The dow is looking for about a 300 point gain right there at the opening bell. S p up about 34. Look at that nasdaq go. Technology is doing well, up 104 points. Thats premarket for the nasdaq. Now, lockdown winners. Clearly emerging. Lowes, the Home Improvement people, headquartered in North Carolina. Profit up 28 . We stocked up for the lockdown. Target, they really organized their online delivery and store pickup operation, lumped together under digital sales, up a whopping 141 . Walmart, same story. Stockpiling helped them, too. Amazon, kings of the online selling business. Boy, did they clean up. The stock is near a record high. And the netflix, well, they are the kings of the streaming business. What else are we supposed to do when we are ordered to stay home for weeks on end . There are a lot more virus winners and we will go through them throughout the show. Meanwhile, the revolt continues all across the country. Businesses are defying the authorities and opening up despite the
My name is beri meric, cofounder and ceo of iv. Is my pleasure to introduce all of you to alex kantrowitz. Hello, how are you today . Im doing great. Take you for having me for this. Im really excited for it, weve got our members from across the world joining us for this conversation. Ive been talking about it nonstop over the last few days to the point of annoying white if you friends. Were all very, very excited to learn from you today, so true might everybody the context of a conversation today, together with alex were going to be learning how to compete in the world where no advantage is safe. This concept of always they want is something we can all benefit from. With alex started writing this book im sure he wasnt exactly expecting it to be released in the midst of a pandemic. However, in my view this topic could not be more relevant especially these days when so many of us are forced to have that day one mentality. Help us kick off, alex. Id love to ask you, what you found to be
So the concept of always being one we can all benefit from. When i started to write this book i wasnt expecting it to be released in the midst of a pandemic but in my view the topic could not be more relevant to be forced to have that day number one mentality. I love to ask you what you found to be so important about this topic but you could focus on those workers that Tech Companies cracks and how does that fit into your overall journey . And i come in with a slightly different background instead of going to Journalism School investing neighbor relations. But really i always focused on culture and organizational behavior and infrastructure. That something i always thought about in the background covering the news and the company. So obviously we started to see the tech giant to grow and they tend to fall apart they get bigger and their bureaucratic. Not the that typical lifecycle. So they kept getting stronger and stronger and stronger and as i was spending time i saw those that didnt
Half. The subcommittee will come to order and i ask for unanimous consent to share be authorized to declare a recess at any time. Without objection so ordered. I want to briefly review the three commandments of the subcommittee. One is that we shall start on time which we just did so thats good. We will enforce the five minute rule that if time allows we will entertain a second round of questions, and it often does. But i bring this up i want to stress the third which is shall not use acronyms or jargon that is particularly important in this discussion because the discussion about ai can quickly generate were degenerate into jargon laden discussions with three true experts on the topic but dont assume your average member of congress or dont understand i dont assume i understand the nuances when you get into ai. We want to have a discussion with your average american to understand today. We are asking you to demystify a lot of the concepts surrounding aia and the thing about the topic t
Half. The subcommittee will come to order and i ask for unanimous consent to share be authorized to declare a recess at any time. Without objection so ordered. I want to briefly review the three commandments of the subcommittee. One is that we shall start on time which we just did so thats good. We will enforce the five minute rule that if time allows we will entertain a second round of questions, and it often does. But i bring this up i want to stress the third which is shall not use acronyms or jargon that is particularly important in this discussion because the discussion about ai can quickly generate were degenerate into jargon laden discussions with three true experts on the topic but dont assume your average member of congress or dont understand i dont assume i understand the nuances when you get into ai. We want to have a discussion with your average american to understand today. We are asking you to demystify a lot of the concepts surrounding aia and the thing about the topic t