people like frances haugen are a rare thing in silicon valley. the decision she made to take on facebook wasn't ta ken lightly. the company intentionally hides vital information from the public, from the us government and from governments around the world. silicon valley is a notoriously secretive and notoriously litigious place when it comes to employees who want to put their head above the parapet to raise concerns. how did big tech get so big? and one of the reasons it got so big, to be honest, is by exploiting thousands of people who work there. and the way that they have managed to keep that exploitation going is by silencing people who work there, including through incredibly wide and broad non—disclosure agreements. i've honestly almost never seen anything like it. i'm a kind of human rights lawyer who used to bring cases against the cia, and the culture of secrecy and fear at big tech is basically as bad as i used to see in the cia. it means whistle—blowers who want to come forward, like haugen, need to be extremely brave and have ext

after silicon valley, which is to say, disruptors, what did they do? they identified a large market that was not being fully in property -- and properly served and said i will provide a solution. 95% of our revenue comes from permanent capital vehicles, so we have attired different offering -- entirely different offering. we said there is a chance to be that disruptor, and then we purposely built a business model that looked like a tech company. we did not start and say our base model is a bank, and how do we become a better bank. we started by saying cure is a necessary service that if we can do a great job delivering the product we can earn really attractive risk-adjusted returns , and this is the important point for our shareholders. we look a lot like a sas business and people do not map technology to wall street, but we have done this consciously. >> where businesses are set up to deliver to their end to gives her a certain set of services, but if you held our income statement against any other sas company you would be surprised how similar they a

three rounds of silicon valley funding for her idea before she was 24 years old. under friendly questioning from her defense attorney, one of her against attorneys, kevin downey, she talked about the early days of theranos. how she dropped out of stanford at 19 years old after doing some research on microfluidics which became the basis for her invention. initially she thought of a pill people could swallow that would send out data in realtime over how somebody was doing healthwise then it turned into a patch. ultimately after dealing with pharmaceutical companies and talking and doing more research, the idea of this microblood testing device, which ultimately did not work again, by the time she was 24 years old, she had contracts with big pharmaceutical companies. pfizer, glaxosmithkline, bristol-myers squibb all of this now on display for the jury as they get a sense of the elizabeth holmes that dazzled wall street, dazzled investors and dazzled silicon valley a lot more to come next week, including potentially some pretty rough cross examination. >> scott cohn l

. >> we see an absolute growth in silicon valley and the growth of the technology industry. maria: you said the boxes are from afghanistan comes with consequences. >> why don't we just leave? we empower the taliban and there is a fundamental misunderstanding it is self-delusion on the part of the biden administration. >> are you saying prices are off is that a sellers market quick. >> it is. >> but it's also generic in some respects it could be the hardest market out there. maria: looking at where markets ended the we get was busy that record center hitting new record highs on the back of strong retail earnings and recovering labor market. there is still the big threat of rising inflation joining me to talk about that with managing partner in former raymond james vice chairman fred, it's great to see you this weekend. thank you for being here. >> needs to be here. thank you. maria: a lot of signals on the macro story some are better than expected retail sales numbers better than expected retail earnings with inflation so how are you investing right now and is that the story?

here is a somewhat sympathetic figure who gave it a shot like so many ceos in silicon valley and came up short. >> her former boyfriend, why was he brought up? he was obviously a big part of this. >> he was the coo, and it came up that he made certain budgetary decisions, and it came up that he came to hire and fire certain employees. she said many times during the trial, hey, the buck stops with me. i was the ceo. but we don't know if she's going to put some blame or whatever on sonny bulwani. his name was invoked by her today. >> so in theory, a decision could be made sometime next week. what's the game plan? where are they going with this, the defense? >> the defense is giving her a chance to say, i screwed up. >> and that's not against the law. >> not at all. i was in charge of the logos that we didn't really have permission to use going on the theranos paper that investors saw, logos for big pharma companies like pfizer. i was in charge of creating an environment that some people thought was overbearing and they quit. both times she said, i wish i could do it over again. look, ra

