We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who resigned over what he called vein of toxicity running through company culture. Those stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . The barclays bond etf up 8 10 of 1 . Tones of riskoff, uncertainty around the pfizer news. Pretty interesting,
Now, is that right . David over the past 15 years, one of the most successful ceos in the world has been bob iger. He led disney to its greatest heights, increasing the market value by 400 . He did that through acquisitions of 21st century fox, lucasfilm, pixar, and Marvel Entertainment. What is he going to do next . During the time that you were the ceo, the stock market value of the company went up about 450 and the market my big regret is that i didnt back you and buy stock, but you must be very pleased with what you accomplished. Proud would probably be the right word to use. I inherited a company that was renowned and had been quite successful, but had also gone through a period of difficulty. There was a lot of work to do. To not only improve the company, but to ultimately leave the company in great hands for my successor. David you werent as successful in leaving the company. You wanted to leave a few years earlier and the board said you had to stay longer. Why were you so good
Amazon partners with an old text stalwart. That is blackberry. How they plan to revolutionize tech. Those stories in a moment. The u. S. Stocks posting another record high amid news of new stimulus talks. They are progressing with a plan to pass by the weekend. Abigail doolittle has more on that. Also, i know you have been following the latest Earnings Results out of snowflake. Shares down after hours a bit. This is a big test for them after their blockbuster debut. Abigail it is. Lots of big movers relative to earnings after hours come snowflake being one of them. With snowflake, what you are referencing is that huge ipo, biggest ipo of the year back in september. This is their First Quarter as a publicly traded company, so they are finding out what it is about to these shares are absolutely plunging in the after hours, down 19 . This is an Application Software company, up just 37 year to date. They have struggled a little bit, and in this quarter they posted a wider loss than expecte
Dvds in the United States competing with blockbuster. That was a full decade really that were competing with video stores just in the u. S. Thats 2007 when we started streaming. Roughly the same time that youtube did. Host erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project . Guest i study cultural differences in the workplace. Im a professor, and i first came across the netflix culture when i read what many people have, the netflix culture hacks. Definitely put on the inrnet with again and it was que shocking when i read it. It said things like adequate performance gets a generous severance. That really shocked me because in my department at my Business School i teach at we were at theime focusing on Psychological Safety in the workplace to create come to promote innovation. Re i had a company though stop focusing on psycholical safety that on getting rid of ople who didnt perform adequately. The fact they had no cation policy, travel policy, things that got me thinking about ho
Irregularities which took place during the ridiculously long november 3rd elections. We used to have what was called, election day. Now we have election days, weeks and months, and lots of bad things happened during this ridiculous period of time, especially when you have to prove almost nothing to exercise our greatest privilege, the right to vote. As president , i have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the constitution of the United States. That is why i am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege. For months, leading up to the president ial election, we were warned that we should not declare a premature victory. We were told repeatedly that it would take weeks, if not months, to determine the winner, to count the absentee ballots and to verify the results. My opponent was told to stay away from the election, dont campaign. We dont need you. Weve got it. This election is done. In fact, they were acting like they already knew