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Speaker 1: The shares of Facebook, they continue their decline to about

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Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy five dollars right now. That drop

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Speaker 1: being reflected because of the poor report that the company

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Speaker 1: gave after the close of trading yesterday, surprising many analysts

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Speaker 1: joining us now. Colin gillis Director of Research at Chatham

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Speaker 1: Road Partners. Colin gillis always a pleasure if someone said

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Speaker 1: to you, gee, I'm an analyst who covers Facebook and

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Speaker 1: I just got by what they reported. What are you

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Speaker 1: feeling right now? It's a painful day to watch Facebook shares,

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Speaker 1: but a little bit of perspective is needed. Right the

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Speaker 1: shares are just back to the level they were at

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Speaker 1: in May. We knew that Facebook was going to be

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Speaker 1: continuing to invest in security. We knew there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: some concerns around the g d p R, right, the

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Speaker 1: General Data Protection Regulation that's happening in Europe. So the

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Speaker 1: magnitude of the pullback is severe. But this is still

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Speaker 1: a real company, and it's still a real business, and

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Speaker 1: it's still in an area where we're gonna see material growth. Alright.

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Speaker 1: So Colin, is this a buying opportunity? You know it is.

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Speaker 1: But what I always tell people is, if you're looking

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Speaker 1: to know Internet advertising, why not just own Alphabet You've

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Speaker 1: got a very similar type of company, the same revenue stream,

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Speaker 1: but you've got a more diversified suite of services, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, Alphabet a A Google has eight platforms with

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Speaker 1: the play Store, and Google Drive. So they have a

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Speaker 1: much broader diversity of products, whereas Facebook really just has

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Speaker 1: their core platform and Facebook and to a separate degree, Instagram.

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Speaker 1: When does the bleeding stop in terms of the stocks

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Speaker 1: sell off at Facebook? Do you believe right that that

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Speaker 1: that's the number one question that's being asked, and you

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Speaker 1: you know, the concern is the forward guidance. Right, we

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Speaker 1: are going to see revenue decelerate and we are going

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Speaker 1: to see expenses likely to tick up, but it may

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Speaker 1: not be as bad as people are expecting. So, just

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Speaker 1: like what we saw with the March quarter results, right

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Speaker 1: where people were expecting the worst, it didn't come in

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Speaker 1: up to these record levels. You know, let's let it

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Speaker 1: Facebook is a real business. I think the advertise users

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Speaker 1: are not going to disappear, and I do think that

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Speaker 1: people are still going to continue to use it. Right,

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Speaker 1: there is some saturation that's happening. They have total about

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Speaker 1: two and a half billion users across all their platforms.

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Speaker 1: There's only three billion people who have access to the internet. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but Colin, you know some people could say, as you said,

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Speaker 1: the flaw lies with the management, the executives who didn't

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Speaker 1: are slowing down, just hold your horses and and sort

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Speaker 1: of and provide better expectations for what's to come in

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Speaker 1: And you know, Amazon is one of these companies that

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Speaker 1: You know, there's the thesis is is that services will

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Speaker 1: concerned about that. Colin Gillis, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us today. Colin Gillis is director of research at

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Speaker 1: See our partners take a look at small and mid

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Speaker 1: cap stocks with Davils and Blubertocks editor, columnist and blogger

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Speaker 1: at M Live. Go on the Bloomberg. The Russell two

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Speaker 1: in the broader indices. Oh, absolutely, Lisa, and the Russell's

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Speaker 1: email newsletter. Well, you know, Lisa, we've been talking on

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Speaker 1: a regular basis about the high cost of real estate

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Speaker 1: in places such as Seattle, Silicon Valley as well as Austin, Texas.

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Speaker 1: But it appears that there might be a slowdown on

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Speaker 1: is Pressant Gopal, us real estate reporter from Bloomberg News,

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Speaker 1: joining us from our one oh six one Boston Newberry

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Speaker 1: at Mr Gopal and are god Paul? Alright? Mr Gopaul?

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Speaker 1: Tell us about the potential slowdown in these pretty hot

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Speaker 1: Whereas in two thousand and nine to get the industry

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Speaker 1: it's the worst financial decision free somebody just getting started

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Speaker 1: think the model of ownership fundamentally does have to change

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Speaker 1: it's just a bad financial bargain to go out and

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Speaker 1: And finally, Scott, what kind of car do you drive?

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Speaker 1: You know, I've got about four cars all from Fair.

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Speaker 1: And you know this, this model really works for anybody.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter whether you have great credit and just

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Speaker 1: want convenience and you're an early adopter or you're somebody

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Speaker 1: on a budget. Um. But I've got right now, four kids,

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Speaker 1: and I've got different cars for different different things, but

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Speaker 1: they're all cars that I subscribed to through Fair. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for being with us. Scott Painter is

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Speaker 1: the founder of Fair. They are based in Santa Monica, California.

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Speaker 1: He is the former chief executive and the founder of

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