Transcripts For CNBC Squawk Alley 20240622

Facebook shares in the red. Even though results did beat on the top and bottom line. Total revenue up 39 . Some of the decline possibly attributed to the surge in spending. With expenses up 82 . On the call, Mark Zuckerberg continued to tout progress with video. Take a listen. Video continueses to be some of the richest and most engaging content for people and publishers and since the start of the year, pages are also sharing 40 more video. We updated our news feed ranking to help people see more of the videos they care about and techting option force video monetization to help our partners build their businesses. Jon, 24 hours ago you said it would be the line item to much with and a its clearly the focus. Given the fact that facebook ran up so much over the past several weeks, this level is just about where it was trading two weeks ago. When you think about it in those terms, not necessarily that bad. But so much of what facebook had to say on the call was positive. Think about Facebook Events alone and you probably never used Facebook Events, it has more monthly active users than twitter does. Right . And facebooks mobile users, it has a billion more mobile users than twitter does. I mean its amazing. This morning henry, jim refused to mention facebook and twitter in the same sentence. He wanted to go to break before we talked about a wonderful rant about twitter yesterday. People talk about ballparks, theyre not in the same ballpark. Weve talked about that. Twitter is a niche. Its for news addicts, celebrity followers and so forth. Facebook is a mass market platform. Company is doing all the right things. Ignore the stock price this morning. They are investing aggressively for the long haul and as you look at where they are in this cycle, the reason that revenue is doing as well as it is, theyre in the middle of their mobile revenue cycle. Coming on the heels of that, likely, were going to see a big video cycle. Were going to see instagram possibly events in some of the other apps. Theres a lot that will potentially come in the future. The stocks multiple is likely to continue to compress at some point its going to trade 25 times earnings. But there is a big growth future here. And the asterisk on that ignore the stock prices. Already does have a market cap above 270 billion, more than ten times twitter. Youve got to value this somewhere. Absolutely. And the multiple will come down over time. The growth is slowing, they have a very high margin. Can they go much higher . Who knows. The point is, facebook throughout the history as a Public Company has frustrated shortterm traders by saying sorry, were going to crank up the investment. Let us note that this is exactly the way amazon works. Over the long haul, you are investing in growth, the shareholders who understand that will get behind it and you will create incredible longterm value so my point is, ignore the shortterm. Speaking of building the runway down the road. You mention whatsapp, instagram. People curious about their plans for oculus. And zuckerberg did mention vr on the call. Theres always a richer way that people want to share and consume thoughts and ideas and i think that immersive, 3d content is the obviously next thing after video. Are people appreciating the possibilities here . Or overestimating them . Ive spent a lot of time recently testing out these new vr headsets and theyre kind of amazing. I think people are starting to realize its not just about video games and zuckerberg contexturalizes vr, its about education and entertainment. There could be an app store, just like itunes sells all kinds of entertainment. The facebook or oculus app store is selling all different kinds of Virtual Reality games. They would be video games, movies, different kinds of sports experiences, this could be a huge new business of an entirely new variety. Over the nearterm, people are overestimating it. Its going to take a long time. Theyre incredibly expensive. You need huge bandwidth and Processing Power to run them. Theres got to be standards, to figure out what works in terms of apps. But in the longterm, people are underestimating them. You used one at the code conference not too long ago. And julia used one, too, it was amazing. It didnt feel like what i thought i was seeing was real but it did feel like i was inside a digital immersive world. I felt like if something bad happened to me there, something bad would actually happen. Facebook is in this mode right now of optimizing models that obviously work. Not like twitter, which is trying to figure out whats going to work for its Business Model Going Forward. Thats so clear in the way zuckerberg describes the various businesses, becoming more like news feed where they figure out three or four Different Things that events could do. That messenger can do and they go after that and try to get it as good as possible. Thats where you have to believe facebook is going to be able to go. Quickly henry, the price targets are, youve seen them, piper 146. B of a, 115, deutsche 115. Is that reasonable to you . Almost everybody