Media animal celebrities yeah, you heard me right and the boss of the worlds Biggest Online pet sitting marketplace. Plus, your call is important to us. Please hold the line. Yep, im going to be catching up with the president of the Customer Service Tech Giant Salesforce about their latest ai chatbots looking to take the strain. Wherever yourejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. You know, during the pandemic lockdowns, more and more of us looked to pets for companionship and comfort, certainly spurring a huge surge in Pet Ownership in many countries around the world. And that surge created vast new opportunities for businesses that support our pets, from vet services to rubber toys. The increasing demand has seen the amount we spend on pets follow suit. The uptick in ownership, its come with a change in the way we treat our animals, with the phenomenon known as humanising. Yeah, thats treating our animals more like wed like to be tre
Hello. A very warm welcome to Talking Business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. Lets go and take a look at whats on the show. This is wednesday, shes my three year old German Shepherd cross. Ive had herfor about two and a half years, since the middle of the pandemic, and i spend about £250 a month average on her, which is about 17 of my salary. Yep, the global pet industry. It has been booming as more and more of us spend big, pampering our pooches and caring for our cats. A surge in ownership during the pandemic has changed how we treat our Furry Friends, ushering in a new era of humanising our animals, with social media leading the pack. And its an industry set to be worth half a trillion dollars by the end of the decade. So im going to be discussing all of that with these two. There they are, the head of an agency representing social media animal celebrities. Yeah, you heard me right. And the boss of the worlds Biggest Online pet sitting marketplace. Plus, your call is important t
The gunman. President trump calls to arm nations teachers and also slams the deputy who was on duty. What he did, he trained his whole life. Theres an example. When it came time to get in there and do something, he didnt have the courage or something happened, but he certainly did a poor job. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A lot of news today. Thanks for joining us. Breaking news, another bombshell in special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation. A source familiar with the proceedings telling us that former Trump Campaign aide rick gates is expected to plead guilty today, an indication gates is cooperating with the special counsel. This comes a day after Robert Mueller filed a 32count indictment against both gates and former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort, charging both men with additional crimes,
number of counts, some limited conduct that would vastly reduce his prison exposure. We believe this plea is happening in washington, d. C. As you mentioned, there
Certainty and predictability. Thats the best way to make business decisions. Having the president make this controversial announcement, then indicate right away they may or may not be committed to it is not the kind of certainty Corporate America is looking for. Those are some of the broader impacts. Whats the potential impact inside his own administration, and for his own Press Secretary who has to go out and defend a policy shes not sure is etched in stone . Obviously shes in an impossible situation. I think what it does inside the white house, its corrosive to any effort to put in place a process to make decisions. Because people know that the Decision Making process is precarious at best, that theres never a final decision thats made and theres an opportunity to influence it at a variety of junctures or to go in and intervene with the president at the last minute. It means theres no coherent process in place and the result is you have decisions that are halfbaked at best. This has