My name is Ripo Hensalia. I'm a cardiac electrophysiologist at Jersey Shore University Medical Center. Cardiac electrophysiology is a subset of cardiology and specifically what we do is we treat the electrical system of the heart. All of our hearts have electricity running through them. It makes our hearts beat rhythmically like a clock. So we treat arrhythmias, fast, slow heartbeats as well as put in pacemakers and defibrillators and treat some structural diseases of the heart as well. One of the achievements that I'm most proud of is building the extraction program over the last 10 years. Extractions are where we remove pacemakers and defibrillators, typically for infection. And since we've started the program here at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, we have become a referral center for patients who have infections of their pacemakers and defibrillators. Every patient is an individual and individualizing that care is at the center of my philosophy. Although two cases can be similar, they're never exactly alike. Choosing what's good for you might not be good for the next patient who has the same problem. Cardiac care is an amazing field. Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer for men in the country. Our treatment options for cardiac disease, specifically the heart, continue to evolve and they're amazing right now. It's always attracted me to try to help people and advance that care in any way, shape, and form.


Welcome. This is Melissa. I'm with the stocks. We'll show you reviewing Netflix this this this today I call it put in this today the 287 fifties And this is a great great great example of the fact that I get the whole lecture this morning the trading room about taking profits Taking profits getting in getting out getting in getting out getting in getting out. You can do options as day trades Yes, you can hold them overnight for bigger moves. This this looks lower But you know again, this had a really nice move today a very solid move today And again just perfect timing in this dropped push back called it dropped again Into the reversal time boom and and again It's 251 this could continue to fall into the closes also could fall tomorrow the next to the next day But I mean the way that I've called so many options trades this year This could very well like Lake fall and then I would call another strike if in fact that is what I'm going to do Which you know, I'm not saying I'm going to call another one in this tomorrow or anything But I could and I think that's the point that I was making in the room today It's about taking profits taking profits taking profits chunking it out You don't have to hold an option trade even if it has days and weeks left if the move occurs very quickly Just because the move occurs quickly doesn't mean it's going to keep going forever And in this market particularly in this market and again, you know, we were green now We're down. We were red now. We're neutral. I don't know how we closed today But I really didn't have a high level of conviction in this rally following through. I was right. I was a hundred percent right here fact we're We're ready here in the diamonds But the point I'm trying to make is that today's move in the snap flicks just perfect timing here Hot it solid drop you could have taken it got out take it and gotten out And again, this to me isn't a fast move and something that takes several hours because we did the day trades And sometimes we're running out in five minutes three minutes. This was this was a move drop Here's the drop boom and again really nice trade So again called the 287 50 50s in this it was to buy the puts if you were on the gap options newsletter You would have received this trade. It was a nice solid move Very happy with this today again This very well could be lower But I think taking profits in this market is extremely important And I just think that's important in any time of the year, but the volatility is not over Okay, good luck everyone if you're interested in more information email me at melissa at the stockswush.com If you would like to sign up for the gap options newsletter or the golden got class, which is this weekend Thanks, everyone. Have a great day


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We're back, we're live, we're really live, I'll tell you the truth. Mina Merida and I were at the Clean Energy Day Conference 2017 over in Lanier Kaya, just walked back to, scampered back to the studio and get together with Marco. Welcome, Mina, thanks for doing this. Thanks, Jay. That was a quick walk. It was.  