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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney. Alongside
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Speaker 1: our next guest, Sad Path Soda Ryan, chief revenue officer
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Speaker 1: from Verizon, joins a sad Path. Thanks so much for
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Speaker 1: joining us here, huge global company, Verizon Business Consumer. How
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Speaker 1: has your business changed in the last two years? Hey,
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Speaker 1: good morning everyone. Look, it's been a good time for us.
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Speaker 1: You know, as networks become even more important as people
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Speaker 1: work from home, remote work is more prevalent networks and
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Speaker 1: what we offer becomes really important. And for us, it's
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Speaker 1: also where we are launching five G you know, we
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Speaker 1: are right now at the cusp of a second phase
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Speaker 1: of the five G era where we turn on our
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Speaker 1: ce band network in a few weeks times. So it's
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Speaker 1: it's it's just a great time to be in this business.
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Speaker 1: So you are the chief revenue officer. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how deep into the tech you are, but you have
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Speaker 1: to have some um view on the safety of five G.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, for the first time last week,
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing that it's capable of messing with airplanes altitude
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Speaker 1: sensors and maybe you would make landing dangerous. To me,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty binary. Either it's dangerous or it's not. What's
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Speaker 1: the deal, It's not dangerous. Look, safeties are most important
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Speaker 1: to us, and it's kind of number one in what
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Speaker 1: we do. All we that are forty countries around the
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Speaker 1: world that have five G networks in the same CE
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Speaker 1: band that we operate in. Planes takeoff, planes land there
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Speaker 1: really well, one of the countries is France. You know,
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Speaker 1: American planes go in and get out there. What we
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Speaker 1: are proposing is a kind of a similar approach to
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Speaker 1: what's there in France, where we kind of have an
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Speaker 1: exclusionary zone just outside the airports where we have lower
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Speaker 1: power levels so there's no interference that way. You know.
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Speaker 1: We give the f A and the FCC six months
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Speaker 1: to work this out, but we feel very confident and
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Speaker 1: we just can't wait to launch the network. I mean,
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Speaker 1: even if you didn't have that sand path, what if
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Speaker 1: you had the strongest, most powerful five G signals right
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Speaker 1: up the tower. Um, would it interfere with I mean,
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Speaker 1: aren't the bandwidths different? Isn't Isn't there someone who made
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Speaker 1: sure that this is a different part of the frequency
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Speaker 1: before they sold you, um, this bundle? Yeah, exactly. Look,
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Speaker 1: you know we spent fifty three billion dollars for it. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And the laws of physics are the same either in
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Speaker 1: the United States or in France or any of the
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Speaker 1: other countries. In fact, in the US, the guard band
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Speaker 1: are kind of the protection band between the spectrum we
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Speaker 1: use and then the spectrum the airlines use. Is one
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Speaker 1: of the largest in the world, so there are two
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Speaker 1: different spectrums. We have a very large guard band, and
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Speaker 1: with us, you know, lowering power levels and other technical
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Speaker 1: things around airports, we see absolutely no risk. So Sampath
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Speaker 1: gives a sense advertising again a huge company. Um, how
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Speaker 1: what's the are you know, managing through the pandemic? How
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Speaker 1: has Verizon done? How has Verizon adapted? A couple of things,
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Speaker 1: you know, One, we have to balance out four of
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Speaker 1: our stakeholders, you know, whether it's employees, customers, shareholders, and
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Speaker 1: broader society. So just having that balance has been a
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Speaker 1: good framework for us to get through. The second is
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Speaker 1: that personal safety is important for our teams. But we
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Speaker 1: also realized that the service we operate networks is kind
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Speaker 1: of the backbone of the global economy today. It's the
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Speaker 1: rails on which most of the economy runs on. So
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Speaker 1: for us, it's been a careful balance of the four
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Speaker 1: stakeholders as well as ensuring that our networks up and
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Speaker 1: running at the same time. Now it's also the same
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Speaker 1: time we decided to deploy five G. More broadly, Actually,
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Speaker 1: it's been a little faster than what we had planned
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Speaker 1: because our construction has not stopped. We've moved applied faster.
