Were not trying to have that be the main theme. Lemonis . To his employees. Youre so worried that somebody is going to get pissed off. You have this fear that if you push people, that were going to walk out. Leaving the company with no structure. Man im the brand director for ellison. Man my role is corporate branding. Lemonis . Or vision. Ive had a lot of patience listening to a lot of words. I still dont know what the vision is. Just tell me what it is. If i cant get this owner to open up his eyes and look beyond what hes lost. Aristotle you say tomato. I say tomato. I think its. Lemonis no, no, no. I say, profit. You say, i dont make any money. His company may be next. My name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. Were not going to wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. Were going to wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. Its not always pretty. Everything is going to change, everything. But i do it to save jobs, an
West africa, the organization builds teaching hospitals, tends to the sick and reforms entire health care systems. Today partners in health makes 800. Thousand home visits per year. It provides checkups to a million women around the world. The goal, making sure whether we live or die is not turn on how much we have. On todays bloomberg Big Decisions , dr. Paul farmer. Welcome to blue berke bates decisions welcome to bloomberg Big Decisions. You have a career dedicated to charity and medical science paired which came first . Dr. Farmer probably charity. When i was a kid i thought i wanted to be a doctor. We did not have doctors in the family and i had never been to a doctor but i had this idea, probably from television. The charity part was something i learned from my parents who had limited means at a large family, but were involved in charity. My father, particular, was interested in what, in that day, was called retarded people are retarded citizens. And he drags all of his kids into
Streets of chile. We put together a holiday cover for you guys. Quite a cover talking about softbank. We think this is one of the biggest stories of the year. It started with we work, which the magazine covered early on. Coverage developed and went on and on, there was another story we started think about, which was softbank. Softbank, we did talk about it so much this year. What i love about the story, you go into the layers of softbank. Obviously the leader of the role, but there are other players. The guy who is the visionary at softbank, especially the vision fund. This outsized force in silicon billion that can do a lot of things because it has so much money. It can go into we work and basically bankroll we work, which is a Business Model that might not have been right for the long haul yet. You were aggressive. Go big or go home was the strategy behind softbank. Sometimes that worked. Other times it doesnt. This story reveals the culture within softbank and the vision fund where
Now, georgescu has a new mission. Having seen the worst socialism has to offer and what capitalism at its best can mean for those in need, hes urging corporations to return to pursuing the best for all their stakeholders shareholders, workers, customers and society at large. On todays big decisions, Peter Georgescu. Welcome to bloomberg big decisions. Great to have you here. Socialism these days. It strikes me you have a personal experience with socialism going way back in your childhood. Tell us about it. Peter well, i was prepared for socialism by being born in just as the Second World War started and i arrived in 1939 just as the war got to be big and real. I was born from romanian parents, both of them, one educated in london. My father became a petroleum engineer, came to romania, became general manager of the Largest Oil Field in romania which is owned by standard oil in new jersey. Exxon. The germans came into romania and the nazi supervising regime put him in jail. My father wo
Millions into the streets of chile. All that, for step here is joel weber. We put together a holiday cover for you. Quite a cover there. What a year. We think this is one of the biggest stories of the year. It started with the magazine covered it very early on when there was going to be an ipo. As that coverage developed and went on, there was another story we started to think about which was one of the biggest investors. I do love the cover. Seasons greetings. We did talk about it so much this year, what i love about this is i feel that you guys go into the layers of division funds. Obviously, there are other players. Ismoffett being the guy who really the visionary at softbank. Whocially the vision fund is now in Silicon Valley a hundred Million Dollar vc fund that can do a lot of things. One of the ways it can do that weworknto Something Like , and bankroll wework. That is a Business Model that not might not have been rife for the long haul. They were very aggressive. That is the st