Welcome to the to todays hearing. Pursuant house rules, some members will appear inperson and others will appear remotely via webex. Some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask unless they are speaking. Members who are not wearing a facemask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders to those members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on monitor in front of you when you are speaking in what is known in web ex as active speaker view. A timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely, i know you are all familiar with web ex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First, you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing. Whether theyre there in person or remote. As long as you have your web ex set to acti
Ceos testify on Prescription Drug pricing. Members question why the retail price of their drugs frequently increases and at a rate that far exceeds inflation among other issues. This is just under 4 hours. Welcome to the to todays hearing. Pursuant house rules, some members will appear inperson and others will appear remotely via webex. Some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask unless they are speaking. Members who are not wearing a facemask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders to those members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on monitor in front of you when you are speaking in what is known in web ex as active speaker view. A timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely, i know you are all familiar with web ex by
Complacent well debate that and your next money moves. Liz young is with us, and a tipper mcgee, Institutional Investment services group, and she is a new cnbc contributor. We will have the hazing ceremony, tiffany, in just a bit. Meanwhile, a check on the marks. Nasdaq against hitting new intraday highs, but the nasdaq doing a bit of a uturn, now down 28 points or about 0. 25 of this hour as some growth names like tesla and apple drop. Well talk about them in a little more detail steve weiss, id like to begin with you i read a very persuasive note that talked about reasons to stay invested. If you bet against this market, you are bankly shorting two things you are shorting the fed and you are shorting science, i. E. The hope that a vaccine will come along. You want to short those two . I dont think so steve . So, my observation that i sent to you this morning were that the markets momentum market, and if you disregard fundamentals, which the market is doing in large part, or at least
In your new book the innovation stack you talk about a glassblower to team up with the founder of twitter to build a multibilliondollar Payment Company you talk about perfect problems when did you realize how Business Payments were a perfect problem . I needed a way to delineate problems if you think about the worlds problems those that are solved so we could copy the solution. And then for one reason or another are not solvable. We dont have a way to do it but then that group in the middle of solvable problems that have not yet been solved is the perfect problem because that is the focus of what we accomplished to look for a way to solve a problem that is solvable that hasnt been done you have to do something new. So what happened with jack dorsey and i come i hired him when he was 15. A High School Student came into work at a company that i still have. I dont run any of my companies but i also dont sell them. We started working together and he went to college. We kept in touch. Then
Group in the middle of solvable problems that have not yet been solved. Thats what i call the perfect problem because that in fact is the focus of what i think entrepreneurship is. In other words, you are looking for a way to solve the problem that is solvable but has not been done. Youre going to have to do something new but you dont get a copy. What happened with jack, jack dorsey and i i hired jack when he was 15, he was a High School Student, came into work at a company that i still have and i dont run any of my companies they just sell them, this ones been around for 30 years and jack and i worked together and he went off to college and he got kicked out of twitter and the first time i guess. And they showed him the door and he came back to st. Louis and we were heading out and talking. And we decided we would Start Company together. So then we were kicking around for ideas, he did not have an idea and i did not have an idea so we look for problems i solve and we came up with the