Podcasts about Salesforce Tower

San Francisco's property tax appeals just EXPLODED to the highest level since the Great Recession, with owners demanding $52.3 BILLION in valuation cuts. Is anyone surprised when buildings are selling for 90% discounts? From the Warriors seeking $1 billion off Chase Center's assessment to Salesforce Tower asking for $564 million in reductions, the city's facing a $600 million potential tax revenue wipeout while already drowning in an $800 million deficit. Officials claim a potential 'turnaround' while commercial vacancy rates hover at a staggering 34% and taxpayers foot the bill for their delusions. Is this the bottom of the doom loop, or just another chapter in the city's financial free fall? Like, share, and subscribe to keep up with the government waste your local officials don't want you to see.

What's New in Data's Live Recording from the Salesforce Tower during Snowflake Summit Imagine a world where real-time data processing is the norm, not the exception. In this episode, we bring you a fascinating conversation with Sanjeev Mohan, former VP at Gartner, who unpacks the seismic shifts in the data processing landscape. You'll learn about the convergence of structured and unstructured data, driven by Generative AI, and why streaming is becoming the default method for data processing. Sanjeev highlights the significance of innovations like Iceberg, which create a common table format essential for decision-making across a variety of applications.We then traverse the cutting-edge realm of real-time data streaming platforms, spotlighting technologies and companies such as Materialize and Apache Grid Gain. Sanjeev explains the essential design criteria for these platforms, including scalability, cost performance, and fault tolerance. He also discusses the pivotal role of Kafka and its implementations across major cloud providers. This episode is a treasure trove of insights into how platforms like Snowflake are being utilized beyond their traditional roles to act as streaming databases, redefining the boundaries of data management.In our final segments, we accelerate into the future, examining the rapid advancements in streaming technology and its interplay with AI. Sanjeev reflects on how applications like Tesla and Uber are driving innovation and demonstrates the complexities of handling real-time data replication with tools like Snowpipe Streaming. We also explore the potential for real-time training of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the ever-evolving landscape of data management. Packed with expert analysis and future-forward thinking, this episode is your guide to understanding the groundbreaking technologies shaping the world of data.What's New In Data is a data thought leadership series hosted by John Kutay who leads data and products at Striim. What's New In Data hosts industry practitioners to discuss latest trends, common patterns for real world data patterns, and analytics success stories.

Guest: Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AIIn 2020, Clara Shih quit Hearsay, the company she founded and ran for 11 years; in hindsight, she says “I probably should have quit a little bit sooner.” But at the time, she cared a lot — too much — about what everyone else thought. “There's a lot of guilt around leaving initially and feeling bad for feeling bad,” Clara says. But her worries subsided when her replacement and former COO, Mike Boese, guided the company with “class and grace” to an exit: A $125 million+ acquisition just this week by Yext.In this episode, Clara meets Joubin on the top level of Salesforce Tower to discuss Sarah Friar, AI “frenemies,” practice and discipline, quantifying hard work, burnout, turning off, Intercom, elite operators, “Serviceforce,” ChatGPT, hiring for hunger, kids and achivement, Thomas “TK” Kurian, Slack, David Schmeier, Juan Perez, Nvidia GPUs, Silvio Savarese and Frontier AI, Starbucks, and Sheryl Sandberg.Chapters:(01:04) - Apple's OpenAI partnership (03:18) - Organizing your life (04:45) - Working smarter (07:49) - Hindsight (08:58) - Hearsay's acquisition by Yext (11:23) - What everyone else thinks (14:25) - Productive worry (17:27) - Coming (back) to Salesforce (20:47) - Paranoia and immigrant hustle (25:42) - Quitting (26:39) - Meetings and infusing AI (29:38) - Internal time savings (31:48) - The Matthew McConaughey ads (33:48) - Different horizons (37:35) - France and sovereign AI (38:46) - How Clara uses AI to keep up (40:33) - Dis-intermediating Netflix (41:27) - Who Salesforce AI is hiring (42:05) - Advice from Howard Schultz and Marc Benioff Links:Connect with ClaraTwitterLinkedInConnect with JoubinTwitterLinkedInEmail: grit@kleinerperkins.com Learn more about Kleiner PerkinsThis episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm

As the Western United States grapples with water scarcity, onsite recycling is becoming a crucial solution. San Francisco has positioned itself at the forefront of this initiative. This episode explores the city's pioneering efforts in onsite water recycling with Paula Kehoe, Director of Water Resources at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Delving into the city's adoption of advanced recycling systems that set global standards, it highlights residential, commercial, and district-scale projects like the Salesforce Tower and Mission Rock, which aim to reduce potable water use and enhance urban resilience. With 48 operational systems and 29 more in planning, San Francisco's proactive approach serves as a model for cities globally dealing with similar challenges.waterloop is a nonprofit media outlet.

Our host, Gareth McGlynn, welcomes Steve Dell'Orto, CEO & Founder of ConCntric, to the latest episode of The Preconstruction Podcast. Dive into the discussion to learn how Steve, after dedicating 26 years to the construction industry, launched a groundbreaking venture aimed at transforming preconstruction practices. Key Highlights: Why Steve left the construction industry after 26 years to start ConCntric Insight into ConCntric's work on projects like the Golden State Warriors arena, Salesforce Tower, and Facebook's San Fran Park Tower. How ConCntric unifies the preconstruction process with real-time, reliable data. To reach out or connect with Steve Dell'Orto and learn more about his vision for ConCntric, visit his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevedellorto/ Tune in for insightful discussions on the future of preconstruction and subscribe for the latest episodes featuring industry leaders.

The San Francisco office market continues to struggle, but it hasn't hit the bottom yet. Office vacancy in the city rose to new heights in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to new preliminary data from commercial real estate firm CBRE. The vacancy rate increased to 35.9%, a modest jump from last quarter's rate of 34%. That translates to another 1.4 million square feet of occupancy loss — the equivalent of Salesforce Tower completely emptying out. A total of 6.7 million square feet of office space came on the market in 2023, making it the second worst year since 2020. Much of that increase was attributed to large sublease spaces being placed on the market, as well as leases expiring. Asking rents for office spaces still aren't coming down nearly as fast, though. In the past quarter, rates declined just 2.5% compared to the third quarter of the year. Support the show

In this week's episode of Tribe Talkin':  Sam Bankman-Fried being found guilty in his fraud trail as part of the FTX collapse. Investor due-diligence and post investment safeguards.  WeWork about to declare bankruptcy. Capital Brief article here.  F45 gym chain to leave the NYSE after their shares have fallen 99.7%.  Apart from being spectacular failures for shareholders and customers, the other pattern that ties FTX, WeWork and F45 together.  Australia's biggest weight loss drug selling start-up, Eucalyptus and their growing pains. Capital Brief article here.  Where do unicorns come from? A study by Endeavour on founder pathways prior to creating unicorns. Study can be found here.  Airwallex, Employment Hero show the fintech freeze is thawing in Australia. Capital Brief article here.  The $31 million Greenhouse climate tech hub has opened in Sydney's newest skyscraper, Salesforce Tower. Startupdaily article here.  www.tribeglobal.vc/events/   

Alternative tragic Americana, invocations for peace & judgment reshaping with bleeding heart stream of consciousness poems.Originally from Connecticut, before becoming a western transplant, Anna May is a singular artist whose songs bear a placelessness that lends to their timeless nature.The deep exploration of heartbreak and trauma has been an ongoing quest throughout Anna's work.Her lyrics have been heavily textured by a lonesome whimsicality that finds itself most at home in the vastness of the American West.Anna's music honors the nomadic spirit with memory, meditation & fresh interpretations of folk music and jazz influence. She honors a hope to enhance connection, humility, healing, and joy among people in the process of parting with typical genre rules.Anna's lyrical sensibility is steeped in wisdom, and layered with evocative musicality and metaphysical embroidery while eschewing the mainstream & parting with platitudes. Anna explores both estrangement and connection while taking cues from artists like Billie Holiday, Shawn Colvin, Neil Young, and Leonard Cohen.As a yogi, pianist, teacher & poet, she masterfully blends all of her influences into her songwriting.Anna has performed at wildflower music & arts festival, treefort music festival, Boston arts festival, water lantern festival, trout lake hall, abbey arts in Seattle, Globe Hall in Denver, Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, Broadway Comedy Club in Manhattan, the Mint in Los Angeles, and many more.Anna May WebsiteSRTN Website

What's New in Data – a popular podcast and thought leadership series hosted by John Kutay – did a special live episode at the top of Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. Bruno Aziza from CapitalG, Ridhima Kahn from Dapper Labs, and Sanjeev Mohan of SanjMo (former VP of Data at Gartner)  did a recap of 2023 Google Cloud Next's biggest announcements, how (and why) data teams are adopting GenerativeAI, and gave examples of futuristic consumer experiences such as interacting with AI-generated social media influencers. John Kutay moderated the panel in front of a live audience.Follow our panelists on LinkedIn for more insights!https://www.linkedin.com/in/brunoaziza/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ridhimaah...https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjmo/What's New In Data is a data thought leadership series hosted by John Kutay who leads data and products at Striim. What's New In Data hosts industry practitioners to discuss latest trends, common patterns for real world data patterns, and analytics success stories.

In the latest episode of The Red Cube Podcast, Great Place to Work CEO Cathal Divilly is joined by Mary Gallagher, Director and Employee Success Business Partner at Salesforce. Mary delves into Salesforce's latest people strategies, including encouraging employee collaboration in the new Salesforce Tower, and the electrifying energy the new space has brought for its employees. Mary also speaks into the topic of individual ownership for team members and how its inclusive culture has helped to drive performance at Salesforce. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jess pays a visit to the new Salesforce Tower in Dublin to meet with country lead, Carolan Lennon

As we outlined last week, the amount of vacant office space in San Francisco has ticked over 23 million square feet.  For context, the 1,070-foot-tall Salesforce/Transbay tower at First and Mission, which is the tallest building in San Francisco, contains 1.35 million square feet of office space spread across 59 floors.Employing the framework we introduced back in 2020, and others have since co-opted as their own, there is now 17.1 Salesforce Towers, or over 1,000 Salesforce Tower floors, worth of empty office space spread across San Francisco, which is roughly enough space to accommodate between 132,000 AI or other employees, based on an average, pre-Covid office density ratios, or up to 178,000 (a la twitter) worker bees.Support the show

JLL, the global real estate services firm, recently moved its central Sydney operations to a new office at the Lendlease-owned Salesforce Tower. The office is everything research says workplaces need to be: it's hospitality-driven, sustainable, flexible, tech-enabled, it encourages collaboration, plus there's barista-made coffee, beer on tap and views to die for.In this episode, Christina Khoo, who designed the premium space, chats to Rebecca Kent about how the office is being received, and the pressure of designing a new workplace for your own colleagues – and your boss.Music: Slipping Away, Dyalla

Craig Wiseman is Senior Program Manager for Salesforce Sydney Tower where he is passionate about wellness, sustainability, corporate social responsibility and smooth project to operational transition. Mike Petrusky asks Craig about his experiences on this remarkable project, his career journey, and his perspectives about the future of work and the workplace. Craig shares his views on the role of offices and the confusion between collaboration and interaction as marked by society's current focus on individuality instead of teamwork. While Mike and Craig agree about the value of flexibility and choice when scheduling where we work, they also see concerns about a potentially unhealthy loss of personal accountability in some organizations. They discuss the need to balance the two while emphasizing the role of leadership, equality and social agreements if we are to have success both as individuals and members of a team. Check out this episode for a challenging discussion that will encourage you to be a workplace innovator in your organization! Connect with Craig on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwiseman/ Learn more about Salesforce Tower Sydney: https://www.salesforce.com/au/blog/announcing-salesforce-tower-sydney-doors-open-in-2022/ Explore the Salesforce website: https://www.salesforce.com/ Listen to the pipes and drums in Slade's “Run Runaway”: https://youtu.be/gMxcGaAwy-Q Discover free resources and explore past interviews at: https://www.workplaceinnovator.com/ Learn more about Eptura™: https://eptura.com/ Connect with Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikepetrusky/  

This week we shout loudly from the rooftops about some shows, Maysoun POPS OFF on Salesforce Tower, and Kate talks to herself. We learn about the global south and then feel ashamed of being clowns.The music in this episode is by La DoñaTENDERLOIN ARTS FESTIVAL!UNUSUAL SUSPECTS paintings by Adam AnsellHot House Gallery 2200 Clement St (inside the 4 Star Theater building)Moth Belly GallerySee at the Southern Exposure things we were talking aboutRFQ for that Mountainview thingy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I first met Eric in 2019 when I was a venture capitalist at VU Venture Partners at the Salesforce Tower in SF. I thought the concept of owning a home in the Bay Area was so farfetched that there had to be a way to innovate and create a solution. Eric displayed founder tenacity climbing up San Francisco hills just to pitch us and today we catch up and learn about how Cher is changing lives.  In this podcast, Eric talks about what led him to create this company and what drives him to continue. We also talk about taking out a credit card to fund your company and hear how Cher had helped someone living in a van become a homeowner in the town of Long Beach.  Find out more about Cher at cher.app Everyone can be a homeowner. Shared homeownership now made affordable and simple.

00:00 - Introdução 00:10 - Ao vivo do Salesforce Tower em San Francisco 01:44 - Festa Day 0 - Developers 02:28 - Primeiro dia do TDX22 05:11 - Como é a primeira vez em San Francisco Acompanhe as live em https://youtube.com/souforce Siga-nos no Instagram @souforce e também @soublox.oficial Soluções em Salesforce: https://soublox.com Ferramenta Omnichannel para Salesforce: https://chatt2.me Blog: https://souforce.cloud/blog Cursos: https://souforce.cloud/cursos Podcast: https://souforce.cloud/podcast Telegram: https://t.me/souforce

On Wednesday, global tech giant Salesforce revealed in a sparse regulatory filing that it planned to lay off about 10% of its employees companywide. The reason, in a nutshell: Salesforce hired too many people during a recent period of massive growth, and customers now are cutting back on spending in the uncertain economic environment. And speaking of uncertainty, cities with a significant Salesforce presence were left with many questions, since the firm declined to provide any more details about the layoffs than what was in the filing. The company has about 80,000 employees worldwide, about 2,300 of which work in Indianapolis, where its operations are based in the 48-story Salesforce Tower. Although the company is about as high-profile as you can get in Indianapolis, one suspects many local folks are only vaguely familiar with what the company does here and why it's an important part of the technology ecosystem. For this week's edition of the IBJ Podcast, host Mason King and reporters Susan Orr and Mickey Shuey discuss what they've learned so far about the restructuring. It's not just a tech story: Salesforce has revealed, somewhat cryptically, that it also plans to shrink its real estate footprint, which could have serious ramifications for Indianapolis' premier office tower. It all sounds ominous for downtown, which is still trying to recover from the effects of the pandemic on its urban workforce. The IBJ Podcast is brought to you by Taft.  

