Over 3 million a day. And on a just perfeed basis, over 4. 5 billion pieces of information, so absolutely not. Its a good start, though. Scott yeah, how fast can somebody look at a video . cause i suppose if you see a birthday party, its reasonable to think nothing terrible is going to happen. Henry right, right. Fairly quickly. I mean, our clients have pretty elaborate platforms that allow photos, videos to scroll by fairly easily. And the folks that are doing it do it all the time, so they catch things. Jon swartz so, are you filtering the content as its live or as its uploaded . Because in the case of the facebook murder in cleveland, that was a combination. I think his confession was live. The other two, they werevideos were actually were uploaded. Can you do both . Henry it really depends on the client. What weve done in the past has been not live, its things thats been uploaded, and theres some sort of time gap between it gets posted. Tom simonite henry, youve done this work, right . Youve done a shift screening the content. Can you describe what thats like . Henry as you can imagine, its pretty monotonous. Youre looking through pictures, videos. Most of the time, its pretty uninteresting, if thats a word. But every once in a while, you do get these extremes that what were hired to do is just to get rid of them. Tom its uninteresting with the occasional horror thrown in . I mean, that can take a toll on people. Henry i mean, it does. I mean, theres two extremes. You can have the super humorous and crazy outtakes, but you can also have the awful things that you do see. It just really depends on the clients terms of service as far as whats being allowed and whats not. Scott that was henry chang from the company open access bpo. If youre just joining us, were showing you clips of some of my favorite interviews over the year. We talk a lot about robotics and what it means for jobs. One of the top minds in robotics is melonee wise, who runs fetch robotics in Silicon Valley, creating robots for warehouse work. Martin giles i guess youre using robots in the workplace, i mean, are we going to see more jobs replaced by automation, and how far . Rich jaroslovsky that was exactly my question. Ive seen totally dystopian projections about job loss, and ive seen totally utopian projections about how many jobs the robotics revolution will create. I have no way of knowing which is true. Melonee wise yeah, so i think that theres a lot of data on both sides, supporting both cases. It depends on how you read the data. I personally believe that theres so much we dont know about the creation of jobs. For example, in the 1970s and 80s, we created this thing called robotic tellers. Now, theyre known as atms. But at the time, everyone said, well never have any more tellers. Unfortunately, it created a huge creation of jobs in the teller market because the atm enabled us to have smaller Regional Bank branches throughout the united states. And so, because we could have smaller bank branches, we could have more tellers, only a couple, but at banks. And so, you saw huge growth in that job market. And, but on the other side, theres plenty of counterexamples to that. But the thing is, is that robots typically dont take jobs, they take tasks. For example, the robots that we deploy, they just do a small part of the job, they do the material delivery, but theres a person on either end. And i think that eventually, youll start moving towards this, but you know, when peoplewhen the iphone was invented, a lot of people didnt think that there would be this huge explosion in App Development and, you know, app millionaires from something as simple as a portable computing device. And so, i think that theres a lot of opportunity. I mean, you never know, these robots might get into your home and were going to have a whole new robot App Development market. Scott that was melonee wise from fetch robotics in conversation with reporters martin giles and rich jaroslovsky. Each week on the show, we have different guests talking to different reporters. Heres roboticist henry hu talking with mark niu and Troy Wolverton about a coffeemaking robot. Troy wolverton so, walk us through some of the economics of this. Like, what are the startup costs that you face with your kiosk versus, like, a typical starbucks . How many people are you employing versus a typical starbucks . How many people can you serve versus a typical starbucks . Henry hu sure, so onsite, we employ less people than a typical starbucks. However, in order to build the equipment, we have a lot of engineers, and its a product, so its something thats manufactured. And so, onsite, theres going to be less people, but theres still a lot of people behind the company thats needed to create this product. And then in terms of setting up a location or a store, a cafe is not like a manufactured product, so you dont really have economies of scale. Whereas with the robotic cafe, this is something that were going to massproduce over the next few years. And so, the economics