this is a chance to get serious aboufighting displacement and the tech tax is a call on the tech high-tech sector to step up and come up with some attachment is immeasurable damage that industries them to people here in this room. i also want to end by saying among nations not metropolitan areas emanations the bay area has the 19 highest gdp. not every city in the world can give everyone who lives there a decent life. san francisco can be a place of prosperity and i think we can do this. thanks. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is sylvia johnson. this tax should be leveled out. because i have [inaudible].i've been researching on this issue [inaudible] parking is the same way. this is not without police officers should be doing. [inaudible] this enforcement, therefore the people to be out [inaudible] associate. for his many drunks [inaudible]. now i don't see a point in this issue that taxes [inaudible]. i waited all night long to [inaudible] and nothing came. [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is isaac and i just have a

this is a chance to get serious about fighting displacement and the tech tax is a call on the tech high-tech sector to step up and come up with some attachment is immeasurable damage that industries them to people here in this room. i also want to end by saying among nations not metropolitan areas emanations the bay area has the 19 highest gdp. not every city in the world can give everyone who lives there a decent life. san francisco can be a place of prosperity and i think we can do this. thanks. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is sylvia johnson. this tax should be leveled out. because i have [inaudible].i've been researching on this issue [inaudible] parking is the same way. this is not without police officers should be doing. [inaudible] this enforcement, therefore the people to be out [inaudible] associate. for his many drunks [inaudible]. now i don't see a point in this issue that taxes [inaudible]. i waited all night long to [inaudible] and nothing came. [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is isaac and i just have a

they tell us it's tech, tech, tech. emily: where could there be weakness or challenge ahead? cathie: there is weakness in a lot of companies that really led the charge in the old days. we think the auto companies are going to struggle. we think the old tech companies, the ones that were not built into the cloud and haven't been able to gravitate towards it are going to, are really going to -- they'll either be acquired or go out of business. we see robotics causing a lot of dislocation in the employment industry which should be good because we do not think that technology at the end of the day will be bad for employment. it will mean a lot of shifting around, but it will mean higher value add and higher paying jobs. we see a lot of dislocation, but we also see a lot of opportunity, huge productivity gains ahead. emily: john, what trends are you saying in the economy, for so long, there were more and more uber and lyft drives, we're hearing talk of l.y.f.t. struggling, what is happening in that economy? is it getting bigger or starting to plateau? joe: it seems to be still gro

this is a chance to get serious about fighting displacement and the tech tax is a call on the tech high-techtor to step up and come up with some attachment is immeasurable damage that industries them to people here in this room. i also want to end by saying among nations not metropolitan areas emanations the bay area has the 19 highest gdp. not every city in the world can give everyone who lives there a decent life. san francisco can be a place of prosperity and i think we can do this. thanks. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is sylvia johnson. this tax should be leveled out. because i have [inaudible].i've been researching on this issue [inaudible] parking is the same way. this is not without police officers should be doing. [inaudible] this enforcement, therefore the people to be out [inaudible] associate. for his many drunks [inaudible]. now i don't see a point in this issue that taxes [inaudible]. i waited all night long to [inaudible] and nothing came. [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is isaac and i just have a coup

the first black enterprise tech and summit trailblazers award, recognize three pioneers in the tech space. two are silicon valley power couple ken and theresa coleman who used their position to open the doors for other african-americans. here's more, they're known as one the of the top couples in silicon valley. ken and theresa coal man have been innovating in the tech industry for the last 40 years. she in hewlett-packard, software publishing kormgs and now chairman of dignity health. he with hewlett-packard, activision, silicon graphics and now chair of smpbl oma technologies. >> i was a captain in the air force and i decided to resign my civilian life. roy clay had been an employee and executive at hp. so roy gave hp my resum?. i was called in for the interview, and that entered my started my life in technology. >> his life with caretha also began at hp. >> he always said he was going to ask me for lunch. but he never would. and the last time he played that game, and said we lunch sometime, i was ready with my calendar. we had our first date and the rest is history. >> the colemans are