On today's episode, we start with some fun facts and jokes about abortion, Kailia Posey of Toddlers & Tiaras passes away at the age of 16, Supreme Court set to overturn Roe and let states decide what to do with abortion laws, plus a man climbs the Salesforce Tower in San Fransisco and his stance may shock you (00:10:43), Pat gives an update on fugitives Vicky and Casey White (00:35:43), Power Rankins revealed, Japanese home for the disabled is a house of horrors (00:51:00) Putin flying his doomsday plane, Bongbong Marcos poised to take over Philippines, and finally new Met-averse sex tech revealed (01:01:30) (00:00:00) - Timestamps Cup of Coffee in the Big Time (00:04:45) - Fun Fact: Abortion (00:06:50) - Jokes about Abortion (00:07:50) - RIP To 16 Year Old Kailia Posey, former star of “Toddlers & Tiaras” and famous gif face (00:10:43) - ABORTION & SCOTUS & Man climbs Salesforce Tower In San Francisco White Watch Day 6 (00:35:43) - Update On Alabama corrections officer Vicky White and killer Casey White, who are still on the run TikTok International Moment (00:48:55) Updated Power Rankings (00:51:00) - Japan - Bad things happening in a Japanese home for the disabled (00:55:00) - Russia - Putin is flying his doomsday plane over Russia in case he needs to drop some nukes and avoid an attack (00:56:25) - Bongbong Marcos poised to take over The Philippines and reinstate his families reign of terror (01:01:30) - New technology could soon let you feel kisses and other sensations on your real lips while making out and doing other stuff in the Metaverse!! These stories, and much more, brought to you by our incredible sponsors: Harrys - First-time Harry's customers can redeem a Starter Set for just $3 at https://harrys.com/HARDFACTOR First Person - Start improving your brain health and cognition with First Person! Get 15% off your first order by going to https://getfirstperson.com/hardfactor and use code hardfactor Go to store.hardfactor.com and patreon.com/hardfactor to support the pod with incredible merch and bonus podcasts Leave us a Voicemail at 512-270-1480, send us a voice memo to hardfactorvoicemail@gmail.com, and/or leave a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts to hear it on Friday's show Other Places to Listen: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Lots More... Watch Full Episodes on YouTube Follow @HardFactorNews on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hard-factor/support

Dave Chappelle was attacked on stage at the Hollywood Bowl, Kim Kardashian butt could barely fit the Marilyn Monroe dress for the Met, More about the person who climbed the SalesForce Tower yesterday, how Sarah is sleeping in her new room, what Mom's want for Mothers Day, and a doctor says to change your sheets once a week!  

The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro celebrates Star Wars with "May the Fourth be with you" wishes as geeks around the world unite. Also, a man calling himself the Pro-Life Spiderman climbed the outside of the 60-story Salesforce Tower yesterday, and Dave Chappelle gets jumped on stage last night at the Hollywood Bowl, and Jamie Foxx came to his rescue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro celebrates Star Wars with "May the Fourth be with you" wishes as geeks around the world unite. Also, a man calling himself the Pro-Life Spiderman climbed the outside of the 60-story Salesforce Tower yesterday, and Dave Chappelle gets jumped on stage last night at the Hollywood Bowl, and Jamie Foxx came to his rescue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bret Burkart is with Mark Thompson to share details on the man who climbed the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco on Tuesday morning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bret Burkart is with Mark Thompson to share details on the man who climbed the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco on Tuesday morning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

KGO Midday host Mark Thompson along with KGO News Anchor Bret Burkhart and Executive Producer John Daly talk about the anti-abortion activist that scaled Salesforce Tower today and Mark's fear of heights. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode features a discussion about Access to Capital across the region. Host JB Holston is joined by Robby Moser (CEO, Clark Construction Group), in conversation with Cheo Hurley (Founder, President and CEO, THG Companies, LLC.).Hosted by JB Holston. Produced by Maribeth Romslo and Nina Sharma. Edited by Christian Rodriguez. Engineered by Micah Johnson. With support from Jenna Klym, Justin Matheson-Turner, and Christian Rodriguez.SPEAKER BIOSROBBY MOSERRobby Moser is responsible for setting the strategic priorities for Clark Construction Group and its subsidiary and affiliate companies, which includes Guy F. Atkinson Construction, Shirley Contracting Company, S2N Technology Group, C3M Power Systems, Edgemoor Infrastructure and Real Estate, Clark Civil, Clark Concrete, and Coda. As chief executive officer, Robby provides executive direction for the company's national operations, which total $5 billion in revenue per year.Throughout his tenure in the industry, Robby has led efforts to secure and build all manner of projects from professional sports venues to hospitals to transit infrastructure.Under Robby's leadership, Clark has partnered with clients to create monumental and critical assets – including the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Fort Bliss Replacement Hospital, SR-91 Corridor Improvement, Salesforce Tower, CSX Virginia Avenue Tunnel, and Chase Center.Robby is passionate about providing a superior client experience where customers feel engaged, keeping the safety of craftworkers at the forefront of every project, ensuring that the quality of Clark products is unparalleled, creating opportunities for Clark team members to grow, and ensuring the Clark team has the resources necessary to execute brilliantly in all that they do.Robby earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.CHEO HURLEYCheo D. Hurley currently serves as Founder, President, and CEO of THG Companies LLC. In this role, Mr. Hurley has grown a startup idea into a full-service construction subcontractor and building and real estate advisory/planning company completing over $10 million in projects in the Baltimore Metro Region.Mr. Hurley has extensive expertise in urban planning, development, and construction that he gained through positions as Executive Director for Park Heights Renaissance Inc. (PHR); Real Estate Development and Leasing Manager for the Forest City-New East Baltimore Partnership LLC (FC-NEBP); and as a Senior Associate with Deloitte Tax LP. In addition, Mr. Hurley served five years as member of the Baltimore Planning Commission. Mr. Hurley graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A) in Finance from Howard University. He subsequently earned a Master of Public Administration degree from American University and a Master of Science in Real Estate from the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business.A Baltimore native, Mr. Hurley has served on numerous gubernatorial and mayoral transition teams for the state of Maryland and the City of Baltimore. A graduate of the Gilman School, Mr. Hurley is the past President of the school's Alumni Board of Governors as well as a current member of the Gilman Board of Trustees. Mr. Hurley also serves on the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust (B.E.S.T) board of trustees, and the board of WYPR Radio. In 2012 Mr. Hurley was honored by the Maryland Daily Record as a top 40 VIP under 40 and by the Baltimore Business Journal as a Rising Star under 40 years old a member in addition he was a member of the Greater Baltimore Committees (GBC) LEADership 2012 class.

Crain's reporter Ally Marotti talks with host Amy Guth about new restaurants that set up shop over the summer despite the pandemic's harsh effect on supply, labor and logistics. Plus: DuPage Medical Group reports data breach, Airbus nabs $4.9 billion order from Boeing, Kirkland & Ellis inks massive Salesforce Tower lease and Walgreens raising starting pay to $15 an hour.

Welcome to another edition of the OTPBD News Special, our fortnightly series which analyses the news that matters for Australian and Kiwi startups.Meet this week's panel...Tessa Court, IntelligenceBankDanny Gilligan, ReinventureKevin Jochelson, The Tech RooportTopics we discuss:The discussion kicks off with the biggest headline of the fortnight: Square's $39 billion acquisition of AfterPay. The panel dives into the implications of the deal for the BNPL sector, and banking in general. We also discuss the new innovation hub opening up in the new Salesforce Tower in Sydney, Australia's first crypto credit card from CoinJar, the new $270 million VC fund from Airwallex, and new raises by IntelligenceBank and Culture Amp._______Subscribe to The Tech Rooport for a daily dose of headlines from the ANZ startup ecosystem.

In this super-sized episode of Commitment Matters, Mary (assisted by Grace and Shelby) speaks with Dr. Ted C. Jones, Chief Economist – Senior Vice President at Stewart Title Guaranty Company. You can reach Ted by email at TEJONES@stewart.com, read his blog at Blog.Stewart.com or follow him on Twitter where his handle is @DrTCJ.During their conversation, Mary or Ted mentioned:“History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes,” is a quote commonly attributed to Mark Twain. Here's more on that mystery.Ted accurately forecasted an increase in home sales in 2020 based on how society reacted after 9/11. Through the pandemic, we saw the lowest interest rates in history. Meet Ted's heroes: Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.Here's an overview of the 2008 housing bubble which burst, partly due to liar loans.Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offered extended forbearance options to those affected by COVID-19.The median home price increased by 19.1% last year.Ted mentions the Small Business Paycheck Protection Plan.In just two months of the pandemic, Americans lost 22.4 million jobs in 2020 in contrast to the 8 million lost over 24 months during the recession of the early 2000's. Here's the most recent report on employment from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.Ted offered an overview of GDP forecasts from a number of trusted sources, including Wells Fargo, The Conference Board, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Kiplinger, Federal Reserve Bank, and Fannie Mae.COVID-19 Federal Unemployment Benefits has led to a lack of willing workers to fill the 8.1 million open jobs which has caused a number of states to opt out of the funding.RedFin reports bidding competitions on 63% of housing transactions. Supply chain issues and shortages have indeed led to buy-back programs and higher-priced used cars. Sounds like Ted's dad isn't alone in receiving an offer from his dealer!Ted mentions reviewing President Biden's plan to raise taxes.Here's more on the rise in gasoline prices.2019 interest rates on Treasury Bonds sat at 0.52% in August of 2019 but have risen to 1.62%, a 200% increase on new debt. Still, it's nowhere near the 30-year residential mortgage rates from the early 1980's.Ted mentions his blog article forecasting population growth.Need a refresher on Rip Van Winkle?Fannie Mae and MBA forecast existing home sales and median prices to rise.Here's the article from the National Association of Home Builders breaking down the skyrocketing costs of materials and its effect on new home costs. Plus, the shortage of electricians is resulting in tremendous salary increases for the profession.Speaking of shortages…have you tried to purchase an appliance lately?Read more about Biden's Capital Gains Tax plan and the Net Investment Income Tax. Then, The Washington Post offers this insight into the ability to apply this increase retroactively.Wondering which states don't have state income tax?Retail and Office Space vacancy rates are soaring.Here's more on the Salesforce Tower and its new work from home policy.Ted cites a survey by S&P500 staffing firm Robert Half stating 1 in 3 people would rather look for a new job than return to the office full time, and he mentions in the episode that employers are considering leveling remote worker salaries.Mary and Ted discussed the volatility of the oil industry. For more on this, check out this 70 Year Historical Chart of Crude Oil Prices and this chart of Oil Production.During their discussion, Mary briefly mentioned driverless tractor trailers taking to the road. Want to learn more about Universal Basic Income?Ted mentioned living in New Zealand in 1981. Learn more about its money and taxation. Plus, you can read about employer redundancy payments too. Here's Ted's tweet about converting office buildings to condos.This April 15, 2021 Wall Street Journal article expands on the subject of housing shortages.As Ted mentioned, Amazon is snapping up regional shopping centers to convert them into industrial distribution centers.Here's an update on bipartisanship regarding infrastructure plans.Read about the effects of a $15 minimum wage.It seems self-service restaurant kiosks are taking over at more and more airports.Mary mentioned lucrative bonuses and incentives for typically low-wage jobs in rural Illinois. Here's an article on the struggle to fill open positions.As Ted mentions, supply and demand determine price and quantity. Read about how the U.S. is experiencing the lowest foreclosure rates in decades.Want to learn more about real estate and other undervalued stocks for 2021.“Are we in a housing bubble?” Mary asked. Ted (and Forbes) say no.Here's more on Mary's Keynesian approach to economics.It was definitely news worthy when the Houston Association of Realtors created the first consumer-facing website.Ted mentions the elimination of 1031 Exchanges affecting real estate investments.Here's are specifics on the Green New Deal.Want to read more about the Australian study on the earth's axis?Read more about the benefits of hydropower, and the environmental impacts of natural gas. Plus, here's an opinion on what it would take to beat the Paris climate targets.Get to know the Manhattan Institute and read its report on the “New Energy Economy.”Here's more information on Albert Betz, the German physicist for whom Betz's law is named. And, here's more on the Shockley-Quiesser limit, also mentioned in this episode.Ted encourages all title professionals to join their state land title association and ALTA.If you'd like to contact the Commitment Matters podcast, email podcasts@ramquest.com. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, or visit RamQuest.com/podcast to download the latest episode. Lastly, we love to see when and how you're listening. Share our posts, or create your own and tag them: #CommitmentMattersPodcast

What is the future of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco? We now know!

Welcome to the Orange Tier Alameda! Things you loved as a kid but hate as an adult.Free vaccine card lamination at Staples.Erica's man left her flowers today!The future of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco.

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Veckan levererar, utom måndag. Julens prinskorv är säkrad DMZ Retro 4 är här. Omslaget avhandlas i detalj, Fredrik fascineras av Eye of the beholder. OCH: tidningen kommer att finnas i butik! Alla är sugna på att göra mer. Var går de yttre gränserna för DMZ retro? Borde datorer ta mer inspiration av hur de var förr? Livet innan iPhone - minns, diskutera, förfäras. Tiden Jocke betatestade att mejla bilder till Flickr Hemmagjord TimeMachine-server Livet med M1 Mac mini - rapport efter två veckor från oss båda. Mac mini är mysigt, adaptrar och USB-C är … som alltid Stensåkra Omslagsbilden heter Space invaders och är skapad av Martijn van Meel (och jo, det stod i tidningen när Fredrik hade tid att kolla ordentligt) Genesis project Gubbdata Eye of the beholder Eye of the beholder till C64 Mediumposten om att inspireras av hur äldre OS fungerade Haiku Easyflash-cartridge Prince of persia till C64 Vic-20 ABC 80 Ipod nano Nokia N95 K750 Palm Zire Palm IIIe Graffiti-skrivsystemet Pixelpipe Stewart Butterfield Slack köps av Salesforce Nokia 6500 slide Nokia 6820 Nokia 6111 Canon EOS 350D T9 N-gage Centos 7 Time machine server EPEL AFP Samba/SMB OS9-skrivbordsunderlägg i 5K-upplösning Pixelmator pro Nokia E65 Firefox developer edition Salesforce tower Backpacker-spelen BARK och BESK Minidator PDP-11 MicroVAX Digital alpha VMS Om operativsystem var flygbolag Två nördar - en podcast. Fredrik Björeman, Joacim Melin diskuterar allt som gör livet värt att leva. Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-236-klockan-fem-mo%CC%88rkret.html.

