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put out to the consumer and basically they re telling the consumer we assume no liability for you riding in one of the vehicles. this is a transaction between you and the driver and, you know, most of the public don t understand that. it s pretty scary to think, okay, if something were to happen to me this is a technology platform. they re not liable and this isn t their fault. it s these types of things that we re just berning well and the idea of the background check and what he said to me is he said he believes in this business, he believes in this type of transportation system, but he said that social responsibility and innovation shouldn t be mutually exclusive. we should feel safe when we get into those cars and those cabs. we talked to, was there an issue recently and we talked to the guy who started uber and he was very defensive about all of this and they do do the background checks and your point is not as thorough and online versus in person. people are still so many peo
must learn it discorrupt ourselves before somebody else does it for us. joining us now. an award winning global correspondent for the economist now based in chis in china. he is the author of need, speed and greed. welcome, veejay, i love that title, by the way. thank you. we will get into need, greed and speed, today, i hope. thank you. this is pivoting off of what the president wag talking about. innovation shouldn t be thought of just as nancy new ganlets but a different frame of mind. absolutely. this is one of the main fallacies i tackle in the book. we think of innovation meaning invention, technology, ip, gadget, glover teixei gadgets, gismos. innovation simply put is fresh thinking but create value.