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They showed him the door. We decided we would start a company together. Host when did you come to that conclusion . You talk about your work as a glassblower. When did you realize payments were a problem he had just been kicked out of or its somebody i needed to standm in better the first time, so my first suggestion was lets go to San Francisco and get even. It was like spike motivated. But jack to his credit said why dont we do something more positive and start a new company so that was the impetus and then we were looking for a problem and the only thing we determined was our company was going to be sort of focused on ive got my phone here, ive got to use it as a prop. These things. Are we going to focus on these things because the iphone had just come out and we knew it was going to b be entertained. We hired an engineer from apple and that gave us two weeks to figure out what we were going to do. We were stretching for ideas a ....
Reporting this week for the s p 500. It might provide some we can do some glimpse into how companies are thinking about the future. Of those companies is united airlines, already saying it is going to have a 2. 1 billion loss, and that is just the beginning of the pain. It is cutting 90 of its capacity in may, and similarly will do Something Like that in june as well. It will get about 5 billion for the u. S. Payment program. And we have the 10 year yield at 63 basis points. We get more Economic Data this week, including initial jobless claims, but also pmis, new home sales, and so on. Those are all going to show dire readings and are not going to be really reflective of how the economy moves forward, except to suggest that we are definitely in a very thick recession. Guy lets take a look at what is happening here in europe. Meansis down, but by no down as much as it is in the ....
In your book new innovation you tell the story about gas blower to team up with the founder of twitter to build a multibillion dollar payment company. In the book you talk about perfect problem so when did you realize these were a perfect problem . Its funny. I needed a way to delineate problems and if you think about the worlds problems you have the ones that are solved it can come to fruition but somebody already figured it out. So we just dont have the way to do it. That Stimulus Group in the middle to solve the problems that have not yet been solved. That is the focus. So in other words you are looking for a way to solve a problem that has not been done so you have to do something new. You dont get to copy. So jack dorsey and i come i hired him when he was 16 a High School Student to help me with a company that i still have. I dont run any of my companies. They manag ....
States, and even some states already taking measures, minnesota and texas, to ease restrictions. What thisget a lay of meanings for the tech economy. Joining us now, our own tom giles, our editor in san francisco. The president is planning a phasing reopening of the economy but this depends on what governors want to do. For states like california and washington, what does that mean . The thing that you have to remember about the Big Tech Companies in those two states is that in terms of keeping operations going, in terms of employees showing up to work, getting, working on their projects, delivering software weve seen companies in these states have been performing fairly well. Engineer working at google, if you are in the main office at amazon, those people are able to do their jobs by and large from home. There hasnt been the same kind of disruption. As you get into the physical space with the people who are in amazon warehou ....
Purchases. They remain over odds on that. Apple and nike are leading the dow higher joining us for the hour to talk about all of that stephanie link, a tiaa company relatively quiet day but that doesnt mean that theres nothing going on we had Economic Data and now this headline with u. S. And china still at odds. Here we go again. I thought the data today, the Economic Data was the driver pretty good. Initial claims, the trade data in general thats going to help Fourth Quarter gdp i thought this week ism services was pretty good. Were seeing okay. Overseas were seeing some pretty good data especially the pmis in china, europe, europe gdp today no worse than expected all of this seems to be setting up for better growth for 2020. We just need trade resolution one way or the other german factory orders and retail sales softer ....