now, if you have your own tv show you can get away with certain things like inviting the ceo of the company that sent you the fake check to explain it and that s what i ve done. thomas sponholtz is the ceo of unison, a very unusual buss that offers to co-invest in houses alongside the homeowner, the same way parents might help their child buy a house. unison helps with the down payment and, in exchange, owns a piece of that house with you. if the house goes up in value, unison shares in the profits when you sell it. thomas has years of experience in finance. before running unison he was at black rock. he has several degrees in economics and apparently he wants to help you buy a e. joined by erin griffith of the new york times, joe menn of reuters. is it really just that simple, we go in on a house together? thomas sponholtz: it really is. it s essentially investing together in a house. scott: right, like parents would. i mean, hopefully my parents wouldn t then want a cut o
good morning, everyone. i m scott mcgrew. we pay a lot of attention to very young people these days, the head of snapchat is 25, john collison who created the company stripe with his brother, 25, though i think 24 when last on press: here. they re smart people making the world a better place and we love talking to them. but every once in a while it s nice to get a little perspective from someone who is not in fifth grade when pets.com ran those dog puppet commercials. somebody like long-time valley investor michael kwatinetz, 25 once, just not as recently. mike earneds the title number one stock picker on wall street until he turned venture capitalist, his blog sound bites are read by smart investors and a general partner and has a ph.d. from cal berkeley, one of the most authoritative voices on education technology today joined by mike cia of investors business daily and [ inaudible ] graham of fortune. let me ask you the way i set that up, i want to look back at some of t
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facebook making changes and how it shows ads to users will have a major impact on advertisers. users can decide just how they see the ads and what ads they see. facebook will allow users to view ad profiles based on facebook and internet activity. we welcome our special guest host for this hour. an early investor in facebook and yell. cofounder of silver lake partners, the first private equity fund focused on technology. he s also doing a hundred shows with his band this year. every greenroom should have a few instruments. we have a story that broke overnight. a major executive change at twitter. rowghani resigns his position although he will remain a strategic advisor to dick costolo. this comes after seven months after they go public. we ve seen a lot of pressure to boost growth and getting them to spend more on the service. what do you make of this? i think twitter remains an extraordinary opportunity lost and, i think, a bad user experience. if i look at the embeddi