will be significantly better. Scott theres a cheaper coffee as well. I mean itsdid you intentionally make it cheaper, or are you offering it cheaper because youre not paying the robot medical bills or medical benefits . Henry so, thats one of the reasons why we can offer it for a lower cost and still be a good business. Scott cause i mean, starbucks is 4, youre about 2something, right . Henry yeah, typically were about a dollar less. And then we also have, like, single origin coffees that are a dollar more than the standard ones. So, you can select in the app from different coffee beans. Scott henry, tell me about peoples reaction. I mean, its a little like the claw game, i mean, to be honest with you, i mean, kids love it. When i saw it, my first suggestion was you need to start serving hot chocolate because kidsare you serving hot chocolate yet . Henry were working on that. Scott okay, cause thats myyeah. Because you are going to get a huge kidpeople just are mesmerized by the thing moving back and forth, and picking up the cups, et cetera. Henry yeah; well, i think with a good food or drink experience, well, its supposed to be a good experience. So, having a robot there, you know, in addition to the efficiency gains, its also quite exciting and fun to watch. We did add a new item called really good milk on the menu, so for kids that scott okay, good, a kid thing, yes. Troy so, how do you respond to some of the reactions that youre getting, so the less positive reactions about, you know, this is displacing jobs. Or, you know, i actually enjoy going to my cafe and talking with my barista, or having that Human Interaction with my barista. Or, you know, i enjoy being in a cafe with other people, rather than getting served by a glorified vending machine . Henry yeah; well, our goal is definitely not to replace cafes. Cafex really i think will be created as the best possible experience for people that are trying to get good quality coffee to go. So, if youre looking for somewhere to sit down or have a meeting, you know, a cafe is still a great place for that. But for kind of the typical use case, where theyou know, the more common use case where you just need coffee and you want it reallya really good coffee, yeah, train station, airports, hightraffic areas, office buildings, i think cafex is the best possible experience. Scott that was henry hu talking about his coffeemaking robot. A reminder, you can watch the entire interview, and many interviews, on our website pressheretv. Com. Well be back with some of our favorite interviews of the year after this. As a podcast on itunes. Scott welcome back to press here. Weve let our hardworking crew have new years off, so were recycling a little bit, showing you some of my favorite interviews from 2017. Obviously, the big story in 2017, Sexual Harassment and diversity. We took a look at diversity with the head of hewlettpackards diversity effort, lesley slaton brown. Sarah lacy when you think about diversity in Silicon Valley, theres a lot of people who feel like, you know, maybe gender gets more attention, or you know, when you talk about, you know, white men and asian men, like is there, you know, a difference between, like, hiring asian versus hiring africanamerican . And you know, what about hiring older people and age discrimination . I mean, how should we think about diversity wherebecause a lot of these are individual problems, but really, its also the whole same problem. How do you guys approach it . Lesley slaton brown in the way we approach it, sarah, and i appreciate your question, is thatand it goes back to all, right . We do business in 170 countries across the world. And although were headquartered in the Silicon Valley, we have hub sites within the us, across the us. And its very important for us to really be able to balance that workforce. So, ethnic minorities, race representation, gender, generational, ability, veteran status, all of that is very important to us because we create technology for everyone everywhere. And so, we have to be very respectful to that, and knowing that we have to bring that into our workforce and honor that. Scott i notice you didnt include religion in that. Lesley religion as well. Scott religion as well . You would consider a religious person of some religious faith to count towards a diversity number . Lesley well, i mean, its a perspective, right . It brings a different perspective to the table. Scott would youi guess i should refine my question. When youre putting together your diversity report, is religion one of your numbers . Lesley no, it is not. No, it is not. Connie guglielmo can we talk about the end goal of diversity . cause thats what gets a lot of drama and attention. Whenever i or my staff write about it, the First Response is always from people saying, well, these are already very Successful Companies that are making a lot of money, so obviously its not an issue of diversity. Can you counter that . Lesley well, the reason i think hp has had the success that it has is because we