denied being pro assad but still persistently repeat coraline's of regime propaganda narratives steve ballmer and glenn greenwald boris johnson norm chomsky let's say the chances of coming across any other.

apple's if tim cook is steve ballmer. think about after steve jobs died in 2011. the market cap was $350 billion for apple, roughly. this has largely been done on the back of tim cook. the new products he's introduced, new services. and of course the buybacks play into that. but he has done a -- taken a much different tack in the way he manages this company. and investors have rewarded them for that. vonnie: when are we going to see something new from apple? mark: that's a good question. apple will be holding a big splash event in september. lots of new devices in the pipeline. three new iphones, a bigger phone that is going to have the look of the iphone x, but a bigger display. a lot of people in asia have been asking for that. that is very much a single device ecosystem. a cheaper iphone, for people saying the iphone x is too expensive. revamped model, a cheaper macbook laptop. but nothing new, nothing we haven't heard of. for things that are going to be game changers, we are looking at 2020-2021. that's going to be an augmented reality product, a headset where

emily: did you ever tell bill gates or steve ballmer "i told you so?" adi wrote a letter to steve after leaving microsoft, i had a great experience here, but as i leave, you should keep your eyes on this new startup called google, they have great potential. it was a very diplomatically worded email, but very prescient as well. ♪ >> we will invest in something that we think is a bad idea if we like the person. ♪ emily: you do have possibly the most impressive list of angel investments of anyone, including facebook, airbnb, uber, dropbox. zappos. how did you get into all those deals? >> i think investing in good people is the most important thing. every investor talks about investing in good people, we take it a lot more seriously. the way i mean that is, we will invest in something we think is a bad idea if we like the person. emily: you also invested in mark zuckerberg. how did that happen? >> we were lucky to get introduced via a number of routes, when facebook was still eight or nine people. there was a humbling thing to get to see the company at such

denied being pro assad but still persistently repeat coraline's of regime propaganda narratives steve ballmer and glenn greenwald boris johnson norm chomsky let's say the chances of coming across any other list banding these people together are slim you published an article full of lies because you're too lazy and or malicious to care that you're doing it i never defended the assad regime in my life this is astonishing how many useful directory of people defending this sudra sheen what an absolute joke in fact the author was quite meticulous coming up with a ten point quote unquote scale of a side ism and having read through those i figured that maybe i should offer my umbrella system in completing this list as by no means does it look finished take this point implying the west has somehow supported al nusra or isis i think we're back in people we have no idea who they are the rebels we call of the rebels the patriotic rebels we have no idea lot of people think you know that there is another benchmark assuming that for minorities assad and islam it cutthroat are the same thing the former us v

absence and spent a year in china.dropou frm to know there are two well-known dropouts one is steve ballmer the ceo of microsoft and the other is gish jen.nt outcos. [laughter] any c ect i did drop out my parents b could not forgive me. you --, >> literally? >> literally. but i have been i have been reading all the superfluousooksd books but this was and i just cross that line when i couldn'to mo back to my youth. any i couldn't go back anymore. >>host: if you were tuning into booktv surprised to see o novelt long w with a special edition first sunday of the month we are featuring a novelist. "who's >>host:, gish jen your husband f last name is o'connor did that influence the title? >> i know what it means to be american and to know a little bit about that world wha? about the essay and the dialect? >> i did not do. it was surprising. >> but what is true it means so many things to be a writer to see that identity it is clear tv meoi that we are happy to hear from you. d'ul that they would have thought atn that story depends that you havs just established yourself so this commission but each

i go back to a conversation that i had many years ago with steve ballmer, who scoffed, frankly, who laughed at the iphone, at $500 in the initial go-round of when this phone first came out here you are north of $1,000 if anybody understands pricing power, it sure as heck seems to be tim cook. >> well, tim said something very interesting to us. he talked about what price -- almost to say, it was a great question, what price will people pay for an apple and he said, whatever they think it's worth and they're obviously thinking it's worth more than we're selling it for i said they'll pay $1,000. one of the things i think is amazing, customer satisfaction rate and how long that plays in the role of a technology company. we had to be worried about del and michael del is really good we never really loved our dell or compact. they'll pay up for amazon prime, they'll pay up for apple when you buy something like, it's so rare, you really don't know what to do in terms of value of the stock the most dangerous word for making the most money in the stock market is people say this time is different is c

one is me and one is steve ballmer of microsoft, two very different outcomes. [laughter] >> in any case, i did drop out. my parents could not forgive me for doing this. for several years my mother did not speak to me. but, you know -- >> literally did not speak to you? >> literally did not speak to me, very very upset. but, you know, this is america. you know, i had been growing -- partly because i had been reading. i had been reading all these subversive books. i had been growing this american south that was very very different than the -- i had been growing this american self that was very different. i couldn't go back. i couldn't go back anymore. and i had to go forward. >> well, if you are tuning into book tv right now, and are a little surprised to see a novelist on, this is part of our special, in depth fiction edition, all yearlong on the first sunday of the month, we are featuring novelists, and this month we're pleased that gish jen is joining us. very quickly here are some of her books, if you are not familiar with her. "typical american" came out in

steve ballmer wasn't really necessary a -- certainly with respect at looking at musk right now he istruggling to get a car, the model 3, up over 260,000 units a year. if you look at an average auto plant they are building over 300,000 vehicles. the case with cook at $38 billion annual run rate the service business is quite significant, larger than most s&p 500 companies and certainly with nice margins driving profitability and cash flow for some time to come. >> how important is today's earnings call for elon musk and for tesla? if he failed to answer questions again and went on another rant would there be calls for him to move on from shareholders? >> i seriously doubt anybody would want him to resign. he is too important to the company as the founder. the whole ethos of tesla is built around his cult of personality. i can't speak off to whether he pops off on the earnings call if it will effect the stock price. he spent the day tweeting about wanting to put atari games inside the tesla as an easter egg. >> it feels like the tide has d changed lately and investors are complaining ab

>> it was about $2 billion >> i think thinking of steve ballmer buying the clippers for 2 billion. >> to go a lot more to come on "squawk. we'll talk to the ceo of etsy. how it's competing with amazon and their diversity report out this morning ♪ hey allergy muddlers: are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec® zyrtec® starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. stick with zyrtec®. muddle no m and try children's zyrtec® for consistently powerful relief of your kid's allergies. a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. ♪ add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia. ♪ >>> good morning welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc we're live at the nasdaq market site in times square shares of dean foods getting slammed in the premarket this morning.