Offers not just rides, but health care, payments, hotel booking, plane tickets and more. We met up with anthony tan in seattle, washington where they set up a new office to grab some of americas top tech talents. Joining me today on studio 1. 0, anthony tan and hoo ling tan, cofounders of grab. Lets start at the beginning. You met at Harvard Business school. How did you two find each other . The first year we were in Business School we were in different classes. The only times we met was when we were looking for asian food. It was only the second year we got to know each other because we both serendipitously took the same course called business at the base of the pyramid. Over that semester i discovered , this is the hardest working guy very and i was so glad he sat next to me because i was constantly looking at his notes. She did not do homework. She copied my homework. Emily are you ok with him saying that . It is the truth. Everyone knows that. [laughter] emily you came from a big a
Just leave it this way. All right. David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . When you went to cornell, your grades were obviously good. You applied to law school at harvard. You got into Harvard Law School. Was the class half women and half men . [laughter] jus. Ginsburg in those ancient days, i went to law school from 1956 and 1959. In my entering class at Harvard Law School, there were over 500 in the class, nine of us were women. A big jump from martys class, he was a year ahead of me. There were five women. Today, Harvard Law School, it is about 50 women. [applause] david in your Harvard Law School class, you did extremely well and got onto the harvard law review and you were near the top of your class, maybe first or tied for first in your class. When
Perhaps it is only fitting, then, that astro teller is working on ideas that could change the world, or more likely fail miserably. But he says that is all part of the magic. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, astro teller, head of alphabets x lab. And captain of moonshots, which is your official title. As i understand it. Astro it is. I function as the ceo, but i go by captain of moonshots. Emily you rolled in on wheels. This is your standard mode of transportation . Astro it is. Emily how much time do you think you shave off . Astro i have worked that out. Its about eight minutes a day. Emily wow. [laughter] astro its a big building. Emily you are making the most of those eight minutes. We are in the x lab, just a couple miles south of googles headquarters. This is where the magic happens, or sometimes doesnt happen, as you are quick to point out, because you have far more failures than you do successes. What is the mission of x . Astro x was created to be the part of alphabe
Every few times we make some progress and roll it back. It is becoming exhausting. Late february this year, trump did not meet with chinese february, officials and there were press conferences afterwards, and they agreed to have the chinese by a little bit buy a little bit more soybeans. Two days later, trump declared a truce. That never really led to anything. We have been wrong optimistically the entire time. They have had a couple of years to try to come to compromise. What we are talking about now is right where we started 18 months ago or so. Good, a detente but until i see a rollback of , some of the tariffs that went on recently, i have to go with our leading indicators, which are still pointed downwards. Jonathan joining me around the table in new york are our guests george bory, mike purves, and andy charlton. The first question to you, george. Same issues, same people, same countries. Do we get a different outcome . George in terms of trade, i dont think so. Trade is in a per
Were looking great. One last warm day before some rain and cooler temperatures move into the bay area. Grab a jacket as you head out, were now in the low 50s and upper 40s for the north bay, but youll be taking it off this afternoon as we hit 80 in the north bay and south bay mid to upper 70s elsewhere across the bay area. And then dropping back into the 60s the rest of the week. Lets see what is happening in the south bay. A lot more traffic than yesterday. In the south bay looking at san jose, south bay schools, a lot of strinlgts have what they call the winter break, so we may see less traffic overall, but a crash around taylor street. Well talk about taylor swift coming up. Rest of the bay looking at a smooth try toward the dublin interchange, slowi ining North Livermore. And in hayward to the minunimit freeway, as well. Well talk about the metering lights being turned on at their typical time. Much more traffic today than yesterday. But nothing dramatic for the maze or the approac