Before lawmakers this month on the social networks controversial cryptocurrency. We have details. And whistleblower speaks. Center he people at the of the Cambridge Analytica scandal oins me. Highlevel trade talks picked up this week in washington after tapering off in july with no clear breakthroughs. Chinas vice premier was greeted by treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and trade representative Robert Lighthizer before talks resumed thursday. The stakes were extremely high as President Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on 215 billion worth of chinese goods on october 15 if there was no progress. The Technology Sector paying close attention to those sessions as intellectual property is playing a prominent role in the negotiations. I spoke to someone from a firm who helps u. S. Firms protect intellectual property. Eric a fairly Large Company in china, just saw 100 million in evenue that files and protects intellectual property for clients that have previously mostly been in china
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 shave off . Astro i have worked that out. About eight minutes a day. Emily wow. [laughter] 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 alphabet that would make, hopefully, some new googles for alphabet to have. Things like waym
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
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 shave off . Astro i have worked that out. About eight minutes a day. Emily wow. [laughter] 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 alphabet that would make, hopefully, some new googles for alphabet to have. Things like waym
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. Class,ump from martys 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 your husband needed to move to new york, yo