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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penel Podcast. I'm Paul swing you,

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Speaker 1: along with my co host Lisa Brahma wits each day

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Speaker 1: we bring you the most noteworthy and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money, whether at the grocery store or

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Speaker 1: Podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts, as well as

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Well, the Chinese trade delegation is

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Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. They are meeting with the US

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Speaker 1: delegation today and tomorrow. President Trump just tweeted out that

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Speaker 1: he will meet with Vice Premier Leo hey Uh tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: suggesting that there may be some light at the end

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Speaker 1: of this trade tunnel. To get the latest, there is

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Speaker 1: absolutely nobody better to speak to than Leland Miller. He

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Speaker 1: is the CEO of the China Basebook International Uh. He

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Speaker 1: joins us here on a Bloomberg Interactor Broker studio. So, Leland,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us on what could be

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Speaker 1: a very very important two days for the US and

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Speaker 1: China and the overall financial markets. What is your sense

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Speaker 1: of what would be a success here over the next

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Speaker 1: couple of days. I think expectations have been peeled back

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Speaker 1: dramatically over the last twelve to twenty four hours simply

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Speaker 1: because there's been a lot of bad news. I mean,

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Speaker 1: earlier this week you saw sanctions against Chinese companies and

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Speaker 1: visa restrictions on Chinese individuals. Uh. And then you know

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Speaker 1: the threat that Chinese we're gonna leave early, and and

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Speaker 1: and so it's been nothing but bad news. But look

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Speaker 1: that a lot of what's happening with the administration on

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Speaker 1: China is getting more aggressive. On the other hand, they

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Speaker 1: still have a desire to reach a deal on trade,

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Speaker 1: a medium mini deal on trade in twenty nineteen. If

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Speaker 1: they can get what they want, which means more than

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Speaker 1: agg purchases. That they need the Chinese to start delivering

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Speaker 1: on some of the substantive commitments from the May text.

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Speaker 1: But that's where this is going, tariff punts and pullbacks

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Speaker 1: and return for some substitive concessions and some abus. Here's

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Speaker 1: the reason why there's a lot of confusion right now.

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Speaker 1: We're getting mixed messages. On one hand, it seems like

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Speaker 1: just the investment the flows of capital from the US

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Speaker 1: we're more amenable to some sort of agricultural deal. What

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Speaker 1: do we make of this sort of push pull, Well,

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Speaker 1: there really are two tracks that are forming with an administration.

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Speaker 1: This has always been true, but I think right now

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Speaker 1: what you're seeing is that people focused on the national

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Speaker 1: And you are seeing more um more moves against Chinese

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Speaker 1: seeing um things that on the pension money side, US

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Speaker 1: terms of how to wool that away from going into

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, trade is being handled a little

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Speaker 1: and that's the sweet spot. It doesn't mean they can

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Speaker 1: but that's what they're angling for. If they can get

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Speaker 1: Huawei has been separated from the trade talks, the Chinese

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Speaker 1: most we saw where that went. Leland Miller, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for being with us. Leland Miller, chief executive

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Speaker 1: well as frankly the Chinese economy. He's been prescient on

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Speaker 1: Broker studios. So Amazon st spying on us? Is that

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Speaker 1: Amazon's kind of home motion detection security camera. Um, there

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Speaker 1: snippets of people having sex. Yeah, so do people do

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Speaker 1: Really enough? Like, no one who buys a home motion

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Speaker 1: But we're basically human guinea pigs for technology, and we

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Speaker 1: whether it's credit card numbers or access to our homes.

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Speaker 1: But we all know this, and people still buy the devices.

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Speaker 1: it hasn't been shown to be materially harmful so far,

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Speaker 1: dead frog moment is humans reviewing video video footage. For me,

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Speaker 1: We are looking, Yeah, we are. We are definitely looking.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna grow in organically and organically, but acquisitions are

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Speaker 1: definitely in our future. So you could just give us

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Speaker 1: a sense that like the competitive landscape, who were the

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Speaker 1: So whilst we're the largest independent open source company in

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Speaker 1: the world, we stand behind red hatters Number one is

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Speaker 1: probably know they're they're they're much larger. They're acquired for

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Speaker 1: market because we provide a very different landscape. But SUSA,

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Speaker 1: we're the open open source company, were agnostic. We don't

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Speaker 1: have platform lock in, we don't try and take the

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Speaker 1: entire stack for our enterprise customers. It's much more about

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Speaker 1: allowing support across the open source market. So we provide

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Speaker 1: a very different level of service. So we like to

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Speaker 1: think that we're quite unique in the market, in fact

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Speaker 1: the US, so, I mean you mentioned that it's a

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Speaker 1: big you just this is organic growth. We're just gonna

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Speaker 1: go try to sign up customers take them away from them. Ever,

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Speaker 1: is that the strategy? No? I mean, you know, when

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Speaker 1: when you look at who are enterprise customers are, We've

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Speaker 1: got four of every five customers sitting in retail, We've

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Speaker 1: got four to five in in banking, in telco. So

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Speaker 1: we've got to really study footprint. We're looking to expand,

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Speaker 1: to go up the value chain of the enterprise application

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Speaker 1: stack move much, you know, from the bottom which is

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Speaker 1: the operating system, all the way to the value services

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Speaker 1: across the enterprise. Melissa de Donado, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being with us. Thanks for having me. Melissa de

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Speaker 1: Donado is chief executive officer of SUSA. She is based

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Speaker 1: in London. The company is based in Germany. Talking about

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Speaker 1: open source, the expansion within it, and it really does

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Speaker 1: seem to be a fertile Area's sort of interesting. The

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Speaker 1: value of providing software for free, basically saying come build

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Speaker 1: this up. This will help us actually gain a critical

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Speaker 1: reach uh software that we can work from. Thanks for

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