In your book new innovation you tell the story about gas blower to team up with the founder of twitter to build a multibillion dollar payment company. In the book you talk about perfect problem so when did you realize these were a perfect problem . Its funny. I needed a way to delineate problems and if you think about the worlds problems you have the ones that are solved it can come to fruition but somebody already figured it out. So we just dont have the way to do it. That Stimulus Group in the middle to solve the problems that have not yet been solved. That is the focus. So in other words you are looking for a way to solve a problem that has not been done so you have to do something new. You dont get to copy. So jack dorsey and i come i hired him when he was 16 a High School Student to help me with a company that i still have. I dont run any of my companies. They manage themselves. We started working together through when he went to college. We kept in touch but then he was kicked ou
The National History center cohosted this event. Once more, welcome everyone. Welcome to the Wilson Center, welcome to this washington history seminar. A seminar through which we try to provide at the Wilson Center in connection with our partners at the National History center, historical perspectives on international and national affairs. Im christiane offerman, i direct the history and Public Policy program here at the Wilson Center and i have the privilege to cochair with my College Professor eric carlson of George Washington university. This is a joint enterprise by the National History center and initiative of the American Historical Association, directed by professor dane kennedy, i dont know if dane is with us today. Joint initiative between the National History center and the history and Public Policy program here. Were in our ninth year of holding these sessions every week during the semester, mondays at 4 00 p. M. And i hope to see many of you again for future sessions. Let m
Seminar we try to provide. I am christian ostermann. I direct the policy center here at the Wilson Center and i have the honor of cochairing this with my colleague eric arnesen, from washington university. This is a joint initiative between the National History center and the history and Public Policy program here. We are in our ninth year. I hope to see many of you again for future sessions. Let me thank the Lepage Center for public interest, as well as the George Washington history department. We also want to thank a number of anonymous donors who make these meetings possible and we welcome contributions from all of you in our audience. Details are in the back of the flyer. A couple people who do the heavy lifting behind the scenes. Rachel wheatley, the assistant director of the National History Center Rachel are you here today . Where are you . Thank you. As well as our talented interns, who you will meet during the q a. They will help with microphones. We finally want to acknowledg
Coronavirus pandemic, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a roadmap to modify the state stayathome order that would be less for strict if and more focused on individual responsibility. He also warned that Mass Gatherings in the summer are still highly unlikely. This is one hour. Gov. Newsom the first strategy as a part of our strategy of containment we started to repatriate those first flights coming from Mainland China and elsewhere. The second phase was the mitigation phase. Adopting strategies as we saw the first case of Community Spread to advanced stayathome. Rders for seniors processing closing down our schools. Populationbased strategies to atigate spread, that included statewide stayathome order. And then the efforts to continue to practice physical distancing. We then started to move into the third phase. The phase that could broadly be described as the phase of surging. Surging not only a Hospital System but an alternative care system to meet a potential demand. That r
Welcome to the Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us as always the w. H. O. Director general ted, mike ryan, executive director and doctor maria, they take the lead for covid19. Doctor will begin with an update, then when he has finished his opening remarks, i will open the meeting to questions. If youre connected by zoom, please use the raise hand icon to get into the queue to ask her questions, if you connect by phone please hit 9 to indicate you want to ask for questions. I will apologize right now to all those who miss out. We have more than 260 people on the line already connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to announce with our speakers who are meeting the response and can get back to the other demands of their time. I will now hand over to doctor. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll, not just on health but on so many parts of life. Yesterd