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Scott mcgrew, i am very impressed with what my first guest did. Matthew prince, the ceo of cloud flair says he woke up in a bad mood the morning after the vijsz in charlottesville, and decided single handedly to end his companies relationship. Opening the daily stormer up to hacks and security breaches. The cloud flair employees, he wrote my rational for making this was simple. The people behind the daily stormer are very bad word and i have had enough. I do not like racists, and i also agree they are best described by that very bad word. Thats not what impressed me, what impressed me, he realized he shouldnt have that kind of power to wake up and arbitrarily decide who gets to publish on the internet. Hes been incredibly transparent about it, a few major corporations will have the power to decide what is and what is not published on the internet. Matthew joins us here this morning. That was a lot of gushing, i dont normally gush that much. Lets talk about, you walk up in a bad mood. This particular customer is something who had been on a radar screen for some time. We had them on probation. We had been trying to talk about how our policy was to stay neutral, and one of the core tenets we espoused was we never took someone offline. When youre explaining, youre losing. We found ourselves explaining that to a lot of people and explaining why it was dangerous for us to take customers offline. At some point we needed to say, this is why this is dangerous, and while we think that this content is repugnant, having the power to pick and choose who is and is not online, thats dangerous, and we need to have a public conversation about that. It sounds like youre actually making the case for the exact opposite action of the one you took. Whats your rationale for other than the bad mood thing. Whats your rationale for making the decision you did make . Pretty difficult for us to have there, it was a distraction to us. What were the things. We got reports they started to take abuse complaints that had been submitted to us, and then when we would turn them over to their hosting provider, they would harass or threaten violence against the people that were submitting those complaints. Thats when they got on my radar screen. On the morning i woke up, what i saw was a twitter feed full of comments that were taken from their blog saying, the upper echelons of class flair are White Supremacists and they support what were doing. That was the final straw. Yeah, i mean, i guess under that circumstance, maybe you did have good reasons beyond i dont like your content as a company, where they were violating your terms of service or Companies Like cloud flair and google have kicked them off earlier. We can point to our terms of service and make that excuse. I think whats important is, the reality is, the content, if it was a cute kitten blog, we would have cut them more slack. Thats just the reality, there is a level of arbitrariness to this. What worries me is that the system, it should not be controlled by ten tech executives who wake up in a bad mood, it should be there should be some level of due process, and some trains parentscy to these . I just this week, interviewed Richard Spencer who is a neonazi, and he and robert mcchesney, a professor at the university of illinois, completely agreed the government needs to step in and regulate, otherwise we lose free speech on the internet. Unless you have access through these companies or through certain companies, youre being silent. I think there is a question when certain private Companies Start to get such square whether its government or transparency through clarity. Im the son of a journalist, one of the things i think makes this uncountry so important is the First Amendment we operate in 70 countries around the world. The vast majority of them have nothing like speech protections in the united states, there is a rule of law, there is due process, that requires transparency that we havent had previously. What kind of reactions are you seeing from your employees and what kind of conversations are you guys having . And what kind of hate mail are you getting . Inside cloud flair this is a discussion weve been having for six years, our question was, how do we take the discussion happening inside cloud flair and make it a broader discussion . I think outside, its been theres a lot of noise, a lot of angry people that say, nazis are bad, or youre bad for having censored nazis, you flush that away and look at the thoughtful comments, its split 5050 on what the right role is, for me, the answer is going to be different depending on what kind of company and where you sit. One thing i find in general is that a lot of people dont understand the First Amendment does not apply to google or facebook or you or any of these companies. We have a First Amendment, its like, no, these are private companies, private websites. The question is, if a companys become so big that theyre affectively monopolies, at what point does the government . There are choke points on the internet, we think of the internet as being this Broad Network of and anybody can get on and publish. What companies should we be looking at as what yours obviously. 