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Speaker 1: So you know, a little bit of good and bad,
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Speaker 1: but overall is just a great time to be here.
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Speaker 1: The other thing I've noticed, um from the consumer side,
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Speaker 1: people have been using more data than ever on a
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Speaker 1: level that they probably wouldn't have imagined. Not just consuming um,
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Speaker 1: you know, uh media content like television shows and movies,
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Speaker 1: but they're doing all of their banking online, and they're
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Speaker 1: starting their cars with their phones and controlling their home
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Speaker 1: HVAC systems with their phones. And you know, this was
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Speaker 1: what was forecast to happen, but I don't think anyone
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Speaker 1: expected it to boom all of a sudden happening side
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Speaker 1: of the period of one year. Um, how is that
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Speaker 1: for you? Are you still offering unlimited data packages or
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Speaker 1: people using fort sixty gigs a month? Yeah, people are
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Speaker 1: using a lot of data. As you said, they use
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Speaker 1: it for everything. I wish I could say everything is
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Speaker 1: for great to you with my kids use it for
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Speaker 1: a lot more gaming than they need to. But yes,
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Speaker 1: definitely a lot of data consumption that's gone, which is
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Speaker 1: why the five G network is critical because one of
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Speaker 1: the biggest advantages of five G if you get more
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Speaker 1: throughput and more speed. So we're literally adding a ton
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Speaker 1: and a ton of a technical term, a ton of
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Speaker 1: capacity in the network. All right, Sam Path, thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Really appreciate getting your thoughts there,
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Speaker 1: Sam Path, so many on a Ryan, chief revenue officer
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Speaker 1: for Verizon. I was just typing out a letter to
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Speaker 1: some of the producers upstairs at the Quick Take at
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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Quick Take, a little pitch for them because I said,
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Speaker 1: you should have me on more I can talk about cars,
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Speaker 1: and they were like, yeah, all you want to talk
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Speaker 1: about is cars, But I said, look, it's at the
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Speaker 1: center of the economy, probably more so UM that any
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Speaker 1: time since Henry Ford started his production line, because these
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Speaker 1: vehicles use more and more chips, especially as they produce
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Speaker 1: UM more hybrids and e vs than they ever have before.
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Speaker 1: It's it's connected to the labor story, it's connected to
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Speaker 1: UH consumer spending, and it's just amazing. Let's let's focus
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Speaker 1: in on the chips part of it, because we have
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Speaker 1: not Cool Dougal Uh. He is a senior VP and
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Speaker 1: General manager of Automotive UH for qual Calm right now,
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Speaker 1: and they are I'm gonna get the biggest not Cool
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Speaker 1: correct me if if I'm wrong, the biggest automotive chip
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Speaker 1: maker in the world. I would like to see the
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Speaker 1: fastest going. Good morning, gentlemen, the fastest growing all right.
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Speaker 1: I just know because UM I was at the Munich
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Speaker 1: Auto Show. I spent a lot of time at car shows,
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Speaker 1: and UM I noticed so many products there, UM, from
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Speaker 1: the trucks to the cars to Ducati motorcycles are packing
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Speaker 1: qual Calm chips UM, and you can't make them fast enough. Right,
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Speaker 1: Are you still at a point where your order books
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Speaker 1: are completely full and you just can't ship them quickly enough.
