becomes the new headquarters. we hear they re even turning some of the old jail cells into bar called, yes, bars. we have post-its and links to the downtown project and the businesses profiled in crystal s story, plus a photo album from her visit including more of tony shay s amazing apartment and the strange animal that s come to be associated with the project. what? all on the website. coming up, something we re pretty excited about, the man who made us all rethink the hot pocket. is your hot pocket cold in the middle? it s frozen. but it can be served boiling lava hot. will it burn my mouth? it ll destroy your mouth. [ male announcer ] this is bob,
setting for history channel s pawn stores. i ll give you 200 bucks for it. or as the backdrop for some classics. and while a bit of danger and grit is good for the movie, seedy motel, bail bond service, and questionable characters of downtown these days have kept many locals and tourists from coming to this side of town to spend their money. even six months ago it was a little scary for me to walk east four more blocks at night. reporter: but with the help of zappo.com s tony shay, it s changing. for me what s exciting is really just the vibe and the feeling of energy in the area and people that are building something themselves but also being part of this idea of thinking of the city as a start-up. reporter: shay knows a thing or two about start-up, having built a struggling online shoe retailer into a multibillion-dollar business. and more importantly for him, a place employees like to work. it was during a project to
if i get too close, he ll freak out. over time if i keep doing this he ll eventually fall in love with me. reporter: it was the first technology start-up to get the backing of the tech fund. we wanted to create a robot that could do a lot of things they do in science fiction movies but be p cheap enough that people like us could afford them. right now we re focused on selling robots to hackers and kids, which interestingly is how the pc got started. reporter: it s start-ups and visionary entrepreneurs like this that shay hopes will jump-start what he s trying to create. it s pretty different from most redevelopment or urban revitalization projects in that we re actually very anti-top-down master of planning. we really want this to be organic and evolving thing. reporter: the philosophy may be anti-top down but the direction definitely comes from on high. he oversees it all from his 23rd-floor apartment/meeting place party space/de facto
0 this information disappears and then they can t find out if they need to do a database search in a moment in time because they find a cell phone from a terrorist or they break up a terrorist cell somewhere in london. you know, you hear some intelligence experts give us very rational explanations about this, but my concern is why are we getting it from intelligence expert if some of this is very basic and you can explain it publicly, then the administration, congress, the judicial branch who are all in this together ought to explain this more publicly. michael, let me go to you. i actually have mixed feelings on this surveillance issue as i did under the bush administration, but putting that aside, when you put all of this together, the doj ap case, the half a dozen prosecutions under the espionage act, drone strikes on american citizens, irs targeting, this peeling back of privacy and civil liberties, is this going to be a blip in this administration or looking forward do you see t
not be here if it weren t for immigrant founders. in this case, founders willing to walk part of the journey to america. cheyenne walked across the border of iran and turkey and straight to a u.s. embassy to get a visa. he and a classmate from tehran ended up in america where they started of all thing, an online datinging service with that peculiar name, zoosk. he figured in america, two os in a company name were a sign of success. just like at yahoo! and google. these days, he s dealing with lots of os, zeros that ul find on a balance sheet. thanks for being with us this morning, joined by john and ben, who i should make it a sign is wearing google glass, the first time reporter to wear google glass on this show. you ll talk about it, right? absolutely. back to the guest desk. the financials you ve not talked about before on, to anyone, not reporters, much less three of them. you re willing to do that today. how is zoosk doing financially? very well. first quarter of t