And Marco, thank you for joining us a little late today but we're determined to do this show. Well, Nihao from Beautiful Helo, my friends, and great to be back with you on this Aloha Monday. Absolutely. Well, let's first talk about the Clean Energy Day Conference going on in Lanier Kaya. They're having lunch now, but we can talk about what happened in the morning. What happened in the morning, Mina? Well, I think it started off with kind of an update from all the different state county agencies that work on transportation issues. So it was a nice recap of what they're doing and what's going on and how they measure their progress. Yeah, I had the sense from them that there really is something going on. It's not, you know, for a long time it was talk, but it's not so much talk. They're actually got programs, lots of programs that they're putting lots of time and they're hiring people to do it and it's getting done.  One of the most exciting things is the change of mindset that transportation is no longer just focusing on cars, but multimodal situations, you know, safe, complete streets so people can walk, bike, or even take mass transportation more conveniently as well as having the options of a vehicle. So, you know, that whole movement into more of a multimodal solutions and more choices for Hawaii's residents. Yeah, yeah, something is happening. It's a good thing and we have a sort of a new normal where everybody takes the basic idea of complete streets and bikes and multimodal, take it for granted. That's already pretty much accepted around the community and that's a change. We are moving forward. Who is your favorite speaker if you can think of one? Oh, I'm biased to Kauai, so I thought Lee Steinmetz with updates on Kauai and it is exciting when you see the transformation on the streets, the bikeway, the sidewalks, the access to public transportation, and the beautification of streets, so that's really exciting on Kauai. Yeah. And the governor spoke. Any thoughts about that?  That's my suggestion to him. Yeah, yeah.  Do you have any favorite awards that were given out that you want to think about? Right here. Well, these awards, then. Yeah, Think Tech got an award for the media section and yeah, thanks to you, you know. No, it's all because you show up, but he shows me that YouTube Marko. Great. Yeah, so we got an award, I'm going to read it to you. It's here on the table and I'll show it to you first. There it is. We got an award just now. Okay, well, let me show it to camera Vivian. Good. There you go. Okay, I'm putting it on the table. And well-deserved because, you know, there's a lot of education involved of the general public and this is one medium that has been consistent in getting information about energy issues and discussion on energy issues. Thank you, Jay. Thank you, Think Tech. Thank you, Marko. Thank you, Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. I mean, this is really a joy for us to do the Clean Energy Day program, the legislative briefing program in January to do these shows with you guys. We see each other, we see ourselves as a platform, a showcase, a facilitator kind of organization to allow people in the energy community to come around and say hi, explain what they're doing, and thus to inform the public and move the needle ahead. And I think that's a role that we like and it has some meaning in the community. So we're going to continue to do that and more. We're going to do more shows, we're going to do more on-location, Neighbor Islands, you know, we did two already, Neighbor Islands, you know, you were there in Kauai. We're going to do more on Maui, Big Island, we're going to get around in the coming months and years. Anyway, that was very nice and I certainly thank the Energy Policy Forum and I thank our staff and I thank our hosts and our underwriters, it's really wonderful to have the kind of support that makes this happen. But let's move on, let's move on to the agenda of what's going on because, you know, for example, I sent in a letter supporting Jay Griffin and there's a hearing going on right now in a ledge. No, tomorrow. Tomorrow. Pardon me. What's that about, Mark? I want to talk about that. Well, first I wanted to congratulate you and your great staff there, Jay, for doing the great job you have as far as furthering the education process and on energy issues I really mean that very sincerely so again, that says great news that you and the whole staff there are recognized for that. So, yes, we have a special session in the ledge that has started, I believe, today ostensibly to tackle the seemingly Gordian knot of the rail project there on Wahoo, which remains to be seen and we'll see by the end of the week as far as a bill makes it to the House and the Senate for the rail project, but since it's the next legislative session, I believe, according to state law or statute, all interim appointments essentially either have to be considered during the legislative session or the interim appointee or appointee's no longer serving that capacity. So, you have Dr. Jay Griffin, who was nominated by the governor to be the third member of the Commission after Tom Korak left and he will be getting a hearing before Senator Rosbaker's committee on consumer protection tomorrow afternoon if I'm not mistaken, so that will be the chance for that committee to hear testimony and then take a vote and then assuming he were to get a majority would be passed on to the Senate at large or at large and then the Senate would have until the end of the week to vote up or down by a minimum of 13 out of 25 and I expect that Jay is going to get a lot better than just the bare minimum to become a full commissioner, so to speak, and no longer have that interim title. Well, what would you say to the Senate committee right now?  