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Speaker 1: To the customer. You know, that's right. We've been able
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Speaker 1: to stay ahead of the challenges that the industry has
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Speaker 1: had because we prioritize automotive over our other businesses, just
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Speaker 1: because of the complexity of the auto industry. But we
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Speaker 1: consider ourselves MATH bought in a very fortunate position because
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Speaker 1: you know, we uh, I would say, human as far
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Speaker 1: back as a decade ago, made the call that automotive
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Speaker 1: was a very important adjacency forkcom to start to focus
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Speaker 1: on and invest in as this market goes through a
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Speaker 1: significant amount of transformation, and we are seeing a lot
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Speaker 1: of the dividends of the investments we've made back then
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Speaker 1: pay out as we look ahead. Now, cool, maybe you
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Speaker 1: can settle an argument. Matt and I were just having
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Speaker 1: literally here in the studio about you know, I was questioning,
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Speaker 1: why are we still having such a pronounced chip shortage
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Speaker 1: on a global scale. Matt says, it was, you know,
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Speaker 1: just unprecedented increase in demand across a range of products.
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Speaker 1: I said, no, no, no, I think it's got to
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Speaker 1: come from the supply side. That maybe plant closures in Asia,
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Speaker 1: and so that really came on the supply side, but
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Speaker 1: so long ago, I know, But I'm just thinking, these
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Speaker 1: chip guys have got to figure this thing out, so
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Speaker 1: settle this debate for us. I think there are there
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Speaker 1: are a few different things going on, and I think
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Speaker 1: first of all, electrification is creating the need for new
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Speaker 1: architectures for vehicles. So there is a lot of focus
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Speaker 1: as you look at the next generation modern cars to
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Speaker 1: move towards an architecture that relies on semiconductors much more
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Speaker 1: heavily as it has. As you know, the the car
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Speaker 1: industry is moving more towards the mobility business, which means
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Speaker 1: you have to be able to have a tremendous amount
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Speaker 1: of software and semiconductors that power that software. UH. What
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Speaker 1: compounds become flexity is as we went through COVID UH,
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Speaker 1: the automotive architecture has relied on a variety of different
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Speaker 1: vintages of semiconductors. As architectures and automotive haven't evolved for
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Speaker 1: a long period of time, there is a dependency on
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Speaker 1: older architectures that use semiconductors in lagging process notes. That's
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Speaker 1: when most of the complexity is where you've been developing
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Speaker 1: semiconductors on older notes for a long period of time
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Speaker 1: that that have a lot more complexity to modernize. The
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Speaker 1: complexity is much less when you talk about the next
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Speaker 1: generation notes. So what we are starting to see is
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Speaker 1: a significant transition towards newer notes. You can't completely get
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Speaker 1: yourself out of the depends on older notes, but a
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Speaker 1: significant faster transition to newer nodes, which obviously places to
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Speaker 1: our advantage. I've noticed some some carmakers are just dropping
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Speaker 1: functions completely because they don't have the chips to power them.
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Speaker 1: For example, about ten years ago, a lot of the
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Speaker 1: carmakers started offering the style start technology where your motor
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Speaker 1: switches off at a stoplight. UM. Car guys hate it
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Speaker 1: right and always try and disable it. Now I've noticed
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Speaker 1: some car makers like GM, I'm building a truck on
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Speaker 1: their website and they say, uh, no stops to feature anymore.
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Speaker 1: So you get fifty dollars back. Are you are you
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Speaker 1: going to see more of that you think the cool
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Speaker 1: or less of that? Are Are we at a point
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Speaker 1: where this is getting better or we're or still worse?