Discussion with Brian Atkinson, Managing Director at Hines, a leading global real estate investment and development firm. We talk about the new Salesforce Tower in Chicago, the future of development, and an optimistic outlook on retail and amenities. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Discussion with Brian Atkinson, Managing Director at Hines, a leading global real estate investment and development firm. We talk about the new Salesforce Tower in Chicago, the future of development, and an optimistic outlook on retail and amenities. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

EP219- Live Listener Questions Episode 219 is a live show featuring live audience questions. Jason & Scot get to interact with listeners live. It's also a rare chance to watch the podcast, as the episode was recorded with video, watch it on YouTube.  Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 219 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Wednesday, May 7th, 2020. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 219 being recorded live on Wednesday May 6 2020 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-hosts God Wingo. Scot And Guests: [0:40] Hello cats and kittens. Oh sorry wrong shh hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show us nurse about two months ago we had our first live live live listener event and it was so popular. That we had a lot of requests to do again we had we couldn’t get to all the questions so we have a backlog of questions from that Jason before we jump in I see we’ve got some QA going on here. One housekeeping thing is if you do want to ask a question we would love to do it live where we’ll have you your audio come in and you can ask it. Using the audio so that when people listen to the podcast they have a little Variety in what they hear but before we do that Jason any road trips Irani report on or any news you want to go through. Jason: [1:24] I have done amazing road trips in the last two months I’ve been to Russia I’ve been to Europe you know ordinarily like I booked all these gigs and I have to reserve like three or four days travel time to get to them and now I can do like three gigs in different continents in the same day so it’s a embarrassingly more efficient and I feel like I see more credible when I’m further away on a screen than I do when people get me in person so so yeah. Scot And Guests: [1:57] You got in your joke timing down I found on the zoom it’s little bit harder to kind of like judge the audience with your tongue. Jason: [2:03] Yeah I just assume I have my own laugh track I play for my own benefit and so I just I’m just assuming that that works. Scot And Guests: [2:12] You had time to do a laugh track but not our theme song I’m hurt. Jason: [2:15] I’m prioritizing yeah I apologize to all the live listeners you didn’t get to hear the show music that ordinarily gets added in post but if I were a more diligent audio engineer I would have arranged a way to play it for all of you to get in the mood for tonight. My bad Scott Moore. Scot And Guests: [2:33] One thing I want good. Jason: [2:34] I was just going to say like this is a three-day Streak For Me of goodness like May the force be with you Day always a super important holiday is you know I have a young son that’s. Like completely fixated on Star Wars so he’s decided that that’s the greatest holiday ever. And with utter fear on his face he asked me first thing in the morning on May 4th dad do Jewish people celebrate May fourth day. And he was thrilled. Yeah he was thrilled to find out that it’s a non-denominational holiday and then we transition seamlessly into Cinco de Mayo and I did a lot of customer gigs with margaritas. Scot And Guests: [3:18] The correct Star Wars holiday there is a competition is returned to the fifth. Jason: [3:24] Yeah I got you I did. Scot And Guests: [3:26] Revenge of the fifth yeah sorry. Jason: [3:28] I could have could have stretched it out to two days I had no no idea. Scot And Guests: [3:34] And then today was you get to podcast So Good Times. Jason: [3:39] Exactly I feel like and special honor we’re already being Zoom bombed in in the chat. Scot And Guests: [3:47] Yeah Olivia we got to bring Olivia into the live discussion. Jason: [3:53] Yeah yeah are you oh Egypt person that’s having fun with us or are you a troublemaker that I have to boot. Scot And Guests: [3:59] A troublemaker. Jason: [4:00] Seems like Olivia should get booted. Scot And Guests: [4:03] Yeah I vote the boot. Jason: [4:05] Yeah alright bye Olivia it was good knowing you. Scot And Guests: [4:09] Well you’re booting alyvia one of the things I want to talk about is there’s been some more earnings since our last podcast last week last week we really focused on the Amazon q1 results which were pretty stellar and then since then we’ve had Etsy this afternoon this morning was Shopify it was yesterday was Wayfarer and then this afternoon square and PayPal and I would say the the overwhelming theme has been you know everyone has seen this surge of activity due to the pandemic. The PayPal CEO said he feels like digital payments have moved three years ahead into the future square as well. One thing I didn’t understand about square is they blew away the top line but the bottom line had a huge impact I don’t know if that’s because when they sign up new customers to get some really good rate or something and then Etsy was interesting they they have become the go-to place for handmade masks which is there have been quite a moment so they’ve sold something like I think. [5:08] Three to eight million mask on their platform which was an amazing you know handmade face mask and then Shopify just kind of crushed expectations and the one analyst I follow their Collins Bastion he may be on he raised their price Target from 475 to 820 and it’s currently at 7:30 so whoever asked for stock recommendations that may be an interesting one to look at because it’s kind of one of those you know playing the the guys selling the pickaxes and shovels versus the actual folks doing the mining so Shopify stock I think it’s going to rip pretty good. And then you have tried it about Peloton they crushed estimates as well and after hours I saw they were trading up pretty substantially and they haven’t even been able to launch their new treadmill because it has this white glove in-house delivery that is not social distance friendly so those are some interesting things going on in the stock side that have an e-commerce digital time. Jason: [6:09] Yeah are we jumping into the stock question or were you just you were that was just kind of a pre-analysis. Um yeah so a like I’m the world’s worst at stock advice and and what what I have learned is. It turns out it’s not all that helpful to predict what companies are going to do well and not do well like what’s more important and is to understand. [6:32] What sin or not in the existing price if you want to make money. [6:37] So so with that huge caveat that I’m usually wrong I’m going all in on the pics at pickaxe and shovels and I’m going to suggest some stocks like. Um some of the micro fulfillment centers that that grocery stores are now buying right like so my premise is digital grocery before covid-19 was 3% of grocery sales and there was a prediction that they might get to five percent by 2022 digital groceries at 10% right now. So basically we’ve jumped forward at least five years in the future of digital Grocery and huge caveat and digital grocery it’s wildly unprofitable so when the retailer has to pay for all the grocery picking and the grocery delivery grocery delivery doesn’t make any money so the way retailers are going to ultimately make money on this digital grocery is. Get you to pick up your own groceries via curbside pickup and use a robot to pick the order instead of paying a human being to pick the order in the store and so these these robots for grocery stores are called micro fulfillment centers and there’s at least three of them out there that have big Pilots with Grocers right now and they all have reported more than double digit. [7:57] Um sales growth since the beginning of the pandemic and so it was super early in their evolution and so the the fact that there. [8:08] Already seeing this this spike in demand like bodes probably really well for them so that’s companies like alphabat and take away and I’ll think of a couple others I’ll put in the show notes tonight. Scot And Guests: [8:23] Should we hit the audience up for some questions. [8:36] If anyone wants a child but I think at the little hand raised there. Jason: [8:40] Yeah should we start with a while we wait for some reason our hand should we start with. Scot And Guests: [8:48] Here’s Michelle let’s hope this isn’t a crazy Zoom bomber let’s see what we got. Jason: [8:52] Oh I see it hang on Michelle we’re turning you on. [9:09] We’re we’re excited for you to be here for the rest of the listeners you are a past guest on the show when you were with your monitor and you’ve actually started a new gig recently with Salesforce. Scot And Guests: [9:22] Yes I am I now work at Salesforce I started in early March there’s one place to start working at during a pandemic Salesforce is definitely it’s a great company and I’m really enjoying my time here. Jason: [9:37] Yeah and it seems like there so go ahead Scott. Scot And Guests: [9:40] Have you met Marc benioff not yeah but it’s definitely on my to do list how about the top of the Salesforce Tower. Also on top of my to-do list once it’s reopened I’m also excited about our new tower that’s coming in Chicago the top floor will be open service I hope. Host quite a few events once it’s built in three years nice. Yeah my question is are there any topics or themes or issues in the retail that aren’t getting enough attention. That you think that we should be aware of. Jason: [10:25] Good one I have a few opinions but Scott did you have something you wanted to say. Scot And Guests: [10:31] I would say one of the so you go to these conferences right and there’s all the talk in the front of the house and then there’s this, back of the house talk I would say the back of the house talk I hear the most in e-commerce it’s kind of bubbling out now is the sustainability sustainability and scalability of this kind of direct to digital brands so does DMV be have legs can you build something over a hundred million or some of these things anomalies like Dollar Shave Club and some of those or, you earned is this kind of giant Gold Rush of these digitally native for cool Brands going to will sustain or will it die in a big fire pit of people that don’t make it through so so I think that’s really interesting to Think Through. The same time whenever I’m watching TV I’m seeing a lot of ads for these things now added ad rates have come down because traditional advertisers are kind of on pause so you’re seeing a lot of these kind of calm or direct response kind of ads on TV so it’s an interesting topic that I don’t think is getting enough probably coverage out there. Jason: [11:35] Yeah and again it depends on what echo-chamber you’re in and what you hear in terms of what you think might be covered or not covered but I’ll tell you in. [11:45] In conversations with retailers I’m still somewhat shocked how unrealistic a lot of retailers seem to be about. The likely duration of the impact of all of this so you know we like we talked to lots of retailers that have like this three stage plan or this four stage plan but the the final stage of their plan is almost always back to normal and binormal they mean, pre covid-19 and back to normal is almost always the end of 2020 or maybe. The middle of 2021 and I’ll be honest both of those things somewhat surprised me like I don’t think we ever go back to, pre covid-19 I think there’s enough things that are permanently going to change the retail and Commerce in the US are going to be wildly different. In the future and so I think just the notion of going back is is. Sort of quaint and you know frankly like we you know we’ve actually brought in some epidemiologists and some immunologist to sort of help us scenario plan and it just doesn’t seem like you talk to any credible expert that really sees this ending. [13:06] Or you know going back to the kind of things where we all get to go in person to a trade show or or you know go to these big mass group things or frankly have unlimited traffic in a retail store. [13:21] Until we have a full-blown and widely distributed cure. Um for the virus and realistically the fastest of a vaccines ever been produced in the history of the world is five years so let’s imagine that with the crazy resources marshaled we do it way faster than that and we do it in 18 months you still got to find a way to get 7 billion doses. Out into the world and get everyone to take it and oh by the way a lot of vaccines require more than one dose like there’s all this negative news. That makes me think that we’re going to return to a lot of our old activities but in a significantly modified way. For probably two years and I like don’t hear that a lot when I talk to people thinking about their plans when I talked to retailers that are forecasting their sales like none of them are thinking that like for the foreseeable future they’re not going to be allowed to let an unlimited number of customers in their storm like that’s that you know they think of that as a very short term. Thing and I you know I hope to be wrong but I think they’re missing it what about you Michelle his there anything that that’s that you feel like people aren’t talking about enough. Scot And Guests: [14:36] Well I am particularly curious about returns because we see all of these you know we see all the metrics to digital Commerce Commerce Rising but you know obviously there’s a high return rate associated with. It was e-commerce particularly in clothing and Footwear so I’m I haven’t seen too much around the returns issue and has return rates you know have that have they drop down because people you know are. I’m buying what they don’t need they’re not necessarily buying three items only keep one or. Our return retooling steady sort of a the shift in consumer behavior and then be we are seeing a little bit more around the actual Logistics. Doing the returns how do you keep the merchandise clean and safe and audio process it but yeah I’m really curious about the return issue and. How that’s factoring in into the situation. Jason: [15:37] Yeah yeah it’s a great topic and in my observation at the moment has been like the categories that are most up in e-commerce are not the categories that traditionally had super high return rates right so all, digital generally always has a higher return rate than in store but in a parallel for example it’s much more acute and you know apparel Sales Online have been pretty soft right now and so then you know then the retailers that are really booming have temporarily sort of. Cancel their their return policies and so so like if anything there’s a slight extra kiss right now in profitability that that a lot of these retailers are seeing lower returns because either they’re not accepting returns or there’s extra friction on the part of the customer to do returns and so they’re just not doing it so. Sales of the high return items seem way down but return seem way down. [16:39] Honestly though in my mind that’s getting overwhelmed there are all these other costs of e-commerce sales that are artificially high right now that you know are more than eating up the margin the that retailers are gaining by by this you know what I presume is a temporary abatement of returns and so to me like the top-line story that we’ve heard in a ton of their earnings is hey good news e-commerce is up it’s not up enough to make up for all those sales we lost in the store and those sales are way less profitable than they would have been if they were in the store and so margins are super super challenged so. Scot And Guests: [17:24] When I follow the startups in the return space and it’s interesting that I’ve been at this like 20 or 30 years and you know they always fall into two categories there’s ones that have like some digital solution where they don’t touch anything at the end of the day they’re kind of like issuing an RMA and doing some tracking look every retailer already has that so I don’t understand understand how that it solves anything or they go super heavy and they’re like going to build a whole infrastructure and touch every product and graded and resell it in some way and I’ve never found a company that has some kind of like solution in the middle that helps companies handle the logistics I remember in the late 90s like this kind of. Two to four time frame there’s a company called return by and they raised like 30 million dollars and they went and built this big returns facility and I did a tour of it was amazing and I had all these conveyor belts and things would go upstairs and go through the sorting system and I was there in the hole I was like on the 30-minute tour and I was there for. [18:24] You know I saw five packages go by and some of them were the little ovens like the Barbie ovens but they couldn’t resell those because the food inside had gone bad and then there was one Barbie with without a head and that I was kind of like all right I’ve been here 30 minutes I’ve seen five products that probably can’t be sold online what how is this business sustainable at all so returns are really hard because there’s no you know there’s probably some benefit of scale and if there is Amazon’s going to win because they’re going to have the internal in-house scale that no one else is going to be able to get to. Jason: [19:01] Yeah in the the related question like so like we have these kind of problems with like how do we make stuff that gets returned safe to resell or to get some some monetization from for the apparel guys if win at the store is ever reopen and customers are allowed back in the stores a big question is how you make dressing room safe like both of you know how do you keep the room itself safe but what do you do with the clothes that a customer tried on and didn’t buy and so their interesting questions there do you have to disinfect that stuff and you do it in a way that doesn’t harm or damage the products you know one one idea we’ve seen a lot in China so far is the close that customers Tryon get quarantined. And so literally you know customer tries on a dress doesn’t buy it and they have to put that dress in a quarantined area for two days before they bring it back out. So I think there’s going to be a lot of interesting new things that you wouldn’t necessarily think about it first blush. Scot And Guests: [20:06] Thanks for the question oh you’re welcome thanks for taking it good luck in your new role and Sinister softly with Marc benioff yes I will I’m gonna garfi first with Rob. Jason: [20:18] That I feel like the garfi is easier but I do think it’s a funny time to start a new job because like you probably haven’t seen the lower half of any of your co-workers yet. Scot And Guests: [20:28] I haven’t I haven’t met any of them in person since I started so. Jason: [20:32] Yeah that’s odd. Awesome well thank you much Michelle I will safely remove you from participating so you don’t have to worry about making noise. Scot And Guests: [20:48] Anyone else have a question raise your hand don’t take Olivia or penny. Jason: [20:53] Yep they’re both God. Scot And Guests: [20:53] The Bad actors okay we do have a right one right in when here let’s tackle that Christopher ask what brick-and-mortar retailers are going to come out of this stronger and why. Jason took a four shot at it. Jason: [21:08] Yeah well your friend Jim Cramer on Mad Money had a rant a couple weeks ago where he said like we’re trending towards the world when there’s only three retailers left in the United States and in his mind they were Amazon Walmart and Costco. I do think all of those retailers are super well situated. [21:31] You know obviously selling Essentials is a very helpful right now having already leaned into digital and particularly omni-channel retail is super helpful right now so so those read in those particular three retailers. Probably had the best balance sheets in retail going into. The pandemic so so those are the kind of retailers that are going to do super well I didn’t