Ford Motor Has a New Driver
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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Mark Fields is out as CEO at Ford Motor just three years after being unanimously praised as Alan Mulally’s successor. Taylor Muckerman analyzes the potential thinking behind the decision and where Ford needs to go next with autonomous driving. Plus we dip into the Fool Mailbag to consider the next e-commerce player Wal-Mart could buy.
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| 0:11.6 | It's Monday, May 22nd. Welcome to the market foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from |
| 0:16.4 | Stock Advisor Canada, Taylor Mukerman. Happy Monday. |
| 0:19.7 | You too, thanks a lot. |
| 0:20.7 | It's good, it's good to be here. It is. It's good to be in the studio as opposed to the downpour outside. |
| 0:26.2 | And they got the AC fix in here? Yes, you know what? Kudos to our man behind the glass Dan Boyd for leading the charge. |
| 0:35.0 | Look it's an audio podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | Listeners don't care what our condition or should they care and we know from getting email |
| 0:44.9 | from our listeners depending on where they are and what they're doing some of |
| 0:48.8 | them are whatever is the temperature in our studio whatever is the weather in the greater DC area |
| 0:54.4 | Some people got it better and some got it worse no bearing on their life. Yeah, it's just like hey man. I'm I'm milking cows in northern Minnesota as one of our listeners does. |
| 1:05.1 | It's like, you know, in the middle of winter while I listen to you. |
| 1:08.5 | So I don't want to hear about how cold it is where you are. |
| 1:11.4 | Fair enough. |
| 1:12.0 | That's totally fair. |
| 1:13.0 | We're going to dip into the full mailbag. |
| 1:15.0 | We've got to start with the little bit of news that the news fairy dropped off, which is that Ford Motor |
| 1:21.3 | CEO Mark Fields is out. |
| 1:26.2 | I was surprised by this news. |
| 1:28.1 | I don't know if Mark Fields was surprised by this news. |
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