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Speaker 1: I think it's an excellent question. I think that's an
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Speaker 1: example of the dependency on a small micro controller that
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Speaker 1: is in short supply and it's going to be harder
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Speaker 1: to get around. The transition we are seeing pollen mat
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Speaker 1: is that those steps of functions are moving to software,
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Speaker 1: so where you have much harder performance application processors that
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Speaker 1: the auto industry is now embracing, and a function like
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Speaker 1: stop start can actually be integrated as a software function
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Speaker 1: into the higher end processor as opposed to rely on
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Speaker 1: a simple discrete micro controller. So you will start to
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Speaker 1: see examples like this play out, and that functionality gets
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Speaker 1: subsumed into larger application processors that then manage that functionality
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Speaker 1: to software. All right, Nicole, here's the money question. When
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Speaker 1: is this chip shortage going to be addressed? Here? When
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Speaker 1: are we making back to more normalized supply demand. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think it's a complex question because it
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Speaker 1: is a bit different for each automaker. Everybody has a
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Speaker 1: slightly different type of challenge too. Smaller automakers are going
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Speaker 1: to be able to get around it faster, especially if
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Speaker 1: they move to newer architectures. The larger ones that have
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Speaker 1: a lot more complexity, lot more diversity across their uh
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Speaker 1: their portfolio, have a lot more dependency on the complexity
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Speaker 1: of the semiconductor crisis. But I would imagine, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the I think we are. I think towards the
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Speaker 1: end of twenty two we should certainly start to see
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Speaker 1: the industry come out of a lot of this complexity
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Speaker 1: on the whole. From our perspective, we have actually been
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Speaker 1: able to stay ahead of this challenge, but clearly we
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Speaker 1: supply a portion of the overall semiconductor portfolio within a
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Speaker 1: vehicle n cool what's the smartest car out there? What's
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Speaker 1: the what's the coolest, high highest tech vehicle that you
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Speaker 1: could buy right now? Yeah? I think, you know, there
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Speaker 1: are several because we have so many different partners and
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Speaker 1: customers that we work with. But you know, one thing
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Speaker 1: that we are very proud of is the fact that
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Speaker 1: the strategy that we've laid out over the last five
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Speaker 1: years has now culminated into working called the Snap Drag
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Speaker 1: and Digital Chassis, which is basically enabling automakers with the
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Speaker 1: newest tech, the latest semiconductors in software, connected to highly
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Speaker 1: complex ecosystems, whether it's in the autonomous space or in
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Speaker 1: the digital cockpit experience or five connectivity, and bringing that
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Speaker 1: together to help automakers make a much larger step up
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Speaker 1: in terms of modernization. We've been working with General Motors
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Speaker 1: for a number of years, but over twenty years. And
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Speaker 1: Mary Burton announced the partnership with us UH can see
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Speaker 1: yes a few days ago. We are very part of
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Speaker 1: the Altar Cruise work that we've been doing with them,
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Speaker 1: which is a level three door to door autonomous service.
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Speaker 1: We made an announcement with the bub back in November
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Speaker 1: on Ada. Wal Boy has been working with us. Difficult
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Speaker 1: to pick one of my favorite customers, all right, Nicole
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Speaker 1: Nicole Naldgal, Senior VP and General Manager Automotive for Qualcom.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. They need to get more chips out
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Speaker 1: into the marketplace. That's what their customers are demanding. We'll
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Speaker 1: see how long that plays out. We talked about that
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Speaker 1: they'll Take two again buying who are they buying? Other things?
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Speaker 1: Premium twelve billion? Large? That size. I didn't know there
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Speaker 1: was that arm for words with friends. It's not even scrabble,
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Speaker 1: it's an also ran. All right, let's check in with
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Speaker 1: an expert here on this deal. I mean Ben Sad
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Speaker 1: he is t MT analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. I mean,
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Speaker 1: thanks so much for taking a time here. Is this
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Speaker 1: a good deal for Take two? Their stock is trading down? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I mean thanks for having me and and I think this
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Speaker 1: is a very good deal for for Take two, especially
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Speaker 1: as when you look at the numbers in this deal.
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Speaker 1: First of all, it looks like this is the largest
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Speaker 1: video game deal ever from a mini stand point. And
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Speaker 1: second of all, Take two previously they had almost ten
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Speaker 1: percent of theirselves from mobile, and this deal is gonna,
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Speaker 1: you know, the next few years is gonna push that
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Speaker 1: to over fifty serves of going to mobile. And that's
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Speaker 1: important because mobile is that first is growing. Uh you
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Speaker 1: know gaming, Uh certainly, I just I find that so
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Speaker 1: hard to believe because I don't know what you can
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Speaker 1: do with mobile. I I love video games I have
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Speaker 1: ever since, not Pong, but you know, Galactica and all
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Speaker 1: the way through, um Super Mario Brothers with Nintendo three
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Speaker 1: and none of the Daga up through. You know. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm playing Xbox all the time, Call of Duty and
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Speaker 1: even Red Dead unfortunately I hate it, but I play it. Um,
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Speaker 1: what can you do on mobile? There's like, aside from
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Speaker 1: Angry Birds, right, how can it can't even get complex enough?