Well, like you, Jay, I'll send some testimony into the committee over the weekend and I think Jay was a superb choice by Governor E. Gaye and great to see someone who has the type of breadth and depth and knowledge and intelligence that the Jay does and of course Mina has worked with Jay closely over an extended period of time, so I just think it was a home run in terms of the governor's choice to get somebody who has talented as Jay Griffin to be sharing the commission, so to speak, with Chairman Randy Oase and Lorena Keeba. Mina, what are your thoughts? I submitted my testimony in support of Jay. The issue that I had which resulted in a lawsuit that I filed which is going to be heard by the Supreme Court in December dealt with the process. So both Tom Gorek and Jay Griffin are highly qualified, but the process that was used by the governor was flawed because I feel the law was quite clear that Michael Champley stays on as a holdover commissioner until his successor is confirmed by the Senate and that did not happen. So I think one of the things that's good with the Senate taking up the nomination during the special session is it will put an end to the uncertainty of Dr. Griffin. Everybody knows that, but it's Dr. Griffin. So it will remove that cloud by the Senate acting on hopefully favorably on this confirmation. Yeah, that would be good. So speaking of the legislature, the special session was not necessarily called for that, it was called for rail. And we had some hot copy from Kalani English this morning. Did you get what he said? Yeah, he said basically disregard Senate Bill 1 and focus on Senate Bill 4 because Senate Bill 1 title was flawed, determined flawed by the attorney general, so they had to insert the bill with inserted into a new bill with a proper title on that Senate Bill 4. I was sort of interesting, he said the title was flawed and that might make the bill unconstitutional and it's too broad, very interesting. Oh no, they had to find a title that would fit the broadness of the bill I guess. Okay, got it. So what does that mean in terms of result on rail? It gets funded, yeah? Yeah, and some people say at the expense of the neighbor islands. So I think it's going to be really interesting because I think what you're going to see is a divide between Oahu and the neighbor islands. Yeah, we have to follow that. This is relevant to the biggest project the state has ever had. Yeah, and I think you already see the fallout in how people voted in committees and of course they voted on the bill today and so it'll be interesting to kind of look over the votes and see how far it went. Marco, you know about this, you have any thoughts on it? Yeah, I wanted to, before we tackle rail a little bit, I just wanted to ask Mina clarifying question on procedure, which is your suit, Mina, was first held in, or first heard in, was it circuit court or district court and you appealed that decision and did it not have to go through the intermediate court of appeals? It just went right to the, we'll go right to the Supreme Court. Okay, so it was an intermediate court of appeals and fully briefed and we made a request for the Supreme Court to hear it because of the significance of what's to be considered. Sure, it's a big issue. Yeah, and one is defining what a vacancy is, the balance of power between the Senate and the administration, the constitutionality of the statue which, you know, the PUC has a statue in place saying that the commissioner whose term ends remains as a holdover commissioner until his successor is confirmed by the Senate. And the administration didn't quite argue this, but they intimated that the statue was unconstitutional and from what, from my reading is, you know, first of all, the PUC is a creature of the legislature, not the constitution. Yeah. And so, you know, why would this statue be unconstitutional if it's not an agency created by the constitution? So, and then the other thing is this whole process of nomination confirmation by the Senate and appointment, you know, it's incumbent upon the governor to make timely nominations while the legislature is in session. So, because of the broadness of issues being looked at here, I think it's one of the reasons why the Supreme Court accepted it, you know, it's a case of first impression. So, you're bypassing the the Intermediate Court of Appeals? Right, exactly. It was brief for them to get it. Because of the gravity cause essentially and the issues involved with this particular case. Now, this is going to, this is going to oral argument in December. Is that what it is? Yes. Right. Oral arguments are set for December 7th at 8.45 a.m. So, you want to come down and watch? And I guarantee you that ThinkTech will cover it. Okay. Or listen, I sometimes they have oral arguments live. So, they definitely tape oral arguments. