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Pepsi’s Star is Stepping Down

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🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

After 12 years as CEO, Pepsico announced that Indra Nooyi is stepping down in October. Jason Moser analyzes her tenure and shares why the next CEO has very big shoes to fill. Plus, we discuss Berkshire-Hathaway’s 2nd-quarter results and Facebook’s discussions with banks regarding a new feature for Facebook Messenger.
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0:00.0

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To get your first three hour cleaning for $39 when you sign up for a plan visit handy.com slash fool and use the

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promo code fool during check out. It's Monday August 6th welcome to market foolery

0:21.8

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio.

0:24.0

Jason Mose are in the house. Happy Monday. Hey hey. We've got some earnings. We got

0:31.5

some Berkshire Hathaway. Isn't it just perfect that Berkshire Hathaway just sort of sneaks in there?

0:36.6

Like it is so emblematic of Buffett and the way he runs that company that it's like Friday after the market closed very quietly we're going to

0:43.6

drop the drop the release and we'll get to that and we'll get to and try to figure

0:48.4

out what in the world is happening with Facebook's latest foray into banking. is I'm going to know, in October.

1:03.0

This will mark 12 years that Newy has been CEO of Pepsi.

1:08.0

She's going to stay on as chairman of the Board of Directors

1:11.0

through early 2019, Ramon La Guarta is going to be promoted

1:17.8

up to CEO.

1:21.0

When you think about her track record, years, I mean it's the thing that struck me

1:26.4

when I was sort of digging around this morning is how closely shares at Pepsi

1:31.0

track the S&P 500 while she was CEO.

1:36.0

Yeah, I mean I think this is and this is I'm not trying to to give the incoming management any sort of a black marks or challenge here.

1:48.6

But man, I would not want to be filling her shoes.

1:52.2

I mean, she set the bar really, really high.

1:55.0

So to me, this is a really big loss for Pepsi.

1:58.1

I think it's really hard to overstate that.

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