is a buy. Longterm the multiples going to compress, sometimes its going to trade at 25 times earnings. The lower ones seem reasonable. Heroic stuff. Next up another disappointment for samsung, profits down 8 yearonyear, the fifth decline in a row. A lot of it coming from the apparent failure of the galaxy s 6 smartphone. Samsung warning of mounting challenges in the second half and said smartphone earnings were muted due to low shipments and increased marketing expenses. Whats going on here, jon . I think some people are misreading this. Galaxy s6 not a failure. What samsung said we in judged demand for the s 6edge, the more expensive model. We didnt have enough. It was the lowend and midrange phones that came in under expectations. So the smartphone percentage was low based on what had been expected. To make up for it, part of what theyre going to do is bring down the prices of the galaxy s 6 and s 6 edge, which thinks theyve gotten more supply, so they do that. Theyre going to have to make sacrifices on margin to gain share and not lose much of it to apple. Do you think cutting prices will drive sales . Or is it about competition with apple . It will drive sales. Think what theyre planning to do is give some of those midrange buyers a highend phone for a midrange price. And so apple and samsung have proven they are the leaders in this market. Samsung has tried to preserve its margins by using its own chips instead of qualcomms, thats working in sort of a middling way. One way to read this, its positive for qualcomm, its positive for other component makers, like sony. Which are able to feed the arms race into apple and samsung, but negative for everybody who is not called apple and samsung, trying to sell smartphones, microsoft or htc. All these other folks losing big. The big picture in the market is the Smartphone Market is starting to mature globally. In the past every time market has begun to mature, pc market, all the other electronics markets, you start to see prices go down relatively rapidly. To your point, the high end is holding. Apple is commanding huge margins in prices for the iphone 6. The s 6 edge, people wanted it, they just didnt have enough of it. Thats a highquality problem to solve. But at the low and mid range, prices will go down fast. Before we go, there was a profile about you in new york mass magazine this week. It was set on cnbc set right here. At the new york stock exchange. The opening anecdote takes place when youre with us on set and the reporter is watching that. You want to walk us through the evolution of what this product means to the overall wis . At Business Insider weve seen an insatiable demand for stories about science, technology, innovation, ideas, we want to continue to invest in that we thought it would be a great time to launch a site that was dedicated to that and thats tech insider. Were very excited about that. Digital media is starting to come into its own. Not jus just Business Insider, we saw that your Parent Company may be making a giant investment at buzzfeed at a giant valuation. Same for fox, vice is producing incredible longform video. So were reaching the phase where people are recognizing, digital is the future. Theres a generational shift from television and print to digital. And lots of companies are now figuring out how to do it. Think youre going to see continued success for a the although of the digital players. Theres so many talk about how digital news is changing and obviously youre part of that. Were seeing all of these Different Companies like facebook and twitter and snapchat and buzzfeed try to change the news game. Which of these companies is most powerful for you in terms of distributing news. Right now facebook is the biggest platform. I think ultimately the analogy for all of the plat forms is they are distribution, they are the Cable Companies of the digit al world and they have different formats, they build content differently and acquire followers differently. Noits just selling the same thing, but theyre vast distribution platforms and the content companies that are succeeding are the ones making the Great Stories and distributing them through these plat forms. Part of our world, so i dont want to belabor the point, but a good piece, people should read it. Henry blodgett joining us from Business Insider. Dow is up, down about 74 points, off the lows as weve seen the euro come in some of the headlines about the imf and a bailout for greece helping bring the dollar down. Lifting stocks just a touch. Shares of whole food getting hit after profit and revenue missed expectations. Feeling the heat from the overcharging complaints in new york city. Whole Foods Trading at lows not seen since january of 2012. And p g, slipping after Revenue Misses estimates. The company saying organic sales in the fiscal year expected to fall. When we come back. Spending in the digital ad space is soaring. Is it money well spent . Plus nasa hosting a major event on drones. Which companies are at the forefront what theyre looking for. And Mark Zuckerberg, not the only one excited about the future of 3d. Well talk to a Company Working with the number one draft pick to bring Virtual Reality to the nfl when squawk alley comes back. Every Auto Insurance policy has a number. 