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Overstock.com CEO가 회사의 현재 방향을 설명하며 블록체인과 비트코인 관련 사업 확장을 강조한다. 회사는 스스로를 기술회사라고 규정하고, 월 4천만 명 방문자를 보유한다고 주장한다. 소매 사업은 경쟁 심화로 피로감이 크며, 아마존 등 적자 경쟁사와 달리 회사는 160백만 달러를 투자해 7년간 흑자를 냈다고 밝힌다. 사업 전환으로 금융상품, 자동차 판매 등으로 확장 중이며, 최근 주가가 한 달간 31% 상승했다고 언급된다. 이는 온라인 소매보다 블록체인 관련 벤처 활동 때문이라는 진행자 해석에 동의한다. 매각 옵션으로 Guggenheim과 협의 중이며, 대형 아시아 펀드 인수, 비공개 전환 등을 검토한다. 소매 사업 매각 시 블록체인 사업에 집중할 수 있다고 한다. 90일 이내 공개 경영 방향 발표 가능성도 언급된다. 비트코인 거래 비중은 0.2~0.3%로 미미하다고 인정하면서도, 블록체인이 월가와 중앙은행 체계를 바꿀 것이라 주장한다. 비트코인은 초당 약 7건 처리로 금융 활용에 부족하며, 'multi chains'라는 진화된 대안을 언급한다. 성평등 서약(Parity Pledge)에 서명했으며, 고위직 여성 후보 최소 1명 검토를 약속한다. 적극적 채용으로 인재를 찾겠다고 설명한다. 출연자 전망: 비트코인과 블록체인 관련 긍정적 입장, 단기 주가 방향에 대한 명확한 예측은 없음.
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have any bitcoins not on me I think one of the most important things I mean we're talking about shipping and online retailing but I don't even know if overstock.com is even a real online retailer anymore because given the fact all the with it with t0 going on and the announcement last yesterday about you know the the letter of intent would to offer zero discount trading with Sieber financial I mean there's a lot going on this stops up 31% over the last month and it's not because of online retailing it has to do with the blockchain and a lot of the ventures that you guys have been doing so are you a technology company are you a financial company are you an online retailer good question great fair question we're a technology company to which 40 million unique people will come this month 40 million unique people will come to our site so we can stay in the business of selling toasters and such that's getting awful competitive and it's I'm getting tired of having them competitors who don't mind losing 80 million dollars a quarter Amazon Amazon Wayfarer you know they lose - we've spent in our history 160 million dollars been profitable for seven years gap profitable yet we're up against these guys who move into our industry and just lose hundreds of millions of dollars and then they go out of business but it makes it tough so we're we were pivoting we're bringing financial products we're bringing we're now sell cars we're bringing in and a great car tab so we're now we're expanding instead of just expanding within furniture and home goods we're expanding into financial products and right but if we go back to earlier this year your arch-nemesis became one of your best biffle's so we saw Marco heeds a company yeah I mean this this is in the financial community he's a notorious short seller he meets with you he buys the stock around 30 he says it's going 200 it's 6:15 yeah he says it's going to a hundred but it has nothing to do with online retailing it has everything to do with the blockchain and and and even going the short sales and that's how you argued so where do you see the future of this company going and will is is retailing going to have anything to do with it because we should point out you one of the first major retailers to accept Bitcoin oh yeah 2014 and and you've got headlines again by indicator that's selling overstock.com to fund future cryptocurrency endeavors is not out of the question not out of the question we think that the well the retail business is pound for pound the most efficient ecommerce business ever created 160 million dollars built a two billion dollar profitable company everyone else loses money but at the end of the day their boardrooms around America freaking out about Amazon and some of them are brick-and-mortar stores some of them are logistics companies and such for them buying a super efficient ecommerce platform is a 1 is a 1 check solution to their problem so there's we are pursuing Guggenheim is is that's one of the options we're pursuing the others are there's a there are a couple large Asian funds one with a hundred billion dollars that are literally they're coming around America looking for a pony to ride to take on Amazon and they're looking for someone they can cut a billion or two billion dollar check to that and we've shown what we can do on 160 million will let us show what we could do the world on a billion and the third option is going private and I am I have a Guggenheim an investment bank is working with us we're exploring all alternatives I hope to have a manager for the public within about 90 days 60 days maybe and I mean it's revolutionizing the financial industry right so if we scoring well Bitcoin and blockchain and t0 and mininum Phu you look at Symbian right Symbian is actually just announced this week that they're working with Vanguard on that on their indexing side in products so I mean this is this is a financial revolution yeah what percentage of your transactions are transacted in Bitcoin its point two point three percent is still quite trivial but to your points are the the the main event of Bitcoin isn't Bitcoin it's this blockchain blockchain is going to change history Wall Street everything and we do have some of the most fundamental investments in that field blockchain beats Wall Street blockchain meats central banking blockchain meats we just announced this week I was on with clues liz claman Hernando DeSoto Hernando DeSoto well I think has the work they cure for global poverty and I it's another reason I'm thinking of selling off the retail business so I can focus on Hernando and I we think in five years can change the world for five dozen so how does blockchain work blockchain think of it like a magic ledger you've got like a ledger your granddad ran is his bar or something out of this ledger but this is magic there's thousands of copies of it around the world when you write in it the writing instantly appears everywhere else the ledger is cryptic our cryptographically protected no one can cheat it no one can write something and erase it it's permanent transparent if you had a magic ledger like that you could recreate all kinds of processes like how Wall Street works the stock settlement system of Wall Street you wouldn't need all the crazy plumbing you need now you just need this ledger money you can take you can use this ledger to create a form of money like Bitcoin or is it gonna be Bitcoin that survives or another cryptocurrency well Bitcoin will survive but it's not optimized enough to support a the financial industry without you can only do like 70 as a second on Bitcoin but there is another thing out of the Bitcoin community called multi chains which solves that problem you're gonna hear more about multi chains is a Bitcoin evolution hmm let's talk about this what you signed a parity pledge oh yeah this initiative that focuses on gender equality in the workplace at top companies does the parity pledge what does it mean for overstock.com it means it's a pledge that for any high-ranking exactly or any executive position we always will try to find at least one qualified female candidate to consider which we try to do anyway signing it's giving the sleeves out of our vest we're all about female empowerment we've had lots of times we've had for presidents to have been female right now I'm looking for C pardon me a CFO of one of our investments I'd love a female candidate it is hard it's hard to I mean you really have to work frankly to find the the the qualified female candidate for lots of high ranking positions why why is it so hard well there's just because what you're looking for is somebody who's been successful at a job just a little bit smaller just and there aren't enough of them I mean it takes a while to move up the ladder but so you get affirmative action not by giving somebody preferential treatment but but just recruiting harder and that's what we're trying to do we're looking for talented women out there executives partying with talented women - so that's the thing and not only are they coming in you're doing partnerships with them oh yeah oh that's great Merrill severs all right maybe it's not PC do you worry that you take a woman in and because of this pledge other people in the office say she's only there because of affirmative action and all the achievements of the other women they get questions that is one of the when when you practice affirmative action in the form of saying I'm going to some the if that is a danger of affirmative action but if you do it just through recruiting people understand Patrick thank you Patrick Burns will
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