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vta says it will get funding to help build the silicon valley b.a.r.t extension. caltrain will get money to help trekify its system, swapping diesel trains for electric ones. that's right along the peninsula. sam trans and ac transit will get money to invest in zero emissions buses. you see the money there, and it's coming here to those various agencies. these are just some of the agencies. our local cities will also cash in. mayor liccardo, san jose says his city, the most populous will get funds to upgrade the power grid, build more ev charging infrastructure, and buy electric buses for school districts. >>> another story we're watching on this monday night, teachers in oakland raising red flags about crammed cafeterias, rooms with poor ventilation and damaged outdoor canopies. they say their campuses could soon turn into covid hot spots. several local teach verse posted a video to youtube detailing the problems at various campuses within the ousc. teachers say among other issues there is not enough air filtration in crowded classrooms and cafeterias. and after

announcer: from the heart of where innovation, money and power collide, in silicon valley and beyond, this is bloomberg technology with emily chang. emily: i'm emily chang in san francisco and this is "bloomberg technology." in the next hour, president biden promises change for the better with his new infrastructure law coming at a precarious political moment as polls show overwhelming pessimism across the u.s. about the economy. we will break down the details. plus, another twitter filled weekend for elon musk the world's richest person taking on senator sanders. wide twitter users believe he could be hinting at selling more --tesla shares. and he's the youngest ceo of a public company on track to transform the trucking kindest re-dutch industry. -- the trucking industry. i will be speaking to the ceo of embarq. let's get a look at the markets. kriti gupta has the full picture. >> names like tesla and nvidia down on the day but then you have facebook and alphabet higher on the day. the s&p 500 index essentially unchanged on the day. another thing it shows is a risk off day with the c

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how might being here in silicon valley, how might silicon valley play a particular role in helping with this issue? do you see something here for tech to do? >> oh, absolutely. and certainly, silicon valley has been leading the world in so many ways, whether it's home-spun companies like tesla or many others that are designing new ways of being able to generate, to store energy that's so critical. and really, more than anything, for local cities and communities, to be willing to be the laboratories. to be the, for lack of a better term, guinea pigs for new technologies that have civic impact in reducing our -- our carbon footprint. that's the great opportunity i think for silicon valley's community to really show the rest of the world how it can be done. >> well, reuters is reporting that at the -- the g20 conference this past weekend, world leaders agreed that there should be a one and a half degree celsius limit going forward. they like that idea but they didn't come up with any concrete measures to make that happen. is that part of the problem that everybody wants to be seen as, yes,

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the story. >> hacking and distribution kicked into high gear at second harvest of silicon valley in san we've been doing this for 20 bucks. secure south be families rely on the food bank. year round. but there is no busier time that the holiday season volunteer in team lead in the been more than 400 hours of this year. ever since covid the numbers have just gone through the the food bank is feeding about 450,000 people each month. that's an 80% increase from before the pandemic. this year. we're providing 22% more far peace than he did last year. second harvest ceo leslie bacho says the organizations budget has doubled during the pandemic to keep up with them and it has added 15 more trucks opened a new warehouse and increased its staff 40%. at the same time, it has ended its traditional food collection. drives with barrels to be more efficient. >> bacho says second harvest has enough food but needs volunteers and monetary donations. and actually when people donate. >> money reconstruct it much farther for every dollar donated concerts update for 2 meals. >> say they believe in the

believed to more. >> tracking and distribution kicked into high gear at second harvest of silicon valley in sand and say we've been doing this for 20 bucks. secure south be families rely on the food bank. year round. but there is no busier time than the holiday season volunteer in team lead in the been more than 400 hours of this year. ever since covid the numbers have just gone through the the food bank is feeding about 450,000 people each month. that's an 80% increase. >> from before the pandemic. this year. we're providing 22% more for than he did last year. second harvest ceo leslie bacho says the organizations budget has doubled during the pandemic to keep up with them and it has added 15 more trucks opened a new warehouse and increased its staff 40%. at the same time, it has ended its traditional food collection. drives with barrels to be more efficient. >> bacho says second harvest has enough food but needs volunteers and monetary donations. and actually people donate. >> money reconstruct it much farther for every dollar donated concerts update for 2 meals. >> say they believe in

it was purchased by a billionaire, a silicon valley venture capitalist, mark atkrae sun. so the estate sits on seven acres and has its own movie theater and two guest homes. wow. >>> an act of kindness on halloween translating to more treats for children going door to door. a mountain view woman left a bowl of candy outside her door, and the candy was gone by the time a group of girls arrived. first, they took a few pieces, but then look what they do, they add candy to the bowl for the next set of trick-or-treaters. isn't that nice? that is kindness. >> i thought that the story would go another way, but, no, that's beautiful. >> i put a bowl out and we still had tons in there. >> really? >> yeah. >> look at this. halloween may be over but we still want to share awesome customers. look, we see princesses, and so many beautiful costumes. one to the left, i am not sure what is going on there? is that bedrock, "the flintstones"? i can't make it out. too small for me on my screen. we will share more as we go through the morning. did any of you dress up? >> i showed cute, beaut