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so. You can put that on our system. Yeah, and just for general edification, you know, like for example, on the Land Use Commission, you have three commissioners that are there as holdovers. You know, so, and again, I think this is a result of the administration not sending down names entirely away. Yeah, yeah. We have to straighten this out. Yeah. Hopefully, they'll be able to do that. Yeah, yeah. So, let's take a short break, you guys. When we come back, I'd like to talk about the suit against the Honua approval. Or, or I think it's a, is it a motion for reconsideration? Motion for reconsideration. The way Henry Curtis described it is he's called lodged in appeal, lodged in appeal. I'm not sure what that means really judicially speaking. Okay, we're going to talk about that when we come back. And we're going to see what the implications are. This is stink tech. This is Mina Marco and me on Monday. We'll be right back. You'll see. We all play a role in keeping our community safe. Every day, we move in and out of each other's busy lives. It's easy to take for granted all the little moments that make up our every day. Some are good, others not so much. But that's life. It's when something doesn't seem quite right. That it's time to pay attention. Because only you know what's not supposed to be in your every day. So protect your every day. If you see something suspicious, say something to local authorities. I'm Helen Dora Hayden, the host of Voice of the Veteran, seen here live every Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. on Think Tech, Hawaii. As a fellow veteran and veterans advocate with over 23 years experience serving veterans, active duty and family members, I hope to educate everyone on benefits and accessibility services by inviting professionals in the field to appear on the show. In addition, I hope to plan on inviting guest veterans to talk about their concerns and possibly offer solutions. As we navigate and work together through issues, we can all benefit. Please join me every Thursday at 1 p.m. for the Voice of the Veteran. Aloha. Okay, we're definitely back. Planted firmly. Mina Marco and me. Mina, the former chair of the PUC. Marco, the CEO of Provision Solar joins us by Skype from Hilo. And we talk about energy. We have six energy shows. Talked about that this morning altogether. We love this one. It's so intimate. Thank you both for doing it. So anyway, the magic of taking these breaks is that things come up during the breaks, right? And one of the things that came up during the break just as we should discuss is the neighbor island effect, you know, on this rail build that now just passed in the legislature. And the interesting, what do you call it, configuration of votes from the delegation from the big island. Tell us about that, Marco. So we've got a total of 11 reps here, including four senators and seven health reps. Of those 11, all four senators, Josh Green, Kai Cahale, Russell Ruderman, and Senator Lorraine Inouye are all opposed to the current compromise. The interestingly, six of the seven health reps are in favor. So I'm not really sure what makes for the schism between the house reps here and the Senate senators. But I think if this bill is going to not make it to the governor's desk, I think it's most, and this is what other observers have been noting as well, that it's most dicey in the Senate, 25 total senators. So all they would need would be to pick off 13 of them. And four already are saying no. So it'll be interesting to see how the politics play out and the hearings play out and the debate plays out by the end of the week when there's final votes taken. Yeah. Well, I mean, don't count your chickens before they hatch. But I think the reason they're having this special session is they already have the votes. Right. Yeah. They wouldn't have done it in the first place. Yeah. Or yeah, it would have been. But how does Kauai come out on this? You know, I would think that the Senate president coming from Kauai is probably supporting his committee chair on it. And my understanding it went straight to Ways and Means Committee and bypassed the Transportation Committee, which Senator Inouye is the chairman of. So and Kauai only has one senator. So that's what I suspect. On the House side, I'm not sure. We have three representatives on the House side. And I had a conversation with Senator, I'm sorry, Representative Tokioka this morning and he's voting against the bill. But I don't know how Representative Nakamura and Morikawa will vote on it. So it's not over yet anyway, huh? You can have commitments beforehand, but they don't always stick to that. No, you know, it's until they cast the votes, you really don't. But you know, it's, I don't think they would have come this far without an agreement in knowing what somebody did the vote count already. Yeah. Well, whatever happens on that, we're still pretty confident about Jay Griffin anyway.  