The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Microsoft Beats North Korea Hackers, Uber Fight California & Other News Dec 30, 2019

Episode Date: December 31, 2019

Microsoft Beats North Korea Hackers, Uber Fight California & Other News Dec 30, 2019

Hi folks, Chris Voss here from thechrisvossshow.com. Hey, coming here with another cool podcast. Oh my gosh, it's almost the end of the year, December 30th, 2019. We're getting there. The countdown is real, man. So, yeah. What are we going to do, man? It's going to be 2020, a whole new decade all to ourselves.

You, me, and 7 billion other people on the planet or something like that. What will this new decade bring? I don't know, man. Let's just hope it's better than the last decade. That's all I ask. The last decade, well, it didn't really start out that good, did it? It started out with the financial crisis in the U.S. and around the world. And then, you know, we kind of climbed up the mountain there.

And then, what did I say, 2008? 2010? Well, 2008 was the crisis and it rolled into 2010. And then it kind of built its way up over the next decade. And, wow, yeah, so then you enter into kind of the ugly part of the last half where we saw a lot of social media used against us. It was like the rise of social media and the crash of social media. So it'll be interesting to think about what you're going to do,

think about what your resolutions are, hopefully what you're planning for the next year and all that good stuff. We'll talk about that some more maybe tomorrow or the next day. Today is news. So what's in the news? Tech news, Chris. This is pretty interesting. One of the top stories coming out on there is ZDNet.

Microsoft wins court order to seize 50 domains that are run by the North Korean cyber espionage group Thallium. I hope I'm pronouncing that right, but I think I got that one. It's the fourth APT Microsoft has combated with this tactic. They basically, I guess, go to a court system and get an order, and the order goes, yeah, these guys are being bad. It's pretty interesting and so then they just take over their domains for their North Korean cyber espionage group I guess it was doing a lot of evil stuff it was putting you know different bots and stuff on people's computers asking for

personal information and data and of course sadly people fall for that sort of thing and then it would be monitoring them and all you know doing all sorts of evil stuff that hackers do so i guess they shut a lot of that down so sorry kim john un but the sam party there's probably five billion of those things in operation right now they just took out 50 but i don't know the best way to eat an elephant is to uh is to uh chew it one bite at a time right so there you go according to bloomberg uh uber and postmates are suing california to block ab5 days of the bill taking effect says law unconditionally targets the gig economy companies and benefits other industries this is going to be an interesting battle that's going to take and happen in this field. Uber and a lot of the different, a lot of these different companies

that were built with this sort of gig economy thing are fighting like hell because, you know, it's the profit margins probably. And they don't want to see this bill take place where, you know, they're going to have to start paying taxes. They can't pull the W-9 independent contractor thing anymore. They're going to probably have to probably healthcare and stuff. But I got to tell you, there's, uh, from everything I've seen about Uber and the different drive services and how they work and, and stuff, it's really interesting. And you have to jump through their hoops and rules and, you know, there you go. So it'll be interesting how they fight through that lawsuit, how they get through it, and what happens out the other end.

Will it destroy the gig economy? Will it destroy all sorts of companies that are out there? Will it bring Uber to its knees? Will they have to come up with a new way to do their business? I don't know, but it'll be interesting to find out Yahoo's news has got an overview of ongoing efforts by the US to modernize its spy operations to contain the damage from the 2014 OPM breach to be more resilient to tracking and more hackers began slipping into computer systems

at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014. Wow, man, you're the U.S. government, man. You guys are supposed to be good at this stuff. Get on it. Get on it. So that's kind of interesting. According to Eric Feng, analysis of PitchBook data since 2005

shows that in 2019, the number of enterprise focused seed deals overtook consumer focused seed deals for the first time. That means more investors are putting more money into enterprise focused deals as opposed to consumer. There's a lot of smart angles to take in doing that because certainly enterprise, you know, there's usually bigger money in there. Uh, if, you know, I can sell a product to one consumer one at a time, which is, um, intense, uh, or I can, you know, go to like IBM and say, Hey, buy our product day. And then you got to buy it for all your employees. And then, Oh, 50,000 sales right there. That's cool. Um, so that's kind of interesting that it's turning the market. Maybe we're going to see less consumer apps,

less consumer products, uh, that are funded, uh, you know, by seed investors. And maybe we're just going to see more enterprise stuff. They're focusing on maybe the more profitable end of the, of the spectrum, if you will. Next up from MIT Technology Review, the obsessive documentation of one's life online has made it hard for young people to shed their past identities and might have bad effects for society at large. What, you mean all those 50,000 posts on Instagram

might be bad for me? No way. No way. You're saying that was bad? don't know man i just i'm so glad i didn't grow up in the instagram era i'm so glad that most of my childhood teen years early 20s and 30s actually 40s uh early 40s are not all over the freaking internet thanks myspace for going away um i'm just so glad because i made a lot of bad choices i mean nothing too heinous but you know seriously some of the stupid shit i used to think and say um probably wouldn't you know look too