>> from the heart of where innovation, money, and power collide, in silicon valley and beyond, this is "bloomberg technology." ♪ caroline: i'm caroline hyde, in for emily chang. this is "bloomberg technology." building cutting edge chip fabrication plant in the longhorn state. travel bookings at a record. get a look at what to expect ahead of next year. and taking a look at supply chain issues ahead of the holidays and if supply will be able to meet demand. will catch up with the shutterfly ceo on holiday predictions. we will get to all of that in a moment, but let's get a look at the markets. the tech sector. kriti gupta is in the house. ♪ kriti: it takes a cue from oil, i will walk you through it. today's big news was the release coming out from the biden administration, 50 million barrels put on the market for oil and a way to combat the inflationary pressures you're seeing. to take away for the market is that it is a short-term solution. the oil price still higher at the moment, looking ahead to the demand after the sdr impact. that's where you start to see yields creeping a li

valley in california, he and i worked on cybersecurity together and we will continue to work on those issues. i am willing to find a way if others are willing to join me. host: nancy mace, do you hear from constituents more about your vote to subpoena steve bannon or your efforts to end testing on puppies? guest: i would say the puppy letter regarding beagle experiments by dr. fauci and nih has garnered much more attention than my vote on contempt charges . as i promised folks when i ran for office when i got sworn in, i swore an oath to the constitution. the vote on subpoena powers, i would not want to water down those powers for congress because when republicans are in the majority, we will want to have hearings, we will want >> the u.s. house about to gavel in to begin legislative work. members are expected to consider a number of bills dealing with small business development as well as native american lands and casino gaming bills. also, negotiations ongoing on president biden's social spending package. we could see lawmakers take up that bill and the senate-passed $1.2 trillion i

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so, no matter what country you're in, silicon valley bros are exhausting. ( laughter ) meanwhile, the young have struck again, because "gen z has declared blond hair as 'cheugy.'" and a-listers such as gigi hadid, florence pugh, and hailey bieber have ditched their straw- colored 'dos and gone brunette. and they look pretty cool doing it. but, of course, true gen z style icons were brunette all along. ( cheers and applause ) catch my drip, fam! i'm a bop, t.b.h! laughter ) and does the carpet match the drapes? ( laughter ) nobody wants to know? i won't tell you. meanwhile-- they're hard-wood floors. meanwhile-- ( laughter and applause ) beloved-- ( applause ) what is wrong with you? you said you wanted to be in comedy! meanwhile, beloved cast member from "the office," b.j. novak, has a face. there it is. well, now that face is on products worldwide, and he's not sure why. people stealing celebrities' faces to sell stuff is very common. and this is true-- a few years ago, an iranian clothing company used my image to sell suits. i never should've done that stock photo gig in tehran. but

i think of these silicon valley technology companies as the enemies of western civilization. they're willing to burn down our entire constitutional republic so long as their share price goes up a nickel. if we take anything away, it should be we have a choice between the constitutional liberties, the rights our forefathers fought for, or the bottom line of the silicon valley tech monopolists. it's time to break them up, destroy them, tax them, whatever is necessary so we can continue to have a good life in this country that all of us love. >> tucker carlson: yeah, to save our democracy from oligarchs taking it away. amen. imagine having a voice like that in the united states senate. that might make a difference to the rest of us. we're rooting for you, j.d. vance. thank you for coming on. >> working on it, thanks, tucker. >> tucker carlson: man, they must hate you. the governor of new york, as we told you, is trying to use the rittenhouse case to take away the right to defend yourself. she tweeted, kyle rittenhouse used an assault weapon to kill two people. any question why w

in an exclusive interview, a silicon valley health care explain what is he looks for before he makes an investment. >> for every given investment, you should still do your do due diligence. assess the market shs the team and the product and the technology. different investment styles might anchor or have different levels of investigation. >> now, chris testified by the end of 2014, his firm shares had grown in value of pennies to about $75 a share. ultimately, those shares prove to be worthless as the company's failed tech was exposed. >>> addressing our climate in crisis this week. world leaders are meeting in scotland to tackle some of our biggest issues caused by climate change. one of the big champions is former governor jerry brown. he's watching what's happening closely. i spoke to him about the moment he realized we were in trouble. >> my sense has grown over time. it's only been relatively recently the last few years i've seen the horror that neglecting the climate will cause all of us. >> we also talked about what he thinks california is doing right and what we still need to