That's true, yeah. That was a big surprise there, wasn't it? Yeah. Everybody was surprised.  Given that Tom Gorak was chief counsel at the time, you know, they removed Commissioner Champley from the position. Yeah. I mean, again, this is me personally. He had an obligation to really uphold the institution and his role as a government lawyer. So it was a real sort of crossing the line in his particular position. Was this going to be in your book? I'm not writing a second book. One was done and that's it. Well, I'm going to predict, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to predict that Jay Griffin gets 25 to nothing. I believe he's going to be unanimity in the Senate in terms of approving his position there. What will they say from your lips to God's ears, yeah?  You know, and it's just the nomination appointment process that's muddled right now. Yeah. Okay, let's move on to the thing we promised to get to and that is this lawsuit by Life of the Land against Huo Honua. So, Marco, I want to take a lead on that. What happened in Huo Honua and what is Henry Curtis upset about? So Huo Honua has been a biomass project that's been in the works now for a number of years, replacing the old coal-fired power plant in Pepe Keo here of the Hamakua Coast. And they help assign the deal with Huo Honua, a mainland-based company, to revivify the power plant there, not using coal but using biomass and eucalyptus trees that grows along the Hamakua Coast. And that PPA was approved by the commission. The deal was moving forward, but Huo Honua did not. So it was not able to meet a number of milestones that were required by contract. And the deal was canceled by Helco, which led to a lawsuit filed in federal court that Huo Honua filed against Heco and against Nextera and perhaps others as well. And that essentially brought Heco, Heco Helco, and Huo Honua back to the negotiating table. They worked out a new power purchase agreement which reduced the power purchase agreement price from 28 plus cents a kilowatt hour under the first deal to 22 cents a kilowatt hour under the current deal. And they extended the original contract term with 20 years and the new one is 30 years. So that was approved not too long ago by the commission, all three commissioners, including Dr. Griffin. And Henry Curtis and Life of the Land were a so-called participant on this particular docket, not an intervener but a participant. And Henry announced over the weekend that Life of the Land, his organization, had lodged an appeal to the Hawaii Supreme Court to reverse the PUC's ruling in favor of the Huo Honua project going forward. In other words, he was challenging that approval. And based on, according to Henry, that it did not take into account the greenhouse gases that were going to be emanating for decades to come and moves forward. And they started burning biomass. And that was a gross negligent thing to do according to Henry. So it kind of brings up interesting question as to what his standing will be found to be. And it's been my understanding, and I would like to hear me in this position on this, that to overturn a commission decision in court is virtually impossible. I don't know of any precedents over the past decades where a lawsuit has been successful in terms of overturning a commission decision. So I think Henry has a very, very high bar to clear on that. But I think his point is an interesting one in terms of, according to him, the commission not taking into account the effect of climate change or the overall issue of climate change and the fact that this would be a combustion power plant where you're burning something and the burning something puts crap into the air. So that's what's going on now. There won't remain to be seen again whether the Supreme Court allows the life of the land to have any standing. And if they find that Henry and his group have no standing, then the appeal doesn't go anywhere. At least that's, as I understand it, is a non-lawyer. Well, you've done it, you know. You've really gotten Mina excited. I can see she's bursting to comment. Mina, what would you add to that? Well, I think, you know, as a participant, I'm not too sure about how the rules read that something that needs to be looked at that, you know, you would have to go through a motion to reconsider before, you have to exhaust all your remedies before the administrative agency so you can appeal to the Supreme Court. So I'm questioning that, and I'm sorry, it's an appeal to the Intermediate Court of Appeals. And as Marco has used that, you know, it's really hard to... Usually the ICA will not second-guess the administrative agency because there was something procedurally wrong. Right, it's a procedural thing. They're not going to... They usually don't deal on substance. And then, you know, then there's the question on, you know, how responsible is the PUC for policy issues like greenhouse gas emissions? And in particular, on, you know, one source, you know, where there might be an increase in greenhouse gases from this particular PPA.  