 Good evening everybody here in the room and also a warm welcome to our audience on the live stream and webcast This is the press conference with the will I am We are very pleased to have him here and on behalf of the World Economic Forum We're very honored that he joins us today. He's coming straight from his session and he will share some of his insights, but Maybe looking at the time we go straight to the questions if that's fine with you So if you could for the sake also of our online audience Raise your hand say your name and organization and there's a microphone in the room. Please. Can I see your show of hands? Horse and butler capital magazine Disruptions one of the main topics here in Davos and you come from a Industry that was disrupted first. What is your key business lesson for other leaders? Thank you. Maybe we take the second question also. Oh Can't I don't want to forget how I'm an answer that though. I've had it so Our industry got hit by Something that we probably never thought would transform our industry and The idea of making music is still a beautiful thing and music has never been this robust as far as the listening and the Creation of music the business of it has altered forever because I feel we forgot what we were the music industry was always hardware RCA was gramophones and NTSC and television and the art was a Was a component to the hardware and so my advice to business Leaders is to really consider that your place tomorrow is not guaranteed So we saw the same thing happened to the music industry happened to film Kodak was the dominant force in capturing images now. It's Instagram. So in Theory and if they in theory Kodak should have created Instagram But they were so baked into making money the way they always did that they they they can't disrupt themselves so And and there's other businesses that I feel do a very good job Thinking forward and minding the business that they have now and that's companies like Apple Companies like Apple I Don't know any other company like those guys though. They're amazing company Good evening Rula Tarano from CNBC air BTV and I believe that you take Davos as a good opportunity to To give your point of view and especially about the smart learning What the segment of a kids if you if we can say or the student you are looking for? So I wanted to come to Davos to give my perspective on what's happening in the world between private sector Especially in America the private sector. There's a private sector for prisons and not a private sector for education So when you have technology growing More robust more powerful smarter faster you can't say the same thing is happening for education in America and around the world and there's an imbalance between opportunities and inner cities around computer science engineering technology and mathematics and prisons It just hurts my heart and my soul that there's such thing as a private investment Angle in prisons in America and no education. So it's a human rights issue So I come here to you know to raise that flag on something that we should be concerned about Seeing that there's a lack of engineers seeing that there's companies that In America that can't hire Americans because we're not educated in computer science and engineering and we also have at the same time Immigration weirdness where most of the companies Even mine the one that I started a lot of my employees are from Bangalore, India and I want to bring them to America and can't It's not easy to do that so You know To bring in those things up with the work that I'm doing in my inner city teaching kids how to build robots and write code To balance it off. All right, so I don't want to complain so I want to also help and provide solutions and And the outcome from the work that we're doing there has been great Our kids wouldn't from having 1.2s to 4.0s Some of our kids are going to graduate next year and go to MIT and UCI and hopefully Stanford So we've had some success Thank you Can I have a show of hands for more questions? I have a question just get Gentlemen in the back Forgive me. I should work for you what I can write for them Well, you've um, I'm sure the participants have learned a lot from you being here at ever So they have you learned anything are you going to take anything away yourself for being here this week? Yeah someone asked me a question in an interview yesterday and I Wasn't expecting the question because usually and I really appreciate awesome questions and interviews guy says so you're here in In the mountains at Davos with the 1% you wouldn't consider yourself a 1% would you? How do you feel about? the 1% versus the 99% and I Never really looked at myself as a 1% because my whole life. I was poor and Then I realized that there's a guy by the name of Naveen Jane from India who was poorer than me and Naveen Jane's really successful now in life And what it showed me was that I need to go back and tell the kids in neighborhoods like mine That what they tell you on the news about the 1% versus 99% It's not like there's a wall saying that you can't be a part of it Right, there's skill sets out there for you to learn. It's all online The information is there for you You can change your life You can if you surround yourself with good people and discipline yourself in certain areas in life you too can live a good life And I learned that and I saw that firsthand in my life and people like Naveen Jane people like Mark beanie off Companies and then there's some companies that don't give to you know They don't give a shit about anybody and it's people like Naveen Jane and Salesforce that hopefully will inspire other companies to care And that's what I learned about being here is that there's a lot of companies that care There's a lot of billionaires that care There's a lot of opportunities out there for folks to go from here to there And I'm glad I came here this week and Can't wait to come back next year We're certainly happy to hear that there's another question from the lady right there Hi, I'm yes mean chahata from enigma magazine in Egypt I'm sorry. I came a bit late. So I don't know if this question would be repetitive But with your foundation and now that you're in such an iconic international personality Are you looking also to inspire people around the world especially? the Middle East where a Lot of people feel that if they're not born into wealth that they'll never achieve it It's still that you know, it was one of the reasons why that Arab Spring came about. So is that something that's Interesting of interest to you. Are you focused more on the US for now? Right now. I'm focused on the thing on areas that I know Fat I can tackle right I'm Just just me and the people that help Matt, I don't have a big organization my foundation at the most. I think it's like five people led by Tatiana Who's not here? but But the bandwidth is we don't have a big bandwidth and The support will allow us to grow and scale but there's there's If there's things that I could align with if there's charities and foundations in the Middle East To encourage and let people know firsthand my experience coming from poverty to being able to take care of my family And growing up. I