good nowadays you know and and we were all evolving as a society back then and, you know, look too good nowadays, you know, and, and we were all evolving as a society back then. And so, you know, we've all had to learn, open our minds and, uh, learn new tricks and tips and, and, uh, ways to accept the world and people as it comes. And hopefully we're more enlightened world because of it. Uh, hoping we are, I keep seeing the news and wondering if we're going the right direction, but that's another story. So, uh, this should be pretty interesting. I mean, it's, you know, it's, it's one of those things where you're on the roller coaster and you're not getting off. So you're just like, well, I'll just keep my hands and legs inside the, inside the thing at all times and pray that the thing doesn't go off the rails and we get to the end that's my roller coaster analogy you like that that's pretty cool huh hopefully we're all

gonna live man we're gonna die on the roller coaster i don't know man it's whatever so um who knew and then and then i guess if you create a brand or identity a lot of these kids they create kind of an identity with their brand and um it's a very visual identity like for me the chris voss show is not too visual because i don't post a lot of my pictures i don't post things about me i'm not the brand i mean i ch Chris Voss is the brand, but my face isn't the brand. Like, you aren't looking at me going, there's Chris Voss. He is the brand, and he's, like, really hot. And if he stops being hot, then we won't like him anymore.

You know, basically that. Like, I'm not an Instagram model where you're like, you're really hot. And then, you know, one day she puts on like 20 pounds and everyone's like, you're awful. And people shouldn't do that. That's bad. I just want to make that clear. But, you know, or she gets pregnant or, I don't know, she decides to get really bad plastic surgery. And then she ends up looking weird.

And people are like, oh, you look weird. You know, bullying her. And then what do you do after that it's kind of like it's kind of I guess it's kind of like what they're talking about with the documentation one's life online it makes it hard for people to shred their past identities probably because they get so locked into it it's kind of like when I guess actors get typecasts you know the Brady, was it the Brady Bunch, or no, it was the other show, Skipper and Gilligan, Gilligan's Island, where Gilligan, you know, they, they did that whole show, and they only did it for like two or three years, but it was so overplayed, because they didn't have any royalties on it, so TV shows were like, we don't have to pay royalties on this

crap, just play the shit out of it, and yeah, there you go, man. Those guys got typecast so hard. They couldn't work hardly ever again and they didn't get any royalties. That is brutal, man. Brutal, brutal, brutal. And it was back in the world where, you know, there was a lot of cartoons, so you couldn't go to cartoons either. Like, you know, everyone can go to toy story if people are two types cast and uh kind of rewrite the book there so it'll be interesting to see what happens is a whole generation of people that are are uh whole generation of people that are um you know they've done this online life and you know where does it go man am i going to be looking at your life like years back going, look, there's Bob. I got to tell you, I do look at old videos of mine from 10 years ago,

and I'm just like, holy shit. You know, the audio is not that good. The video is not that good either. But part of the problem was back then, the audio in the video wasn't ever good. So I think the audio was kind of good if I would have spent enough money to set up a radio studio. But video-wise, you're just like, wow, that's really bad, man. And some of those things I ran my mouth off about, I'm just kind of like, really?

That's what you were doing back then? But I get it. We were trying to find our place in the world. Hopefully I've shed my identity. The beautiful part about the Chris Voss show that I loved, and I recommend this to most people that start their brand, if they're going to name their brand, something of themselves, name your brand that something that is flexible. So, um, so the, the beautiful thing about the Chris Voss show, I finally decided to

name it the Chris Voss show. And although at first I was kind of like, Kate, this thing is my name. Uh, if I were on a sell, it has my name on it and then the other thing is is well it does make it impossible sell the other thing is is you know what if I decide to do something different so the beautiful part was the Chris Voss show is the Chris Voss show is whatever Chris wants the show to be and over time we've changed the show and adapted the show and and it's just pretty much whatever Chris wants to talk about so that makes it really flexible and something that I'm not locked into ten years later like if the Chris Voss show

was called like Betamax is the best VCRs ever podcast. We'd be really screwed right now, wouldn't we? Mitt Romney for president podcast. Not that I ever vote for him, but you know what I mean? I remember, I remember seeing the guy who got a giant tattoo of Mitt Romney, uh, for president or something, or Mitt Romney, you know, whatever year it was, and he got the tattoo of it on his face, and then Mitt Romney lost, and you're like, oh, fuck, that's brutal, man, you gotta walk around that failure your whole life, oh, what are you gonna do with people, uh, let's move on to some other news. A little segue there.

A little sidebar. A little sidebar segue. Got your sidebar. Got the sidebar, Chris. Maybe I should have a sidebar podcast. There could be the Chris Voss show. And there could be like this little sidebar where you can take in... It's the outtakes of the show, basically. It's the sideakes of the show basically it's the sidebars of the show it's the segues of the show you're like i don't want to listen to meat i just want

to listen to the part where chris got off the track and just kind of fucking ran with it for a while that's the podcast i'm looking for it's the one where he just goes right off the rails into some direction and you just don't know where it's going it where he just goes right off the rails into some direction. And you just don't know where it's going. It's just a train running across the desert off the rails. Full speed ahead with volition that you can't grind to a halt yet. And he's going to run that thing right into the ground until it stops. Some rock or gravity and friction, bring it to an end,

and then he's going to move to the next subject. And you know what, folks? The beauty of that is I just did that for you. So there you go. Another segue, another sidebar. That's two for this podcast. If I just keep doing this, I have another podcast of just sidebars. Anyway, going back to our main topics in the news.