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This was a key Insider Trading case involving the question of whether the tipper and the tippee on a piece of Insider Information had a subsequent relationship that there was a benefit from giving the information, trading upon it and something expected in return this question is now perhaps going to be considered by the Supreme Court the u. S. Second circuit of appeals overturning a decision that had found these two defendants guilty of Insider Trading in december, a big blow to the u. S. Attorneys office in new york and now on behalf of that u. S. Attorneys office, the Justice Department is pursuing this all the way to the Supreme Court, carl. So a really interesting and somewhat surprise development. This case is considered a long shot for the supremes to hear it and second for them to find in favor of the u. S. But theyre going to try. Well kate, a lot of people going to be watching that. Thanks for bringing it to us. Facebooks earnings showing a boom in mobile adds. News highlights major growth in the industry. With com score reporting overall advertising on mobile jumped 70 last year. Joining us is com score cofounder john forgone. Facebook said they get Something Like one out of every five minutes spent on mobile thats incredible. Some Companies Like adobe have said their target something better. People feel like their ads are more relevant. How much of facebook and google running away with this . Well certainly mobile advertise something the Fastest Growing sector in the digital world. This year it will account for about 35 of all digital advertising. Facebook is really positioned tremendously to benefit from mobile. One of the benefits of mobile it allows you to access the internet whenever and wherever you want. People have this insatiable appetite to keep track of what all of their friends are saying and doing. One out of every five minutes on mobile is facebook. More impressive is that in total one out of every six minutes spent on facebook and the u. S. And they have 215 million visitors in a month. One of every six minutes spent in total. Mobile plus desk top. Thats everything . Correct. Staggering. The beauty for facebook and i think the other social platforms of mobile. Is that the platform allows these mobile ads to be delivered in a very natural way. Especially now that facebook is putting their ads not just on the right rails as called. But in the middle of a news fooed. You almost cant miss them as youre scrolling down the news feed. They look natural and i think they deliver very, very persuasive messages. Facebook talked a lot in their Earnings Call about the success of video ads. And facebook is making a big push here. Im hearing it from advertisers. The question is, are they stealing market share from youtube . Or is this bigenough market that theyre not competing against each other . Well so video advertising is itself growing at about a 35 per year clip. About its still smaller than mobile. Running about 5 billion. Certainly i think that kind of growth on a percentage basis allows everybody to benefit as the boat rises if you will. I think the other question thats been asked a lot about video is whether its cannibalizing television. Whats interesting is that there is no evidence that Television Advertising in total is dropping. Not shaping up to be the best of years. Not shaping up to be the best of years. But i think the databases that the Industry Needs to measure the consumption of television longform content streamed to a television set, those databases are now emerging. Think that will allow the Media Planners and the buyers to have a lot more confidence about doing these buys. A lot of people looking at the stickiness of facebook users, the ratio of daily to monthly. Was pretty good. Existing users are not checking out. They continue to check in. Where, how big can the ad load be before people start to say thats enough. Well thats always an issue, right . I think facebook has done a really good job of monitoring and managing that. They put in some algorithms on the news feed that is in direct response to what consumers are saying. I think thats real positive. But you know, when youre accounting for this major proportion of the time that people are spending, you have a lot of opportunities to run ads against them. And when you think that digital is still not larger than television, although its predicted to be next year. But whats really hurt and i think this is where the dollars have shifted, they can make from print and the print industry has been devastated by this movement. Its going to be very interesting to see what happens Going Forward as facebook monetizes their video feeds more and more and theyve only just really begun. I think tremendous opportunities for them. A lot of people going to be watching that. Jim thank you for joining us. Coming up, the Drone Industry says it could create over 80 billion in wealth over the next decade if the government cooperates. What theyre asking for, when we come back. No students ever been the king of the campus on day one. But youre armed with a roomy new jansport backpack, a powerful new dell 2in1 laptop, and durable new stellar notebooks, so youre walking the halls with varsity level swagger. Thats what we call that new gear feeling. You left this on the bus. Get it at the place with the experts to get you the right gear. