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>> i know this is personal for you, your background, as i understand it, youre a young single mother who made your way into the world of design and coding in digital media. i can imagine a lot of young women come to you and say, how did you do? >> yes, absolutely. i had my oldest daughter, shes about to be 17, when i was 16, so being pregnant at 15, a lot of people tend to kind of count you out, and so a lot of women, whether they are teenaged mothers or whether they are mothers that are stay at...

This new contractor, are you? >> not at all. i have seen a lot of web sites that have been developed by them in the past. and everything from just, you know, poor coding, poor practices, poor security all of those seem to be pretty, you know, widespread throughout the entire development of this company, and its been happening for a while. >> why did we hire them? >> well, i cant understand that either. right now, there is a few different things happening in the government. the u.s. postal servic...

Attack was part of a sophisticated campaign. syria, russia, china, potentially involved in tapping into millions of credit card. they actually found the russian language built into the code. this code went on to the black market in june. this was the program that was used against target and neiman marcus. this coding gone into a server at a retailer, sit there all day, then the hackers go back later with a new break-in technology grabbing that data. targeting the system twice. we have never seen...

Theres a level of absurdity here to it. lets look at some of the categories offered. 1970s sentimental set in europe dramas, romantic chinese crime movies, 1980s mind bending cult horror. how are they able to hone in so specifically on taste? >> there was an interesting investigation done into this done with alexis maddry gal with the atlantic recently. their team dug into the coding and the categories they come up with and it turns out they have more than 76,000 tiny little genres that they hav...

Global technology executives, so hopefully, we got a lot out of it. >> but the dream team are they management guys or are they guys who are actually hands on who can actually fix things and give good advice? i mean, sometimes in these companies, you know, the people at the top, theyre managers, theyre business people, theyre not the tech people. >> well, obviously, theyre not going to roll up their sleeves and do any coding, right? even though maybe some of them could. i think whats important is...

How much youve actually saved with every ride and how much you can save against the other users that are using the app. >> whats next for leo? >> hes going to keep coding. his next step is an intensive coding course. >> three-month course, right? >> three-month course. he actually got a full scholarship for it as well. >> of course he did. keep us posted. we love happy endings here. and we know that this is going to be one. good luck to you. good luck to -- please pass along my well wishes to my...

Is zuckerberg going to use facebook to embrace this very campaign youre running? >> i think every generation is using their mobile device every single day. and more and more theyre not looks just to use it, but looking to make something out of it. and the idea of coding, whatever you want to see or do in the world you can actually do very, very quickly. it is a bit like learning a foreign language. it is even easier, you see immediate results and action. >> you see somebody if theyre going to ha...

Well, it doesnt get much cooler than you, the king, really, of social media. what is this plan you have, how are you going to change the terrible statistics? i mean, just looking at this, science, china first, u.s., 21, math, china first, u.s. 26th. >> this is really a tough situation, we were in a conference two years ago, he said what if we created a movement to really encourage more people to learn programming? the more coding. and it is something that immediately resonated with me. i didnt h...

Billions with your computer expertise, and well deserved. >> thank you. >> and youre at the center of this new revolution and so on, you have to somehow hook them in. is social media going to be a way to do that? is zuckerberg going to use facebook to embrace this very campaign youre running? >> i think every generation is using their mobile device every single day. and more and more theyre not looks just to use it, but looking to make something out of it. and the idea of coding, whatever you wa...