Hawaii's, Huawei's actually, I always get that wrong. Huawei's rotating chairman, Eric Zhu, rotating chairman, what the hell, estimates the company 2019 revenue grew by 18% year-over-year to $122 billion. I'll take a check on that. It says it shipped 240 million smartphones but forecasts a very difficult 2020. So that should be interesting. Wow, with even the U.S. cutting them out and leaning on them and giving them hell for shit, they still ship 240 million smartphones.

Wow, got all those Chinese. What is there, like 6 billion of them or something? leaning on them and giving them hell for shit. They still ship 240 million smartphones. Wow. Got all those Chinese. What is it, like 6 billion or something? 5 billion? 4 billion? I don't know. I don't know how many Chinese they are. Good for them.

Way to go, Chinese. According to The Verge, Sonos should rethink its trade-out programs, this is the opinion piece, recycle mode, which bricks old Sonos devices for a discount on newer ones and consider a policy of reuse. I guess Chris Welch over the verge, uh, doesn't like the irreversible kill switch for a discount. Um, that basically pollutes the environment. Uh,

Sonos, I guess got called out by some people about how they take and do this. I guess they try and upgrade you to a new unit. Instead of just having them ship the old unit back to you or toss it, they brick it so that no one can use it again, which is kind of lame. I mean, why can't you just go resell it? I don't know. I guess they're doing some sort of deal. Sonos, we're actually reviewing right now one of the Sonos speakers.

It's a little small one. I think it's the LR5. It's okay. It's an interesting little product. Let's put it that way. I actually like my Harman Kardon Citation 1 better, but that's just me. So there you go. According to news, Business Insider, Amazon is set up to open a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters.

Is that for its employees on the floor? Oh, shit. The burn is real, Chris. Oh. Hopefully it's got a medical facility for those poor employees that have heart attacks on the floor. This is sad, man. Anyway, the homeless shelter's got the capacity to serve 275 people through an expanded partnership with

Nonprofit Murry's Place. I don't know. This sounds probably like a good thing. Maybe. They're playing up to get their money and all that good stuff. Way to go. There you go. Fun is fun. So, so, know get their money and all that good stuff way to go there you fun is fun so sorry a bit of a yawn there what was that about um report coming out of the

New York Post is in January YouTube will expand limitations on the data that videos aimed at kids can collect and stop showing personalized ads to underage viewers boy I'm so glad I don't make underage viewer videos on YouTube because if you are bye bye money I'm sure you'll make some still money maybe you make great videos for kids like that one kid was he making like 26 million dollars a year the kid who reviews toys he's like i don't know 10 or something now i don't know um that's pretty crazy man good for him good for that kid i hope he's saving for college because by the time he hits college college will be 26 million dollars a year i think at this pace oh man so uh youtube's doing that. The only thing annoying for me is all my YouTube videos are, like, asking me,

is this made for kids? And you have to say it's not. Like, don't do that. Just say that I have to click a box if it's made for kids. Like, I really don't want to go through 3,500 videos and be like, this is a kid, this is a kid, this is a kid. I mean could use two buddy but i don't know i don't really want to uh according to financial times u.s shoppers expect to return 100 billion dollars worth of unwanted goods by this holiday season online purchases three times more likely to be returned than those in stores uh so there you go um fun is fun

what are you returning this holiday season because it's not what you give or get it's what you return it's the return thought that counts i gotta tell you man i've been avoiding like avoiding, like, Costco and the stores, actually, I think the day after Christmas or something, I drove to Costco, and I went, like, really early in the morning, I'm like, I'm gonna get there really early, and, uh, and to zoom in there, and grab some stuff, and get out before it turns into fucking shitville, and, uh, I got there real early, pulled up, and giant motherfucking line out the front. And I'm like, yeah, I'm going to go home and enjoy my holiday.

I don't need that kind of punishment, people. Seriously. According to the Washington Post, Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention drugs weeks after activists said they could cause a health public crisis so these ads I guess they're out there and have some do with HIV prevention drugs and they're putting their finger on the scale they're putting their thumb down if you will and saying we're not gonna allow that stuff in a mall that's our thing we're sticking deep. There you go. Um, anyway, guys, that's my story and I'm sticking to it now off to go cut the podcast into pieces so

we can work on that sidebar podcast. Welcome to the sidebar podcast with Chris Voss. I'm not doing that guys. I'm just fucking around. Not going to make a sidebar podcast. If you would really like one, write me at Chris Voss or LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, all those places. And say, hey, Chris, can you really do that for us because we really want it. And I'll give some thought because you guys are nice and I like you. Anyway, guys, thanks for tuning in. We'll see you next time.