Registration website last night less than two hours before the deadline. Despite Hillary Clinton now being the democratic partys presumptive president ial nominee Bernie Sanders still is not 100 , percent in her rearview mirror. Sanders says he will continue to make his case through the final primary and washington, d. C. , next week. Mrs. Clinton does not have the endorsement of president obama, at least not yet. That is expected to become soon but White House Press secretary josh earnest says it will not happen before the meeting at the white house between president obama and senator sanders. Powered by over 2400 journalists in 150 bureaus around the world, from new york, i am mark crumpton. Bloomberg west is next. Emily i am emily chang, and this is bloomberg west. Emily coming up, meg whitman takes stock. It has been eight months since the hewlettpackard enterprise ceo oversaw the historic that of hp. Plus, if she is not supporting truck, will she endorsed Hillary Clinton . Amazon raising the stakes, is it we will discuss what it means for local competition. And fiats tech of section after obsession, partnering with google to build a fleet of self driving minivans. The company talks with uber about a driverless car partnership. Hewlettpackard enterprise is holding its annual discovery conference, the first since its split into two separate companies. Withnnounced a partnership ge with the companies will Work Together on the internet of things. We caught up with Ceo Meg Whitman and asked about everything from tech m a to donald trump and if whitman herself will ever go back into politics. We began on just how the company is faring, postsplit. Take a listen. Whitman i have to say the split has been fabulous. In this day and age when technology is moving at lightning speed, frankly i think it is imperative to go smaller so we can go faster. It actually has been easier as separate companies then it was as one big company. I know that hp ink and we have enterprise we have all been pleased with the split and how it has worked out for employees, customers, and shareholders as well. Emily you are creating, as you said, a much more nimble company. Do you see others following that model, that leaner is better, or going the dell route, bulking up . Whitman i think it depends on the company, their leadership, the industry. We have seen a lot of divestitures and carveouts in the last 12 months, and i do not know if it is because of us, but i think people are realizing that with the pace of change in every industry, you got to be fast. The future belongs to the fast, so we thought it was important to get smaller, but companies have different strategies. We chose to get smaller. Dell chose to get bigger. Verchose to deal ever dele the company. We chose to lean into new Technology Like the industrial internet of things that you talked about. Dr. Inside every server, and dell is actually doubling down on old technology. Different strategies for different companies. I like our hand. Emily you said internet of things is a big opportunity for you on the back of this partnership with ge. When you look at internet of things versus cloud, how much growth do you see in one or the other over the next five years, lets say . Whitman if you think about our current business, and the business of hewlettpackard over many years has largely been data center focused business. And there are still pockets of growth there, where it is whether it is private infrastructure. But we have a thing called campus edge, think about autonomous driving cars, smart beds, and jet engines. What will happen is compute is going to have to move to the edge where that data is being collected because you do not have time to bring all that data back to a data center, process it, and end it back out. Think about an autonomous driving car that car is making decisions realtime about the data it is collecting. Even one second or half a second latency will not be good enough, so we see big opportunity about compute at the edge. Wireless lan at the edge, so we think it is a big opportunity for us. I dont know how big it will be. It is in its earliest stages, but we think it is perfectly matched to our core dna of being the best in the world. Compute at the edge has to be small and has to have very low power consumption. Emily you spent a lot of time talking about cloud so far at the conference and amazon is putting so much pressure on everyone, especially hardware makers like yourself. Given that, how much growth do you really see for hpe in the longterm given how much pressure amazon is putting on the entire industry . Whitman i think this is a 1 to 2 to 3 growth rate category overall, but there are real pockets of growth. As i said, come poseable infrastructure changes the name of the game for infrastructure, as we think about private cloud. Not Everyone Wants to put all their applications into a public cloud. Some want a private cloud. That is a growth area for us. We had a really interesting conversation with dropbox who is a company born in the cloud, who is moving back into the data center into a very advanced infrastructure that is designed for their application in their data center because as they got so big and it began to cost more, they needed more control, so they have done the opposite. They have moved from a public cloud back into a hybrid cloud environment, in a more traditional way, their own ability to do compute storage and networking. Emily the ipo market is stagnating. The mega valuations of private Technology Companies have plateaued if not decreased. How do you think that impact potential m a, and how interested are you in m a . Whitman many of us predicted there would be correction in the value of some of these startup companies. Last year when we talked, we had that very conversation, and