say this to Michelle but another one of the things I don’t think is talked about enough is. How many retailers are likely to go out of business because of this and so these healthy retailers are going to grab up that share. The in get even bigger so we’re going to see some huge consolidation at the top but even the retailers that don’t go out of business. Are likely going to right-size The brick-and-mortar Fleets and so I we saw the first announcement it was either today or yesterday but Nordstrom is closing 16 Mainline stores which is about 14% of its Mainline stores and people were talking about being surprised by that I actually think that’s a light I think a significant number of relatively healthy retailers are going to close something like 25% of their stores. Scot And Guests: [22:47] I didn’t see at Nordstrom’s news. Jason: [22:49] Yeah I’m here for you. Scot And Guests: [22:49] So do you think so so no one’s about apparel during this time and you know one Theory would be people you know they have all this you know if they’ve survived this and have the means there’s going to be a big kind of bump in buying apparel items you don’t think Nordstrom benefits for that or you’re just not sure they make it through to that point. Jason: [23:09] No well so I can but I think there’s a bunch of headwinds against a pair of so there is this premise there’s all this delayed gratification and and you know in China they talked about when they reopen stores they were really hoping for Revenge shopping is what they called it which I thought was pretty funny and this this notion that there was all this pent-up demand for consumerism and they hope can customers would go out and help Goose the economy by by aggressive spending in general like whether there are some occasions of that particular in luxury like there’s some luxury retailers that set records the first day they opened up in general we haven’t seen that kind of Revenge shopping and part of the reason is is because there’s huge economic uncertainty almost every Market is exiting from this quarantine period of the pandemic in a. [23:57] A super deep and sudden recession and so consumer confidence is super low. And so in the apparel space you just have all of these problems you had a perishable inventory that’s sitting in all those Nordstrom stores that they couldn’t sell even though Nordstrom is pretty better than most it online the majority of their inventory was locked in stores that were locked in mall so they couldn’t sell that inventory. It was perishable so it’s not it’s not fashionable or desirable when they can reopen those stores most of their stores are at malls and there’s a lot of evidence that customers are more afraid of going back to the mall than they are to freestanding stores. Nordstrom didn’t know what to do and I don’t mean Nordstrom particularly apparel retailers haven’t known what to do when they could reopen when they’re beat a man for their goods again so they’ve. Their supply chains are all screwed up and they haven’t ordered the next season stuff. And you know a lot of occasions that people buy apparel for. [24:58] Are now gone like you didn’t need to buy a prom dress this year you didn’t need to buy an Easter dress this year you didn’t you’re not going back to school shopping at the moment and so. Like even if there’s a little pent-up demand and they get a little bump when they reopen stores there’s enough long-term negativity in that apparel category that I think in any apparel every retailer is really smart maximize their liquidity right now and get their balance sheet in the best shape they can but but particularly in a parallel you. You really need to buckle up for a pretty rough ride because it’s not going to be pleasant. Scot And Guests: [25:34] When the I think it’s going to do well is Apple so I’ve had like ten instances where I wish I could go just run to the Apple store and grab a widget or something and then you had to either wait or I know several people at work have gotten broken computers they want to take in to have fixed and and you know if the Geek Squad or whatever that is called is broken no Geniuses to be had. How about you didn’t say grocery. Obviously those are going to do really well and then we have I think the drug stores have done pretty well I’ve kind of wandered into a couple of drugstores and they’ve been pretty busy and one here in town got some hand sanitizer it was like. Jason: [26:14] No exciting. Scot And Guests: [26:15] Very very exciting so caused a pretty big set of demand from them. Jason: [26:20] That in your in Raleigh that could be a huge event even before the pandemic but yeah. Scot And Guests: [26:26] We get excited about little stuff. Jason: [26:27] Yeah yeah grocery is like obviously the shift to digital groceries really exciting so if you’re someone that’s in the digital grocery space in particular like there’s a huge Boom for you for traditional grocer it’s a mixed bag because um the the shift to the digital channel is hugely problematic from a profit standpoint and there’s other bad stuff that’s happening simultaneously consumers are buying bigger packs of stuff which are less profitable the the Grocer’s cost right now or skyrocketing they’re paying employees more they have all these extra cleaning processes companies like get spiffy charge them a fortune to come in and and Queen their facilities in the morning before they open they have restricted hours they can’t let as many people in so they’re like. It is good there is higher demand for grocery there’s a lot of operational challenges with profitability I think in the long term those gets solved but it’s not going to be an overnight thing and and then like really for grocery for it truly to be a win there’s a behavior that’s happening right now that has to stick and and this is the most interesting thing to me about the pandemic as I talk about these kind of six different categories of consumer behaviors and which ones might be permanent versus which ones will regress after the the quarantine at the moment. [27:53] There’s an enormous shift from consuming meals in restaurants to consuming meals at home and if that if a version of that behavior sticks like it’s clearly not going to stick to the level we’re at now but but if the new normal is more skewed towards consuming at home that that obviously is a increases the Tam for grocery but if the consumption goes back to the exact same levels and it’s just a shift from in-store sales to digital sales that’s probably not an economic windfall for the traditional Grocers it might be an economic windfall for the instacart sand fresh directs of the world and a big Debbie Downer for the pea pods of the world that turned off their e-commerce right before the pandemic. Scot And Guests: [28:38] Oops looks like a Christopher has question let’s see what he has to say. Jason: [28:42] Christopher let me find you here and you are on hi Christopher. Scot And Guests: [28:48] Hey guys you guys actually just answer my question. Jason: [28:51] Tell us what it was so we again take credit. Scot And Guests: [28:54] So it was the I was asking the question that you just answered about what brick-and-mortar retailers are going to earn a come out of this stronger I’ve got I’ve got a backup. Yeah it’s a backup question you know are there how are retailers handling training their Frontline staff. Specifically kind of best practices with covid and and I ask the questions obviously right like the two stores that I’ve been in. In the last month CVS has one way aisles that their employees seem to disregard. And and Target you know kind of has this as this buy online pick up in store option but the they haven’t made the pivot of moving their their pickup area. From away from the cash wrap and so what it does is it sort of creates this bottleneck of people. So I don’t know if there’s sort of any examples of companies that you guys have found that you know are really kind of thinking about sort of how to address kind of a post covid or in covid kind of environment in a better better way. Do I take it first Jason or. Jason: [30:02] Sure so both hey I was sort of quoted in the Wall Street Journal article this week with the exact same observation that like Milo’s local grocer has one way Isles and all the employees and professional Pickers in the store totally ignore it right so it and you know training customers for new behavior in the store requires like a significant effort and a significant amount of messaging and reinforcement none of which is happening right now so that that particular example totally agree with you inside note. Totally controversial and not good evidence that one way aisles are safer right like so that the notion behind One Way Isles is you don’t have to walk. Cross someone in these narrow aisles where their droplet spray is almost certainly going to hit you if they’re not wearing a mask a the science on the on the droplet spread like your droplets are staying in the air long enough that that you’re walking through the droplets of the person in front of you even though you’re both walking in the same direction so that’s kind of a bummer but the bigger problem is if one way Isles make you spend thirty percent more time in the store to complete your shopping list. You’re actually walking by more people and getting exposed to more risk and exposing more people to risk. Because of the one-way Isles then you’re actually reducing risk because the one way also that particular ones controversial. [31:29] Direct answer to your question to me the best retail operators in the world there are killing it right now or some of the regional grocery stores so to me an absolute hero of this is a chibi which is a regional grocery store in Texas. Drake backstory these guys identified the potential impact of the pandemic in January sent their whole executive team to China to talk to the the grocers in China that were being impacted by this they came back they put a plan in place in February they totally revamped their supply chain. [32:02] They instituted all these touchless processes in the store and they have a great engaged employee base that they really made him bass Udders for all these changes so I going to a regional like a chibi or hi v– and Iowa those guys are executing really well if you step up to a big National grocer um like to me Kroger has taken an interesting leadership position because not only if they rolled out a lot of best practices they actually published all their best practices launched a website and are giving away all of their employee training materials and assets to any other retailer that wants them. So if you’re a smaller grocer that like need signs explaining to customers what new policies are or you need audio messages to play over the PA system or you need a new addendum near employee handbook and training for employees Kroger is giving all that away and so like it you know there was an extra level of diligence and creating that that created the materials good enough not only for their own use but to share with the rest of the world so so prop props to them. Scot And Guests: [33:14] Yeah I would say you know the 30,000 foot level there’s. You know every consumer has fear uncertainty and doubt so it’s your job to try to give them peace of mind and everyone has different response to this there’s some people that are pretty Cavalier. And then there’s other people that are like super freaked out right so the more options you can give people then they can kind of use the risk-taking kind of. [33:38] Choose their own risk path if you will one of my best experiences during the pandemic was Best Buy they have curbside delivery so I did a normal boat this so I did a buy online pick up in store I needed to get some batteries for for a nest camera kind of thing and. Then you know in the app it kind of geo-fenced and it said hey looks like you’re near the store are you ready for your curbside delivery I said yes so it did some smart things using the app and then I’ve done a lot of curbside delivery with some of the food and stuff this one is like almost instantaneous you know the runner came out then the runner like stayed pretty far from the car and they went to the passenger side and they actually asked and they were wearing PPE and they asked you know can I set you know can I want me to hand this to you or just set it in the seat next to you so there was like a lot of awareness on the on their side about kind of seeing where my risk level is. I’m pretty high risk I just kind of smile normal mode of operation but it’s really interesting that they were really sensitive to that so that was one experience I think I think table Stakes is you got to have PPE for all your staff you can’t that has to be. Definitely gloves and a mask you know the the more medical the mask looks I feel better as a consumer so some of these like cloth ones just kind of like you know they have like a brand on them I appreciate the brand, you know as an entrepreneur but like the fabric Thing is a little dodgy touchless payments you know I’ve been in a lot of these I’ve tried using a lot of them and it really. Jason you’re like this one went to a grocery store it’s called Fresh Market. [35:06] And I used my Apple I did touchless with Apple pay and then she said I want to see the credit card why do you have a physical Apple card but she’s looking for the digits right. [35:16] Plus the thing generates random digits is my understanding right it generates a one use credit card I tried to explain that to her and not so then so then I had to switch to ATM and then I was like well while I’m here I’ll get some cash back. And then you know I put in like $50 cash back she’s like well the maximums 40 but then the terminal had a fifty dollar. Cash back button and then and then I was like you know the third time I was like well maybe this one you know maybe third time’s a charm and she was like. She’s really even Flinch because I guess it happens all the time that have these things so so do the touchless stuff but make sure you know I would have a some of the managers go through the experience to make sure it’s really working flawlessly. That was one other thing I have found grocery shopping is I’m like the only non instacart person in there by instacart I mean Postmates and all the other shift and whatnot so I feel like those people need some other workflow or something like their own registers or something like that because they are you know they take a lot of time to shop because they’re kind of like looking at the app and they’re kind of like you know and then they’re scanning something. I feel like it’d be interesting to have some other alternative way maybe there’s like one store that is designated just for them or something I don’t know the answer to that but it’s kind of weird because I’m kind of like I’m very transactional and are clogging up the aisles there’s literally like eight of them on an aisle and I’m trying to like juggle through them to get through the store. Jason: [36:40] Yeah and there is the that’s that was a problem when only 3% of grocery was online and so now that we’re a 10 like there’s a lot more of those professional Shoppers in the aisle and and there are a lot more of those conflicts like there are you know efforts around dark stores and those Choppers shopping from the dart stores that some retailers are doing interesting things like they’re having professional hours and Shopper hours so both Costco and Whole Foods are for the most part not letting professional shoppers shop the store at the same time as customers they’ve they’ve narrowed the hours that throw up in a customers and they have dedicated hours early in the morning and late at night for the professional Shoppers so all of this has allocation problems like you know you can just sell less. [37:31] Curbside orders if you’re limiting the hours that the pickers can pick but but since they all have artificial caps on their density in the store at the moment it makes more sense to have the Shoppers in some hours in the customers in other hours so you’re seeing a lot of that definitely touched your lips payment is way up in the thing that’s going to be interesting there is you know there’s a lot of self-service POS in retail particular and grocery that I’ll have touch screens which are now super icky right and so you can imagine there’s a rush to retrofit all of those and the non-touchscreen solution for all those is going to be that your mobile phone interfaces with the terminal and use the the interface on your own mobile phone and so that’s going to be a new Behavior we’re going to see rolled out and have to educate customers about but I think you know going to those touch POS systems scanning go with some retailers it experimented with. Is is definitely going to be bigger so so I guess some of those things are interesting. Scot And Guests: [38:36] What they wanted and they had put a thick mylar bag over the terminal and it was so thick I could hardly press the buttons I guess they must met you know they must take that off and clean it or something or it may may be just as. Jason: [38:46] Yeah we just want you to believe that exactly great questions thanks very much Christopher. Scot And Guests: [38:52] Thanks Christopher yeah thanks guys all right we got Ricardo and Scott Waiting by Let’s see we got here. Jason: [38:59] Okay Ricardo we are you are live hey. Scot And Guests: [39:05] Hey hi guys we are done here reporting to you from San Francisco they kind of a show. Thanks for calling in what’s what’s what’s on your mind I’m curious if you can talk a little bit about like the p&l office seller obviously differentiate in the u.s. versus in China you know like a referral fees the same I was just because the same. I think I’m really curious you know I know China is as a percentage of retail e-commerce a lot more and I think it’s maybe because they don’t have a lot of the physical stores that, we got in the west but still when you compare with other developing nations still so much more ahead so I’m just creating your thoughts on that thanks. Jason: [39:44] Yeah well good question Ricardo a couple of things so the dominant marketplaces in the u.s. tend to be different than in China so obviously Amazon’s the the dominant Market Place in the US and Amazon has a singer Lehigh take rate so they charge like a. [40:02] Like compared to most other marketplaces a very high commission for each transaction Ali Baba’s Team all which would be the most analogous to, to Amazon and China has a way lower take rate so first thing is the unit economics of the actual sale are more profitable for the seller because you’re paying a lower commission but that’s a little bit of a artificial economy because Team all is even in China is even much bigger than Amazon Marketplace is here and so visibility and discovery of your product listings is non-existent like there’s so many listings and so many products your product just isn’t organically going to be found in China and so Ali Baba has a really low take rate because, they charge you extra for all of the marketing services and search visibility services so what you end up doing is having to pay a lot more to the to Ali Baba’s marketing arm which is called Ali Mama to have your stuff show up and and if you kind of compare apples to apples like the the general economics of the business end up. Netting out to be similar by the time you pay your Amazon marketing services in your take rate in the US or your only Mama services and your take grade in the China those are similar. But digital Commerce is way more penetrated in China and. [41:28] You know they’ve LeapFrog brick-and-mortar as you implied so pre covid. [41:34] Depending on how you Define retail I’ll go with the forester definition 16% of Commerce in the US was e-commerce the rest was brick-and-mortar in China it was 38% before covid. So u.s. today in April 16 percent goes to 25%. In February in China at the peak of the quarantine. 