WeWork’s Workplace; Last Night’s Jeopardy; “Bezos’s Master Plan”

Squawk Pod

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Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Larry Fink, Chairman & CEO of Blackrock, the world’s largest money manager, speaks to his company’s earnings—and his clue on Jeopardy last night. Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin break down WeWork’s possible workplace hazards and more off-court trouble for the NBA. The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer gives the Squawk team a peek at Jeff Bezos’s lofty goals that date back to the Amazon founder’s time in high school. Plus, one of the designers of Senator Warren’s tax plan and University of California Berkeley Economics Professor Gabriel Zucman defends the details of his wealth tax proposal.

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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	PCR2. Every day get the best stories, debate, and analysis. See, six trillion dollar man. Who is Larry Fink?
0:23.1	The world's largest money manager finally hits the big time
0:26.2	as a jeopardy clue.
0:27.8	The French economist behind Elizabeth Warren's tax plan.
0:30.8	These are the best estimates we think, but they could be improved.
0:33.8	Defending the details of a plan that's high on taxes.
0:37.4	Jeff Bezos's lofty goals are long in the making.
0:40.5	You quote his high school girlfriend saying the reason he wants to make all this money
0:44.4	is so that he can go to space.
0:46.5	Right.
0:47.5	The author of a new profile on the Amazon Leaders Master Plan.
0:50.8	We've got those stories and much more from LeBron to whatever is in the phone booths that we work.
0:56.0	These ones have formaldehyde in it?
0:58.0	Supposedly.
0:59.0	Awesome.
1:00.0	I'm C.N.C. producer Katie Kramer, it's Tuesday, October 15th, Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:04.7	Stand Becky by, and three, two, one, Q, please.
1:08.8	Good morning, everybody.
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