Exponential growth. We sit down with the geek in chief, kathryn mccarthy. Her country is growing by boldly going where no c company has g e before. Welcome. Talk about the genesis of the company. How did it get started . In 1999. Mpany started was our 15th anniversary. It w started by people who had a passion for the internet. It was rare when the internet verse started. They wanted to sell products they loved and share it with others. In the beginning, it clearly was not the size it is today. It was part of a Larger Company that went public in 2000 as part of the. Co the dotcom phase. Now, we are focusing solely on ecommerce. The country has grown to 138 million in revenue last year. Since 2009. Own 180 we now have 148, a Larger Office space than when we started. Its why this location has the ethos of Silicon Valley. But we are abt as far from Silicon Valley as you can get in this country. Why here . At e time of the internet revolution, Many Companies started up. The founders of this
We got a rotten egg win numbersrs were far worse than analysts expect. Here to talk more on this busy week is o of our best anand brightest. Regular contributors ana washinon businesjournal power trifecta, jim dinegar a and jonathan aberman. Im getetting some strange ises in my head. Im ing g to talk through it. I cant tell whether it is the control room snd. I will turn straight to you. We have teed up dififferentegend fights. Two diffeferent budget fights. The governor wants to cut rates for schools. What is the business takake all of these differing qualls . Jim the thing to ep i in mind is the legislative body. You have the legislature up in maryland that is vasy different from the g governor. He doesnt just carry the day. Ere are big issues that he is looking to address. Certainly on t transportation issues. A number of different issues she has on edution. A relatively new counsel to new counsel. There may be apple brewing over this salales tax. Certainly the business cocommunitie
Are different. Jim acosta joining us live in nairobi. We knew this was probably going to come up the president was likely going to address it but what was the reaction to the words he chose to use, standing right there next to the kenyan president . Reporter it was stunning. Despite what it seemed like a Family Reunion for president obama, he sparked a cultural controversy here in this country as he pressed kenyan leaders to make more progress on the issue of gay rights. The kenyan president was having none of it. Ladies and gentlemen, the president s reporter it was a dustup on his fathers home turf as president obama clashed with the kenyan leader over the issue of gay rights. The president condemned the widespread discrimination faced by same sex couples in kenya and across africa comparing it to the jim crow days back in the u. S. As an africanamerican in the United States i am painfully aware of the history of what happens when people are treated differently under the law. Reporte
Hi everyone. 4 00 eastern. Im poppy harlow. Thanks so much for being with us today. We begin with an unnerving few moments in the sky over jfk airport in new york city. At least two commercial airlines friday just a few hours apart, coming in close contact with a drone. Both planes were approaching landing when they reported seeing the drones just about a hundred feet away. Cnn nick valencia has the details for us. Poppy, two incidents at the same airport just hours apart. The faa tells us close calls between drone and commercial airplanes have more than doubled since last year. Reporter two incidents in one day, at the same airport. Cnn has now learned of a second close call between a drone and a commercial airline, in the skies above new york city. Around 2 30 friday afternoon, jetblue flight 1834 reports seeing an Unmanned Aircraft on approach to jfk. Less than three hours later, a second encounter with a drone, this time by a separate airliner. Delta flight 407 prepares to land at
Hi, everyone. Im poppy harlow joining you from atlanta. 4 00 eastern. We begin where all the political attention is today, the hawkeye state, iowa. The political stampede is going on at the world renowned state fair in des moines. Two a listers, Hillary Clinton, donald trump making the most waves there today, for sure. Heres trump speaking just moments after arriving. Jeb bush is a puppet to his donors. Hes got lobbyists. I know them. Hes got lobbyists. And he made statements over the last couple of days that are incredible, trying to justify the war in iraq, it cant be justified. Then he said skin in the game. I dont know if you saw his recent statement. He says the United States has to prove to iraq that we have skin in the game. Weve spent 2 trillion, thousands of lives lost, Wounded Warriors who i love all over the place and he said we have to prove that we have skin in the game. I think it may be one of the dumbest statements ive ever heard. Skin in the game, we dont have to prove