38% went to north of 50% so. Digitally you’re going to sell a lot more goods and then one other economic thing that’s wildly different in China than the US the cost of delivery is. Way lower in China so because there’s so much inexpensive labor you you can pay someone a very low rate to deliver anything in an hour or two a in a five-kilometer radius of your store and so it enables you to offer all kinds of cheap delivery of goods that would the unit economics would never work in the US and frankly that driver like those guys delivering all those things I say driver but a lot of times it’s a bike or something else those delivery guys that’s a middle-class wage in most Tier 1 and tier 2 cities in China so it the economics all around workout much better in China because of that Scot anything I botched there. Scot And Guests: [42:57] Let’s get the payments I think is a little bit lower so we’re used to kind of a two percent take right I think there’s a lot cheaper. And then the payment is to Ally pay a lot of times and then the other thing I would say is most Chinese sellers are embedded in a factory so that they’re like. They’re very very close to where the product is made. And that gives them an edge where you know if you’re a saint it’s awesome when you hear that works for an auto parts company so if you’re at an Autoparts retailer there’s a distributor there’s all these manufacturers some of them maybe there’s another layer where they took it from China and then the parts from China and then added something so you can be kind of you got seven people you know two to seven people dipping into the margin stack there whereas in China you’re typically Factory to right into the marketplace essentially maybe through a seller so because of that also it also creates this very fast feedback loop so you’ll see like this really interesting things happen where they can you know they’ll iterate very very quickly because they have the factory tied to the marketplace and then this this feedback loop accelerates. [44:06] Nothing if you stacked the another challenge for the Chinese seller is the same widget if you take currency and try to normalize it is selling for thirty to forty percent less in China so the good news is in the US for the same same item and if you looked at the currency rates you’re probably get 30 percent more for that in the United States than in China because it’s so competitive and people are. Very value-oriented the China so you have more more P to put in more margin to kind of put into things in the u.s. so those are some of the interesting differences. Because of that you know most Chinese sellers their strategy they actually make a lot more money selling out of China so the song to Russia they’ll sell into. Mercado Libre Brazil South America they’ll sell what the most popular destinations is the marketplaces in Australia and then obviously the US and Europe. That’s where pre-pandemic companies like wish and all the express were making a ton selling these kind of Hot Products coming direct from China. Jason: [45:08] Good points great question Ricardo thanks very much. Scot And Guests: [45:12] You guys have a good one thanks. Jason: [45:17] Should we go to Scott Landry next or do you want to take some of the typed in question Scott. Scot And Guests: [45:22] Let’s do let’s just got in the will hit the typed in once. Jason: [45:25] Awesome Scott you welcome to the show I feel outnumbered by the Scots now. Scot And Guests: [45:33] You are yeah I’m good treaties between us yeah exactly and I’m also here in will just outside of Raleigh I’m in Morrisville North North Carolina. Jason: [45:44] I heard Morrisville is much cooler than Raleigh. Scot And Guests: [45:47] It is much cooler it is much cooler and I’m a longtime listener first-time caller I a few weeks ago you guys had on Scott another Scott on the show and he talked about this being with time to not sit back and cut costs but to actually invest in companies invest for company owners to invest in their companies saying that those failing to prepare prepare to fail. We’ve also seen a lot of non-essential Amazon Seller struggle during the first few weeks of this pandemic. You know a lot of come back strong since then but and you know these companies had to Pivot and develop a multi-channel approach to their business so this sets up my very fun question do you know of a software that would that you would recommend to all your listeners that would help them with managing a multi-channel approach that includes. Maybe a single user interface to manage all their e-commerce operations such as I don’t know content inventory orders marketing advertising product content feeds. Scot Jason do you know of anything like that John A blank over here Jason guy Nick. Jason: [46:51] I thought you were going to a channel advisor. Scot And Guests: [46:52] Scot full disclosure Scott’s an account manager over at John visor so he’s seeing up the old Channel advisor what we do there. But all right yeah a lot of people start you know to be fair a lot of people especially smaller sellers they’ll start with a Shopify Bigcommerce woocommerce Magento one of those offerings and then they’ll have a little bit of an ability to sell and other marketplaces sometimes their shipping software will get them a connection to another Marketplace but then ultimately they’ll grow out of that and that’s kind of what we’ve built for. Retail does. Jason: [47:28] Yeah so certainly like I think there’s different answers it different tiers of business and maturity of businesses like I’ll be honest I don’t generally think of there being. Complete unified Suites that are super successful for a broad range of customers there definitely are unified Suites in particular Niche markets that really focus on a vertical so you can find a unified suite for a Furniture retail or for a quick serve food restaurant that are that are pretty comprehensive it like Shopify is inching towards being a unified sweet they’re adding more and more of those services and if I were a betting person I would say like they’re eventually going to get to a pretty comprehensive unified Suite that seems to be an important part of their strategy and hopefully they spend their money there instead of the stupid Shop app that we could talk about later the there at certain niches there there are some interesting unified sweet so I Oracle owns a product called netsuite which actually has like a pretty comprehensive set of e-commerce order management Channel management. [48:37] And outside of those you end up there are some some tools that cover a lot of what you just discussed so there there are Pimm’s that are expanding into. Feed management content management and starting to you know do more of those kinds of things so I think of like a salsify you know as becoming more comprehensive for those kinds of things but but like honestly there’s no dominant player like the Enterprise level, the Enterprise players are mostly pretty sucky at it like bye by far the best in terms of a unified sweet amongst the Enterprise guys now would be Salesforce so Michelle that was on earlier could talk to you about that. Scot And Guests: [49:28] Thanks guys appreciate it just I was just kind of tearing up the channel advisor commercial. Jason: [49:34] Yeah yeah yeah I can’t believe Scott didn’t send me one to play. Scot And Guests: [49:42] Cool alright so over in QA Kelly ask has anyone done any good research showing the correlation between retailers being owned by private equity and their subsequent and ability to react to covid. Seems that PE ownership equals under investment in Tech equals poor ability to respond to changes in business climate but it’d be great to see some research yeah so if you know seems like Kelly’s pretty. Read up on this whole topic but there are this this tier of investor called private Equity firms we call him PE firms in the industry and they essentially go do buyouts and what drives their thinking a lot of times there’s a like anything there’s a broad spectrum of PE firms they’re not all like this but a lot I would say 80 or 90 percent are in the genre of they do some financial interest in engineering so they’ll go look at a business like a retailer they’ll see that it has a certain ibadah and cash flow and then on the other side of the equation they have super cheap access to cash so what they’ll do is they’ll go they’ll go by that retailer they’ll use that cash flow to go by debt. [50:44] And you know because they’ve got this cheap access to debt they can usually get a lot of debt so they can go and say this retailers making a hundred million they can put a billion dollars where the debt because the whoever is providing this dead is just looking for pretty small amount of cash flow to cover a large debt they do all that and then when they when they do that they effectively have extracted the future value of that retailers cash flow out and and that is what drives their their calculations so it’s kind of like running the business through a spreadsheet based on this these kind of metrics of this current view of cash flow the downside of that is what it does is you know it makes the company essentially a hundred percent not bulletproof so you have a recession you have something that impacts that cash flow and then suddenly the cash flows here the debt is like 80% of cash flow cash flow dips to 30% and now the company is essentially if it has something on its balance sheet it will burn to that relatively quickly and then go bankrupt so this is ultimately what led to the demise of Toys R Us India Circuit City I believe had a large private Equity component here in the Southeast Belk cut by a private Equity Firm before pandemic and I’m kind of interested to see if if they make it through pretty much most of the large retailers with the exception of Nordstrom Walmart. [52:13] Costco the drug stores don’t have private Equity but many of the mall based retailers have except Apple are have a big private Equity component and I think they’re at risk so I haven’t seen a study but I would say the correlations very high just because of the nature of the Beast it’s like saying how many slow gazelle get eaten by lions beautiful pretty much all of them so I would say the correlation would be you know almost a hundred percent correlated Jason. Jason: [52:43] Yeah I would agree with your hypothesis I have not seen the study and it is a smart interesting question if there is a steady because the ones you disproportionately hear about are these leveraged buyouts and they of course have you know really challenging balance sheets and therefore are super, I’m vulnerable to covid right and you know Scott mentioned the Toys R Us in certain cities of the world like Nieman is a poster child for that situation right now the unit I can economics at Neiman Marcus are pretty favorable it’s a totally viable retailer with a unmanageable amount of debt so right you know sorry to my friends at Neiman covid is probably putting you out of you know into a reorganization at best. [53:27] But I don’t actually know statistically how much of the private Equity debt in retail is. Um leveraged buyout this we hear about the over-leveraged ones the most and there’s another kind of private Equity debt which you know tends to also under invest like the super risky early private Equity debt which is the Venture debt like those guys you know tend to not be making huge infrastructure Investments and and that that’s going to tighten up at the moment but there are mezzanine level private Equity firms that do invest in retailers they don’t tend to leverage those transactions and and as negatively impact the debt so so for sure. [54:16] All the poster child’s we hear about about private Equity investors are going to be the negative ones that are killing retail and look at Scott with his Advanced Audio Video right there but I like I’ll be honest I do think there are some private Equity firms that are much more beneficial to retailers that we just don’t hear about as much and what I don’t have a good sense for is as a total percentage proportion of all retail like is are those there’s good private Equity firms a unicorn or they 50% and we just don’t hear about them don’t know. Scot And Guests: [54:49] And I don’t know Kelly if you can see the screen here but I did find this article and Retail wire it’s pretty current so July of last year so you know obviously covid is going to tick this up but they found 10 out of 14 companies that filed bankruptcy had been acquired by pe companies they actually pay get to 1.3 million workers lost their job there’s a classic movie called Wall Street it is pretty interesting to watch it because the whole premise of Wall Street is effectively a PE lbo and you know this one guy has to decide the moral implication of the spreadsheet World it looks great and then he realizes like all these people I think there’s a familial relationship his dad worked with are going to lose their jobs so It’s oddly one of those weird things that has stood the test of time because it’s been the strategy for 30 or 40 years you get to see very young Michael Douglas as well this report I have on the screen references what looks to be a more even kind of detailed report on this so that so you know I would Google this this kind of Jim Baker private Equity stake holder project and you could probably a lot of times you’ll see this kind of puffy article about one of these things then you go find the underlying paper and there’s a lot more really interesting data and you can see some actual data that feeds these studies. Next question is from do we have a lost the ability to see the hand raised. Jason: [56:14] Yep so we have two more and we are coming up on time so we probably want to just go to speed round a little bit. Scot And Guests: [56:22] All right lightning round. Um hopefully I said your name right there do you think the market for our demand for refurbished products are secondhand e-commerce go down due to the pandemic. You know I think it definitely will you know Jason mentioned returns you know I’m not going really want use clothes and that kind of thing I think there’s you know just like I said before I think what you could do though is if I was the seller I would talk about how I have used you know anti microbials disinfectants sanitization I’m becoming an expert on this oddly enough I’m a computer science guy but I’ve had, have a crash course in this so there is a there is actually an EPA website that you can go to and see which chemicals are covid effective in can bear that claim. So imagine your seller what I would do is I would say you know I have formed these actions on this product and I know the best my knowledge it is been sanitized and disinfected and very safe for reuse so that’s interesting we did have CEO of I always get this wrong the used person-to-person Marketplace. Jason: [57:32] Offer up offer up. Scot And Guests: [57:34] I always want to I use the apparel one yeah and he said they’ve actually seen you know a huge spikes so you know we’ve seen these macro trends of home gym home office and they saw in their kind of local platform a lot of activity going on there. Jason: [57:51] Yeah I would say like like most things there’s conflicting Trends here right like people are more concerned because of the health ramifications but we’re also people are like super economically conservative and value oriented and so previously owned is likely to have a pretty nice Spike and if I were a guessing man I would say it’s net-net going to be favorable um to refurbished in previously owned because I actually like of all the health risks the virus spreading through items that are several days old frankly like it is. Probably in overestimated Risk in most people’s mind there are ways to make those things safe and even in the virus still exists on something that’s a day old it likely isn’t very virulent and it’s less likely to infect you so I have a few over time we’re going to find out that. You’re probably not likely to catch it from a set of weight you bought from someone else that sat in your garage for four days before you use them. But you know I think those things are going to sell a lot more so we’ll have to follow that one. [59:00] And then Daniel Goldman with what probably is going to shape up to be our last question. He referenced so just for those that didn’t know Jason intrigued by your comment in the last podcast that if someone offered you Amazon web services as a business I wouldn’t say no but I kind of made the point that Amazon Marketplace is. [59:26] Extremely profitable as well but since it’s not separately broken out on Amazon’s earning statements people don’t tend to realize how profitable it is and so my point in last week’s show was everyone talks about Amazon web services being the prophet driver of Amazon I was saying the percent the proportion of Amazon’s retail business that’s a Marketplace is probably as good or Better Business than Amazon web services so he’s asking why I said that and I may have just inadvertently explained it the that to me a market like it is hard to lose money on a Marketplace the you lose money if you don’t make the marketplace work so if you can’t get enough sellers or buyers that’s how you lose money on a two-sided Market places you don’t get enough of of both sides of the marketplace but if you have both sides to Amazon there’s no economic risk on the marketplace there’s no carrying costs of goods there’s no inventory there’s no cost of returns there are none of those things and you take a commission on the successful transaction so it’s it’s. [1:00:29] A hundred percent profit with extraordinarily low overhead and very little cash burden and so like the unit economics of that are even better than AWS AWS is highly profitable but it’s actually pretty capital-intensive and so in my mind the marketplace just scales even more profitably than AWS and I would argue the marketplaces bigger than AWS so that was my Y and then he the smartest part of his whole question he left for last who cares what Jason thinks what would Scott think about that same question. Scot And Guests: [1:01:08] So the surprise surprise you because I was surprised Jason just chose Marketplace in the it’s hard to answer a theoretical question because. It’s so theoretical but this scenario I’m imagining I’m I have the offer to either maybe buy or get AWS or the marketplace not actually take AWS because the marketplace in the retail business and Amazon are in next trip young what makes it work also is the fact you have the Amazon offer interlinked there and then you can actually beat Amazon. That’s what makes part of what makes the magic of the hybrid Marketplace at Amazon work really well Amazon keeps the marketplace honest the marketplace keeps Amazon honest. Now you know there’s a lot of noise or there was there was a little bit of a scandal last week we talked about where there’s you know they always talked about this Chinese wall there ain’t no Chinese wall they’re actually using that data allegedly did. Out what’s going on shocking so it would actually. You know I’m kind of reminded of the eBay PayPal split that actually happened and it wasn’t too painful but I always still pay with PayPal and eBay so that was like you know those economically, terrible I think for me to get rid of the whole payment system and then. Now it’s getting all this value from other places so so you know the short answer is AWS is much more extractable and could have Amazon as a customer without any impact kind of like PayPal ended up being the marketplace because of lives and is integrated so deeply with the retail experiences inextricable and if you if you pulled it apart I think the value would go down significantly. Jason: [1:02:38] There you go and if you look. Scot And Guests: [1:02:39] The first thing Amazon would do is buy a Marketplace in the be with you and I don’t think you want to be in that. [1:02:54] One thing one last thing we wanted to do is do a shout-out to Jamie Dooley he could not join us tonight because it’s his birthday happy birthday Jamie hope you’re having some delicious cake or something probably not eating out I would guess but hopefully you’re having a fun pandemic themed birthday sorry you could make it tonight. Jason: [1:03:12] Yeah and and happy May 4 Theta J belated me for Theta Jamie who is another big Star Wars fan. Scot we’ve blown through our our once again our and nine minutes so super grateful for all those listeners that stuck it out with us for the whole time that was very kind of you and these are super fun and it’s great to see everyone thanks very much for supporting the show and please be safe out there and until next time happy commercing.

