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
Problems that havent yet been solved. So 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 a problem that is solvable but hasnt been done. You had to do something you and you dont get to copy. And so we were then taken around for ideas and you do not have an idea and i didnt have an idea so we started looking for problems that we can solve and came up with the problem of how they got paid. When did you come to that conclusion, you talk in the book about your work, tummy about that moment that payments were a problem for small merchants. It was funny because as i said jack had been kicked out of twitter and my first reaction to that was jack was like a little brother to me, somebody felt like i needed to stand up for and what they did to him at twitter the first time was completely bile. So my first suggestion was lets go to San Francisco and get even with those guys. It was l
I hired jack when he was 15. A High School Student. Came to work for a company that i actually still have. Then he went off to college. We kept in touch. And then he got kicked out of twitter. The first time. And they showed him the door and he came back to st. Louis and we were hanging out talking. Decided wed start the company together. We then were kicking around ideas. So we started looking for problems we could solve. Came up with the problem of how got paid. You talk in the book about your work as a glassblower. Talk about that moment that you realize that payments were a problem for small merchants. As i said, jack had just been kicked out of twitter. He was sort of like a little brother to me. Someone i felt i needed to stand up for. What they did to him at twitter the first time was completely vile. So my first suggestion was lets go to San Francisco and get even with those guys. It was lex fight motivated. But jack, to his credit, said why dont we do something more positive a
Ended where they began yesterday. It was i guess a quiet august day. Today is september, though. How did the european markets fair on the first day of september. Whatever happened to italy and spain . Come on, guys. But theres germany, france, and, of course, be the uk is the three, the one that was in the red. Theres wti crude, continuing to fall now below 45, well below this morning and that 10year note yield creeping above 1. 6 at 1. 613. Our road map this morning does start with the first trading day of september. If you woke up and didnt look at the calendar thats what the day is. Its a volatile month. Whats going to be coming. The apple tax saga far from over. Tim cook calling the 14. 5 billion tax bill from europe total crap. And european officials are firing back. Shares of salesforce falling this morning. This after earnings that were fine, Ceo Marc Benioff spoke with jim last night on mad money and well get into whats going on there and why that stock is looking down this mor
Unsolicited stakeover bid led by anbang insurance group. Well give you the latest. United airlines ceo back to work today but the activists are not cutting him slack. Whats ahead for munoz and the airline at large. Starwood is up sharply in premarket trading. They received a takeover proposal from chinas anbang insurance. Its worth about 75 a share in cash. The board of starwood says it is not changing its recommendation at this point and supports the companys planned merger with marriott, but they have a waiver from marriott that will allow them to negotiate until thursday. People familiar with the situation indicate the hope is they can hammer out a definitive agreement with anbang insurance, which has chris flowers, former investment banker people may have known. And primivera, not an old Italian Restaurant on the west side, but a large private equity firm in china. Some of these names may be unfamiliar, but the 76 a share all cash offer and that 5. 50 is a significant premium over