What do you think? I mean, should the PUC get involved in this policy and make a policy and say we're not going to take anything that's fossil? Well, I think it should be part of its decision forward and especially meeting renewable portfolio standard goals, but it's not the sole issue to be looking at as they move forward. That's true, it makes it complex that you have to look at all the issues. Yeah, and I think, you know, there's a greater case on economic issues on whether this PPA is a good deal for the rate pair because from the original PPA that was approved when I was chair, the risk was on the developer at that time. This PPA, all the risk is on the rate pair. And the rate pair will pay. Yeah, and while, you know, there may be a reduction in the kilowatt hour price, I mean, one of the things that stood out to me is the capacity charges. You know, the capacity charges went from around 4,000 in the old PPA to some over $50,000 a month. It's a capacity charge. What the utility pays to have it have it operating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're almost out of time, you guys. I have a question, Nina, which is, Ken, do you know whether a so-called participant on a docket as life of the land was on Huonoa, whether a participant can file something to ask the commission to reconsider their decision? If that's a preliminary step, I mean, can they do that? I would think that would be the preliminary step, whether you're a participant or an intervener, but again, I'm not up on the rules on that. And I think that would have to happen. You exhaust all your remedies within the agency before you can go to the ICA. Yeah. So we're going to have to see how this plays out. We're going to verify what's going on and who's got it and, you know, how it got there. Yeah. Yeah. And we do that next time. And next time we'll also do a discussion of the inclinations paper and see how that's unfolding too, given all the things that are happening by Hawaiian Electric and in all these various initiatives. There seems to be more happening now, don't you think? There was always a lot happening. Yeah. But now it's just, you know, again, how do you pull all the different pieces together? Yeah. Well, we try. Yeah. Marco, why don't you say goodbye to everybody? Goodbye to everybody. I want more.  Thank you, Marco. Thank you, Marco. Thank you, Mina. Thank you both. We'll see you again in two weeks or sooner. Yeah. Goodbye.


Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com here doing a random number block randomizer for 2021 National Treasures Football Collegiate Football, 2 box pick a team at number 3, which I believe is from a fresh case. So this random number block is for the 49ers, Bears, Chiefs, Browns, Bucks, and the Titans. Only for those 6 teams, works just like every other runner in remember lock where everybody gets this number for the break from 0 through 9, if you get number 3 you'll get all cards with 3 being the first number next to the slash on the left side of the slash. So for example if the card is 13 out of 99, 3 out of 25, 43 out of 49, 93 out of 99, and so on, the number 3 will get the card. All redemption cards will go to the zero spot, even if it's a known one of one redemption it will still go to the zero spot. And then any non-numbered cards would be randomized to the group, but I don't think there are any non-numbered cards in this, so that shouldn't be an issue. Mark, down to Joe, thanks to everybody for getting in. Those are the customers and here are the numbers from 0 through 9, dice roll to randomized both lists and pair them up 3 and a 2, 5 times. Good luck guys. So first on the customer's names, 5th and final time from PJ, down to PJ, 5 times on the numbers, 5th and final time from 4, down to 3, there you go. So PJ, 4, 0, 1 and 8, Mark, Rao, 2, Paul, Norden, 5, Joe, Locust, 7, PJ, 9, 6 and 3. So let's sort this by number. So PJ with 0 gets any and all redemptions for these 6 teams down here on the bottom, San Francisco, Chicago, Kansas City, Cleveland, Tampa Bay, and Tennessee, even known one of one redemptions, but since he has the one spot he also gets any live and in-person one of one, so not an issue for him at all. And there you go guys, that is the random number block randomizer for the 49ers, Bears, Chiefs, Browns, Bucks and Titans in 2021 NT football college football, 2 box, pick a team number 3, jasperyscasebreaks.com. There's one more random number block and then we can do that break tonight. I'm Sean, jasperyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for hanging out. We'll see you next time.