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. Gear up for great. Nasa holding a major drone event today. Jane wells is live in los angeles with all the details. Jane . Hey julia, yeah well the Drone Industry claims it could generate 82 billion in value over the next decade and employ 100,000 people if it gets its act together and the faa finalizes some rules. This is happening as drones are getting a lot of bad press, theyre interfering with firefighting efforts, including one that forced the grounding of waterdropping aircraft in a fire two weeks ago. The sky could be the limit with the drone potential. Amazon, verizon, google and cisco are at an event in Silicon Valley, trying to figure out an air Traffic Management system for drones. A the although of people say cisco networking company, whats the relevance to drones . Drones will have to be connected. Networked. They will transmit ungodly amounts of data, whether its video or sensory data. Now amazon is proposing a skyway with different lanes this is their graphics, below 200 feet for simple drones. 200 feet to 400 feet for more advanced drones and a nofly zone between 400 and 500 feet. The higher the drones fly, the more they would need to be able to communicate with each other and with piloted aircraft and have Collision Avoidance systems. The association for unmanned Vehicles International said the problem is the faa hasnt come up with rules for drones and commercial drones can only fly if they get an exception from the current ban. Flying and regulating by exemption are not going to work theyre not keeping up with the applications just for exemptions. We need finalized rules as soon as possible. As for people flying their drones over fires, wynn says weve got people that are nonaviators have access to devices flying in the air space and were trying to educate them about that. Carl . Jane wells in los angeles, thank you very much for that well watch the story continually. Meantime, simon is here to wrap up the european close. The imf making things interesting once again. The imf is saying they Wont Take Part in a greek bailout. The board was told that yesterday. I think its kind of where we are we know we have a Sticking Point here. This is a gain, a third day of gains that weve had in europe. Two major factors coming through here. As we go through earnings season. Its now a 64 beat rate in europe, the highest since they started collecting data six years ago, you see the companies exposed to the lower euro doing well. For example, siemens, came through saying sales would have been negative 3 , but the fact that the euro is down, its positive 7. 6. And Deutsche Bank is higher and nokia and alcatel about to merge with lucent. The euro is boosting earnings in europe. The other major factor youre getting is people warning, ceos warning on Economic Growth around the world. For renault and anheuser busch. Its about emerging markets and china. Saint gobain warned, on the big glass maker and the oil majors are driving higher with exception of repsol. Royal dutch shell a axing 6,500 staff. The Financial Times is reporting at the corporate level that starwood has reentered talks with intercontinental. Starwood, which reported today, both of them reported today. Starwood isnt moving on the news, but ihg is higher. Originally that would have been the tax inversion, fritz van passion was in charge and he wasnt returning cash to shareholders, everybody is like what is he up to. Thats resurfacing. Apparently starwood can be talking to other people. Given the fact that theyre up for sale. Its obvious in a way. Quickly want to mention what is happening in athens at the moment. The greek Prime Minister has basically in a cinema before his own party, 200 delegates there, issued a put up or shut up warning to them. Saying he wants a referendum on everything that the country has been through within the party on sunday so that everybody can move on. Hes told them that if they thought they could get a better deal than they have at the moment. Then they are mistaken. Back to you. Simon hobbs, thank you very much. When we come back, shares of facebook continue to slide off the session lows, despite the earnings beat last night. Daily mail north america ceo Jon Steinberg weighs in. Dow down 39. Good morning, everyone, im sue herera with your cnbc news update. A university of Cincinnati Police officer who shot an unarmed black motorist after stopping him over a missing front license plate has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. 25yearold ray tensing appearing at his arraignment wearing a triped jail suit. Bond set at 1 million. