The Millennials; Manning Signs With Denver
QUEST: The Millennials, the generation born in the 1980s, have been told since birth they are special, can achieve anything. As we follow Joe Braidwood to the Consumer Electronics Show, we're going to be focusing on whether he can promote himself above the pack. And then, can Milli Bongela successfully redefine the traditional workday as she juggles her many roles in Capetown. They are The Millennials.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: They are young and confident, educated and ambitious. Born in the 1980s, they are the new generation entering the workforce, and their thirst for success knows no bounds. They're The Millennials. Last week on the program, in London, 26-year-old Joe Braidwood reveals his work-work balance.</s>JOE BRAIDWOOD, CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER, SWIFTKEY: To me, there's no real distinction between when I'm not working and when I am working. It's wherever I am.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: And in Johannesburg, Milli Bongela told us how she manages her ambitions.</s>MILISUTHANDO BONGELA, BLOGGER AND BOTIQUE OWNER: I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car. I don't have to have a lot. I don't want it all. I just want enough. That's all.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: Milli's Millennial philosophy on life means she always has a spring in her step. Today, she's in colorful Cape Town, meeting with her business partner, Doreen.</s>BONGELA: Are they selling?</s>DOREEN SOUTHWOOD, BUSINESS PARTNER: Yes.</s>BONGELA: Good.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: But this isn't a shopping spree. Milli is here to look at a new studio space for their store, MeMeMe, a space where their creations can come to life.</s>BONGELA: I love the lights. I love the lights. The Jo Bookshop is going to collaborate with the Cape Town shop in maintaining it, because they're going to make the range, the MeMeMe range from here as well, as well, as well as the Doreen Southwood range. Milli and Doreen first opened their boutique in Johannesburg two years ago. Before that, Milli sold the clothes in her apartment, a sort of pop- up market which she called Pulchritude.</s>BONGELA: Once a month on a Thursday, I'd serve champagne and women -- a group -- a room full of about 15 women going crazy over clothes. And one of them, after a couple of months of coming to Pulchritude and buying every single month, came to me and said, "Milli, if you ever want to open a proper store one day, let me know."</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: A few weeks later, Milli had signed on the dotted line. Today, her talent goes beyond her store responsibilities. She's fully involved in new designs, materials, and photography.</s>BONGELA: You have such a good eye for the model. Such a great eye for models, fantastic. Now I wonder if the ones you choose -- (inaudible).</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: Despite the million things she takes on, Milli is modest about her workload.</s>BONGELA: I think we work differently. I don't think we necessarily work harder. I mean, in terms of physical toil, I definitely don't toil physically as much as my mother and my father had to.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: Now, she's living her life the Millennial way, redefining what it means to work and reaping the rewards</s>BONGELA: Most of my other friends are all slaving at work from 9:00 to 5:00, and I sometimes wake up really early, but sometimes I wake up at 12:00 in the day because of how I've structured my life. And it's only recently that I've got to understand that, actually, Milli, this is exactly what you work for.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: Joe Braidwood is sitting comfortably at high altitude. He's taking his work with him and making his way to Las Vegas. From his window seat, Sin City makes its mark.</s>BRAIDWOOD: We just got to Las Vegas, and we're booked into a suite, which we haven't found yet, but it's quite exciting to be paying next to nothing for it. It apparently has a view over the lights of the Las Vegas Strip.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: But it wasn't the view or the lights that brought him here. He's come for the world's largest consumer electronic show, where companies come to showcase their electronic wares.</s>BRAIDWOOD: It's the largest gathering of people in the world that work in consumer electronics, and we feel that it's a great way to meet people to keep up with our contacts, such as Google and Amazon, who we work with the app space. So, this is the central hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the sort of nerve center to this year's</s>CES.  UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: For this Millennial, this loud and overcrowded exhibition will be a challenge. He knows that to be seen here, he needs to stand out and break through the noise. After all, this is his opportunity to stay ahead of the competition.</s>BRAIDWOOD: These are 55-inch Olens 3D TVs. They are dazzlingly bright. It's not just about the act of being there in the flesh, but it's about trying to pursue leads and trying to really make sure that you have the right mixture of good timing and a great pitch, and ultimately, it's as important today.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: A chance to introduce his product to big brand.</s>BRAIDWOOD: What I'm hoping to do now is go and check out Motorola, which is down here next to Microsoft, because they've got a tablet there that should have our app on it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: And more importantly, cement his own brand.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What are you looking for?</s>BRAIDWOOD: It's called SwiftKey Tablet X. There's such fierce competition out there, and being able to actually get face-to-face with some of these people and talk to them about what you're doing is so much more powerful than an e-mail in a massive inbox full of e-mail or a phone call that might not get picked up. Lots of people just sitting around and making important business phone calls, like that chap over there.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: Throughout his time at the conference, Joe tweets and Facebooks on the go. Tonight, he may be selling his own digital communication, but this Millennial knows there's no substitute for the real thing.</s>BRAIDWOOD: We're in this digital-connected world. Cutting through that and actually getting face-to-face time with someone who's in a decision-making capacity and being able to really show your enthusiasm for the product face-to-face is invaluable.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: That may be so. Still, Joe is living his life the Millennial way, working smart and playing hard. Next week on The Millennials.</s>MICHAEL BURBACH AS DEMETRIUS, "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM": Relent, sweet Hermia: and Lysander, yield thy crazed title to my certain right.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: In New York, Michael Burbach takes on Shakespeare and the working world. And in Santiago, Chile, networking in a foreign language, David works the Salsa floor looking for business opportunities.</s>QUEST: And you can join the conversation on Twitter or Facebook on our Millennials. Let us know what you think. It's hash tag #cnnmills or facebook.com/cnnquest. And if you would like to be considered to be one of our Millennials, then just send me a tweet or a Twitter. It's at the @RichardQuest or cnn.com/quest.</s>QUEST: News to CNN, news just in. Peyton Manning, the legendary NFL quarterback, has announced a deal with the Denver Broncos. Manning was a free agent after leaving the Indianapolis Colts a few weeks ago. His signing raises questions about the future of Denver's current starting quarterback, Tim Tebow, who you remember became something -- Tebow, I beg your pardon -- who became something of a sensation for a brief period at the end of last season. And these are live pictures coming to you. We'll bring you the story and the details when we have heard more to be said. When we come back in a moment, I'll update you on the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck in Mexico. We're closely monitoring the situation, in a moment.