10 of internet traffic google would be another one. What companies are the choke points . I think that whats interesting is a chain of companies that have to Work Together to bring you what the internet is, and infrastructure Companies Like level three or cloud flair that are out there, at t, facebook, google, amazon, all play different roles. Whats important is the answers for each of those companies is potentially different, take google as an example, two days before we kicked the daily stormer off, google said, you cant use our registrar services, they didnt block them from using our isp, from using their browser or pull them from search. Those are all things they could have done, those feel like theyre wrong. The deeper you get into the internet staff, most of your viewers, and this is even a Silicon Valley aware audience, havent heard of cloud flair. More that those are the compa Companies Making editorials, thats where theres concern. Let me take you back to last wednesday again, would you have made the same decision . I think we made the right decision in the short term, because we needed to have this conversation, in the long term, deep infrastructure Companies Like cloud flair making edit editorial decisions is dangerous. Thank you for being with us. Thanks. Up next, the hottest new startup in Silicon Valley gets bigger two feet at a time. Welcome back to press here. I wear a jacket and tie because nbc asks i do. If i works for facebook, i would wear their uniform. Mark zuckerberg may have made it famous, but now the hoodie and jeans are universal in hightech. To that we can add shoes. These are in tech offices all over the bay area, the New York Times says, in uncomfortable times Silicon Valley has turned to a comfortable shoe. This is it the first time ive had a shoemaker on the show. He started his career in biotechnology trying to turn algae into gasoline. Hes turned into a beach of a cop letter, thanks for being with us this morning. All of a sudden, nobody is not talking about them, the New York Times is running columns about them, and they just appeared out of magic air. How did you get so popular . We didnt plan for quite the amount of success that we had, its been a fast run, weve been around for about 18 months and thats it . Yeah, the short time, i think what we did really well in the beginning, we made lots of mistakes, we said no to everything. We launched with one shoe, this was our second model that came out, 13 months after we launched. And we came out in the industry, it was one shoe, a couple colors, and we just kind of disuntilled things down to a solution that people needed. And that was a comfortable shoe de void of logos, minimalist design that was focused on comfort. Where did you first market this shoe . Were almost 98, 99 from our own website. The only place we sell the shoes. And we have to do a ton of marketing, we got the word out predominantly, 70 of people who buy our shoes now are coming to our website, one of our friends told them that sounds like a fluke. I cant come up with any, unless you spent millions of dollars in marketing that i dont know about. There are lots of people that are like, i got a great product. People will buy it, and nobody shows up. Ever every over night success, it took a ton of work. My partner tim brown was a professional athlete, he had been sponsored by nike, he was tired of the approach those guys were taking, hes from new zealand and staring at 29 million sheep, sometimes you ask yourself, what are you going to do with that, we developed, we co developed with a partner in italy, this is a fiber from a particular type of sheep which is used in 5,000 suits, and we put that into a shoe and designed a proprietary textile to make it really comfortable. Since you were in the biofuel industry, are these basically safe for the environment, you think about your process . Yeah, the only reason i wouldnt be doing a shoe company if i didnt think it was important for our company to exist. We founded the company, because we believed that particularly in shoes, the consumer products, theres not a lot of focus put on environmental sensibility, particularly in the sourcing of raw materials, my career has been focused on doing renewable Product Innovation and putting that into industry. It was challenging, trying to take a leadership position on how to market consumer products. But doing it because of renewable materials but not in spite of. You know, we have caster bean oil derived insoles which is high cushioned stuff, the marina wolf in the top is an extraordinarily low carbon footprint. Its not 100 sheep . No. How much are they . I cant tell you the whole blend. Theres a little llama thrown in . How what do you attribute the success to, because you explain how you guys got started and how you fell, to your point, there are a lot of companies who have tried to do that, with various products. Did you get the support and the endorsement organically of a few big techies . There wasnt one Silver Bullet that happened, we grew before starting the company and launching to the public, we grew a huge amount of conviction that theres this trend where people on their mobil devices working, not just 9 00 to 5 00, but theyre working all the time. You need gear that keeps up with the change in life and changing behavior you have. And apparent has kept up with that. Is that what youre Say Something you. Dont need youre working all the time, you need something thats versatile that may explain the Silicon Valley uniform. For a bunch of people who are trying to disrupt the world, they all dress the same. Yes. Really the same, like a bunch of junior high kids. And now the next one, you have a tiger by the tail. Now, you can either be the next nike or the next crock. Which would you rather . Because something hits and its great. Remember 2017 they had those wool shoes. How do you stay ahead . Our company is in our dna, were thinking that someone like nike is putting 50 million budget and a great team trying to beat us, were getting some publicity, some great noise. We never thought one innovation was going to create something that was going to be created. We had already started a pipeline of other materials, this is our first and we put it into a couple silhouettes, there will be a couple more. Material innovations were coming out with are extraordinarily novel. Never in the industry has the materials were working with created Something Like close to negative carbon footprint. Thats really what were focused on doing. Something out of a tree than a traditional shoe. The dutch do that. Do you see copycats . Copycats are coming. The wool biodegrades. We think of the end of life when were designing this. Not quite. Youre not going to make an all wool stiletto, are you . What kind of other products . That is not in the pipeline. Good. Question focussed on