the tech stocks have led the way.t has been a bit of a turnaround in the earnings reports, where tech has been leading so you are looking at 20%, 14 or 15 for the financials. those are typically the biggest groups. you can see how this compares. this level we are at four tech is a bit higher than it has been. nothing quite compared to where we were in 2000. i want to bring up another chart here that is interesting. looking at the sale story. there is -- this is a function of market cap. market cap is shares in price. at the same time you have to think about what is going on with them of its big leaders. amazon, facebook, google, microsoft. some of the companies that have been leading the charge in terms of that market cap expansion. this shows the diversions that has shown. valuations are high but part of the sobriety of this rally has been the fact that there are still pretty low valuations and some of these big companies. the you look at microsoft, google, they are getting back to ratios down to it as closer to zero

in tech. so really similar to something graduate school called fixed mind-set. lot of research is showing that people's beliefs about the nature of talents and abilities, whether they're fixed, stuff color, which is referred to as a fixed mind-set or whether you believe that talents can be developed and more of a growth mind-set. have these duals beliefs? individuals who have a fixed focus more on o improving themselves, and they give up more easily. individuals with the growth mind-set are interesting in improving and remain resilient in the face of challenge. it turns out companies and even can have these mind-sets too. and when companies or fields ave this more fixed mind-set view and when there's a culture of brilliance, people that don't kind of fit our stereo type who is brilliant in our society are not only less attracted to those companies in fields, but once they're here, there's more pressure where you have to feel like you have to prove yourself. which is about group ability. do we

it continues to lag in the tech industry. we'll talk with a woman at the forefront of efforts to change that. >>> plus from edgy opera to political art. we'll bring you our bay area arts preview for august. >>> first, an important case for students with disabilities in california. this week the u.s. department of education's office of civil rights issued a finding that calls into question the use of prone restraint on special education students. it's a practice that involves immobilizing a student facedown as a disciplinary method. the federal report found that oakland student stewart candle had been denied education and subjected to a hostile environment after being restrained 90 times in a year. in this interview with disability rights of california which filed the complaint stewart describes his experience. >> when they restrain me, there was two people. pretend this is me. they held my wrists down. and they also held my legs down. and it really hurt. it was like they were grinding my legs into the floor. and it really, re

diversity in tech. and so with project include, the idea is to provide concrete recommendation for start-up founders and for tech. what has the feedback been like for the start-up and vc community. >> we've gotten great feedback from the start-up in vc community. last i checked, we were at 800 sign-ups on our interest page. that was a few days ago. >> and what is that interest saying to you? 800 people saying we want to learn more about what you're doing. >> definitely. there are a large portion of those who are partners at bcs who want to sign up for our vc include program and ceos at start-ups. there's one start-up i won't name in particular but like 5 people from their company signed up on the page and they reached out to tracy and reached out to everybody they knew at project include to try to get involved. >> that company has a serious problem. >> or they may want to get things right. they may not have a problem but they really care about making sure they do things right and i feel like we're going

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we are asking you do you think there is too much tech tech in the bay area area. vote on www.cbs5.c defense of colin kaepernick. the 49ers quarterback ... under fire after refusing to for the national anthe . >>> an nba legend coming to the defense of colin kaepernick. under fire after refusing to stand for the national anthem last week. only on 5 kareem abdul-jabbar goes one-on-one with betty yu on why he is backing the nfl star. >> reporter: you called colin kaepernick national anthem protest patriotic? >> if you look back at what thomas jefferson said, he said we have to protect people's speech who say things that we don't approve of. that was more important than protecting the speech of people that we approve of. >> reporter: could he have done it in a better way? >> i am sure that is the criticism people will say, a better time and a better place to do it. it was up to him. he did have an opportunity and he took it. you know, i am not going to judge him on that. >> reporter: kareem abdul- jabbar picked a team in the presidential race. and it is not donald tru

they sort of lacked in the high-tech game.his is a shot in the arm for them to bring the high-tech into the picture to get a chance to compete with high touch and high-tech and go head on with amazon potentially on this. emily: i want to talk about the great india sale at amazon. marisa and kevin are on the board of wal-mart. now this guy, neil ashe, who was considered perhaps the number two is gone. do we want to make anything of that? >> it's shows you the struggle. it's a struggle that they're looking at and e-commerce again, it's a tough game, we have seen prices go down consistently. selection is more than 500 million on amazon now. it's a bloodbath. how do you counter that? >> wal-mart.com has a geographic challenge. their e-customers folks are in california. bentonville is where most of the decisions are made. emily: do you see marisa as the future c.e.o. of wal-mart? >> unlikely. emily: let's move on to india, a huge investment in india, the great india sale is happening there as we speak. david, talk to us a little bi