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety giving the 2015 ford f150 crew cab model the highest top safety pick. But repair costs were found to be up to 26 higher than the steel bodied versions. Israels Parliament Passing a controversial law that permits the forced feeding of inmates on hunger strikes. Palestinian inmates have held hunger strikes in recent years, protesting their detention. Republican president ial candidate donald trump appearing for the first day of the womens british open. Appearing for two days before returning to the campaign trail. Lets get back to squawk alley. Thanks, sue. Investors not exactly jumping up and down in the hours after facebooks earnings report. Despite a beat on both the top and bottom lines. Advertisers are watching the companys mobile growth and opportunities on instagram and video, might be feeling a little different. Here with his thoughts is Jon Steinberg. Ceo at the daily mail north america. And jon, weve been talking for a long time about how theres facebook, and theres everybody else. You see this report, you hear them talking about video and some of the possibilities for growth. What do you think . I think that the only negative thing that you can pull out of the Earnings Announcement was the fact that video may be cannibalistic of a lot of the other reporting revenue. Additional billion for instagram by 2016 or 17. Listening to the call, talk about the spicy chicken product from wendys and how the video ads got an eightpoint lift if recall. If youre getting that awesome spicy chicken sandwich return from doing video advertising youre not going to want to do the static stuff any more. Thats part of the fear. One of my favorite things is how sheryl namedrops advertisers on the call. Like extra advertising for them. If video ads are such high cpm, isnt it okay for them to cannibalize . On the call the cfo talked about deceleration in revenue growth. This is a few Percentage Points drop in the stock price. I think what people are saying its not going to keep up the rate over time. Also on the call weve had this app install thing keeps coming up and sandberg never gives a straight answer. When asked about app install. When you think about mobile app install ads, theyre an important but small part of our revenue. The important thing is theyre not used by developers. Thats code for venturebacked highspending startups. She said a couple of times that its relatively small. Im curious about your thoughts on cannibalization. Are you saying that video ads will cannibalize instagram . It seems that theres a whole new category theyre enthusiastic about is instagram. Whenever we roll out a new ad product. The people that dont sell ads say great thats x million more youre going to do next quarter. I say no, the advertisers want to gravitate to the new product. So one plus one never equals two. Only people that dont sell ads think a new ad product is incremental revenue. You think instagram will cannibalize. I think everything cannibalizes everything. If you dont continue to roll out new products, you lose advertising dollars over time. Its 1500, a month. Like the bloomberg terminal. The price never goes up but they need to keep layering in new features to maintain the price. You think theres more promise in the growth of ads, a name for facebook relative to the other platforms. The flagship . Or instagram . Or Something Else . I think that theres more growth in the video and i think that whether or not you buy video on instagram or on facebook, theyre basically one and the same. Its an infeed, auto play video ad with sound off can you choose to put sound on. The real strength and scale is selling it together. When i was at google, goog the started selling youtube, there was a separate youtube salesperson and channel confusion. Youve got to keep everything integrated. The Advertising Sales force should walk in and say buy video on facebook and that means instagram, too. Theres discipline involved here. Facebook controls how much inventory they put out there. On instagram and you heard them say again and again, were not going to roll this out really fast. Were going to be cautious, if they do that, and if theyre able to really make sure that the cpm is high and worth it for advertisers, they can sort of have some control and influence over how that cannibalization happens. Zuckerberg said at the end of the call when asked about on the moneytization on messageor and whatsapp . He said were going to take it slow, we want to have businesses first connect on the messaging platforms before rolling out ads. Now investors thought i was planning messenger and whatsapp monetization in 17 and 18 and now zuckerberg is telling me were going to take the slow road. Its not a massive drop in stock but rejiggering models. Most analysts took down their estimates for the full year by tens of millions of dollars, not hundreds of millions. Lets move to twitter. One of the best tweet storms ever unleashed by Mark Andreessen following something the New York Times columnist nick bilton said here on squawk alley yesterday. One person i would put forward would be Mark