Dus good Tuesday Morning i spoke with aws ceo exclusively last night covering a wide range of topics. Youll hear about all hour including Data Warehousing and the emergence of snowflake in that space which by the way runs on aws heres what jasy said about whether there is room enough for snowflake and aws sorry, snowflake competitor from aws red shift in the market. I think its unquestionable that theres room for both snowflake and red shift to be very successful and grow to be very, you know, a lot larger than both of them are today. We launched redshift back in 2012 and it was the first Data Warehouse built for the cloud and continues to be the largest Data Warehouse in the cloud. And, you know, snowflake built a Data Warehousing offering as well that is also strong offering and largely runs on top of aws we work just as hard for snowflake in trying to make it easy for people to use redshift. From our perspective, if customers want to run on snowflake for their Data Warehouse on top
The dow did go down. The nasdaq went down 4 or 5 . I spent the better part of this year studying the pandemic i was right. You know what we just cover . The professionals are not the only covid that matters. We have a Massive Group of investors who become professionals. They dont care about the same thing as the experts theyre the ones who were the marginal buyers and sellers. The investors have changed the entire character of the market what made you not be able to sleep at night it was very little belief in stocks for the past 20 years, the convention says stocks could no longer be trusted. They continue to lose their values way too quickly when something goes wrong on top of that, the convention only a fool to try to pick individual stocks. You may as well stop trying to beat the mark and put some of your money in an index fund and invest safely in bonds the last eight months, that convention has been stood on its head by a new generation of investors after the rise of Commission Fr
Anticipated ipos cnbc confirms that doordash and airbnb is expected to release the valuations in the upcoming s1 amendments and particularly door dash seems to be employing a technique that weve seen before from epic in doing this ipo pricing process and also getting quite bate of interest because of the pandemic right with so many more options like a three main options on the table now to go public, its interesting that door dash is forging its own way, elements of the traditional ipo with an auction process. Carl and jon, what is interesting about these two ipos, they were talking about this earlier, i heard leslie say something, benefitting in different ways from the pandemic also the strategy. They went to local smaller markets, particularly doordash going to the suburbs but, carl, you see airbnb, there were not many options to go to hotels or get great lodging in the smaller places thats all people want to do now. The they want to avoid the big cities and go, you know, outside of
Offerings. Sta instacart delivers from sephora and best buy and ewinger eats. So will they be overwhelmed or perfectly positioned i think this is the big question everyone swondering as is wondee ecommerce take a big jump door dash had a face plant weechlt talk abo well talk about that i want to point out our own Melissa Repco on cnbc. Com has a great piece about exactly this brick mortar issue doorbesters not really happening this year. The retailers dont want you busting down the doors they want you staying at home and ordering and theyre putting incentives in that direction all right. Moving on for now. Astrazeneca, the latest pharma giant out with positive vaccine news maybe some of the vaccines will help to get to be door busters. After the citizen kashgs the Third Company to come out with the efficacy results these are a little more mixed when you compare them with the others lets take a look. The reason theyre mixed is because they had two different dosing regimens. One of them
Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla Julia Boorstin and jon fortt are with us for the hour the dow session alone was down 236. Were slightly off that s p 500 is off the early lows as well zoom helping to lead the nasdaq 100, john. Looking forward to disney and cisco earnings to night. That is definitely true, carl the big themes, protect investors today. Number one, game on. The play station 5 from sony is shipping and in stores as of today. Joining the x box series x this marks the start of the biggest console refresh. Really the only major console refresh in seven years its happening during pandemic lockdown and then youve got china. I mean coming off of a record breaking singles day where the chinese Online Consumer is flexing. We have to think about that exposed deadline for tiktok to do a deal in the u. S. For those assets i dont know if the president is interested in shutting down tiktok anymore fair to say his attention is elsewhere. Thats right, jon today was the day wh