in todays tech report, rich demuro is running down the list of the top 10 tech items parents plan to buy. according to the consumer technology association...back to school shoppers will spend over 18 billion dollars on tech products and accessories... heres whats hot more than just number 2 pencils... here is the tech people plan to buy.. nats... at number 10... a subscription service... like office 365, spotify... or dropbox. number 9 is a tablet... ipads are still tops... but sales have slipped in recent years... number 8 is an external hard drive... a great way to backup your stuff or transport big projects. 7 is software... 6 is a laptop. desktops list... portability is key... dell, hp and apple are always good good back to school bets... on a budget? check out a chromebook - theyre easy on the wallet... and might be all you need if youre mostly doing basic tasks like word processing and pictures. nats...dropping phone dont drop your phone! cases are number 5 on the list. there are so many to choose from... each one tells a little story about its owner. i like models from speck,

this ally so how should investors play the tech sector?ng us here at 1 market is mark mahaney. mark, thanks for being with us. so you're excited about google and expedia. why expedia? >> we still like the travel space. two ways to play this. priceline and expedia both performed well. this year expedia underperformed. now trading at a reasonable discount to priceline. finally they are going through this integration of home away, the asset they acquired last year. our sense is that integration is going well. if they can come out of this process that's a third reason to buy the stock. >> google has had a really nice run. ruth seems to have been very good for the company. clarified a lot of things about the core business. why do you still like it? >> to her immense credit she provided greater disclosure, she bought back stock and been managing expenses better than the prior cfos did. why we like it here is we think the market is too pessimistic about the back half of the year. there's a dehe isleration debate on google and facebook and a certa

i think the outlook in emerging tech is what it always is. there's room for optimism and today we happen to be between cycles. and so in the venture capital stage and in the small tech stocks, things are not as interesting as they are in the largest gap. >> you mention facebook roger. we're watching shares of that today. out over the weekend saying that the stock could jump more than 20% and the bottom line is profits have been growing and ad sales are strong. they argue estimates up. pe for next year has come down a touch. and it's too pricey at 23. what do you think? >> i think they were right. so the issues on facebook are really very, very easy to understand. the core business, the original facebook platform is approaching what i would characterize as peak monetization. the loads of ads on the page are close to saturation but the beautiful thing is they have gigantic properties on marijuinm and to me the outlook for facebook is very, very bright and the market will decide is that the rate is larger than a year ago and facebook can't susta

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go to rich on tech dot tv. im rich demuro, thats your tech report. chris pine and ben foster play two brothers robbing banks to save their family. and jeff bridges is a lawman hot on their trail. coming up -- gino's here with what to expect from the modern-day western. here's a live look outside from our city center camera in you see weather expert tom wachs is up next with a look at the switch to u.s. cellular and get 50% off smartphones. it's a deal you don't want to miss. sir, hi. did you just say, "switch and you get 50% off a smartphone?" uh, yes. sorry. hi. hello. i was watching tv and i saw you say 50% off smartphones. and we'll cover all switching costs. oh! wow! also, you g... uh, excuse me. switch to u.s. cellular and get 50% off smartphones. plus, we'll cover all switching costs. excuse me, can i just... hmm? what? i just need it back. i don't have it. i don't know what you're talking about. after a beautiful and sunny monday, we're going to stay mostly clear tonight. lows will drop to the upper 50s and storms come back wednesday as a low

so tech workers.. can move in.lus: the bay area national guard crew that just made a 16-hundred mile round-trip.. to complete a daring rescue at sea. and turbulence so severe.. it blew apart the bathroom. the sacramento-bound plane that had to make a sudden stop.. after passengers -- went flying. (((weather tease))) (((weather tease))) (((weather tease))) they've been priced out of san francisco. ,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, now -- thousands of young tech workers >>> david price out of san francisco and now thousands of tech workers are crossing the bay in search of more affordable housing. >> a kpix5 jessica shows us migration comes at a cost for people there are there. >> welcome to the hotel travelers, one of last. deon ross manages the building. >> this is my old girl. she's got great bones, hasn't had any work done for years and years. >> he was on a tour to show us why a complete remodel is so desperately needed. >> why anyone would not want us to repair these things is beyond me. >> but some tenants aren't impressed. p

