Hello. Wow, that was an amazing one. Hello, I feel like my voice is breaking all over again.

Welcome, I am your 13-year-old host, Mr. Felix Salmon, and you are listening to Slate Money,

your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week as ever.

We are going to take the biggest story in business and finance of the week and completely ignore it

because there is absolutely

nothing to say about this trillion dollar market cap thing it's a lot um apparently a trillion

there's a lot of dollars um who knew welcome Anna shamansky hello who is the resident math nerd

and so she can tell us that one trillion is a lot of dollars.

Yes.

And welcome also to Emily Beck of the Huffington Post.

Hello.

Who is here to, I feel like we've brought you in for your dudgeon today because we are talking about Silicon Valley and the rules or the lack of rules or

the lack of norms and how they trample over societal norms in various different ways. We are going

to talk about stock buybacks, which is a big thing in Silicon Valley and we can talk a little bit about what that means for things like, I don't know, house prices and Mountain View.

We are going to talk about the whole question of where do you eat lunch if you work at a tech company in San Francisco.

Because San Francisco, if you haven't heard, is the new Silicon Valley.

And first, I think, well, I mean, I can't do better than what June Thomas put on my piece

of paper.

I'm not sure if you lovely listeners out there are aware of this, but I get a piece of paper when I record this show every day.

And it gives me topic names.

And it says here, topic number one, Silicon Valley's weird and maybe shameful hiring practices, Mike Cagney's swift comeback and Uber's appointment

of a 70-year-old arms dealer as its new chairman.

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