Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean patterson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It doesnt mean he doesnt have money. He did have money but needed cash to cover expenses of moving out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done. Except Herbert Hoover but hoovers time in office was much briefer, trumans presidency covered far more to multiple us history tumu
Next on book tv, programs from our archives the focus on technology. Even watch them in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. Use the search function at the top of the page. First of march 2019, nyu school of business professor amy webb, Artificial Intelligence and giving too much power to big corporations. My job is to lower risk for a living. I primarily focus on technology. Over and over i kept going back to the same Nine Companies pretty he sang companies, a controlling share patents. That have extraordinary amounts of money. Theyre able to attract the best talent because they have the best food. They have the relationships with the universities buried and does not mean that there arent other Companies Like salesforce or uber that are doing amazing things, but it is these are through the sign companies and Everything Else flows. The entire ai ecosystem in some way or another touches the sign. In addition to all of the things, there also building the frameworks in the
Best talent because they are the best food. You know, that have the relationships with universities and it doesnt mean there arent other Companies Like salesforce or uber that are doing Amazing Things but it is these Nine Companies that Everything Else flows. The entire ai ecosystem, in some way or the other, touches these nine. In addition to all the things that i just mentioned they are building the framework and the custom silicone tips and they have the code bases. All roads lead to these Nine Companies in the challenge that i have is that if it is the case that Artificial Intelligence is not just being built to create a better microwave although that is cool that instead to optimize our lives using data as currency what does it mean when we relegate that to just a handful of companies and a handful of people working at these companies who probably dont look like us and dont have the same worldviews as us and what are the longerterm downstream invocations of that look like . Three
So, scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do is we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully arbecome very Big Companies like facebook or google or apple someday and then if we are doing our jobs correctly we are also helping them grow the company so we dont work in the businesses but hopefully we can provide introductions to them and help them navigate new challenges as they go through the business so we like to think of ourselves as a money provider and hopefully a supporter as the business grows. Why cant a company such as a the one you describe go through a bank and do traditional avenues. Good question. The problem is most of the businesses we reinvest in our ricky businesses and lose money for a long period of time as they invest in banks are just not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing their capitals so we are willing to take that risk and in fact half of what we invest in will lose our money and any bank wh
After that always day one, how the tech tightens plan to stay on top forever. And later jim mckelvey who wrote the innovation stack, beating an unbeatable business one crazy idea at a time. Joining us from nashville is doctor William Schaffner he is the president he is a professor of preventative medicine at Vanderbilt University welcome back to the program we are glad to have you. Thanks steve good to be with you. I want to begin with some news today with the president as you know we covered the hearing yesterday chaired by your home state senator, the Senate Health Labor Committee and during that healing and hearing dr. Anthony fauci said he had concerns about schools reopening potentially too soon. Today the president with thisy reaction. Reporter ld i was surprised by his answer actually, to me its not an acceptablecc answer. Especially when it comes to schools. The only thing that be acceptable is what i said professors, teachers et cetera over certain age i think they ought to ta