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Examples of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's philanthropy are nearly as omnipresent in San Francisco as views of his soaring Salesforce Tower. Benioff has given tens of millions to Bay Area public schools and hundreds of millions to children's hospitals. By throwing his money and force behind San Francisco's Prop C to raise taxes on big companies, including his own, to fund homeless services, he goaded other tech barons to step up. But at the same time, Salesforce paid no federal corporate taxes last year. Forum talks with the author of a new Wired article that grapples with the complexities of billionaire benevolence. And we want to hear from you. Are billionaires part of the solution or part of the problem?

If you’re a fan of renegade thinking, then you’ll probably be a fan of David Thompson, CMO of Freshworks, and serial bold marketer. His marketing has historically been fairly subversive, think responding to competitions’ hiring of Cindy Crawford with a RuPaul-led Superbowl commercial (in the early aughts). Or hiring a blimp with “#FailsForce” written on it to circle Salesforce Tower, the tallest building in San Francisco, and home of Freshworks competitor Salesforce. When asked about being afraid of backlash to his marketing, Thompson responded that, if you aren’t a little afraid of your marketing, it’s probably not worth putting out into the world. He likes to partially gauge this by seeing how his CEO reacts to the pitch—if the CEO immediately mentions that the board will need to take a look, you’re on the right track. Learn more about bold, tactical marketing, rapid rebrands, bartending for Meryl Streep before a performance (her go-to before performing is whiskey), and more on this episode of Renegade Thinkers Unite.

Anup was invited to Salesforce Tower in London for a special session on a deep dive into Web Component Development and Francis talks to him on the tips, tricks and best practice that he learnt.Show Notes:Salesforce Lightning Web Component PlaygroundUI Components will be deprecatedSalesforce Developer Evangelist Christophe Coenraets BlogSalesforce Winter '20 Release Notes > Development > Lightning ComponentsLightning Web Components: Trailhead Modules, Sample App Gallery, Recipes GitHub RepoRequest a Recipe from Salesforce by logging an issue on the repo 

Reporter Melia Russell on new images atop Salesforce Tower. Starting this fall, the tower top will show snippets of city life that are recorded by cameras planted around San Francisco. The next version could feature a blurry image of you.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liam brings an exclusive Foodie Chap chat to Salesforce Tower with Chef Dominique Crenn, who is on a "WAKE UP" mission and is inspiring people around the world to partake. | Each week, the KCBS Radio Foodie Chap, Liam Mayclem introduces us to the culinary stars behind the food & wine loved by so many in the Bay Area...

The #AI Eye: Intel ( $INTC) Invests in Catalytic, Accenture ( $ACN) Opens Flagship Hub in San Francisco's Salesforce Tower

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The 61st floor of the Salesforce Tower was the setting for San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight's  interview with CEO Marc Benioff just before the 2018 election. Benioff talks about his support for Prop. C, the initiative to tax big businesses — like Salesforce — to raise money for homeless services, and why he scolded other San Francisco CEOs for not doing the same. From Nov. 2, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Marc Benioff has been making headlines for his support of Prop. C to tax big businesses to raise money for homeless services — and for his scolding of other San Francisco CEOs for not doing the same. Heather Knight talked to him on the 61st story of the new Salesforce Tower, where you’re looking down on the top of the TransAmerica Pyramid and pretty much everything else in the Bay Area. He talked about why he backs Prop. C, why he’s taking other billionaires to task so publicly and how his grandfather, a member of the Board of Supervisors in the 1940s, inspired him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is near and dear to our hearts at State of the Art as we speak with Dorka Keehn, San Francisco Arts Commissioner who chairs the city's Visual Arts Committee in charge of the city's public art scene. An artist in her own right, and a serious mover and shaker in the community, Dorka explains how the arts is an economic driver in SF, what the city is doing to help artists stay in the city, and how the committee makes decisions about the projects they commission to elevate San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods. -About Dorka Keehn-Dorka Keehn is a major force for art in the public realm in the Bay Area. She is the Principal of Keehn On Art, an art consulting firm that specializes in working with city planners, developers and architects on their public art requirements. Projects include Salesforce Tower and the Golden State Warriors Arena. As a San Francisco Arts Commissioner, Dorka chairs the Visual Arts Committee that commission’s all of the city’s public artwork. Additionally, she is the co-founder of Sites Unseen, a project that is bringing arts programming to neglected alleys in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena neighborhood. Dorka also led the fundraising effort for The Bay Lights, the $12M 25,000 LED light installation by artist Leo Villareal for the Bay Bridge.

