So, scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do is we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully arbecome very Big Companies like facebook or google or apple someday and then if we are doing our jobs correctly we are also helping them grow the company so we dont work in the businesses but hopefully we can provide introductions to them and help them navigate new challenges as they go through the business so we like to think of ourselves as a money provider and hopefully a supporter as the business grows. Why cant a company such as a the one you describe go through a bank and do traditional avenues. Good question. The problem is most of the businesses we reinvest in our ricky businesses and lose money for a long period of time as they invest in banks are just not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing their capitals so we are willing to take that risk and in fact half of what we invest in will lose our money and any bank wh
Ebooks are sold. Host so scott cooper what is a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do is we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or apple someday. Forging her jobs correctly we are also helping them grow the company so we do not obviously work in the businesses that we can hopefully provide introductions for them p help navigate new challenges asge they go through the business we like to think of ourselves as a money provider and hopefully a supporter as the business grows. Why does the company like you describe not go through a bank and go through traditional avenues . Speech its a good question the problem is most ofro the businesses that we invest in our very risky businesses that are going to lose money for a long period of time as they invest ine the business and banks unfortunately are just not in the business of doing that or take a risk for losing capital paired for willing to take that risk
Things, our country looks a lot more like the juggernaut it used to be, and so does the stock market thats the only way to interpret the incredible pin action that we got today from adps incredible their National Employment report, and it showed that private Sector Employment decreased by just 2. 76 million jobs last month, when most economists were expecting something more like 9 million. Hallelujah. That and some early positive data about the opening of restaurants and casinos are how the dow surged 527 points today. S p jumped 1. 63 were gaining back all our losses here, people. You see this kind of animal spirits of the market coalescing with the pent up demand for ravenous consumers and you get the insane gains like we saw by the way, taking us to the most overbought level, 11. 1, in the s p since july 24, 2009. Any time its been this high, its actually okay well have to do more on that later this week. Look, i know there was a time really not that long ago when 2. 76 million job
Announced, but the big story is surrounding big tech earnings like microsoft, facebook, and even comcast and qualcomm. It look like some of these companies were basically created for this moment if you didnt know, the microsoft quarter was just a thing of beauty a lot of that is because theyll have a product like teams or like azure that are incredibly strong linkedin doing very well facebook quarter was good, and boom, they say april is stabilization. One of the themes were seeing in tech, or you have service now, well have Bill Mcdermott later today. They have an unbelievable quarter. Maybe the best in the history of the company. So youre seeing companies that frankly not only do not have to make any excuses but are saying good things. You know, qualcomm, ill say, secular trend, 5g, and then highspeed internet is one of the most lucrative parts of comcast. Yes, of course, theme parks not going to happen, but theyll open up again. But high speed, it will never go back you dont switch
Effective, it brought down the market up the day about 39 points s p 500 had given a run for the money. We are below that 2,800 level. S p up about 4. 5 keeping in mind the treasury yields right now, the 10year seems to be yielding 0. 606 andrew, ill send it over to you. Well give you an update now on the pandemic numbers. Global cases have reached 2. 7 million with 869,000 in the United States. The death toll in the u. S. Is nearing 50,000 new york cases have hit 263,000 and new jersey over 100,000. Georgia plans to reopen. They have the most confirmed cases with over 21,000 well talk about that throughout the morning. Yesterday, new york Governor Cuomo shared early results from the study of 3,000 people that said one in five new york City Residents tested positive. That means as many as 2. 7 million in new york already encountered the virus and survived and never knew it questioning the available of the test but said new yorks test was reliable enough to determine immunity thats base