that came to be true. We see this in silicon valley. Valuations get high. There are cycles. I think it is advantageous for a company like hewlettpackard because valuations will be more reasonable. We are interested in m a but at the right price and in complementary areas. For example, what has worked well for us is the acquisition of aruba. Great complementary technologies we can put through our distribution system, and by the way, not too expensive. Atpaid a fair price, but not 80 multiples. And we have to be very cautious because frankly, from our return on investment, Share Buyback would be better for a company with little revenue and no operating profit. Emily what Companies Might you be looking at for the future . Whitman we are interested in the industrial iot, Software DefinedInfrastructure Companies that can complement the suite of products we have. We decided to do converged on our own, hyper converged on our own, so we have to make the decision, do we want to invented ourselves . Or would it be quicker and more expedient to do it ourselves . We will be very disciplined of that. Emily you have been an outspoken critic of donald trump. Im curious have you had any conversations with the gop establishment about finding another candidate, a thirdparty alternative . Whitman no, i have been clear on the record that i do not think donald trump is the right answer to be president of the united states, but i have not had any third party candidates. Emily does that mean you will endorse Hillary Clinton . Does that mean you think she will be more fit to be president . Whitman we will see. I want to get through both conventions, i want to see the Vice President ial candidates are, i want to give an understanding of what the final platforms will be. I will make a decision later in the summer about what i will do. Emily either way, Hillary Clinton is the first female presumptive president ial nominee. You have broken through so many class ceilings yourself, but there are still so few women ceos of big Technology Companies. And you often get lumped into marissa category as mayer. How do you feel about by categorization . Do you think there is still a different standard for women in business especially at the top . , whitman i look at the positives of this, which is the progress we have made since i came out of college in 1977 is really amazing. More work to do, but there are more Women Leaders today at every level of companies because we have made a lot of progress, but there is still more work to do. My counsel to young women is science, technology, engineering, and math. If you like those areas of study, if you think that could be of interest to you, i encourage people to go into the Hard Sciences and Computer Science because we are at the end of the beginning of the phase of Big Technology information. The opportunities are going to be as great as they were the last 20 or 30 i mean, i. T. Was the defining industry of our generation, my generation. I think it will be the defining industry of the next generation as well. I think i was asked the other day, but would i tell my 17yearold self, and i would tell my 17yearold self to be an engineer, and i was not. I was an economics major, but if i had it to do over again, i would be an engineer. Emily you have done quite well for yourself. I appreciate the advice. Now that hp is so much more nimble, could it become a target . Whitman you never know. Even after we spin off our enterprise services, there will still be a 33 billion business with 50,000 employees, all across the globe. Its not a peanut, but you never know what happens in this industry. Obviously, we will see, but we are really excited about the future of hewlettpackard enterprise. There are so many opportunities, in the Software Design and data center. And of course, our software portfolio, be it security or Big Data Analytics with haven on demand and vertical, that we talked a lot about at this conference, theres a lot of opportunity. Being more focused, and the ability to invest, we have a great chance to be super successful. By the way, we are outdoing our competitors every single day. Think about storage, for the last two years, every quarter, we have taken share. We have taken share in servers. Weve taken share in networking. We grew 18 while cisco shrunk. Emily now that you have gotten the company into this better position and created this opportunity, what is next for you . How long do you intend to continue being ceo . Would you ever get back into politics, given everything that is going on . Whitman we are definitely not getting into elected politics, that is for sure. We will see. I told the board i would stay five years. That is coming up in september. Im having a great time. I love running these smaller companies. Youre able to be nimble and invest, and spend more time with customers. So im having a great time running hewlettpackard enterprise. Emily my conversation there with Hp EnterpriseCeo Meg Whitman. Now to another story we are following according to reports, the newly minted next ceo is telling employees the company is not for sale. The maker of smart Home Appliances has been in the spotlight since the announcement the founder is stepping down. The parent company, alphabet, has said little about the executive shakeup, but at the Company Shareholder meeting wednesday, eric schmidt said some of the companys other bets will undergo changes. We have created these other initiatives. Some will do great, some will do poorly. They are led by very strong ceos. It is a dynamic environment. We will change them. We will address them. But we are very serious about it. We have been trying to manage these as independent businesses to rate to build real businesses to scale. Over the next two years, you will see the ones that will grow very quickly and