loading up on tech stocks. a hedge fund by 3.75 million shares of facebook during the second quarter according to filings released friday the stake valued at $429 million was the fund's biggest new purchaser in the quarter. the fund also made a private investment recently. in a july letter to investors he says he expects this to grow into one of china's largest internet companies. he is less optimistic about alphabet's future. he sold 300,000 shares after making the search giant his top new holding two quarters ago. coming up tech's biggest companies are fueling this year's monster bond sale. but why? that is next. plus, they've raised $80 million in funding to broadcast live virtual reality events worldwide and get this, most of the funding in the series b round, came from asian investors. we'll ask nextvr's chairman what it's all about. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: u.s. tech is having a love affair with u.s. bonds. tech companies have sold approximately $100 billion in bonds just this year. compare that to the

the other trend we saw is non-tech companies are wearing tech companies and they do that eachse of theief that sector will be disrupted by a tech company. transforment needs to themselves and one way to do that is to acquire a tech company. we see a lot of new opportunities in m&a. emily: tell me about your philosophy in how you will apply those funds. what trends are you interested in right now? onst: we are focused founders and trying to find founders who are using technology whether that is a cloud in common issue with mobile, ai and so forth and to disrupt and transform the non-tech center are. we are fortunate that we have an amazing team. we have the father of climate court. he is looking into deep tech companies and we see a lot of these companies in europe. we are trying to be quite open-minded. when you see a great company in front of you let by a great founder you need to act on that. holly: still to come. an exclusive conversation with the cyber security firm at the heart of one of the most controversial political hacks of all time. we are talking about the company that trac

has a lot of stuff going on around the tech and especially the imgramigrants into the tech industry. that's a big favorable move. >> reporter: then a motorcade of a different more expensive kind as techies streamed into los altos hills for a second fund-raiser put on by apple ceo tim cook and vice president lisa jackson. no press access but plenty of support. >> i'm thrilled to be here and support her and i'm bringing my daughter who is just turning 18 and is going to be voting in her first presidential election. >> reporter: we have seen a lot of support tonight from tech folks here in los altos hills. we're told things are wrapping up. we will check back in with the fund-raising day in about 30 minutes. reporting live in los pz altos hills, scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> on the republican side, presidential hopeful donald trump spent the day in tampa where he urged hispanic and black voters to give him a chance, but that appears to be a long shot. according to the latest nbc news/survey monkey poll, trump has the support of just 8% of african-american voters, an

but they have sort of lagged in the high-tech game, and this is a shot in the arm for them to bring high-techpicture so they can get a chance to compete with high touch and high-tech and go head on with amazon potentially. emily: that was david kirkpatrick, brad stone, and the boomerang commerce ceo. coming up, a shakeup in the ride hailing wars in europe. we talk about partnering with a legacy carmaker and how they are taking a different approach to the market than uber. you can now listen on the bloomberg radio at and in the u.s. on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: welcome back to "the best of bloomberg west." i am emily chang. are off.hailing wars a few weeks back, halo announced a merger with gamblers my taxi, directly targeting uber. just last week, uber's older china business to their arrival. -- sold their china business to their rival. we sat down and asked if there were other markets like china that they could not crack. >> i don't think i would never say that. the company of that size and scale and depth of funding and the quality of people in -- and in the execution they ha

in tech. similar to something i stood in graduate school called fixed mindset or growth mindset. a lot of research is showing people's belief about the nature of talents and abilities, whether they're fixed, stuff like eye color, or whether you believe the billy and towns can be developed in more of a growth mindset. when individuals have these beliefs, individuals who have a fixed mindset tend to focus more on proving themselves. they think effort and struggle means they lack calendar they tend to give it more easily or as individuals with a growth mindset are more interested in approving and remained resilient in the face challenge. it turns out companies and even whole field can have these mindsets. when companies or fields have is more fixed mindset of you, when there's a culture of brilliance, people who don't fit our stereotypes about is brilliant and our societies are not only less attracted to those companies in those fields, once they are there this more pressure to feel like you have