Andreessen. You know he gets product. He gets businesses. Hes created the twitter storm. Bring on Mark Andreessen, lets see what he could do. Andreessen jokingly responded with his ten marching orders, started with this making bushy mountain beards mapped torrey for all staffers and then he had several others. Which were pretty funny. Carl you called him out on twitter. He responded . At first it seemed that he would warm to the idea but over time i think he was throwing shade at the guys. Nick bilton may be the only more intentional provocative person on squawk alley than me. And the telltale sign is whenever a person on the show says something and does the little smirk. Andreessen on the board of facebook. Also Andreessen Horowitz bought twitter shares in a secondary transaction. le 0 million. A great executive, my pick, im sticking with eric schmidt as my random candidate. Carl, i mentioned it on the show two weeks ago. I think eric schmidt would bring a lot of kind of business rigor to it. So if bilton outside candidate is andreessen. My outside candidate is schmidt. I think the whole conversation speaks fact that we need to hear who the new ceo of twitter is very soon. I think a lot of analysts were disappointed there wasnt an update on how the ceo search is going. The only thing that drives me crazy about the twitter ceo thing is jack wants the job. If youre asked do you want the job and you dont give a straight answer no to it, that means you potentially want the job. I like how people are using the hamlet comparison. Teaching a new generation of people what hamlet is all about. Bilton floated this theory that bain doesnt want it for some reason. Do we know anything else about that . I think everybody wants it it think the only person that doesnt want it is sheryl sandberg. This is the best, this is the best internet company. Despite all the woes and issues, twitter is twitter, right . Everybody wants to be ceo of twitter. Its kind of dangerous to want to be ceo of twitter when jack is there i see it like at the end of the last crusade, people have lost their heads before you, jehovah begins with an eye, it looks like a crucible. Its hard having the exceos on the board. It seems that jack and bain are the frontrunners, i think the lot had a lot of disruption, bringing in somebody from outside would be disruptive. Bain is the nicest guy in the world, coy see it working out very well. And jack dorsey wants to be ceo. Square, which wants to go public. But the way the whole square thing would work is that jack could be executive chairman at square and he could be ceo of twitter. And you know, square is a much smaller company, much less sexy. It will chug along and he can go do that. Jon steinberg you want to be ceo of twitter . I knew you were going to ask me that. He didnt answer, Jon Steinberg, thank you very much. Coming up, we compete with every Major Company in the world and theyre all firebombing us. That quote is an unusually candid words from the ceo of drop box and well tell you what he meant. First Rick Santelli what are you watching . Well i think were going to have to do a little bit of a post mortem on yesterdays fed meeting and statement. Were going to have to dig down a little bit more on gdp. And were going to have to ask the following question is there an issue with the greece trap in europes Financial Condition again . Well were going to talk about all of that after the break. Can a business have a mind . A subconscious. A knack for predicting the future. Reflexes faster than the speed of thought. Can a business have a spirit . Can a business have a soul . Can a business be. Alive . Test drive this buick first. Gonna i am test driving it. For 24 hours. Wheres the salesperson . At the dealership. Nice buick i guess that testdrive last night went well. Actually, im still on it. You know, were testdriving this buick for 24 hours, right . Yeah. So what are you doing . 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But we havent seen a lot of action and that probably will change. I just like to say its going to be a learning experience. I dont normally buy lotto tickets, heres a lotto ticket. How transparent can i be about whats going to happen with the lotto ticket . Not very, because the drawing hasnt occurred yet. Cant be transparent about the lotto ticket in terms of datadependant, weve put that to the rest. Once we see the feds action well be able to reframe most of the issues in the context of words versus actions. And i think will be a good development. As far as gdp today. I had peter bookfar on as a guest. One area we didnt cover, he wrote about the drags in the gdp number. Two were inventory and nonresidential fixed investment. On the second one i totally agree. On the inventories, i harken back to chicago, pmi, when we have al assandre franzen. There was a big buildup that made distortions in some of the data points last year. Think this will continue to be something to Pay Attention to the third area he pointed to is a drag imports. I understand that if youre just monitoring gdp, that would be a drag. But i also say its an asterisk. Because