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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Panel Podcast. I'm Paul Sweene. You,

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Joining us. We are very glad

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Speaker 1: to have Carl Liebert, President and chief executive officer of

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Speaker 1: Auto Nation, which reported earnings. Uh, the earnings did disappoint

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Speaker 1: a little bit. The question that I have Carl, is

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Speaker 1: that looking at the auto landscape right now, it does

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Speaker 1: seem like people are saying we have seen peak auto.

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Speaker 1: How are you adjusting to that new reality? Well, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me on today. It's my honor to

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Speaker 1: be here. And and uh, look, I think we've we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about this for quite some time at Auto Nation,

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Speaker 1: that there was gonna be a slowing of retail sales.

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Speaker 1: And the play we called and wanted to execute is

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Speaker 1: to really really focus on profits per vehicle, and uh,

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Speaker 1: and how we thought about delivering on our commitments to

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Speaker 1: our shareholders um and the first quarter turned out extraordinarily

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Speaker 1: well from us when you start to think about our

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Speaker 1: revenue being down, but our but our profits and are

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Speaker 1: Arnie for share a new record for Q one. We

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Speaker 1: feel good about it. We've got a long way to go.

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Speaker 1: Is we're at the end of this economic cycle, so

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Speaker 1: we're watching inventories closely and making sure we can we're

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Speaker 1: executing the play. So Carl talked us a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the used car market and the relative I know

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Speaker 1: you guys have kind of shaded your focus a little

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Speaker 1: relative profitability there and what upside you see in that

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Speaker 1: side of business. Well, and I think this is uh

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Speaker 1: one thing we're really proud about in the used car

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Speaker 1: really really like that one price strategy. It creates transparency,

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Speaker 1: it creates the opportunity for them to uh perhaps get

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Speaker 1: thought about the used car business in a in a

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Speaker 1: different way just to standpoint of how it can differentiate automation.

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Speaker 1: I think we still have some work to do there, UM,

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Speaker 1: but we're working hard at it to UM. We're promintly

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Speaker 1: known for our new vehicle sales. It's what it's what

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Speaker 1: made us great and delivered on that. And UH, we've

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Speaker 1: got five Automation USA stores that are used car only

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Speaker 1: that are continuing to improve and we're learning lots of

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Speaker 1: exciting insights around where we want to go there. But

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Speaker 1: the opportunity for both customers and automation in the used

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Speaker 1: car space. Carl Liebert, Presidency of AutoNation. That partly that

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Speaker 1: late in this credit cycle and you are starting to

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Speaker 1: we're we are late into credit cycle. We we do

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Speaker 1: real hallmarks for our strategy going forward. Carl can talk

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Speaker 1: a little about the your financial services side of the business.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that you know, we've been hearing

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Speaker 1: execution we're running. Carl Libert, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Carl's president and CEO of Auto Nation joining

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Speaker 1: us on the phone well. A growing practice in residential

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Speaker 1: and commercial construction is sustainable construction. One of the ways

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Speaker 1: is repurposing shipping containers into living and working environments. To

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Speaker 1: help us explain this story, we welcome Paul Alvin, Paul's

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Speaker 1: Brooker Studio. Paul, Welcome to Bloomberg. Give us a sense

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Speaker 1: of kind of what you guys do in terms of

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Speaker 1: repurposing these containers and how they're used. Sure, so great

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Speaker 1: sustainability at Bloomberg. UM. Our business is premised upon taking

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Speaker 1: the heavy gage shipping containers that are aggregating in America.

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Speaker 1: use a very small carbon footprint and turn these intermodal

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Speaker 1: so our company delivers UH, medical, educational, residential, and commercial

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Speaker 1: structures through pre fabricating the finishes of shipping containers that

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Speaker 1: sit on flatbed trucks stack nine hide naturally are made

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Speaker 1: con Global. UH. They manage about six of the domestic

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Speaker 1: you got ahead of yourselves. Well, I think with Intel

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a company specific case as well.

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Speaker 1: And and what you're seeing right now is uh you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: Intel is going through that CEO transition phase as well

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Speaker 1: when when I look at the demand for chips, it's

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Speaker 1: really geared towards cloud. That's what you don't see, you know,

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Speaker 1: want to bring in Olivia's Aleski. Olivia's a deal's reporter

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Speaker 1: a little bit and yours man deep on some of

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Speaker 1: the upcoming tech deals. Olivia joins us some our Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: nine sixties studio in San Francisco. Olivia, thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us again. We've got some deals coming up on on

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Speaker 1: tech what are your thoughts first on the Uber filing?

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Speaker 1: Well do you? So, let's remember that Uber filed UH

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, that what came out this morning

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Speaker 1: was just a price range update, and so that companies

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Speaker 1: typically do this with they'll file initially with no price

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Speaker 1: range in their S one, and then they'll update once

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Speaker 1: they get a better sense of the market and what

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Speaker 1: the demand is UM and the market is telling them

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Speaker 1: to be conservative, which I think is the key sort

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Speaker 1: of point here. This morning they went out with a

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Speaker 1: forty four to fifty dollar range, which is quite conservative

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Speaker 1: and puts Uber's valuation about eighty four billion dollars. And

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Speaker 1: let remember that months ago, when bankers first started talking

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Speaker 1: at a hundred and twenty billion UM. So this is

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Speaker 1: quite a step down for them. But I think it's

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Speaker 1: really sort of a kind of come to Jesus moment

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Speaker 1: for them to say, Okay, let's be conservative, let's come

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Speaker 1: can sort of avoid some of the blunders that Lift saw. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's really interesting to see that Uber is ratcheting

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Speaker 1: back its expectations. Slack also submitted to its plans to

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Speaker 1: US regulators to go public, and it actually went through

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Speaker 1: an unusual direct listing. Olivia, I'm sure you'll be digging

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Speaker 1: through all of that. Olivia's Leski, Bloomberg Deal's Reporter. Also

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Speaker 1: our thanks to Man Deep Saying, senior tech industry analyst

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Speaker 1: for Bloomberg Intelligence. Uber's I p O filing, slacks, impending listing.

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Speaker 1: Sort of interesting to see how both of these are

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Speaker 1: coming at a time of really split demand, people demanding

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