Thanks to pfizer well have a vaccine by the end of First Quarter that news sent the market soaring. The dow is only surging 830 points that tech heavy nasdaq, the demand of so many stocks that did well under covid19 tyranny lost in an astounding 1. 53 . What a bifurcation it is also the time. We are in the middle of a spike of infections. New cases are exploding over the country, over 100,000 a day and even the weekend we are much treating it in the spring that only matters if we have enough hospital beds a lot of people are having cavalier attitude. Hey, you are fine unless you are old. Well, guess what, a lot of us are old. The sense is understood and respected. When you have more than 100,000 new infections everyday, you are looking at a lot of fatalities we need this the truth is we tried to fight the pandemic state by state. That failed. Europeans are failing too, i know, asia is doing great. If we were serious of Contact Tracing and social distancing and wearing masks, we may be
In that sector. And then welcome to eco africa. Im now tie into nigeria, and i am song for a tween no video here in the capital or uganda. Hi everybody. Welcome to the let us sort of africa. Yes, it is true. We have lots of interesting stories for you. And a quick preview. We hope to begin a fossil to take a look. Im wrong to move on a production plant. We also visit a company in germany. That house created a way to recycle, reuse the oil from the factory. And also how some people right here in company want to make transportation more eco friendly. Like many other west african countries became a fossil has difficulty meeting its electricity needs. In the rural areas, less than 5 percent of the population is connected to the Great Schools and medical centers are especially hard hit in 2017, iraq paean, union police, a report highlighted decentralization, and a most Sustainable Energy mix as possible solutions. And now things in booking a fossil seem to be moving in that direction. This
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Host Reed Hastings and erin meyer are the coauthors of this new book no rules rules, netflix and the culture of reinvention. Mr. Hastings is also the ceo of netflix and mr. Hastings what is netflix and what do you do . Guest netflix is the worlds leading Entertainment Service and we reproduce and distribute amazing Television Series and movies and around about 20 years and have been 200 million families around the world who are our renters. Host is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles and 30 employees . Guest a little connection to that. We started 22 years ago delivering dvds in the United States and competing with blockbuster and that was a full decade ago really that we were competing with video stores just in the u. S. When thats 2007 when we started streaming. Roughly the same time youtube did. Host erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project . I study cultural differences in the workplace and im a School Professor and i came across t
Book the rules rule. Mr. Hastings is the ceo of netflix. What is it netflix and what do you do . A world leading Entertainment Service to produce and distribute amazing Television Series and movies we have been around 20 years and have 2 million families around the world that are members. Host is there a connection to the 1990 a company where you had 900 movie titles . There is a connection we started 22 years ago renting dvds in the United States competing with blockbuster. That was a whole decade competing with video stores and then 2007 we started screaming about the same time youtube did. Host how did you get involved in this project . I study cultural differences in the workplace and i first came across netflix culture it wears way at the beginning and like adequate performance. And that struck me because in my department we were focusing on Psychological Safety in the workplace so here is a company not focusing on that but people who did not perform adequately. No vacation policy