the ones which will add and the ones that will go and try to resuscitate because the product did not work as well as we wanted, and that is how innovation really works. Emily also at the meeting, he laid out top areas of interest, some of these like artificial , intelligence assistance, self driving cars, and health care research, were to be expected. But also on the list, the socalled development of meatless meat, made from plants. Coming up, amazon double down on india. We dive into amazons new 3 billion that. Plus, the craigslist competitor that gets as much daily face time with users as snapchat and instagram. Secrets toup explosive growth later this hour. Emily a story we are watching, Arianna Huffington may be gearing up to expand her media empire. Huffington has held talks with investors about a startup called thrive, which would be a Lifestyle Content platform with contributions by celebrities that would also provide Wellness Consulting services to companies. Among those who have already venture, onek the of the earliest backers of the huffington post. Now to india. The ecommerce giant amazon has announced it is doubling down with an additional 3 billion in the country, bringing the total investment in india to a whopping 5 billion. The move further establishes the tech giant poised to see a boom, in internet use. Does it marked the start to ecommerce in india . Or that already underway . Our correspondent who covers amazon joins us now from seattle. Painted the picture for us. How well is amazon faring against other competitors in india . Spencer it is definitely a big player in india and has quickly emerged as a contender. Flipcart and snapdeal having challenges with fundraising. We were talking before the show about Morgan Stanley writedowns and how they will face it more a more difficult fundraising environment. That seems to be the opportunity jeff bezos sees, while his competitors are a little week. Emily Morgan Stanley originally wrote down their investment specifically by 27 . What are some of the specific challenges amazon and jeff bezos will be running into . Theres so much talk about the slow governmental progress and bureaucracy in india. Can amazon really cut through that . Spencer they have adjusted their model. They operate as a pure marketplace model. They are not owning inventory, they are simply a passthrough connecting buyers and sellers. , they do that in the u. S. As well, but they do a hybrid version where they own inventory, and are also a marketplace. So they are able to find a loophole to operate there, and big challenges are shoddy Internet Connections that can go out all the time and also infrastructure. So they have people making deliveries on dirt bikes over dirt roads. Compared to ups trucks on a paved road here. There are a lot of challenges, but they also see opportunities. The second largest country in the world, ecommerce penetration fairly small. 4 or 5 compared to 10 in the u. S. Tremendous headroom. Tremendous opportunity despite those challenges if they are willing to commit the resources. That is something amazon has proven time and time again. They are willing to make the longterm play and invest the capital needed to see that opportunity. Emily obviously, india has a Huge Population of customers and potential customers, but what else makes india such a huge strategic opportunity . Spencer it is not just a place where amazon is looking for potential customers, though that is a big part of it. India is also a Strategic Company for amazon in terms of procuring inventory. India is a huge source country for amazon. Amazon has longterm ambitions, of being a Global Logistics network, a factorydirect model connecting a customer anywhere , in the world with a product anywhere in the world. And india is a key country for that, so it would be a place where they can not just sell goods within the country of india but also find suppliers including textiles, which is an area amazon is really ramping up in the fashion industry, places to find inventory directly, cut out the middleman and get it directly to shoppers in the u. S. And europe, where ecommerce business is more robust. Emily im curious what alibabas ambitions are. They have made it clear they want International Revenue to be half of all revenue by a certain is india a country that they are point. Targeting . Spencer they are invested in amazons competitors in india. They are kind of doing the pinky toe in the pool kind of approach. Everyone is waiting for the big ecommerce showdown between amazon and alibaba. Im not sure india will be the country where we will see it. Alibaba is heavily focused on russia and brazil, and while amazon has backed off of china to focus on india. They are kind of dancing around one another in the ring, but we still have yet to see the big amazonalibaba square off. Emily a showdown. Everybody wants to see it. Thanks so much. Now to another story we are watching apple is tweaking its revenue model for the app store. The company will begin offering incentives for subscriptionbased apps and will also implement a revenuesharing program with developers by slashing its cut from every app sale to 15 from its current 30 . They fit into its broader goal of shifting away from hardware and more toward his services. Changes take effect on june 13, the day of Apples Worldwide Developers Conference right here in san francisco. Tune in on Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio for full coverage of the event. Coming up, latest updates on driverless cars. And the revolution could fiat be , working on a partnership with uber . We will explore. Emily now to a story we are following yahoo is exploring , the sale of more than 3000 patents, looking to cash in on intellectual property. Yahoo has hired Boutique Investment Bank blackstone to sel