have a legacy of caring about our workforce. And so, when bill hewlett and dave packard formed hp in a little garage on addison avenue, they considered, how do we build a workforce thatwell, first of all, products that meet the needs of a community. And then, in addition to that, they consciously thought about what the workforce should look like in order to innovate. And so, thats what were focused on. Our endgame is greater innovation and winning. Scott 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of the gif, the little animated pictures you see online and in text messages. And its pronounced jiff, not giff, at least in my opinion. Scott so, lets start with how does one, howwell, how do youthe burning question, is it jiff or giff . Richard rabbat so, the creator, steve wilhite, calls it jiff. And we care a lot about creators, we call it jiff. Scott i will allow you to continue to stay on this show, jiff is the correct answer. President obama is entirely wrong. Okay, so let me start with this. Gifs, as i remember, started back when we could barely transmit video over the internet. And so, you had these lowframe rate, lowquality, teensyweensy little videos. And yet, were still using them. Why is that . Richard amazing, so it used to be that, like, you know, when the age of computers came, we took typewriters and put them on a pc, and that was fine. And then with mobile, like we tookwe took the qwerty keyboard, and we put it on a phone, and were like, you know, spending all our time trying to figure out, like, how to press on the right character. And instead, like this input device is so bad for, you know, what were trying to achieve. So, gifs are an easy way for you to transmit your emotions, thoughts, and ideas to the person youre conversing with. And thats why its soits grown so fast. Jon its kind of like our own language. Like for instance, i have two daughters, and one of them likes gifs with dogs, and the other one likes any gif with drake. Michal levram i love drake gifs. Jon yeah, she loves those, and so, is it in a way a form of communication between people . Richard it is, like, you can imagine, like, when you take a piece of content and you just look at the visual element and theand the time element, and you remove the sound element, then people can interpret that content in many, many different ways. So, your emotional attachment to that piece of content becomes the reason why you want to share, that you want to talk about it. And that just creates a new way of people to communicate with each other. Michal it is really interesting that it has become this new mode of communication. I mean, to go back to our president s recent gif, which he tweeted out himself, i mean, this is an expression. This is saying what hei mean, which he said in many other ways as well. But i mean is, is that totally New Territory . Richard so, i thinkso, our current president is an amazing piece of content for all michal i was wondering what you were going to say. Richard for all of what were trying to do. Like you know, like since the campaign has started, its been amazing content after amazing content that people want to share and discuss across different places. Our content is being shared on, like, a lot of publications, New York Times, wall street journal. All these guys are, you know, embedding our content and talking about it because of theall these facial expressions that, you know, politicians give us day after day. Jon so, trump is so good at using twitter, it would makes sense he would use more gifs, actually, because he doesnt have to sayhe doesnt have to type anything. I mean, he could just show scott that cnn one was, as best i can remember, his first one, im not sure. But yeah, youre right, he may have discovered gifs now. Michal yeah, maybe were entering a whole new jon a new realm, maybe its just the next wave if he doesnt make a fool of himself withill stop. Scott so, let me ask you, richard. I mean, you have, oh, you know, the New York Times use our content, theeveryone where do you make a buck . I mean, how do youwheres the money in this . Richard so, i mean, the way we created gfycat, we wanted to be the youtube for gifs. People come create content, and then they share it, and the ones that become viral are the ones that basically people like and share, et cetera. Now, because people are sharing widely on all the Different Social Networks and, you know, in articles and magazines and publishers, that creates a lot of traffic back to us. Were today the 60 site in the us. We do about 400 million page views all through the power of these gifs. And monetization through advertising is an easy scott so, i come to your site with a little clip, a video, and you turn it into a gif for me. Its hosted on your site, i send it out, somebody likes it and wonders, hey, howd he make that . Et cetera. Then returns, and youre selling banner ads i assume is the process. Richard over time, thats what we will do, although weve been very focused on growth. Scott ah, so you dont make any