bill cohen, kara swisher. >>> when we come back, we talk to maynard webb. and the president with a trade warning for apple, calling on the tech giant to build its plants here or risk rising prices with that, apple is down a fourth day "squawk alley" is back in a minute alerts -- wouldn't you like one from the market when it might be time to buy or sell? with fidelity's real-time analytics, you'll get clear, actionable alerts about potential investment opportunities in real time. fidelity. open an account today. >>> so many corporate stories of leaders. elon musk smoking pot, and gentleman ma leaving the tech giant. joining us on cnbc, former yahoo chairman maynard webb who has a new book titled "dear founder. great to see you again thanks for joining us today. congratulations on the board of education. >> thank you, carl great to be here >> which has a lot of practical advice on how to raise money, how to get to scale, how to plan for succession i am curious by the line, you talk about things you regret the most you say it is not things you did but what you

kara swisher, co-founder, editor at large at recode joins us here at post 9. great to have you here. >> thanks a lot. >> this move reminds me of bezos and patrick with the "l.a. times. this is a big national brand. >> yep. >> costing hundreds of millions of dollars is this a new trend for billion ara airs to do this? >> it started with putting money into -- the one in hawaii and things like that when he was buying, he said he doesn't like sports teams, this is the version of sports teams for these guys, he is like i don't like a football team but i want this. i think it is an interesting way. they're all interested in media. years ago the google guys and eric sh my eric smith were going to buy "new york times. this has always been of interest to tech people it is not a surprise i think you're going to see a lot more going forward. >> is it political they say it is not they say they're not getting involved in editorial goings on of "time" magazine bezos said he is not getting involved in editorial goings on in the post. but in a way when the idea of objective f

kara swisher joining us. good morning i'm not sure it is a surprise a free thinker in california smoked weed or how big a deal this is in the grand seem of this elon musk saga. what did we learn from this wide ranging podcast interview? >> well, he talked about a lot of stuff that he talked about before, his various things about cars and things like that. i think it is just that, you know, again weed is legal in california, that's the way it is, but he has so many things going on right now, i think probably doing that was sort of a big red look at me sign, probably problematic more importantly, think of recent departures of the company, head of accounting, head of hr announced today there's a lot of executive turmoil in the company and i think that's something that's probably more important than him lighting up i suppose still not a good look for the company, the board will have a real issue here with trying to understand how to deal with how he wants to present himself in public >> what do you make of the wa

>>> so in 2007 kara swisher and i were lucky enough to get bill gates and steve jobs on a stage together. it was an interview. >> you know, bill built the first software company, before anybody really knew what a software company was. >> if you were going to pick two people who basically started the personal tech revolution, they were the right two people to pick. >> what's the greatest misunderstanding in your relationship about each other? the idea of catfight, this idea of -- which of the many? >> we've kept our marriage secret for over a decade now. >> these two people were the most significant forces in technology through our era. and to see them together praising each other and jabbing each other a little in the ribs -- >> i know steve's going to announce his transporter. >> it was really a great moment. and i was lucky to have seen it. >> you are competitors in certain ways. >> we watch the commercials. >> and you get annoyed at each other from time to time. >> i have to confess, i like pc guy. >> he's great. >> i like him. >> the art of those commercial is not to be mean but it's

in my field it's like a kara swisher is a really big deal. and i'm trying to think of more, because i work so hard to get bylines into tweets. so that's as far as i'll go right now is kara. >> okay. where do you get your news primarily? >> man, it's across a very wide range of feeds. i will make special efforts to look at what's in "the washington post," "the new york times" and so on. i'm just sorry that not enough of them are funny. oh, there's -- last week tonight, of course. and the podcast where -- the bugle. >> how should we be empowering students to contribute with fact checking? >> students on the fact-checking level, and i'm assume ising like high school? -- assuming like high school? i would encourage them instead to learn how to become wiki media editors -- wikipedia editors. wikipedia needs more and more people writing articles and correcting them. and in wikipedia parlance, an editor is also someone who writes an article. that's what i would like to see in school, because wikipedia is where facts go to live. and it's actually pre

communications services like wabo, et cetera, there that's a if you're saying international expansion, kara swisher did a podcast talking about how facebook has had to open an office in myanmar because of a revolution that the site may have helped foment and they have been apologetic about it, which is rare for facebook to admit fault. there was a genocide happening there where the site was the conduit to direct orders to people who were carrying it out. obviously facebook wants to do the best job they can internationally, and what that means from an investor's perspective is it's great to cheer them on getting more heavily in depth in other countries, but understand the responsibility that comes along with that means compliance spending and that is not great for a company that has had historically incredibly high margins. those margins will not be the case down the road if they have to open up offices and work with governments all over the world >> i'm just saying 215, i get it, i do but at 170 to downgrade it here on things that we already know, so i will say that this is a show me stock