidays. crayton: thanks. selina: tech stocks are continuing to suffer after a bruising december, at 2019 will bring new challenges for silicon valley as lawmakers around the world voice new concerns over privacy policies and antitrust concerns. kevin cirilli joins us from

we are in silicon valley, right? this is the venture capital center of the world. i mentioned earlier that this is an industry where only female founders, female ceo's, get 2.2% of the money. you know, you talked about earlier tonight, and you wrote about in this survey, you know, the number one advice other than set goals, is have things are yourown that qualities for hiring people on that you can measure against when you're going through that hiring process or why you are going to promote someone or why you will give them a raise, you can measure against a check on unconscious bias. we are in an industry that believes there is a divine gut of venture capitalists, and they don't ever have to measure someone against metrics, against this is what i look for to invest, and that is the magic of the industry, the magic of the industry is pattern recognition, which many people consider the enabler of unconscious bias. you know, as bad as the numbers are in a lot of the industries, you know, we have this symmetry where 98% of the people writing the checks are white or as

one group of entrepreneurs want to drop silicon valley. she says biased and hiring and the so-called brogrammer culture and she's putting up $100,000 in capital to help in programming. >> this is using tech to fix tech. >> i wanted to quit. >> we have diversity problems. we have inclusion problems. we have tech culture problems. >> you can watch the entire story on our website right now and read about the startup competition she's pitching. >>> nbc news exclusive. lester holt sits down with director steven spielberg to discuss the lasting impact of schindler's list and the lasting impact today. >> what do you want people to take away from this film? >> individual hate is a terrible thing, but when collective hate organizes and gets industrialized, then genocide follows. we have to take it more seriously today than we've had to take it in a generation. >> see the full interview in the 8:00 hour of the "today" show or look for it later on today.com. >>> apple is working to cut your sun exclosure by making you more informed. scientists at nor

it may come from silicon valley.eporters just as the bbc now do. at a recent training camp in cardiff, google were teaching freelancers in the way of new digital tools. what google is trying to do is figure out how to partner with local newspapers to find the new digital business models, helping them find new advertising streams and making sure that we supply them with the technology that helps them generate that digital advertising. the industry is on its knees and many blame silicon valley for stealing ad revenue and content. but if silicon valley retreated, it would not bring local papers back. in november, the 250—year—old johnston press went into administration, triggered by an unmanageable debt of more than £200 million. a company run by the bondholders has been set up and mostjobs should be saved for now. the dame leading the review into the future of news is pragmatic about the local business model. i think it's going to be very hard to revive it because it depended so heavily on classified advertising and in

silicon valley didn't take the senate seriously is one. they took them seriously but were incompetent is another, or they had something to hide. it's got to be one of those three. >> right. right. >> so there you go. >> we'll be watching and waiting. thanks, scott. >>> 5:16 for you right now. happening today, another amazon go store is opening in the bay area. it will be on post street in san francisco. instead of standing in the lines and paying a cashier, through the store after they've scanned, after you have scanned that amazon at the front of the store. another go store opened in october on california and battery in san francisco. >>> if you are shopping online, amazon's holiday free shipping promotion is ending today. the company says orders will arrive in time for christmas. it's been a perk previously reserved just for amazon prime members. >>> new this morning, one north carolina woman's christmas spirit moves her to decorate her home with more than 100 christmas trees. jamie and her husband rob start decorating every year on octo

the prospect of regulation seems to focus the minds of those in silicon valley. a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day, coast to coast on the salem radio network. >>> my next guest here to talk about among other things, google

this is two certain people in silicon valley, are -- this, to people in silicon valley, is a utopian vision. these are machines that we invented that we control, but if we want to control them, we have to have laws. we have to privacy laws and other kinds of regulations. i urge everyone watching this program to think about making this an issue that you actually vote on. host: joe waiting in tennessee. caller: j, you are the best. one thing to keep in mind is that these devices are all manufactured in china. if you think that the chinese government does not want to listen in on what is going on here, you are in complete denial. the woman with -- that was just arrested, the ceo of huawei, she was accused of the manufacturing cell phones that are listening on on what you are doing and transmitting it to the cloud. g -- a database established in china just for this type of thing. that is something to keep in mind and i will never have one in my house. and thanks. host: judith shulevitz? guest: i do not think that china has chips and everything. these things are manufactured all over the

some of silicon valley's best and brightest were educated under his watch, including larry page and sergey brin. joining me today on "bloomberg studio 1.0," google chairman, former stanford president and director of the night hennessy scholars program, john hennessy. thank you for joining us. john: thank you. brad: i want to take you back to huntington, new york, where you grew up and ask you who was your first leadership mentor? john: an early mentor to me happened to be a high school math teacher, who at a parent-teacher conference said, "john has a fine mind, but lazy mind." brad: wait a minute, why were you at the parent-teacher conference? john: they wanted to deliver that message in front of me. it sent a message that it wasn't good enough to be smart and have

. >>> a silicon valley startup that created the plant burger that bleeds like real meat now needs a nod from the fda tonight. the impossible burger is available in nearly 5,000 reraac u.s. now the impossible foods company is trying to sell it in supermarkets. but the fda says the main ingredient produces a red dye, which needs to be approved