money. Richard were not making any money. But the model is very much, you know, people are attracted to these pages, there would be banner ads that people can also look at and get value out of. Scott weve been taking a look at some of our favorite interviews of 2017. Of course, you can find every single interview we do at pressheretv. Com. But stick around, after the break, well show you some more. Door in california history. Inside the controversial pot law getting a lot of buzz around the country. Plus kari will track new rain chances for your work week. When you join us new years morning from 4 30 to 7. Morning from 4 30 to 7. A podcast on itunes. Scott welcome back to press here. This week, were taking a look back at some of our favorite interviews. Steve hofstetter is a comedian who made a name for himself by posting videos of his routines on youtube, in particular, routines interrupted by hecklers. Its done him well. His videos have millions of views for every video. He sat down to talk to us about using youtube to spread your brand. Scott let me ask you, i mean, the astonishing numbers on youtube, what drives that kind of numbers . I mean, obviously people like you, but how did you generate the interest when its just this gigantic amount of video on youtube . Steve Hofstetter Youtube was a bit of an accident for me, actually. What i started doing is i didnt want to give away my content for free. I wanted to give away outtakes, so i started putting up clips of when i would adlib with the audience. And it happens to be a particular skill that i have as part of my repertoire. So, someone would interrupt me, i would go off on them, and then i would put it up. And theres a lot of justice in that. I think a lot of people want to be able to do that at the workplace. Sarah i do. Journalists get to do that too. Steve yeah, when yourewhen youre frustrated with someone, that you could just say horrible things to them and everybody applauds, its great. So, those clips took off. And you know, that just led to a huge new audience. And the other thing that i make sure of is i never worry about alienating my fanbase because you cant alienate your own fanbase if youre true to yourself. Because then the people you alienate were never going to be your fans to begin with. So, especially in todays climate, where some comedians are like, oh, im not going to talk politics, im going to talk about them more than ever because that way my fans come to me, and the people who werent going to bother buying a ticket anyway, they wont watch my video. Scott this is like talking to sarah lacy with red hair. Steve i dont get the reference, but sarah i continually punch everyone in the face. Steve yeah, i was like, you seem like a pleasant person, but yeah. Mark ive seen your videos where you let loose on the audience, talking about in indiana god, i believe gay marriage, and also abortion. And how do you deal with sort of the trolling online too . Does thatdo you use the same sort of technique to sort of get steve well, the first thing you have to realize is that it doesnt matter, you know . I had a guy who said something awful about me on twitter, and i clicked on his twitter to see who he was, and he had one follower. And it made me laugh so hard because i was like you didnt need to tweet that, you could have just told someone. Like, you have one follower. Tell two people, really expand your base, you know, get the word out. Tell your parents, those are two people. Scott well, one of them was probably his mom, so yeah. Steve no, no, he probably lives with them. But anyway, the point being that, like, you realize that the people who are doing this online, what are theywhat does that really matter . You know, in the long run, ive got 65 million views on my youtube now, and the vast majority of them are from supportive, wonderful people. And so, what does it matter if the loudest people are the idiots . Sarah now, how is that translated into business for you . Because some comedians and musicians have done this incredibly well. And theres a long tale of a lot of other independent musicians and comedians who say, you know, this works for radiohead and louis c. K. , but not the rest of us. Steve well, it has worked for me on a huge level. Im able to draw now. And as a comedian, that is a huge hump to get over. Right now, im on a 65city, 18country tour. Its called the your tour because the idea was i gave it to the fans. I said, okay, here are the cities i might do. Buy tickets, i dont have a venue yet, heres the city and the date that i want to do it. I dont have a venue or a show time. Buy tickets. If i end up not doing that city, ill refund your money. If i sell enough tickets in that city, thats where ill go. And so, they basically start voting on where i perform with their ticket money. And what ends up happening is, you know, this week i did five venues on offnights, none of them weekends, and sold out every single one of them. Scott because you knew ahead of time you were going to sell out because its