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Speaker 1: You know, First, I would say you actually impressed me
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Speaker 1: earlier when you mentioned Collegual Vision, which is, you know,
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Speaker 1: one of the oldest came in conforts even before Autari,
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Speaker 1: so that was gooding knowledge knowledge there I didn't you
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Speaker 1: can know about that. But from gaming, you know, mobile
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Speaker 1: has been very successful because we don't target gamers. They
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Speaker 1: target uh segment in the population called hyper hyper casual gamers. Right,
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Speaker 1: somebody just plays can division a little bit, plays some
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Speaker 1: puzzles or something, or farm reels or world with friends,
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Speaker 1: and that's why this segment has imploded in the last
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Speaker 1: few years, and especially in Asia it has been doing
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Speaker 1: really really well. So really, if to focus on the
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Speaker 1: hyper casual quote unquote gamers, that's why there is a
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Speaker 1: huge success in this platform. I also wonder about the
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Speaker 1: lack of gamers. Are we worried that, you know, the
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Speaker 1: world just isn't producing enough young people. We're gonna actually
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Speaker 1: read a book, We're gonna, we're gonna we're gonna have
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Speaker 1: enough video games for sure, But are there enough consumers
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Speaker 1: for all this content? Yes? Absolutely, I think overall globally,
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Speaker 1: if you include the hyper casual gamers, there's over three
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Speaker 1: billion gamers right now. So it's not going to be
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Speaker 1: the lack of gamers, especially with this new generation there
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Speaker 1: are basically born in gaming. If you think about Fortnight
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Speaker 1: and other games like that. Gaming has become much more
16:47
Speaker 1: mainstream than news to be back then, and now it's
16:50
Speaker 1: all one handed, any billion dollar global industry. So the
16:55
Speaker 1: industry is growing, the user basis growing, so it's not
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Speaker 1: going to be lack of gamers. I think to your point,
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Speaker 1: it's probably the lack of contact. And especially during the pandemic.
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Speaker 1: All the major video game makers were impacted by the pandemics,
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Speaker 1: but they have lower content that they expected. Uh, and
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Speaker 1: talking about this deal here quickly, Uh, Take two kept
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Speaker 1: delaying news about g t A six content of for six,
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Speaker 1: which is one of the major games being awaited in
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Speaker 1: this industry. And this is why this deal kind of
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Speaker 1: makes sense to uh, you know, to remove some of
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Speaker 1: the headaches in the top line that this company with
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Speaker 1: you facing, all right, I mean, thanks so much for
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Speaker 1: bringing us up to date on this big deal in
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Speaker 1: the gaming space. I mean, Ben sad tmt Annalys, Bloomberg Intelligence, Matt,
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Speaker 1: I got, I guess, I gotta. I mean, if you're
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Speaker 1: still there, are you a gamer too? Yes? Three years
17:43
Speaker 1: gaming I started actually on the Commodore sixty four playing
17:48
Speaker 1: space Taxi and Mule, and I've noticed a lot of
17:52
Speaker 1: these games are coming back now you can get them
17:54
Speaker 1: on your phone. That to me is an interesting thing
17:58
Speaker 1: that these um vent games are coming back. Oh yes, look,
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Speaker 1: especially the indie companies. They are smaller ones. They make
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Speaker 1: games like that because the cord of love of resources.
