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Are there other retailers or other executives in the space that you look to and you think they're doing it right. You know, I want to steal borrow a little bit from what him or her is doing. >> There there are there are plenty.I mean, Fran Harowitz who runs Abocrami, we grew up at at Bloomingdales together and she's done a spectacular job and and I love the way there's been a clear reason for being for both Abocrombi, Abocrami and Fitch as well as Hollister. And I I think that delineation of uh assortment s ...

I find it kind of interesting that uh you go from super excitement about a technology to oh wow you know big concern. Um look being a engineer and technologist for a long time you know you see technologies and you see those that are kind of fads and then you see those that have extreme potential and you know AI is in the realm of extreme potential. uh you know the last two years we've been talking about it you know we've seen you know sort of the advent of chat GPT now turn into you know is there a a AI bub ...

succession plan is something that I'm concerned with. I I can't keep working, you know, these hours. I try to take some weekends off and some time off.It's a small business as the boss being here. My family says the brand in a small business is is you. >> We talk a lot about succession when it's a big publicly traded company.Do small family-owned businesses think and talk about succession as well. So the funny thing is we actually talk about succession about other people but inside the families they don't t ...

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Why does Netflix need this deal. >> What what's there are going to be a couple things that are going to drive success in streaming. One of them is really established IP and then global global franchises and those and they have to be global.They can go everywhere. With Warner Brothers, they get they get Harry Potter, they get Lord of the Rings, they get all the DC comics, which I could argue way underexploited, they they they get a whole set of shows. And even though um even though if you look at what Netfli ...

Tom, two sides to this. There's the Berkshire side and the Jp morgan side. Starting with Jp morgan, this higher for this, what is it, a security and resiliency initiative.What exactly are they throwing Todd Combs behind. That's really interesting from both sides. On the Jp morgan side, they basically picked him to effectively lead his 10 billion sort of direct equity investments that the bank is planning to do into stuff for areas like security, defense, critical minerals.And this is all part of that $1.5% ...

There's a lot of talk of partners and allies. Jamie, And you referenced that this is why Europe got itself into its problems. But also then you're highlighting the the strengths they have in their education system.What are some of the strengths. Yes, some Germany, Switzerland, two pulled out. What do you think they will have made of the strategic announcement that we just had the idea that I think civilization erasure was something that was named in the National Security Strategy published this week.Do you ...

We're just getting headlines. Keith, I know you got to run, but Paramount is offering a $30 all cash offer and saying that the equity is to be backstopped by the Ellison family. So Paramount offering to buy Warner Brothers for $30 a share in cash, as had been reported here, the Netflix deal is for 27.75%, and that's cash and stock.But of course, Paramount wants to buy the entire company and Netflix looking to split them up So or Warner Brothers Discovery would split up before the Netflix deal. I think this ...

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