the latest inbit the tech parade. plus, tech megamergers maybe you -- keep rolling in. and, instagram takes a page or maybe a whole chapter from the snapchat playbook. are the latest product changes enough to take on the disappearing competition? first to our lead, investors liking fitbit. revenue growing up 46% to 586 billion from a year earlier, suggesting new fitness trackers are getting a leg up. xe shares with a boost, popping as much as 6%. gross merchandise sales, the value of the goods that passed through the platform increased to $670 million. so are things turning around for the stock market rookies that went public last year? here with me to digest is cory johnson and the cofounder of elevation partners and my guest post for the hour. on -- on at the, pull out the highlights and why things seem to be looking up for this company? guest: i think it's a matter of expectations. after the ipo they set expectations that were way too high and then then they set up under-delivered. then they set up expectations that were reasonable and they have been exceeding those

in the tech report, rich demuro has the list of the top ten tech items that parents planted by the sheer. >> when i was in high school, it was the tropical depression isaac 83. who knows what they are up to you still need to get one, people will spend upwards of $80 billion on school supplies when comes to on here is what they are buying. >> er back-to-school shopping involves more than just pencils here is what they plan to buy. and number ten, a subscription service mike spotifyy. external hard drive a great way to backup your stuff. >> > upseven is software, six i laptop, desktops are not on thi year's list,re delco hpn apple are always goodd beds, and avon a budget check out a chrome book, cheaper and might be all they need if theyey do basic things like word processing. >> phone case is number five, there so many to choose from, eachfr one tells a story, i lik those fromor tech 21 and incipio. if you want basic coverage for less, search amazon for your phone andf brand named speaking member for is a graphic calculator, looks like the apps have not ousted the austin bice and you cann

tech is a shift toward cyclical companies. some of these economic oriented companies will do better. time, specific stories going on with consumer discretionary. the few groups where earnings has been doing well. as we pivot back towards positive earnings, that can provide lift to the market. you will see some of the sectors do well. joe pointed this out to me earlier. you mentioned passive investing. someone at bernstein put out a note that passive investment is worse for society than marxism. there is a lot of vocal debate on both sides of the data, how long can smart be smart data? -- smart beta be smart beta? if you are an active manager who has to justify your fees, then passive investing might not be the best thing for you. oliver renick, thank you very much. scarlet: we will be back with much more. ♪ u.s. officials as the fbi is investigating a cyber attack targeting reporters of the new wear russiand to intelligence agencies are responsible. federal authorities investigate a breach of the democratic national committee

a lot to get to with a lot of tech news today.ur top story will be tesla buying solarcity in this deal worth 2.6 billion. the deal involves two companies founded by elon musk. shares of solarcity this morning. interesting headlines. some say muscle scoring position grabbing the throne of clean energy in this country and around the world. is it that simple? >> i guess you could look at it that way. >> the more simple explanation is that he has a lot of interest in one of these companies, like he has a lot of -- at stake here and this is an unusual way to bring these two companies together and i'm not sure that it makes sense. i think he would like to have us look at it as becoming the leader of clean energy but it's still, there's still a lot of questions about this deal and i'm not sure that it makes sense for investors for the company at all. >> it's not a done deal. there's still a 45 day go shop period where any other suitors can make themselves known and musk is the largest shareholder in these two companies but it will be int

it will see less tech companies go public. but overall we are not seeing any real fear about a bubble. the slowdown has not yet affected the demand for tech jobs here. recruiters told me these are the fastest-growing sectors for tech jobs. virtual reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous vehicles. >> the biggest jobs we see our front and development, anything with javascript. it's about the user experience. how it looks and feels. some of the technologies, things like mobile designing. those are the hottest opportunities. >>> we thought it was just an isolated incident one day after we should you this surveillance video, we learned purse thefts are happening in public places and are on the rise. one of the restaurants where this crime happened is offering a reward. now how the alleged thieves operate. >> reporter: this is video of 2 women suspected of stealing a wallet from a customer who placed her purse on the floor here at the rooftop restaurant in downtown walnut creek. >> the 2 girls are sitting here

