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Company. but tech engineers right now in san francisco, if you want to start a company, ride the ipo twitter wave. its a good time. people are going to invest. >> whats your sense of who is on twitter based on the what youre writing? >> i find a lot of politicians are on, a lot of journalists, a lot of pundits, a lot of people who hate other people. a lot of snark right now. but i would love for you to tell me, are you using twitter? how do you use twitter? do you find it a valuable tool? if you...

And facebook, dropouts from college. you are a bull or bear, jon? >> im a bull on college but a bear on what the government has done. they screwed up the entire higher education system. they created this environment tuition costs have gone through the roof while our education system has gotten specifically worse. we are losing tech jobs to china. not because of lower taxes but because they have more tech engineers. what government has done to college specifically, we are losing that battle. its ...

And companies are becoming more proficient overseas and we have a shortfall of up to 50,000 tech engineers according to bill gates and our system is failing, because of the unions. >> brenda: okay. jehmu, does this make teachers teach to the test and is there something wrong it that? >> there is something wrong with that. standardized tests make teachers teach to the test and in the long run, its bad for the economy. standardized tests do not find to be innovators, i can guarantee you that steve...

Labor movement has to push for this. is just the outline now that has come through the senate. it hasnt made its way to the house. it hasnt made its way to any details. look, when i hear them say theyre going to have to pay a fine and pay back taxes, most of these workers -- >> they dont have it. >> they dont have the money saved. >> they dont have the money to pay fines. i dont know why they dont have some kind of a voucher system where a worker who is an american citizen can stand up for someo...

We want coding to be fun so everything that we did was focused around gameification, making it a more fun experience. >> reporter: the idea for these robots came to nader while he was watching his own young children passively gaze into their electronic tablets for hours at a time. >> they were unaware of their surroundings when they were engaged with the tablet. that was annoying to me. they were consuming whatever the tablet was giving them, but they were not actually creating anything. >> repo...