he's reporting now from san jose where the second harvest of silicon valley is saying they need more help. >> tracking and distribution kicked into high gear at second harvest silicon valley in and say we've been doing this for 20 bucks. didn't secure south be families rely on the food bank. year round. but there is no busier time than the holiday season volunteer in team lead in answer been more than 400 hours of this year. ever since covid the numbers have just gone through the the food bank is feeding about 450,000 people each month. that's an 80% increase. >> from before the pandemic. this year. we're providing 22% more for peace than he did last year. second harvest ceo leslie botches says the organizations budget has to keep up with them and it has added 15 more trucks opened a new warehouse and increased its staff 40%. at the same time, it has ended its traditional food collection. drives with barrels to be more efficient. >> but joe says second harvest has enough food but needs volunteers and monetary donations. and actually when people donate. >> money to us, we could stretc

his testimony is part of a trial she says will affect how people see silicon valley for years. >> you want it to be known as a place that does that in all the best and most ethical ways of doing that. >> reporter: one final note about bryan grossmann. he testified at one point he went to a walgreen's himself to get a theranos test and was surprised they used a regular needle and it took more than four hours to get his results. scott budman, nbc bay area news. >>> a jogger at the right place at the right time. the unusual way he was able to notify a stranger that her house was on fire. >>> my 5-year-old me was very kind. >> and she is still kind. we introduce you to this young girl's holiday mission and how it all started in the toy aisle. >>> more than 17,000 car break-ins so far this year. >> san francisco has become completely lawless. it's really breathtaking. i don't see it in any city that we conduct business in. >> data obtained and analyzed by our investi shows san francisco has triple the break-in rate in houston and los angeles. we look into what police and the district attor

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silicon valley is full of far left individuals. there is secret about that. i have no hope that twitter is going to change or all of a sudden from the light. this is a company where jack dorsey, paraphrasing her, he says it's time for twitter to get away from the founders. no, it's time for twitter to get away from censorship and compounding policies like letting the ayatollah overrun to eat trash about israel while president trump, the leader of the free world governments blocked. it could of affected votes. we don't know. i don't have hope of changing. silicon valley's full of left s. >> harris: i wonder how far away he was from that one decision that you and i talked about a lot with senator tim scott and that racial slur that was not curated by algorithm, but human beings that allowed the hashtag to cook along on twitter. dr. siegel. >> dr. siegel: you're not going to see anything change but i wouldn't hold your breath. parag agrawal is a technical officer and he's interested in keeping money flowing. they want 350 million users by the end of the year. th

. >>> welcome back, it may be hard to believe in the mid silicon valley. there are people who made it their mission to put the right tools in here hands. garvin thomas shows us in this morning's bay area proud. >> those are the refurbished computers. >> reporter: the story of why though goes back many years into a single computer. the first one hu ever used, a radio shack trs 80. it was hu's introduction. >> i was in school. i did the extra work. i went to eight periods and started programming everyday. >> reporter: hu fell in love with programming and is to this day an i.t. consultant. you can say one computer changed his life. which brings us back to the reasons of all those other computers in that store unit. >> reporter: hu is the founder and president of triple r computer. a nonprofit that takes donations of used laptops refurbishes them and donates them for students who could not afford them. >> reporter: on this day, 50 computers are going into the hands of freshmen at hayward high school. >> reporter: in the past six years, hu and his team have bee

valley about the effort. >> we have a tremendous fundraising goal, our goal is $81 million, which is twice as much as we are raising pre- pandemic because we are continuing to provide almost twice as much food to our community. we are now serving 450,000 people every month. that is because, even though it may feel like things are getting back to normal, families are still struggling to recover from the economic crisis of the pandemic. >> you open a new location in san jose to keep up with the growing demand. are you seeing a lot of donations and is the need this year as significant as last year? you mentioned a bigger goal. >> yes, we have seen the need decline just slightly but we are continuing to hold at about 450,000 people per month. we are continuing to open new distribution sites and also support our ongoing distribution sites. during the pandemic, we have had to switch over to drive through distribution to keep people safe. we are continuing to serve and many of the drive through's, 500 households at a time sometimes almost 1000 at a time. >> to find out how to donate your ti