emily: our asia tech ondquarters -- tech reporter the new headquarters there -- thank you so much fors today. we are watching -- samsung unveiled new smart watches at a trade show in berlin today. it will support a platform for contactless payments. it allows users to make phone calls or call uber without the need for a smartphone to be connected. smartphone --he smart watches are the biggest part of its wearable growth this year. we will pick this up with the vice president of samsung. don't miss that conversation at 8:30 on bloomberg . that's all for now from san francisco. ♪ ♪ announcer: from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: rem koolhaas is here. he is one of the most influential architects who works today. of course, you knew that. he is an author, theorist, and a professor at harvard. some of his most notable projects include the cctv headquarters in beijing, the seattle central library, and casa da musica in portugal. the two major buildings have been opened in the last year are the garage museum of contemporary art in moscow and the prada in mi

now there is you -- use as the -- used as the cupertino -based check -- tech tech dying -- check correct diet giant owes billions of dollars to ireland . >>> what's beneath the financial and legal battle? >> analysts -- analyst said that apple can afford to pay the tax bill, but they say the message to the european union is trying to get -- union is trying to get across is stop the favorable treatment. the union's ordering ireland to recover 14 $.5 billion in unpaid taxes plus interest from the tech giant. the news comes after a three- year investigation where the commission -- commissions concluded that ireland allowed apple to pay a corporate tax rate that was substantially less than other businesses of the standard corporate tax rate in ireland was 12.5% investigators revealed apple paid 1% tax on its european profits and even less in other years, our -- analysts said that it appears that you -- the union is using apple is a test case . >>> they probably could do the same thing to google and a variety of tech firms that have shifted their tax base to ireland to get favorable treatment

emily: zurich is aiming to be europe's next major tech hope. the city is one step closer to achieving that goal with the launch of a tech accelerator called kick starter. it will help develop startups from 30 countries, including -- from 19 countries. caroline hyde has the story from berlin. >> when thinking of tech hubs, zurich does not really come to mind and the swiss city is trying to change that, funding a new kickstarter accelerator. this was unveiled earlier this week backed by credit suisse and big tech companies looking to help entrepreneurship in the city. one told us why it could be a win-win for her particular industry. >> what it hopes is to find talents, interesting new ideas, but also to help the startups with their ideas to try them out and also in the kickstart accelerator to do proof of concepts on their ideas. what that does is they can really test if their solution works, what it takes to bring it live and to implement it in a large corporation like ubs and at the same time it enables us to see if that's a good opportunity.

more than 2100 firefighters working around the clock for over a week straight to put the flames out tech the fires destroyed almost 200 homes and all of the evacuation orders are over tonight. good evening i am justine waldman. >>> crews have been deployed to fight all the fires burning in california. the kron 4 alecia reid spoke with the cruise about what they have been doing. >> reporter: signing up for the strike team means they have to make sure that their available and ready to go. requests sometime come in the middle of the night. >> the could the assignment to leave in and be gone in and not come back for a week. >> reporter: those guys are specially trained and certified and ready to handle out-of- control fires. >> there are several stations per battalion. we have several battalions and that's how we divide the area. >> reporter: in san francisco in san mateo and a host of other bay area fire crews responded to the fires. this was one of the types of trucks that could help. spirit -- >> we have this and we have a whole is that you can walk through to the engine and they are just

they lack in the high-tech game and this is a shot in the arm for them to bring high-tech into the picture can get a chance to compete with high touch and high-tech and go head on with amazon potentially. emily: that was david kirkpatrick, brad stone, and boomerang commerce ceo. coming up, a shakeup in the right hailing wars, we talk about partnering with a legacy carmaker and how they are taking a different approach to the market and then uber. you can now listen on the bloomberg radio at and in the u.s. on sirius xm. emily: welcome back to the best of bloomberg west. i'm emily chang. the wars are rolling on. halo weeks back, nnounced a merger with taxi. this came before over sold the chinese business to didi. we sat down with the c.e.o. to ask if there were other markets that cannot be cracked. take a listen. >> i would not ever say that. a company of that scale will get he quality of execution and it will be foolish to make a blanket statement. clearly one of the challenges you have operating a global siness is how much you do centrally and how much you do locally. it is reflective of t

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