good imports does imply some demand. Ive never said the economy has improved, hasnt improved or that were not better than others in terms of grading on a curve, but it is what it is. Imports can be looked at in two directions. Finally when it comes to greece, i never thought i would have to talk about this again. But nonetheless, i have to. Financial times running a story thats really like a wildfire spreading on the floor. The headline is, written by Peter Spiegel out of brussels, basically the first line says it all, the imfs board has been told athens high debt levels and poor record of implementing reforms disqualify greece from a third imf bailout. The article goes on to describe that the way this works is, basically lagarde is an employee of the board. The people that put together the facts for the board, thats who basically said the sentence i read. The united states, the biggest contributor to the imf and jack lew has made no secret he would like the bailout to be done and the thing to go away. Theres development to keep an eye on, muscleflexing going on and it probably means the process is going to take longer. Julia, back to you. Up next, the nfl moving into the future as many teams make big bets on Virtual Reality. One vr Company Working with this years number one pick show us how it works next. You focus on making great burgers, or building the best houses in town. Or becoming the next highlyunlikely dotcom superstar. And us, well be right there with you, helping with the questions you need answered to get your brand new business started. Were legalzoom and weve already partnered with over a million new Business Owners to do just that. Check us out today to see how you can become one of them. Legalzoom. Legal help is here. Nfl teams pairing with Virtual Reality companies to boost their onfield performance. Number one draft pick Jameis Winston and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are working with eon sports pr to help the rookie process his first season. John is about to try the product on, brendan, good to see you. Whats jon going to do here . Hes getting virtual repetitions with our sidekick engine. What hes looking at is actually a representation of from a quarterbacks perspective. So what we do is we take two different types of forms of vr. You can take videostitched vr. Something we do at the elite level for college and professional teams. What jon is looking at is what nfl players, for instance, Jameis Winston down to High School Athletes use to get virtual repetitions to prepare for competition. You could theoretically design your opponent thats coming this weekend in Virtual Reality. Where do you get that data . So at the elite level what we do is take the data from game film and we, they are saul different types of scouting reports. Detail. At the baysic High School Level theyre trying to prepare for the next week. We know what makes athletes big, fast and strong. How do we know theyre going to make the right play on the field. We supplement the onfield repetitions without all the physical wear and tear. If you look at the video games like madden is there a bigger market for this as a video game game play than as a training device . There theres absolutely markets for both. When you look at Virtual Reality and its historical evolution, its twofold, the training side of things and the gamefy indication side of things. The numbers are probably bigger on the gaming side. Were focused on training. I think weve learned in case we didnt know. That i am not an nfl quarterback. I guess my question is more of a tailback or running back. Sure. I guess the question is how much can you really help an nfl team by giving people a quarterback an immersive experience like this. In terms of feedback that youve had thus far on reflexes, decisionmaking, what are they saying . So weve done actually initial study with elite athletes all the way down to Junior High School kids. What we did is analyzed their decisionmaking within the Virtual Reality and we took that, over a period of time, we saw improvements of up to 30 in their decisionmaking. You start to amortize that additional repetition over the course of the a year, youre dealing with incredible gains from a cognitive perspective. Im guessing the athletes grew up playing video games. Do they take to this naturally do they trust this . I have not yet an athlete that has resisted it. They embrace the technology. Thats how theyre engaged with the technology. They want to, that generation learns with that, theyre all on their smartphones, anyway. We take that and basically meet them where theyre at. Provide something they want to utilize and they want to engage with. Maybe could you make a Software Package with offthefield life choices for them. Zuckerberg did mention vr and the possibilities for it down the road on the conference call. Lets take a quick listen. I assume thoughts and ideas, i think that immersive 3d content is the obvious next thing after video. So these initial versions that were getting on the market would you compare them to the first ipod, relative to where ipods are