Every film is both a product of its environment, and a rebellion against it. Artists (and audiences) search for something new and fresh, but cannot escape the world as it exists around them. Die Hard is no exception. While Die Hard is often marked as a turning point in American action cinema, we must first look at the state of action cinema as it existed before 1988. What does a “typical” 80s action movie look like? What artistic and societal pressures shaped that mold? And in what ways does Die Hard break it? As we kick off this limited series, let us know what you think! Drop us a line at diehardwithapodcast@gmail.com, or visit our site at www.diehardwithapodcast.com.   Source Links A/V Club, Die Hard humanized (and perfected) the action movie Creative Screenwriting, “There is no such thing as an action movie.” Steven E. de Souza on Screenwriting David Bordwell, It's the 80s, stupid Hollywood Suite, The French Connection and the gritty realism of the 70s IndieWire, 10 Defining 1970s Disaster Movies IndieWire, Cruel Summer: Die Hard (1988) James Kendrick, Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema Medium, New Hollywood: Why The 70's Were The Greatest Decade In America Cinema New York Times, How the American Action Movie Went Kablooey Oxford Bibliographies, Action Movies Slate, In The Parallax View, Conspiracy Goes All the Way to the Top—and Beyond Vulture, How Die Hard Changed the Action Game   Guests Shannon Hubbell Ed Grabionowski Adam Sternbergh Katie Walsh Scott Wampler   Get In Touch Email Website Twitter Facebook Instagram Patreon   Full Episode Transcript Welcome to the podcast, pal. My name is Simone Chavoor, and thank you for joining me for Die Hard With a Podcast! The show that examines the best American action movie of all time: Die Hard. Thank you to everyone who listened to the first episode of the show! It’s been so fun to get this podcast off the ground. Everyone’s been really awesome and supportive, from the listeners to the experts I’ve been talking to for the show. Starting in this episode, we’ll hear from filmmakers, film critics, and pop culture writers to get their perspectives on Die Hard and what it means as a part of film history. I’m excited to introduce them to you later in the show. If you want to share your thoughts on Die Hard and the things brought up on the podcast, reach out! Email Website Twitter Facebook Instagram I’ve been trying to post lots of additional photos and facts to the social media accounts in particular. My favorite so far was a Dungeons and Dragons character alignment chart I made for Die Hard. McClane is Chaotic Good, Al Powell is Lawful Good… You’ll have to visit the pages to see the rest of who’s who on the chart. And if you like this show, kick me a buck or two on Patreon. Patreon helps to offset the cost of doing this show, not just in pure dollars and cents, but for the sheer amount of time this podcast takes to put together. This is my first solo project, and although I have the wonderful, amazing support of my guests and fans, it still takes a lot of time researching, writing, recording, and editing. Patreon There are some cool bonuses you can get, everything from shout outs on the show, to stickers, ornaments, and the bonus episode – which is TBD, because you get to vote on! So check that out, and pitch in if you can. Shout out to our contributors… Rob T, Jason H, and Saint Even! I hope I’m saying that right. Anyone who’s listened to my other podcast knows that I can’t pronounce half the names I come across. It’s amazing how good you think you are at pronouncing things until you get in front of a mic... Thank you so much! You can also support Die Hard With a Podcast by leaving a review on iTunes. With more starred ratings and written reviews, the show becomes more visible to other potential listeners, so please share the love and let me know what you think! All right. On to our main topic. Every film is both a product of its environment, and a rebellion against it. Artists (and audiences) search for something new and fresh, but cannot escape the world as it exists around them. Die Hard is no exception. While Die Hard is often marked as a turning point in American action cinema, we must first look at the state of action cinema as it existed before 1988. What does a “typical” 80s action movie look like? What artistic and societal pressures shaped that mold? And in what ways does Die Hard break it? But before we talk about 80s films, let’s talk about… 70s films. 70s cinema was a time when shit started to get real. After years of glossy studio pictures, filmmakers wanted to show things as they really were. And with Vietnam, Watergate, the oil crisis, rising crime in cities, and so much more, things were… fucked up. And the movies made then reflected that. They were dark, pessimistic, gritty, bleak. No happy endings to be found here. Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver are two of the most 70s-ish depressing-ass movies that I like to point out as an example of this. [CLIP: MIDNIGHT COWBOY - I’M WALKING HERE] With that mood in mind, let’s drill down into some specifics. [INTERVIEW: ED GRABIANOWSKI I’m Ed Grabianowski, and I am a longtime writer; I’ve written for sites like io9 and How Stuff Works and a whole bunch of others, and I also write horror and fantasy fiction. If you go back to the 70s, there weren’t really movies in the 70s that were just like action movies, like that you would just define as action movies, to the extent there were later. You instead got sort of different sub-genres; you had sort of like cops and robbers movies with gunfights and car chases, and then you had like martial arts movies with lots of fist fights and sword fights.] Within this general movement, a few particular genres stand out. There was a lot going on in 70s film as the studios’ creative control was usurped by a new wave of auteur filmmakers. Now of course, there were lots of popular genres in this moment, all important in their own ways, like science fiction, horror, spaghetti Westerns, blaxploitation films, kung-fu movies. You can see some through lines from then, to the 80s, and into Die Hard in particular. But for our discussion today, we’re going to focus on three: disaster movies, paranoid political thrillers, and rogue cops and vigilantes. Let’s start with disaster movies. [INTERVIEW: ED GRABIANOWSKI And then you had the disaster movie subgenre, which was a huge trend for a while, and that was more based on spectacle and the visuals of a disaster happening. And also interestingly tended to be more ensemble casts.] After all, As we discussed in our first episode, Die Hard was directly inspired by one of the best-known disaster movies of the 70s: 1974’s The Towering Inferno. These movies featured people going about their business – attending a party, trying to catch a flight, taking a nice little cruise. Then BAM! A fire starts, a bomb goes off, a tsunami hits. These disasters, some natural, some natural-with-the-help-of-man’s-hubris, and some entirely man-made strike large groups of people, who we quickly learn are totally expendable. We follow these thinly written characters in multiple plot lines as they try to escape, survive, or stop whatever calamity is going on. In the process, the audience gets to experience their peril... which usually includes a bunch of explosions. The Towering Inferno boasts an all-star cast that includes Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, and Fred Astaire. Our main characters are at a dedication ceremony for the new Glass Tower, the now-tallest building in the world. (As an aside, I work quite close to Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, which is currently the tallest building in San Francisco and the second-tallest west of the Mississippi. The fictional Glass Tower in the movie is taller than both of those by 500 feet. And every time I look at it I think about either The Towering Inferno or Nakatomi Tower, and neither of those are things you want to think about on your lunch break.) While at the ceremony, a fire breaks out on the 81st floor, trapping the people above. A group makes it to the roof for an attempted helicopter rescue, but the copter crashes and sets the roof on fire. After many thwarted attempts to escape, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman use plastic explosives to blow up the water tanks on the top of the building, flooding the floors below and putting out the fire. [CLIP: THE TOWERING INFERNO TRAILER] It’s easy to see how novelist Roderick Thorp could see that movie, dream about it, throw in some terrorists, and come up with the seed of Die Hard. As the Watergate scandal unfolded, the paranoid political thriller came to the fore. We’re talking Three Days of the Condor, Parallax View, and obviously All the President’s Men. These are films mostly centered on an individual uncovering a government conspiracy, and trying to either expose it or just escape with their life. But, fitting with the general mood of American cinema at the time, things usually don’t work out too well for the protagonists. Spoiler alert – in these films, usually the big bad government conspiracy gets away with it, leaving the heroes either dead or defeated. The individual, no matter what knowledge they’re armed with, is helpless against the faceless cabal that keeps the populace in line. To put it bluntly, the government is all-powerful and all-knowing, and you, the lone citizen, are fucked if you go against them. [CLIP: ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN TRAILER ] The final 70s genre we’re looking at as a direct influence to Die Hard is the “rogue cop” or “vigilante” movie. The protagonists in these films are also lone individuals, but of a different stripe than what we’ll see later: they’re the anti-heroes. They’re deeply messed up in some way. They’re the cop who doesn’t play by the rules, or the everyman who gets pushed too far by society and turns to violence. Death Wish, Dirty Harry, The French Connection. These movies manifest the existential dread of audiences who feared social upheaval, economic instability, and rising crime in cities. And then they offer the wish fulfillment of being able to buck the rules and do things your way – no matter what the police chief says. [CLIP: DIRTY HARRY] As Ed pointed out earlier, the 70s didn’t have what we consider a blanket “action movie” – as you can see, the genres we just talked about had action in them, but it wasn’t the defining characteristic of the movie. If the word “action” was used to describe a movie in generic terms at all, it was usually paired with the word “adventure” to convey something more fantastic and epic. But moreover, the action in these films was, well… kind of a bummer. Violence and destruction were used to emphasize the more troubling aspects of our society. Even if these scenes were exciting, they were heavy. They were serious. So what tipped these old genres over into a new kind of film at the start of the decade? [INTERVIEW: ED GRABIANOWSKI It just sort of happened. There’s – yes, people – there’s this sort of gestalt like, let’s take elements of all these things and make something that just embodies all of that. And that became the action movie.] Audiences were transforming from Steven and Elyse Keatons into Alex P. Keatons. But in addition to a transition from Carter and the recession to Reagan and a “greed is good” economy, the film industry in particular had new pressures and opportunities that ushered in a new era of filmmaking. David Bordwell, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, sums it up: “With the new attractiveness of the global market, the demands of home video, and increasingly sophisticated special effects, the 1980s brought the really violent action movie into its own.” Bordwell amusingly closes his exploration of 80s action movies with one, lone sentence: “I save for last the obligatory mention of Die Hard, the Jaws of the 1980s: a perfectly engineered entertainment.” Guess that statement stands on its own... The writer of Die Hard and Commando, Steven De Souza, expands on Bordwell’s point about the global market. He says, “I would argue that the genre of an ‘action movie’ is a completely false creature. There is no such thing as an action movie. All movies have action. ‘Action movie’ is a term that was invented in the ‘80s. I think Commando may have been the first one in 1985. They noticed for the first time that a handful of American movies were making more money overseas than in America. This had never happened before. Commando made 60% of its money overseas and 40% in the US. Action speaks louder than words. You don’t need to read the subtitles to know it was a bad idea to kidnap Arnold Schwarzenegger’s little girl. I disagree with the idea that there is such thing as an action movie, but we are stuck with that term now.” Well, if we’re stuck with that term, let’s go with it. So: what makes an action movie? In the 80s, “physical action and violence [became] the organizing principle, from the plot, to the dialogue, to the casting.” That’s according to academic reference site Oxford Bibliographies. Picture your typical action movie poster. There’s probably some kind of aircraft or ship or ground vehicle, maybe a hot lady kinda small and in the corner there… there’s definitely a bunch of fire… And standing tall in the middle, our hero. And he’s probably holding a gun. The lone hero is one of the defining characteristics of what we think of the stereotypical action movie. But he – and it’s almost always a “he” – is different than our “rogue cop” of the 1970s. The 80s action star was a one-man army, alone more powerful than the hordes of henchman thrown up against him. Our hero might have a sidekick or lead a small team, but in the end they’re either ineffectual and/or expendable – by the end of the film, it’s our protagonist who takes down the bad guy by himself. The action hero inhabits his body, not his mind. His powers come from physical strength (and firepower) instead of cleverness. I mean, when we meet Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando, we see multiple shots of his biceps before we even see his face. As IndieWire put it, the heroes are “obscenely pumped-up one-man fighting machine[s]... outrageously entertaining comic-book depictions of outsized masculinity.” [INTERVIEW: ADAM STERNBERGH My name is Adam Sternbergh. I’m a novelist and a contributing editor to New York Magazine and a pop culture journalist. 80s action films, as we think of them now, they’re very excessive, they’re all about a sort of oversized machismo and enormous guns and enormous muscles and enormous explosions. Which was very exhilarating, but I think even by the time Die Hard came out, was starting to feel a little bit tired, and there was a hunger for action film fans – certainly myself, I would have been about seventeen or eighteen, for something a little bit different.] [INTERVIEW: SCOTT WAMPLER My name is Scott Wampler, I’m the news editor at Birth. Movies. Death. I’m also the host of the Trying Times podcast. The first word that’s coming to mind is “sweaty.” When I think of action movies in the 80s I think of, you know, dudes that are super cut up, they look like condoms filled with walnuts, and they’re always glistening with sweat. And usually there’s a dirty tank top involved, or maybe some camo pants.] [INTERVIEW: SHANNON HUBBELL My name is Shannon Hubbell, I’m editor-in-chief of LewtonBus.net. I’d say action films of the 80s – I mean, it’s obviously dominated by Schwarzenegger and Stallone, and so a lot of the larger action films are centered around big, burly, unstoppable killing machines. Just barely human. Other than Terminator, that kinda thing doesn’t yank my chain. But also, you have things like, say, Escape from New York – smaller fare, different types of heroes, anti-heroes, instead of just hulking, machine-gun-spraying douchebags.] Matrix and Dutch, Rambo and Cobra – these guys were far from helpless. Once pulled into a conflict by circumstance, our hero is unstoppable. It’s a reclaiming of agency that had been taken away by faceless forces in the 70s. Our heroes’ incredible power is just that: incredible. I know this might be shocking news to you, but a lot of these 80s action movies are… unrealistic. After all, in Predator, Arnold escapes a thermo-nuclear explosion by just… running away. These guys are superheroes pretending to be regular dudes. Comic book movies weren’t so much a thing yet, although we did have that platonic ideal of a superhero – Superman – appear onscreen in ‘78, ‘81, ‘83, and ‘87. But invulnerability is okay. That’s part of the appeal. We want the heroes that fight for truth, justice, and the American way to be assured of victory. This leads into another characteristic of 80s action: patriotism. Now, of course, not all of our protagonists are American. Arnold definitely does not – er… can not – try to pass for an American, and neither can Jean Claude Van Damme. But most of our protagonists are not only American, but working-class, everymen Americans who are just trying to get by with an honest day’s work. Sometimes that honest day’s work involves special forces missions, but you know what I mean. Adam Sternbergh explains. [INTERVIEW: ADAM STERNBERGH There was a sort of parallel ascent of the John Rambo paradigm, and Ronald Reagan. And Reagan was quite open about making references to Rambo, and I think Reagan at one point quoted the Dirty Harry line, “Make my day.” And there was a real sense in American culture that post the 1970s, post Jimmy Carter, post this national ennui or whatever people decided had overtaken the country, that America was being proud of being America again, and part of that was watching movies in which American POWs blow entire countries. And in fact the third Rambo movie is just sort of a ridiculous patriotism porn where he goes to Afghanistan and essentially single-handedly defeats the Russian Army in Afghanistan. That kind of action movie, I think if you look at it in a historical, sociological context, it made perfect sense for the national mood.] [CLIP: REAGAN AND RAMBO] In other words, if America was in fact a shining city on a hill, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Carl Weathers were there to guard its walls. Finally, the hallmark of an action movie is all the… [GUNSHOTS, EXPLOSIONS] If you’re having a celebration of American masculinity and strength, what else are you gonna do but blow shit up? There was certainly a fetishization of weapons in the preceding decade. Robert Blake’s character Beretta shared his name with that of a gun manufacturer, and Dirty Harry gives a whole soliloquy about his .45 Magnum. But the films that followed had to be bigger. Louder. If the 70s were the decade of the handgun, the 80s were the decade of the automatic weapon. [CLIP: NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN, HO HO HO] General explosions were also bigger and better, due to improved special effects technologies. The disaster movie of course had terrific destruction, but the buildings getting blown up were more obviously flimsy sets, if not just miniatures. And to me, the differentiating factor that separates 70s action from 80s action, was that 80s violence and destruction was… celebratory. It was fun. It was generally free of consequence. Our hero can’t die, remember? And the bad guys he’s blowing away are largely faceless cartoon characters, a dime a dozen. It was perfectly okay to sit in a theater and shove popcorn in your mouth while large-scale mayhem unfolded before your eyes. With these definitions in place, let’s go back and tick off the action movie characteristics that Die Hard shares. Lone hero? Check. John McClane is almost totally alone, with only a walkie-talkie as a tether to the outside world. The LAPD and FBI are ostensibly on his side, but they’re certainly not working with him. John must face a whole gang of terrorists by himself to rescue his wife. We’re confident that he’ll achieve his goal, even if things look dicey sometimes. [INTERVIEW: ADAM STERNBERGH I mean, Die Hard was similar in the sense that it featured a sort of lone, male protagonist who’s battling against the odds, and if faced with a sort of intractable situation where he’s trying to fight his way out using his brains and brawn. An interesting parallel is the movie Commando, which came out just a couple years earlier with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he basically has 24 or 48 hours save his daughter from these evil military types. And he goes about breaking everyone’s neck and shooting a bunch of people and blowing things up, and spoiler: he saves the daughter at the end. And so in that sense, Die Hard was sort of a very familiar setup. It obviously was kind of ingenious setup because it launched its own mini-genre of movies, which was the “Die Hard in a blankity-blank movie.”] Physical prowess? Mmm, not as much. John McClane isn’t in bad shape, not at all. He’s a cop, he can brawl. But he’s not one of those guys with “gleaming sweat [and] bulging muscles that couldn’t possibly exist without chemical enhancement... A bodybuilder’s fever dream, the sort of thing he might imagine after doing a mountain of blow and watching nothing but early MTV for 48 hours,” as the AV Club puts it. [INTERVIEW: ADAM STERNBERGH Everything else was moving in that direction, toward more invulnerable, more muscular, more explosive. And then Die Hard came along and said, what if a real, normal guy found himself in this situation? What would he do, and how would he prevail?] Bruce Willis’s embodiment of a wisecracking cop caught in an extraordinary situation was a key factor in John McClane’s believability. [INTERVIEW: SHANNON HUBBELL On paper, just like describing Die Hard to someone, you can totally imagine Schwarzenegger playing that role, or Stallone playing that role. It’s the details and execution that makes it different. You have a character who is fallible, and hurtable and emotionally vulnerable, which is not something that comes across in a paragraph synopsis of Die Hard.] John is a pretty regular guy. He gets tired, he gets hurt. In fact, his physical vulnerability in the original Die Hard is famous. [CLIP: SHOOT THE GLASS] [INTERVIEW: ADAM STERNBERGH From the very beginning of the movie, when he takes his shoes off at the beginning of the movie, you know, he’s in bare feet, he’s incredibly vulnerable and there’s this real sense that he’s this regular guy, who, there’s no way he’s going to accomplish this. He doesn’t even seem to believe it at the beginning. And it makes it so much more satisfying at the end of the movie when he does; he’s bloodied and he’s broken and his feet are bleeding. And that was just so different from that kind of Rambo, Schwarzenegger paradigm that had been established that had been so successful.] When you watch an action movie, you get the thrill of watching a superman executing a perfect plan. But watching a normal guy making it up as he goes along in Die Hard, you start to wonder – what would I do in this situation? We’ll get more into McClane’s physical and emotional vulnerability in our next episode. Patriotism? Die Hard isn’t an explicitly jingoistic film. There aren’t American flags waving as soldiers fight to defend American values. But we do have John, a white, heterosexual, working-class dude as our hero. See, not only is John representative of the American way of life, he also reflects a tension between classes within America, as well as in relationship to other world powers. Our bad guys are an International House of Terrorists, including what Ellis calls… [CLIP: ELLIS EUROTRASH] [INTERVIEW: ADAM STERNBERGH I think there’s definitely some quintessential American ideas of class in the movie, and it’s not a mistake that the terrorists are not just Europeans but they’re all wearing turtlenecks and sort of beautiful European clothes and then there is a whole conversation in the elevator between Hans and Mr. Takagi about their suits and their respective tailors. And John McClane’s just a guy with a singlet on, running around like Johnny Lunchbucket. And I think at that particular moment in American history, that was a very resonant idea, again because there was this sense of America’s influence in the world being undermined – in particular by Japan, but just in general. American industry and this sort of notion of the blue-collar American economy was faltering in coming out of the 1970s. There was a sense that that was changing. So McClane is interesting, and I wonder if you made Die Hard now, if he would still be a New York cop, or if they would try to make him even more of a kind of heartland hero.] It’s also worth noting the presence of another foreign “threat” in Die Hard. The Nakatomi Corporation represents a very real American fear in the 80s that the Japanese wouldn’t so much invade as they would conduct a hostile takeover. Richard Brody of The New Yorker explains: “There’s another ethnic anxiety that the movie represents—the film is centered on the Nakatomi Corporation, headed by a Japanese-American man named Joseph Takagi, which is an emblem of the then widely stoked fear that Japanese high-tech businesses were threatening to dominate the American economy.” At the time, the Japanese economy was booming thanks to post-World War II reconstruction and a strong manufacturing industry. Japanese corporations began buying American companies, starting with car factories, steel works, and media companies – industries that are held as quintessentially American. [CLIP: TAKAGI TAPE DECKS] [INTERVIEW: ADAM STERNBERGH It also has interesting strains of things that were happening in politics at the time, you know, the whole idea of a Japanese corporation that’s come to America and is a powerful corporation, and then the American inevitably has to save them. There’s a little mini-genre of 80s-era films that were sort of about America’s anxiety about Japan’s rising influence in the world. So I think a little bit of that is in Die Hard. You know, this sort of twist of having the terrorists be political terrorists who just turn out to be greedy robbers, was a little bit of a wink at the notion that all the other movies were about politics.] As Adam points out, American fear of this so-called threat can be seen in more than just Die Hard. 1986’s Gung Ho is specifically about a Japanese company buying Michael Keaton’s character’s auto plant. The Back to the Future series (which kicked off in 1985) also has a few telling moments. [CLIP: BACK TO THE FUTURE ALL THE BEST STUFF IS MADE IN JAPAN] [CLIP: BACK TO THE FUTURE II McFLY’S BOSS] In Die Hard, Nakatomi is positioned as not just another Japanese mega-corporation with more money than they know what to do with, but it’s also the company that is threatening to take Holly away from John. Okay, onto our last action movie qualifier: [CLIP: GUNSHOTS, EXPLOSIONS] Welp, I think it’s pretty safe to say that Die Hard has big explosions and over-the-top stunts. Lots of ‘em – and really good ones, too. They’re well choreographed and a pleasure to watch. Plus, they keep their own sense of fun. Having your hero dispatch a bad guy and follow it with a quippy remark is a classic action movie cliche. [CLIP: FEET SMALLER THAN MY SISTER] But the difference is that Bruce Willis has the comedy acting chops to actually pull it off. Look, Arnold’s great at a lot of things, but line delivery ain’t one of ‘em. [CLIP: LET OFF SOME STEAM] In the end, Die Hard is very much in the mold of traditional 80s action movies – and where it breaks that mold, is where it improves upon it. Hollywood’s been trying to recapture that magic ever since. [INTERVIEW: SCOTT WAMPLER I would say that it probably broke a general mold that had a hold on Hollywood for at least a decade. Outside of the work of say, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, who – you know, Schwarzenegger did a lot of sci-fi stuff, and Stallone – Stallone’s always been pretty ‘oo-rah American.’ But I think Hollywood as a whole, it definitely reformed the template, you know? There were shock waves coming off of Die Hard for at least a decade. You can still feel them.] [INTERVIEW: ADAM STERNBERGH I remember sitting in the theater and watching the movie and just being completely blown away by how great it was and how fresh it felt. That is really the thing I wonder if people watching it now can appreciate, is just how it felt like this gust of fresh air, given all the films that had come before. And those action films again, they were all tightly packed in in just like six or seven years in the 80s. It was a very sort of young genre itself. But this kinda came in and it was just a complete reinvention of what an action film could be, and John McClane was a completely different kind of hero, and it was so exhilarating.] The elevated craft of Die Hard, from the airtight script to McTiernan’s direction to De Bont’s cinematography, to the performances of Willis and Rickman, took what could have been an unremarkable summer flick and turned it into a classic. [INTERVIEW: KATIE WALSH My name’s Katie Walsh. I am a film critic for the Tribune News Service and LA Times. You know, you see enough bad action movies, and then you watch Die Hard, and you’re like, “This is so impeccably made.” The cinematography is gorgeous, there’s these amazing camera movements, and the lighting and all of the stuff that’s going on is just so perfect. And then you’re like, “Okay, this is a perfect movie.” I think cinephiles now are saying John McTiernan’s an amazing director, Jan De Bont is an amazing cinematographer, the craft that goes into this movie is impeccable, and it’s a very well-made movie; I think people are recognizing that.] In our next episode, we’ll dig in to arguably the most important contributor to Die Hard’s success: the character of John McClane, and Bruce Willis’s portrayal of him. So get ready, take off your shoes, make some fists with your toes, and join us next time. Thank you to our guests Adam Sternbergh, Scott Wampler, Shannon Hubbell, Ed Grabionowski, and Katie Walsh. Be sure to check the show notes on the website to learn more about them. Thanks again for joining me, and yippee-kai-yay, motherfuckers!  

