Alright. David i dont consider myself a journalist. And 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 . David after 16 years as the ceo of ge, you have just stepped down. Is a big burden off your shoulders now . Jeffrey i do think if you are doing the job well, you feel ownership over everybody who is a constituency, and you wear that 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So look, i think 16 years is a long time to run one of these companies, and i am kind of like i am starting to feel a little , bit of decompression, lets say. David so you think it is too long to run a publicly traded company for someone like you . Jeffrey thats a good question. I think there is a right time and a wrong time in terms of doing it. A company our size, you need to run it long enough to make a difference, to be able to shape s
David i dont consider myself a journalist. And 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 . David after 16 years as the ceo of ge, you have just stepped down. Is a big burden off your shoulders now . Jeffrey i do think if you are doing the job well, you feel ownership over everybody who is a constituency, and you wear that 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So look, i think 16 years is a long time to run one of these companies, and i am kind of like, i am starting to feel a little bit of decompression, lets say. David so you think it is too long to run a publicly traded company for someone like you . Jeffrey thats a good question. I think there is a right time and a wrong time in terms of doing it. A company our size, you need to run it long enough to make a difference, to be able to shape strategy. I
Tencents blowout earnings. Sales jumped more than 60 in the last quarter. We will discuss the secret to the companies continued success in asia, and its u. S. Ambitions. Uber has set the stage for one of the biggest private startup deals ever. The service has approved softbanks offer to buy a 1 billion stake. Softbank and other firms will be allowed to invest up to 1 billion in uber, and can buy out up to 9 million in shares. I caught up with cory johnson and Bloomberg Technologys eric newcomer. We have basically everything except the price, which is key. And who the sellers are, we dont know that for sure. Therefore, we dont know the total amount that is up to be bought. But we have sort of a slate of governance reforms, and we have softbank, dragon year and a , number of other potential buyers. But the thing we have been negotiating over for the last many weeks now if those governance reforms and also sort of the process by which softbank would buy the shares. Emily so, talk to us ab
We will discuss the secret to the companies continued success in asia, and its u. S. Ambitions. Uber has set the stage for one of the biggest deals ever. The service has approved softbanks offer to buy a 1 billion stake. Softbank and other firms will be allowed to invest up to 1 billion in uber, and can buy out the 9 million in shares. I caught up with cory johnson and eric newcomer. We have basically everything except the price, which is key. And who the sellers are, we dont know that for sure. Therefore, we dont know the total amount that is up to be bought. But we have sort of a slate of governance reforms, and we have softbank and a number of other potential buyers. But the thing we have been negotiating for the last many weeks now if those governance reforms, and the process by which softbank would buy the shares. Emily so, talk to us about some of the governance reforms. There were some contentions over Travis Kalanicks role. He made some compromises and benchmark made some compr
Officials lifted expectations yesterday in proposed tax cut. The central bank raising rates for the third time this year and in the final News Conference is Federal Reserve chair gina gallant says the u. S. Economy is performing well. She also targeted bitcoin concrete to occur in the highly speculative asset, but not enough to cause a meltdown. More coming up this morning. Futures look like its indicating a market continued momentums this morning. The dow industrial up 30 points at nasdaq, s p 500 higher. Investors waiting on the European Central bank decision. Mario draghi will bring you those headlines. Markets are down across the board a quarter of a percent lower in half a percent lower in germany and the dax index. Lower across the board, as you can see the kospi indexed on one half of 1 . The latest have a smiley accuse by the network of his misconduct allegations. Details at smiley intends to fight back. Way more to fight on. Still refusing to concede following doug jones shock