Including apple, and major venture firms. They spent six years during research with many of the Unsung Heroes of this era were behind the landmark developments. They have literally change the world. Just for you tonight. Cindy could sing. Bob swanson and bob taylor. Al, mike and sandy would you please stand. [applause]. The stories of those remarkable people and others is leslie berlin. The project historian for the Silicon Valley archives she has been a fellow at the center for advanced studies and behavioral scientists i would like to share five numbers. So, 35 square miles were the ones that change the world. Fourteen wild years. Two books published seven upstarts. Please join me in giving me a very warm welcome to leslie berlin. Great to have you. Leslie, really delighted to have you here. And enjoyed reading the troublemakers you had been a chronicle of the history for two decades you cant really understand what goes on unless you understand what came for. It is hard to out speak
Atari, genentech, venture firms, berlin spent six years doing research with many Unsung Heroes of this era behind landmark developments and set in motion Ripple Effects which changed the world, tonight she joins us to discuss her new book troublemakers, Silicon Valleys coming of age. The side of the stage we are pleased to present a small exhibit tonight of artifacts related to each of the Silicon Valley troublemakers featured in her book. Bob swanson and bob taylor, we are thrilled to have several of the remarkable troublemakers with us tonight so please stand and be recognized. [applause] thank you. To tell the story of these remarkable people and others, leslie is the project historian for Silicon Valley archives, a fellow at the center for advanced studies of Behavioral Sciences at Smithsonian National museum of american history. To introduce her i would like to share as our tradition five members. 35 mi. As described in her book, 14 wild years chronicles, two books published, soun
Snap spiked after a blow away report,uarter earnings with revenues topping estimates for the First Time Since the company went public on most a year ago. The earnings were buoyed by momentum in the ad business and user growth. Fourthquarter sales jumped 72 to 785 million. We broke it down with the with alyst market analyst and a bloomberg reporter. What did snap get right this quarter . Well, they have been transitioning their advertising business to make it more automatic, more programmatic, selling ads automatically, which means they can have a bigger base of advertisers. Down,ice of ads has gone but the volume in the amount of time people look at these ads is going up, so snap has been able to make this work for them this quarter for the first time. Deborah, what is jumping out to you . We know they have been doing a lot, the whole redesign, perhaps we are seeing some of the results of that, but what do you think is really driving these results . You know, i think it is a couple fac
Earnings. Eak down with facebookon sandberg. She says the me too movement has gone far enough. After a blow at first quarter, revenue topped estimates for the First Time Since snap went public almost a year ago. Snapchat fourthquarter sales jumped 72 and 200 and 85 million and instead of active users jumped to 187 million. Up 18 from a year ago. We have deborah in from seattle. Also, sarah frier recovers snap. What did snap get right this quarter . Sarah they been transitioning their advertising business to make it more automatic, more programmatic. Theyre selling as automatically which means they could have a better base of advertisers. The price of as have gone down but the volume and the a lot of time people look at these as going up, snap has been able to really make this work for them in this quarter for the first time. Emily we know that been doing a lot, there is a whole redesign and perhaps we are seeing some of the results of that. But what do you think is really driving these
Opportunities in our polling for donald trump. Lets take a look number one at why Hillary Clinton can feel good as the general election starts. It doesnt mean it will last, but as of today, as we speak in early may, she is Holding Together the Obama Coalition. The president won twice, two Electoral College landslides. These were his numbers among men on election day 2012. Hillary clinton is doing a little bit. Among women, shes doing better. Among independents, shes doing better. Among white voters, shes doing better. In the suburbs, shes doing better. Shes also even doing a little bit better than president obama on election day 2012 among nonwhite voters. So Hillary Clinton says if i can keep the Obama Coalition together against donald trump, i can win. Is it all bad news for trump . No. Those demographic numbers show you hes got some work to do, but there are also some opportunities for mr. Trump. He says in a state like wisconsin, im going to recreate those reagan democrats, Blue Co