never thought we would you know be wealthy And I never you never think that because everyone around you is poor and then someone pours out Encouragement and opportunities and I think that more of that needs to happen in places like the Middle East and the Philippines and The Brazil and Uruguay and Paraguay So if I could lend myself to encourage folks and share, you know my story and my best friend's story Apple I would love to do that Thank you One more question in the front Thank you Actually, I'm a mom of three kids. They are a big fan of you Thank you. There is a bigger problem that they are really Very touched with all the technology Around us. So you think that you can create a song Not to play with their minds as much as to teach them what to take the benefits from these kind of Devices or what etc and and what to avoid it because it's not about to provide them with the equipments as much as to Take the benefits from these things and you know, it is open the internet is open They can learn a lot of things behind their parents. So it is not your problem I know that but you can mention it in any of your like songs or you don't want to To mix it you want to talk in your song about the cook about the weed It's your freedom, but and on the side. Yeah in the future. It's mean not because you are Supporting the one okay. Thank you. I think yeah, it means you are not you are not free to put whatever you want In your song. Thank you. Thank you for that question Try not to end the question We're in the same boat here. So my I could I could share how my family does things around Devices and If your question is that how do you inspire kids to not use your devices as much or I'm a trader Yeah, so the good things it's just what you do as a family So if you see if you see your kids always on your tablet and their phone It's good thing. It's a good thing to do things together on your tablet on your phone So in my family we my mom will bring up Willie I was on the internet and I googled this one thing about you know What's one thing she will last last during Christmas Now my mom's into science All right, she googles science stuff and we all get together and look at those things we do it as a group So the information is all there But who what where's the filter the filter comes from what you do as a group? Together and sharing information as much as you do, you know funny things on the internet Right, so we have to also take time to look and search for things and have searched what I call search parties You would take your time on your as an individual to search amazing things to learn about so then when you get with your group of Friends you all share the things you've learned with these devices and it's it's a great exercise as much as it is to You know get Occupied by shallow stuff that we all share seem to share around the internet How many times have you said check this out? It's all just shallow nothingness So take the time to go deep into this ocean called the internet and find gems of knowledge and nuggets and do that with your kids Right, so you know it's all there. You just got a how you want what do you want to put in their minds? There's two more questions in the front here if we could have the microphone and please if you could say a name and the organization Thank you. Thank you. My name is Farah Bush Iraq. I work for Frost 24 I just have a simple question. You said you you were poor and you didn't believe that you could become rich. What changed? Encouragement from my friends and family so I remember Standing in line for free cheese and free milk And I remember being embarrassed to go to school with a lunch ticket a Government lunch ticket. I know what that embarrassment felt like when everyone else had a lunch bag and money. I remember what it feels like to to stand in the welfare line I remember what it feels like when You in my school, I went to a very rich school There was one time where and my classroom We had to collect cans and food to give to the four poor people And I remember that year my mom didn't let me take canned food to school And I remember the follow-up was The school came to my house and gave us the food because we were the poor family. I Remember what that felt like How embarrassed we were because I never knew we were poor because everyone else around me was poor So the trick the funny little riddle about poverty you never know you're poor until you go outside your community And then when you go outside your community and people outside your community Acknowledge the things that you're doing whether it's art or you're the way you think Then you realize there's a way out of it because someone outside your community That's from a better community acknowledged the little gym that you had and that's when I knew that I Had a fighting chance to take care of my family So if the whole if you encourage kids whether you're poor or not to be the provider And you give that kid responsibility Then nine times out of ten they're gonna pull through You got to encourage them you got to make them accountable You have to let them tell them the truth about the world the way it's configured And point out the folks that are there to help because there's people there to help Right. There's tools there to help them You just got to make them accountable Someone made me accountable and those are my teachers miss Montez mr. Right They encouraged me the next question. My name is gay flash when I'm from the forums web team You mentioned earlier sales force Apple their big companies have got deep pockets who are able to support kids and maybe have programs What do you think smaller companies and and businesses can practically do to help kids and support them and find education? So money's money and eventually money will evaporate the mentoring's forever and even if you're a smaller company and you got you know a tight budget but amazing minds and Skillful workers just encouraging a kid Going out there teaching them something Here because that that never evaporates skills never evaporate money will eventually evaporate So it doesn't matter how much money you have just how much heart do you have? To go out and you know give somebody a hand up or enable them and teach them how to plant and fish Thank you. I see this at the moment normal questions. Well, will I have to thank you? I mean, this has been really inspirational. I think it's great and thank you for joining us I think everybody in the room agrees that this is a voice and a message We we definitely need to hear in Davos and it's good that you've been here And you said you're looking forward to coming next year and yeah, and we do too and thank you Thank you so much for the folks at Davos Clash Rob for inviting me and being open-minded to have me sit on panels and speak about what I'm doing and The world of music in our world could be very helpful and it Takes an open mind to invite my world here You know because I know but sometimes my world could be a little scattered and dysfunctional and disruptive But there's a lot of us that do good Thanks for that. It's a great Collaboration and I can't wait to come back next year Thank you very much. Thank you everybody. Thank you