David Stern’s Legacy; E-Cigarette Sales; Google’s “Don’t Be Evil”

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern has died at 77. BET Founder and first black majority owner of an NBA team Bob Johnson speaks on Stern’s legacy on the court and in the boardroom. Becky, Joe, and CNBC’s Phil LeBeau discuss the emerging details of Carlos Ghosn’s flight from Japan’s legal system. The FDA plans to ban flavored e-cigarette cartridges as early as this week, but former commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb says the damage is already done. Plus, Google veterans call the company’s culture in 2019 “unrecognizable.” Journalists Ed Lee, Joanne Lipman, and CNBC’s Dierdre Bosa discuss internal strife at Alphabet and how the company’s evolution could affect top talent recruitment.

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	This is Squawk Pod, the Daily Podcast brought to you by the team behind Squawk Box.
0:08.0	NYC, this is NBC Control 2.
0:10.0	See, NBC's essential morning show.
0:12.0	Every day get the best stories, debate, and analysis. see Remembering David Stern, the man who changed the basketball game.
0:24.0	He ran the NBA in what I would call the Iron Fist inside of Belvet Glove.
0:30.6	Bob Johnson, founder of BET and the first black majority owner of an
0:34.0	NBA team speaks to Stern's legacy in sports and beyond.
0:38.6	Stores rolling back e-cigarette sales only go so far says the man who ran the FDA Dr Scott Gottley. The damage has
0:45.1	been done. This gained fashion among children. And strife among Googlers. Journalist
0:50.7	Joanne Lippman on the veterans of the company who are pining for the original days of
0:54.4	alphabets don't be evil culture.
0:57.2	The mood was more like disappointment with something you love, but it's really morphed, it seems, since then, from disappointment
1:05.6	to hostility.
1:07.6	We've got those stories and a lot more.
1:09.5	I'm the NBC producer Katie Kramer.
1:11.2	It's Thursday, January 2nd, 2020.
1:14.0	2020, 2020.
1:15.4	Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:18.2	I have a really good Barbara Walters.
1:19.9	Yeah, I know exactly.
1:20.9	Because you watch, you watch Ryan Seacrest 20 20 they played a hundred of those I know I was like stop make it stop make it stop
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