today in. Hands down. Within Sports Training and Virtual Reality. Were at the tip of the iceberg. Right now we can provide the videostitched 360 vr experiences and then the more video gametype experiences with our sidekick engine. However, we can, we havent even touched augmented reality and where the immersive mixed reality can take us. Were seeing so Many Companies in the vr space, facebook, vow, microsoft, which company do you think is going to many could out the winner . I think right now if you look at the industry as a whole. I would say microsoft and facebook are leading the way. However, the ability to do true Virtual Reality experiences from a mobile device opens the Playing Field to a lot of people. Finally, oculus has vowed that the motion sickness thing is being dealt with. Has gotten better. Where are we on that . I mean i would say theyre still work to do. But i would, i would make a bet that on their Consumer Product coming out in q 1, all of those issues will be solved. Really . To where we can use them without any he cans . Yeah. I think thats one of the big deterrents. Ive noticed a big difference in the latest generation. Have your athletes gotten sick . We work with hundreds of high schools, tens of colleges and a couple nfl teams. We have yet to have an issue with motion sickness. We do have issues with people using it too long and their parents get mad. Hey they need to go outside and play. Were going to watch you guys, please come back. Brendan. Brendan reily. You have a future. Meantime this week we caught up with some bigtime athletes at the sports matter summit. Heres the captain of the u. S. Womens soccer team carli lloyd, talking about wearables. I have a an apple watch, im starting to play around with it its pretty cool, im enjoying it im pretty active, so having the fitbit or whatever, i would probably blow it out of the water, the numbers. But i think its really good for people to be able to say to themselves, okay, instead of taking the elevator, im taking the stairs and be a little bit more proactive and active. The number one pick in the nba draft, carl anthony towns, is not excited. I run so much. Theres no reason to track it for me really, no, im not really big on the wearables. I do like the Samsung Watch a little bit. Andday like you know i just love, i love the Samsung Galaxy s 6 edge. Im big on that. Just wait until those endorsers get to him. See how much was that a paid endorsement . It was not a paid endorsement. Authentic endorsement, impressive. The ceo of drop box not mincing words on the competition saying theyre all firebombing us, were going to tell you what he meant. Dow down 20 points. No students ever done the full hand raise in ap calc. But your stellar notebook gives you the gumption to reach for the sky. Thats that new gear feeling. All hp ink, buy one get one 50 off. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. Gear up for great. Whehe trusts onlyon duracell quantum because it lasts longer in 99 of devices. Dentist appointment when my teeth are ready . Can it tell the doctor how long you have to wear this thing . Can it tell the Flight Attendant to please not wake me this time . The answer is yes, it can. So, the question your customers are really asking is, can your business deliver . We compete with every Major Company in the world and theyre all firebombing us. That is dropbox ceo drew houston on his file storage and sharing business in an interview with forbes. On top of that he said the industry is in a race to zero, while Companies Continue to cut prices and offer bigger storage limits, dropbox has been valued at 10 million. The industry very competitive right now. With apple. Google, microsoft, amazon, all ramping up their products in the space. We talked about this on, with box, on their first day here, the kmot commoditization of thi business seems like its not gone that far. Amazon is investing so heavily, they can afford to. Drew houston is in a tough spot. I was talking to somebody in Silicon Valley last week about how they needed to get started in the enterprise sooner. Maybe in some ways that vox is better positioned because of that and so much business is expected to come in on that side. I hear theyre trying to raise money now and the valuation could be interesting. Meantime we have seen for the third day in a row, a gap down and some improvement during the course of the session. The headlines from the imf have helped bring the dollar in and thats resulted in a bit of an uplift for stocks, energy helping as well. We were down 110 on the dow, now down 21. And linkedin tonight. It will be interesting to see what the reaction is to linkedins investment in those longterm paves. Lets get back to helicopters, scott wopner and the half. Thanks, welcome to the haim show. For today, steve weiss here, alongside joe terranova, josh brown and pete najarian. Our game plan looks like this. Sneaky stock, the shoe retailer whose shares have beaten nike and underarmer combined this year. Were going to reveal the undertheradar name and the trades. 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