The Orange Pill with Mike Novogratz & President Trump vs. Tim Cook 5/16/25

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

As President Trump wraps up his trip to the Middle East, Yale’s School of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses the president’s comments about Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as what they indicate about the relationships between corner offices and the oval office. Galaxy’s Mike Novogratz has been a crypto bull for years; today, his company lists on the Nasdaq in the latest chapter of society’s “orange pilling” of crypto. Novogratz discusses the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology and macroeconomics. CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos shares Eric Trump’s comments on his family’s bitcoin venture. Plus, cable companies Charter and Cox are merging, New Jersey Transit engineers are on strike, and Tiktok has launched a guided meditation for kids. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld - 13:29 MacKenzie Sigalos - 24:25 Mike Novogratz - 27:18 In this episode: Michael Novogratz, @novogratz MacKenzie Sigalos, @KenzieSigalos Kelly Evans, @KellyCNBC Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Cameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:04.3	This is Squawk Pod, and I'm CNBC producer Cameron Costa.
0:08.7	On today's podcast, Trump versus Tim?
0:12.7	As the president wraps up a multi-day swing through the Middle East, complete with a CEO
0:17.6	receiving line and billions in potential deals, he takes issue with Apple
0:22.2	CEO, Tim Cook.
0:23.9	Yales, Jeffrey Sondfeld on the corner office and the Oval Office.
0:28.0	CEOs, you know, they don't have a choice whether or not to deal with Trump.
0:30.7	They have to figure out how to deal with him.
0:32.3	It's not by putting him on the spot.
0:33.7	It's through collective action.
0:36.0	And Mike Novagrots's Galaxy is going public today.
0:40.3	He's been betting on the blockchain for a long time.
0:43.3	And finally, the herd is catching up.
0:46.3	Slowly but surely people got orange-pilled, first on Bitcoin and then on the whole idea of this decentralized revolution on what crypto could do.
1:02.7	Plus, a marriage between the largest U.S. cable companies, meditating on TikTok and tri-state travel.
1:03.4	It's hard.
1:06.8	Good luck if you live in New Jersey, basically trying to get anywhere right now.
1:13.6	It's Friday, May 16th, 2025, and Squawk Pod begins right now. Stand and under by in three, two, one, cue Andrew.
1:19.6	Good morning and welcome back to Squackbox right here on CNBC.
1:22.6	We are live at the NASDAQ market site in Times Square.
1:24.6	I am Andrew Ross Sorkin, along with the great Kelly Evans,
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