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we have katherine here from second harvest from silicon valley. tell us about the need. >> the need exploded since the start of the pandemic. 1 in 4 people needed our support, and we are serving 450,000 people every month. >> reporter: that's more than prepandemic? >> yeah, 80% more than free pandemic. what we have seen is that it spiked right after shelter in place and it has not gone down, and our clients still need a lot of help. >> we have had a lot of our seniors and kids at home a lot more, so they were not necessarily getting fed at school, so that plays a factor, too? >> absolutely. a lot of seniors did not feel safe coming out so we started a program to deliver groceries to their homes which our volunteers are still busy doing. >> reporter: a lot of times volunteers want to drop off a ham or turkey but it's difficult to do that right now? >> yeah, we are renting a fourth warehouse to meet the need. we are distributing 12 million pounds of food every month, and so everybody can donate, and 95% of the contributions goes to the clients. we c

he didn't tweet, he didn't post on facebook in the more that donald trump was banned by silicon valley to shut him up and ostracize him, the more he became everyman. he was everywhere and he was nowhere at the same time. they are obsessed with him but the only thing that is left of donald trump was his wonderful record. so joe biden did exactly the opposite of what trump did and it showed us that trump had done wonderful things. so i guess the message of the election was you've got to have that trump populace message, we've got to be angry and not take things from the left but when they control silicon valley and the corporate media and entertainment and k-12, you've got to be very careful how you target and focus your attacks and the irony was that by trying to destroy trump on social media, the rebirth him. i think it is really important for the republican party whether it is trump or his rivals to keep that message. remember, the republican party, they lost seven out of the last eight popular votes, presidential votes. and they have not won 51%. youngkin almost did. it was 50.9% or

valley. back to you. >> thank you, mike. >>> it's election day in the bay area. coming up, how some of the key issues could be decided. >>> elections all across the nation, including, yes, virginia, it's a very important one. we'll go over that, coming up. >>> the all-new photos revealing what the so-called jet pack man in the sky near l.a.x. might be. interesting. >>> did you hear about the couple that got married and had their reception at a taco bell in pacifica. a lot of people interested in seeing the pictures. can you find them at nbcbayarea.com. you can see how the taco bell team made their day extra special. we'll be right back. ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ i drop off and pick up my kids from school so, i can't work early. or late. and i need to make enough to make it worthwhile. i can only work two days a week. and it can't interfere with my other job. i can do full-t

valley extension and invest in public transit from electrical buses to passenger railways and much as to better connect communities. >> traveling up and down the state as your newest senator to make sure that, as we advocate in congress, as this package was being crafted, it reflects the priorities of the state of california, including the completion of the station into the grand central station of the west. that is the kind of scale of what we're talking about. >> reporter: water infrastructure was talked about today and water recycling as he says there is significant investment in the bill which will go to that and the san jose mayor says the money will add to what they have already been doing. >> it may be raining today, we will be in a drought for a while and we have ambitions about expanding water recycling and purification and we are excited for this bill. this is when we are ready to move forward aggressively. >> reporter: among other things included in the bill that they say will benefit the bay area, good investments in high-speed internet, managing vegetation, and rehabilita

they are funded by hollywood, silicone valley and wall street and the lobbyisties in washington. they are leaning left. but the heart of the democratic party bernie sanders. he really is president. i don't know if people understand that. he just doesn't have to show up. >> sean: joe didn't know we were paying $450,000 to illegal immigrants who don't respect our borders and senator. -- sovereignty. he told our own peter doocy stop talking about. >> there is a reason he likes ice cream. he never has to worry about getting a brain freeze. >> sean: [laughing]. your daughter will be a better governor but not a better stand up comic. appreciate both of you being with us. up next shocking new report about zero experience hunter biden. are the bidens compromised my china and russia and a big announcement about this show straight ahead. - [narrator] modern life, different schedules, different meals, different times. how do you keep everyone happy? with five cooking options, the cuisinart griddler is the ultimate in versatility. it has a full griddle, a full grill, a half grill, half gridd

eta says it includes funding to extend bart into silicon valley, and bart will be applying for funding for track and car replacement as well. >>> we are keeping close tabs on a story you are probably following as well, especially if you drive for your commute. the near-record bay area gas prices. this is a look we found for gas prices in milpitas this morning. americans are spending $600 more every day than this time last year. >> and it could force the u.s. government to tap into the oil reserves, but it won't lower costs in time for the holiday season. >> almost $6 for a gallon of regular unleaded gas. i just paid over $5 a gallon the other day and that was after shopping around and awful it has to do with supply and demand, and it hurts when you couple it with rising food prices and inflation, and some lawmakers calling on president biden to tap the petroleum reserve, but it all depends on global supply. >> it's hard to catch back up and it's going to take time. unfortunately, we may not see sizeable relief of the price of oil by 2022, and by then opec's production increases will be