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Speaker 1: And that's why you see Netflix, even Netflix getting into that. So, yes,
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Speaker 1: those are coming back because they have a lot of
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Speaker 1: interesting stolis there. Very cool. Okay, Paul, you're not a gamer,
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Speaker 1: of course not. I'm an adult. Okay, I bet you
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Speaker 1: would like Mule. I'm gonna show you Mule during the
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Speaker 1: break and then we'll see if, um, if you can
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Speaker 1: get into it. It's really it's a market. Okay. I
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Speaker 1: aged out after Atari. How about that? The Goldman sacks
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Speaker 1: that I grew up with and I competed against was
18:39
Speaker 1: investment banking and investment banking, and that was basically and
18:44
Speaker 1: bankers and traders, bankers and traders. But since the Great
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Speaker 1: was running it then so John Whitehead, uh, it might
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Speaker 1: even been like yeah, probably Core designed for a while there.
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Speaker 1: I'm going back in the day. Um but they've always
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Speaker 1: been the big bank, the big trading desk. But really
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Speaker 1: since Great Financial Crisis, they've been really branching out into
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Speaker 1: more consumer businesses. And I saw them some news there
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Speaker 1: Goldman adds GM credit cards to its Marcus consumer business.
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Speaker 1: I just shook my head. But what happened to my
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Speaker 1: old Goldman sex? All right? Shanani Basket, Wall Street reporter
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Speaker 1: for Bloomberg News. She joins the shore. She follows the
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Speaker 1: Wall Street beat closely. Goldman's continuing to expand out its
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Speaker 1: consumer business, right, yeah, listen, this is the second big
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Speaker 1: partnership that Goldman is announcing here with General Motors. Of course,
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Speaker 1: we know they had that big relationship with Apple before.
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Speaker 1: What you're seeing here is Goldman start to branch into
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Speaker 1: new places, so card business. To what extent do they
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Speaker 1: have their ambition to launch their own credit card without
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Speaker 1: the co brand? And also what does General Motors give them?
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Speaker 1: General Motors already has billions of customers in their own
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Speaker 1: credit card business, so now by partner with Goldman, the
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Speaker 1: hope is they could really expand on the millions of
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Speaker 1: customers they've been able to amass with Apple. To your point,
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Speaker 1: General Motors was previews a slee An investment banking client,
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Speaker 1: which they then converted now into what you're what do
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Speaker 1: you not buy? It, Matt, is that you know what,
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Speaker 1: grass grows faster than Goldman Sacks business. This has been
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Speaker 1: years in the making, and they seem to have done
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Speaker 1: very little with Apple. I mean, they could take over
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Speaker 1: your life if they wanted to. Apple and Goldman Sacks
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Speaker 1: together you could do everything one stop shop, um from
20:30
Speaker 1: savings to checking to investment, credit card, I mean, you
20:34
Speaker 1: name it. They're just not doing it. Marcus has taken
20:38
Speaker 1: forever to get off the ground. Forever and ever and
20:41
Speaker 1: ever and ever we've been talking about it. You were
20:44
Speaker 1: in high school to that that's not true. I mean,
20:48
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years they have and remember
20:50
Speaker 1: these are very highly regulated businesses. To your point, Goldman
20:53
Speaker 1: makes a couple hundred million a quarter on their consumer
20:57
Speaker 1: business Revolute and and twenty six they came out of
21:01
Speaker 1: the gates running, ready to win, picking up customers by
21:05
Speaker 1: the millions. And where are they based in Europe exactly.
21:09
Speaker 1: So it's been a lot harder in the US for
21:11
Speaker 1: the big banks to really get their technology in line,
21:14
Speaker 1: which is what makes these partnerships and these efforts so interesting.
21:18
Speaker 1: They just need to buy the technology. They already run
21:21
Speaker 1: the government, right, so they don't need to worry about regulations.