almostits kind of amazing that thats not how tickets area lot of performers work. Steve it gives the artist the power. I think theres going to be a shift toward that. Im the first one thats doing it this way, but hopefully other people will as well. Because what then happens is, like, i have a show in london in july. Im still not sure where yet, but ive already sold 125 tickets. So, i can call any venue in london and say, hey, give me the best terms you can possibly give someone because i can guarantee you these people are coming. Theres no rolling the dice anymore. And thats why it works. Sarah now, facebook is trying to eat into youtubes turf. They were paying creators for a while and trying to really jumpstart people being more on their platform. For comedy, is youtube still where its at . Have you played with Facebook Live at all . Steve itd be so wonderful if facebook ever paid content creators for anything that they do. And eventually, there was an announcement soon, itd be like, well, were going to try doing that. And its like, oh, what a wonderful thing to let us know. How about you just start doing that . And so, the reason why so many of us post videos on youtube is because thats where we can make a living. And so, as soon as facebook starts sharing their ad revenue with the people who are generating it, then theyre going to get more people posting that content. Scott what percentage of youtubei mean, what percentage of your living comes from youtube as compared to performing . And is there any other place youre making money . Well, i guess youre selling your albums as well. Steve sure, theres merchandise, i do produce scott what percentage is it . What percentage of your daily takehome check is youtube . Steve id say probably about a quarter. Scott oh, thats significant. Steve its definitely significant. And it didnt used to be that. You know, my youtube has grown an incredible amount in the past year. Its doubled in the past year. And thats because ive had a couple of different clips that went viral. And you know, just, i guess, mean to the right people. And so, you know, and that resonated, they went viral. And then once you hit that tipping point, its just a snowball, and keeps getting bigger and bigger. But whats great about that is i invest everything i make in my career. So, i use the stuff that im making on youtube to go buy better cameras so that the content in the future will be better, you know . And i just keep doing stuff like that to upgrade my website, to expand the production capabilities i have. Because i dont want to make a little bit of money now to be okay. I want to never worry about money again and just get to be creative. And thats really the goal of any artist. Well, most artists. Sarah is tv as important to comedy as it was in the past . Steve no, not at all. I had my own Television Show that i hosted, and scott i dont remember it exactly. Steve thats my point, ive had maybe two people come up to me on the street and say, hey, i loved your show. And probably three or four times a week, someone stops me and says, hey, i love your youtube. Its completely changed the landscape. Scott ill let you know ive had four people come up and love my show. Steve thats more than me. Sarah you still have the power of tv. Scott now, you didyou experimented with this idea of selling albums a la radiohead, right . Where you could just pay what you want. What was the average pay . I mean, what did people feel you were worth in that album . Steve the average ended up being about 4, which is almost three times as much as i would have gotten from a label. Because the label pays you scott cause you keep all the money. Steve exactly, and so, basically what happened wasand so, this was before louis c. K. I was the first one to do it with comedy. Radiohead gave me the idea, i certainly dont take credit for the idea, but i wanted to see if it worked with comedy, and it did. Because what ended up happening, and this is before i had a big youtube, before i had anything, these were just a couple of fans. And i made more in the first week on that album than i made on the previous album, and that album was done with sony bmg. Because i was able to actually get all of it. So, the fans were able to pay less, which i think is a wonderful thing, im an advocate for that. Theyou know, i was able to make more. And the only people who were cut out of it were the record execs. And boohoo, you dont get your third yacht, im so sorry. But sometimes, the fans and the artists need to negotiate between themselves, and thats what is an amazing thing right now is that we can have content direct to the artists. Scott back in a moment. A podcast on itunes. Scott thats our show for this week, a look back on our favorite interviews of 2017. Each week, reporters from the worlds top newspapers and news outlets join me as we interview Silicon Valley newsmakers on the latest issues. And i hope youll join us next week. Im scott mcgrew, happy new year. 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