TEK2day Podcast

Follow-up to recent Uber & Nuance podcasts:

Uber autonomous vehicle crash video: https://www.wsj.com/articles/video-shows-final-seconds-before-fatal-uber-self-driving-car-crash-1521673182

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CEORater Founder & CEO Jon Maietta

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Autonomous vehicles are here to stay – they are not nearly as dangerous as humans who text while driving. The question for Uber investors is can the company along with Geely and Softbank ever catch Waymo?

Uber autonomous crash video: https://www.wsj.com/articles/video-shows-final-seconds-before-fatal-uber-self-driving-car-crash-1521673182

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CEORater: CEO & Company Profiles. Crowdsourced Reviews

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TEK2day: Technology, Capital Markets, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Entrepreneurship

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CEORater Founder & CEO Jon Maietta

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Meet Luminar Technologies – the LiDAR Company Powering Toyota’s Autonomous Vehicle Program: https://tek2day.com/2018/02/04/meet-luminar-technologies-the-lidar-company-powering-toyotas-autonomous-vehicle-program/

The CEORater platform consists of CEORater.com, the CEORater Podcast and TEK2day.com

CEORater: CEO & Company Profiles. Crowdsourced Reviews

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TEK2day: Technology, Capital Markets, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Entrepreneurship

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CEORater Founder & CEO Jon Maietta

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Twitter: @jonathanmaietta

Medium: @jonathanmaietta

Guest Information: Our Interview with Email Marketing Technology entrepreneur Jay Webb

Guest: Jay Webb, Founder & CEO: Follow-UpFuel

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Follow-UpFuel

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Share Your CEO Succession Process Framework with Institutional Investors:

- Define the CEO selection criteria – then share publicly;

- Define the Attributes you wish the next CEO to embody – then share publicly;

- Define the timeline – then share publicly;

- No need to inform investors where you are in the process – i.e. number of candidates and other minutiae

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Our view is that Disney's OTT service will be more than a worthy competitor to Netflix. In a world where original content matters most - Disney has a treasure trove of hit original content: legacy Disney, Lucasfilm/StarWars, Marvel and Pixar. Meanwhile, Netflix is playing catchup on the original content side of the ledger.

Trump Admin blocks Broadcom's (AVGO) proposed acquisition of Qualcomm (QCOM). We believe this to be a dangerous precedent based on flawed logic. You can't regulate innovation.

Why is it taking Nuance’s (https://www.nuance.com/index.html) Board so long to name the next CEO?

• Disagreement at the Board Level?

• No qualified candidates?

• Nuance in-process selling itself?

Speaking from experience we believe that Satish Maripuri would be a fine CEO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satishmaripuri

If Nuance is indeed working to sell itself we believe private equity is the logical buyer and that one of the three following PE firms would win the day:

o Vista Equity Partners: https://www.vistaequitypartners.com/ (active in software M&A)

o Thoma Bravo: https://thomabravo.com/ (active in software M&A)

o Warburg Pincus : http://www.warburgpincus.com/ (prior relationship with Nuance)

How long will Dara remain CEO?

Here's the link to the WSJ article we referenced: https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-sharpen-cyber-due-diligence-as-m-a-activity-revs-up-1520226061

1.) GE's former CEO and Board asleep at the switch: https://soundcloud.com/ceorater/ep-81-ges-board-is-a-mess

2.) Ken Langone Interview: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/28/ken-langone-ge-destruction-happened-after-jack-welch-left-as-ceo.html

3.) Mario Gabelli PHDs: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidwismer/2012/12/10/billionaire-fund-manager-mario-gabelli-i-like-phds-poor-hungry-and-driven-and-some-investment-themes/#7d6d43b6a5d5

4.) Allocate more time toward making your strengths world class vs. suring-up weaknesses.

5.) MBWA: management by wandering around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_by_wandering_around

6.) Andy Grove: High Output Management: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679762884/ref=rdr_ext_tmb