21:24
Speaker 1: The government buys them. Let's the idea of the government
21:27
Speaker 1: allowing Goldman Sacks to buy like a Stripe, for example,
21:31
Speaker 1: which is a lot more back end infrastructure. The biggest
21:34
Speaker 1: payments companies in the US, Matt, the biggest tech companies
21:38
Speaker 1: are all back end financial, back of credit cards. They're
21:43
Speaker 1: not consumer facing businesses. All Right, we're gonna have the
21:45
Speaker 1: Super Bowl this year where so Fi Stadium in Los Angeles.
21:51
Speaker 1: So far as a brand, I know, so it's a
21:54
Speaker 1: brand that Goldman Sacks knows. So to Matt's point, I'm
21:57
Speaker 1: almost at the point by a former set Goldman Sacks banker.
22:01
Speaker 1: There's a dollar say it's only ten billion dollar company,
22:05
Speaker 1: so you buy that with a couple of partners pocket change.
22:08
Speaker 1: But at least that gets you a brand awareness, because
22:10
Speaker 1: I think the MAT's point, one of the things that
22:11
Speaker 1: I'm surprised about is the brand value. The brand awareness
22:15
Speaker 1: of Marcus, I think is still obscure to what you
22:19
Speaker 1: can get from it. They just launched investing products. They
22:22
Speaker 1: have had that savings product. This is the year that
22:24
Speaker 1: they're probably going to open a checking account. Once they
22:27
Speaker 1: open that checking account is when they can be a
22:29
Speaker 1: real full scale bank for consumers in a bigger way.
22:32
Speaker 1: But to your point, they are not that yet by
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Speaker 1: any means. I mean, remember when we all got so
22:37
Speaker 1: excited about the Apple card before it came out. Oh
22:39
Speaker 1: my god, Apple is going to release a credit card.
22:42
Speaker 1: This is gonna change finance forever. I gotta get one.
22:44
Speaker 1: Do you have an Apple card? Do you have an
22:46
Speaker 1: Apple Card? No? Neither. When I use Apple Pay, neither
22:49
Speaker 1: do I. Of course we all use Apple Pay. But look,
22:51
Speaker 1: they could just do so much. The first site that
22:54
Speaker 1: I made the Apple page paying my subway. Listen there.
22:59
Speaker 1: The car business is a harder one too, because you
23:01
Speaker 1: have a Chase Sapphire, or you have City Group, the
23:05
Speaker 1: biggest card tossure in the world, your Barclays. You're competing,
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Speaker 1: and they both offer better rewards programs than Apple and
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Speaker 1: Goldman Sax. Why not, because it's hard to think of
23:15
Speaker 1: offering a good rewards program. The numbers are there, all
23:18
Speaker 1: you have to do is beat the numbers, and they
23:19
Speaker 1: make a ton on interest rates already. They don't need
23:21
Speaker 1: to worry about the padding they have that well. Actually,
23:24
Speaker 1: the interest rates are not making anything off of right
23:26
Speaker 1: now because people are paying back their cards. But this
23:29
Speaker 1: is this is why this is now into this year
23:31
Speaker 1: a big deal because people are starting to borrow again
23:34
Speaker 1: at a much bigger scale than they're taking out any
23:36
Speaker 1: other type of loan. And so to get into it
23:38
Speaker 1: now is a good time. But yes, it is an
23:41
Speaker 1: extraordinarily hard time to get in the card business because
23:44
Speaker 1: people want rewards. They want them and all forms, shapes
23:48
Speaker 1: and sizes for different products. They want them in crypto sometimes.
23:52
Speaker 1: So if you can't give your client everything, then can
23:55
Speaker 1: you compete in the space is a perfectly legitimate question.
23:58
Speaker 1: All right. I think we're saying basically, this isn't a
24:02
Speaker 1: typical Goldman business because it hasn't just got that that
24:05
Speaker 1: traction that you would expect, uh, this Goldman effort to do.
24:09
Speaker 1: But we'll see how they continue to invest in it,
24:11
Speaker 1: and we'll see how it continues to grow into the business.
24:13
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