redefining comfort, and making comfort and distilling it into something simple. You see one seam in our shoe. We took out everything unnecessary. You can think of a number of different categories inside casual shoes and then outside of casual shoes where comfort is king, and you want something that every sing emday you can rely on to take you through whatever youre doing from when you wake up to when you go to bed. Thats incredibly comfortable. Let me ask you one last quick question. Its made all of wool. Its a nod back to our heritage. When we first settled, it was all birds no mammals. Coming up next, the power of a single voice. Four people, talking about that. Welcome back to press here. Sitting is the new smoking. The worry that all in a time on our rear ends is the Biggest Health threat we face. It comes from a ted talk. Merchant has a talent for coming up with pithy phrases. The power of onliness, make your ideas wild enough to dent the world. Instead of fitting in at a Large Organization and climbing the ladder, the power of the internet gives you the power to spread your wild ideas. Letts address the first thing, the somewhat obviousness of that statement, the internet allows us to be heard, thats happening all the time. Right, but for a lot of us, the ability to sort of claim ones narrative as ones own is relatively new for a lot of us. 69 of the world, women, people of color, really young people, their onlies havent counted for a long time. On the internet no one knows youre a dog, or 15 and have a great idea. Live in some poor neighborhood some place, or whatever. Thats essentially what youre saying. It changes the organizing principal. What weve been able to organize around before is the school i went to or the neighborhood i live in, or the parents i was born into. And now you can organize by ideas. I think ive certainly seen that happen, for good and bad. I actually wonder as the internet grows larger, we have bigger corporations. Have you seen it change where small ideas have a harder time at all breaking through . Now, so many people are on the internet. Certainly theres a ka coffinny of noise. We have different meanings. And so is meanness. We dont have enough rules and thoughts in place about how do we manage crowds, how do we bring out the best in people rather than the worst in people. Whats an example of a breakthrough in your book. Theres 20 some stories of positive people and ten negative stories. One of the breakout stories was a story of kimberly bryant. She was working in a major Tech Industry world. And lost in that world as a black woman in tech. When she saw her daughter go to stanford and get treated like a lot of black girls get treated as if they arent relevant and meaningful, she thought, i should figure out how to help these kids and she built curriculum around her Kitchen Table and borrowed computers and started teaching black girls code. I knew i knew that name. I spoke with her yesterday. The organizing principle came around moms saying, can i borrow your curriculum. Theyve now trained over 10,000 girls, the power of that isnt so much somebody could have said to kim, your idea isnt meaningful to me, it could have been said as marginal, she claimed it as meaningful for herself. And that idea became the organizing factor for an entire business. I like what you wrote about, everyone has ideas, what do i know . You wrote something to the effect, only you are standing in the place youre standing or something to that effect. Only you stand in that spot in the world that you stand in. A function of your history and experience, vision and hopes. The reason im doing the history experience vision and hopes, we can prove our skills, we cant show anyone else when its just this little mingling idea in our head or maybe something we go, thats broken, that needs to get fixed. Whats the point, though, is the goal here to showcase and give a little bit of a how to for breakout ideas and Successful Companies or not profits, or is the goal like heres this opportunity where everyone can express themselves. There are thousands and thousands of people who sell their crafts on etsy, most of them dont make that much money, right . The organizing principle in why this idea became important, right now weve been organized for commoditization of people. What is the steps of capabilities and strengths and passions you bring so the organizing system can be much more passion focused and we can change how we recruit, reward, build companies. Thats the big thing, if a whole bunch of us had been told our ideas dont count, by ourselves or other people, were actually having a latency in the system, thats sized to be a trillion dollar opportunity in the u. S. Alone. Thats sort of how . How is that a trillion dollar opportunity . Ill point to research that i did through the prosperity institute. If we engage the talent of people currently working, how would that occur, we try angulated that data to get the number. You did it. Thank you. Thats our show for this week. Thank you for making us part of your sunday morning. Damian trujillo hello, and welcome to comunidad del valle. Im damian trujillo, and today, la raza historical society, learn about our roots on your comunidad del valle. Male announcer nbc bay area presents comunidad del valle, with damian trujillo. Damian and we begin today with the start of the school year. Dr. Linda prieto is with the agency called alearn. And also with us is ruben bejinez, who is a student with the program. Welcome to the show. Welcome back, dr. Prieto. Both thank you. Damian tell us about alearn again, and who benefits, and what youre all doing out there. Linda prieto absolutely. So, we are a nonprofit, and weve been around now for 10 years. Were celebrating our 10year anniversary. Weve served over 11,000 students, primarily in santa clara county, but also in san mateo county. We offer programs after school, but really in the summer is when were the busiest. And so, we get to serve students like ruben, who are either going into their fifth grade year all the way