CoreNet Northern California Chapter is thrilled to bring our listeners more valuable content on the topic of diversity and inclusion. Recorded just before the Women of CoreNet event which was held at CBRE’s new San Francisco office in Salesforce Tower on July 25, 2018, this program features a conversation with Alexis McGill Johnson, co-founder and executive director of Perception Institute. Johnson’s organization is a consortium of researchers, advocates and strategists that uses cutting-edge mind science to help organizations reduce discrimination linked to race, gender and other identity differences. 

In this episode, we discuss DigitalOcean developer trends report, ICE protestors, Salesforce AI tools for customer service, architecting Lightning components for testability, and issues with building on top of managed packages. Rearchitecting your Salesforce Lightning JavaScript for testability Anti-ICE protesters descend on Salesforce Tower in San Francisco Salesforce wants to give customer service workers using Service Cloud better AI-powered tools – GeekWire PayPal told customer her death breached its rules - BBC News Musk hits back at cave rescue criticisms: “Something’s messed up if this is not a good thing” - Business Insider Texas is CNBC's Top State for Business in America this year Microsoft’s Surface Go tablet has a 10-inch screen and starts at $399 - The Verge

This Podcast Is Episode Number 0267, And It Will Be About Top 10 News 2018 Related To Construction Today's Guest Article Is From Carol James-Petrol, Manager Of Stancespice.com  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently, in the United States is a large number of construction projects that strike not only their idea but also the estimated value. With the various megaprojects that are built or destroyed, it's difficult to track their development. Although all the construction projects are expected to fully open or reach significant milestones this year. Why is it important to consider the largest construction work? There are two main reasons. The initial one is in the fact that such projects https://stancespice.com/  can affect the total volume of the dollar. That is, the time and size of these projects have an exaggerated effect on market forecasts and this is a huge number of new jobs. It's clear that 2018 is a great year for large construction projects. Here are a few highlights of the major construction projects USA that occur in 2018. 1. San Francisco: Salesforce Tower One of the tallest buildings in the United States is to be opened. The opening will be in early 2018 and the 61-story Salesforce Tower, which is located in the financial district of San Francisco will become one of the 10 tallest buildings in the US. Moreover, it is one of the highest streets of New York or Chicago. 2. Manhattan: Hudson Yards Manhattan will see a large-scale construction project on the west side, as new stages of the extensive Hudson Yards project go online. This year, much attention has to be paid to residential and retail sales. Despite the fact that it was opened in 2016, its addition is expected. The 895-foot-high office tower is in the constant development of the Hudson Yards, Manhattan. It is expected that this of 28 acres will turn into a multifunctional development with 16 skyscrapers. It is planned that the largest private property in the history of the country will include more than 18 million square feet of commercial and residential space. It must contain more than 100 shops, 14 acres of public space and even a comprehensive school. It is scheduled to finish this construction for the year 2024. 3. New York: A new bridge over the Hudson This project is one of the largest in the field of US infrastructure. The replacement of the old bridge has an estimated value of 4 billion dollars. This project began in 2013, in 2017 there were 8 spans of bilateral traffic. This summer the project should be completed. The bridge has to contain 8 spans, 4 lanes of breakdown in the same emergency lanes, a bus stop, a bicycle path and a footpath with observation platforms. 4. Southern California: California High Speed Rail This project is considered one of the most expensive one in the USA. The declared value of the California high-speed railway is 64 billion US dollars, it must take two hours and forty minutes to transport passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles. This Construction is divided into segments, and the contracts are individually awarded to the winners of the auctions in stages. Construction began in 2015 and should be completed by 2029. Construction began in 2015. It is expected that in 2025 the first phase has to be completed and passengers will be able to move, in 2029 the following shares will be opened. 5. San Francisco: Central Subway The project of the Central Metro will expand the third line of the Subway Munti through SoMa, Union Square and Chinаtown, passing through the metro and avoiding intensive traffic through the streets. The project is currently in the center, the completion of the project is planned by 2019, four new stations will appear with a fresh rail. The new line will be 1.7-mile. 6. California: Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District, Inglewood Current work is in progress at the stadium and entertainment area of Los Angeles in Hollywood Park. The stadium has to accommodate up to 100,000 seats and must open in 2020. It is expected that in 2028 there will be an Olympics. It will also include 6,000 executive venues, shopping venues, offices, a hotel, 25 acres of public spaces and parks. 7. Detroit: Two Detroit-Ontario bridges The creation of a new international bridge is planned in the second half of 2018. The bridge of Gordie Howe has to connect Detroit and Windsor. The cost of construction is estimated at $ 2.1 billion. Canada, like Michigan, should allocate $ 550 million for the construction of a second bridge between Detroit and Windsor. These funds are planned to be returned, charging a fare through the bridge. Preparations for a total cost of $ 350 million have already been carried out in the United States and Canada. All permits and licenses have been received, the demolition of almost 200 buildings in the US has been completed. 8.Seattle: Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement In 2017, the tunnel was completed under the center of Seattle for a length of 1.7 miles. In the year 2018, there is work on the creation of a two-story road in order to replace the aging Alaska Way Viaduct in Alaska, which was planned for demolition. In 2019, the opening is expected, the estimated cost is 3.1 billion dollars. 9. Detroit: Hudson’s Development The complete renovation of the JL Hudson website is expected in the center of Detroit. The project belongs to Dan Gilbert, and the estimated cost of the project is about $ 1 billion for the complete equipment. A special feature of the project is a tower 800 feet high, where an observation deck will be located. This tower will undoubtedly become the tallest building in the city with the opportunity to see the panorama of the city. 10. San Francisco: The Grand Central Station of the West It is expected that this year will open a new Salesforce Transportation Center in San Francisco. This center contains not only the bus or railway station but also the central element of the city. It will have a 5.4-acre park which is located on the roof of the station. Undoubtedly it will become the heart of the city. Ultimately, the Salesforce Transit Center can truly become the hub of all transportation agencies in the region, with more than 100,000 passengers on weekdays. About The Author: Carol James-Petrol, manager of Stancespice.com Carol  works as a manager for a famous car company. He's interested in enhancement of the auto specifications with the help of car parts made on individualized orders. С. 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Kara Murphy was one of the lucky few to be able to fly sky high in the dead centre of San Francisco, and has captured some dynamite photos of the cityscape. My personal favourite after checking out her site is this photo of the Salesforce Tower while it was under construction.

Live from the 19th Floor of Salesforce Tower, Scott talks with Mark Fisher, Chief Policy Officer and Matt Impink, Director of Policy and Civic Engagement from the Indy Chamber. In this episode, hear how the Indy Chamber is helping identify & develop solutions for the workforce needs in Indianapolis as well as thoughts on how health effects workforce development. ________________________________________________________ Apex Benefits, an Indianapolis-based benefits consulting firm, develops innovative strategies and programs to provide employers unique, cost-savings health benefits programs. With a dedicated market analysis staff, and exclusive ApexAnalytics™ tool for health and claims data, we deliver on our promises while assisting more than 250 organizations in making effective benefits decisions for their organizations and employees. For more information, please visit www.apexbg.com

In this episode, we discuss scouting too far ahead on project requirements, debate agile vs waterfall, and answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community. Barry Hawkins - How We Got Here, And What To Do About It New California Law Prohibits Salary History Inquiries Our Path to Equality: The Salesforce Annual Update Proposal to Turn the Salesforce Tower Into a Real Gusher Advances Jokesters propose fountain on top of Salesforce Tower Install a majestic artistic fountain on top of the Salesforce tower!

Ep 11: On partial stake sales, Salesforce Tower and modular construction On this week's issue of the Structures podcast, multimedia producer Kevin Truong and real estate reporters Blanca Torres and Roland Li dive full on into the policy wonk behind partial stake sales, which allow landlords to skirt transfer and property taxes. [1:22] Then the podcast team takes a look at Salesforce Tower and what the tallest building in San Francisco symbolizes for the city and the emerging Transbay neighborhood. [6:45] Finally, the team checks out an emerging trend in the building industry, modular construction, which consists of pre-assembling sections off-site before final assembly on location. [20:52] Links: Roland's cover story on partial stake sales: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/10/26/by-feasting-on-s-f-partial-stakes-big-real.html A 360-degree view from the top of Salesforce Tower: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/11/06/salesforce-crm-tower-sf-top-boston-properties-bxp.html Recent proposed projects in West Oakland using modular construction: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/11/13/west-oakland-modular-housing-holliday-development.html Architect David Baker on the possibility of modular housing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9gkYw35Vws

In this episode, we discuss the IntelliJ 2017 release, accusations by the Department of Labor concerning Google's wage gap, Benioff capping off the Salesforce Tower, and the need to release early and often. IntelliJ - What's New Department Of Labor Accuses Google Of Extreme Systemic Disparity In Pay Based On Gender Google Pushes Back on Gender Pay Gap Allegations by Outlining Compensation Method The Circle (2017) Are These Funds Plotting to Oust Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff? Release early, release often

Host Greg Weaver talks to IndyStar reporters about the Salesforce expansion and its implications for LGBT rights, speculation about Trump’s veep, the new Ivy Tech president and the renewed push for a new Marion County Jail.

In this episode, we discuss Dropbox building their own cloud and moving away from AWS, Marc Benioff's commitment to making sure the Salesforce Tower includes mindful spaces, using encrypted fields in Salesforce, the recently announced Salesforce Field Service Lightning, and Oracle's financial results.The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud EmpireSalesforce takes on ServiceMax, Microsoft and Oracle with new field service productMicrosoft Corporation Takes on Salesforce with Dynamics CRM 2016 UpdateSalesforce.com storage fail causes lengthy outageSalesforce-Microsoft love grows with SalesforceIQ-Outlook integrationSalesforce Launches New Platform For Financial AdvisorsOracle claims both Salesforce.com and Workday are behindDump Oracle and get a free license for Microsoft SQL ServerHere's the email Larry Ellison just sent to employees about a big change at OracleKeep All Your Customer Data with BigObjects (Pilot)

In this episode we discuss Sage's 2-2-2 charity model, the opening of the Salesforce Tower in London, Salesforce's acquisition of Tempo AI, and updates on Salesforce Wave.Sage opens a charitable Foundation as CEO Stephen Kelly plans for a cloud futureSalesforce TowerLondon slaps down Salesforce's bid to rename Heron TowerRestaurant review: Duck & Waffle, Heron Tower, 110 Bishopsgate, London, EC2Salesforce buys smart calendar, TempoWunderlist Joins MicrosoftSalesforce Helps Customers Ride Wave To Big Data PlatformsHas Salesforce Wave lived up to the hype?