This is State Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. I'm Marcia Joyner, and today is a really special day. Today is never again in Hawaii. And the students in Hawaii, like students around the world, are demonstrating that gun violence has to stop. So we have on with us from UH Manoa, Beatrice. Beatrice, where are you darlin'? Aloha. So tell us what's going on. Well, on the way here today to the studio, I passed Marinol School. They were out, which is a Catholic school, and several public schools. The children were lined up at defenses with placards and people were tooting their horns. And we passed several schools, and high school, elementary school, Catholic schools, and all of the students were out. I just cried. I was fifteen the first time I walked a picket line in the Civil Rights Movement. And honestly, I was so excited and so thrilled with these kids in Hawaii, where we don't have the gun violence, and it was just exciting to see kids, and then all over the world people turned out for today. So tell me, where are you now? What school? Where are you? I'm a nurse from UH, and from high school. And also a very younger lady, who I don't know, who used to belong to, a little school, and came to join us today so that we can get to the start very young. Well good, let's start with the little one then. Can we talk to her? I can hear, what's her name? What's your name sweetheart? and what grade are you in? What grade are you in, sweetheart? First grade? What school do you go to, darling? Wonderful, and you're in the March today? Yeah. Oh, how great. How great that is. How do you feel about being there? Happy. Do you have a sign? What does your sign say, sweetheart? What does it say? Oh, five signs? How many people came with you from your school? How many people came with you from your school? Nine? Great. No, nine. Wonderful. None? Yeah. Yeah. And what does her sign say, Beatrice? Can you read your sign to me? Yes. Please. Thank you, sweetheart. That is so good. That is so good.  And who came with you? Your mom. Tell her how proud we are of you, and thank your mom for bringing you. Okay. Beatrice? Beatrice? Can I talk to Beatrice? Hi. Hi. Isn't that sweet? Oh, that's precious. Who else do you have? Okay. So I'm going to leave you to say hello. Hello. And what is your name? My name is Taylor Mackenzie. I'm a senior at Sacred Hearts Academy. Oh, how wonderful. How many people came from Sacred Hearts Academy? Well, when we passed Sacred Hearts this morning, I saw people out with their signs. Oh, really? Sacred Hearts? Yeah. So tell me, what does your sign say? One of the signs that I need said, if Congress won't act, students will. Oh, bless you. Bless you. I was just telling our audience I was 15 when I first walked a picket line, and that was a civil rights movement. Oh, wow. Yes, a long time ago. No, but that would be so, that's a couple that you're a part of that. Oh, yes. I wouldn't be anywhere else, but with you, I know the feeling and the excitement of being there, and you are the change.   How old are you, sweetheart? How old are you? I'm 17. Oh, great, great. And are you a senior? And what are your plans after you leave? I'm thinking of going to Seattle University and continuing. Oh, you're going to leave us? We need people like you. We don't leave us. Just for a little while. Yes, yes. I am so proud of you. And how many people did you say came with you? It was so crazy when everyone is here. Hard to get a good number. Oh, I am so proud of you. So thank you so much for coming and let me talk to Beatrice. I would like the opportunity to speak with you. Oh, great. And you passed the June shift. And he was really happy about all of this in nine days. And that connected with all of the students. Do you remember him? Yes, I remember June.  You did such a good job. Thank you so much, yes. It was all really thanks for giving me help. How many students did you have? The students, yeah. So I feel like a compliment. There were like plenty of people who showed up. So June, tell us about June. Tell us who you are. Since you were the one I got the email from, you're the one that invited us to come. So tell us about June. What would you like to know? Well, this was your idea. So tell us how you got started. Where did this idea come from? I guess like seeing the recent school shootings that happened, I was sick and tired of this being like a normal part of everyday American culture and society. And when my co-organizer, Sarah, she posted on Facebook that she was looking for students to help. It really got me thinking because I saw the Parkland kids and they went from survivors to activists. It was like they're really close to age and age with me. So I really felt inspired that I had to do something. And how old are you, June? I'm 18 years old, man. And so are you a freshman at UH? Yeah. I decided my first semester. Now, so where do you live here on Oahu? What area are you from? I live in Alamoana. And so this whole idea, what did your family think of? My sister actually helped to design my sign. Yeah, she's 13 years old and she helped to design my sign, actually. My family has been pretty supportive of me standing up and speaking out. So it's a family tradition? Not really. I'm the first activist in our family. Are they proud of you? I hope so. After today, they'll be very proud of you. I am proud of you. Thank you so much. So many people turned out with your invitation. This is just wonderful. So where do you go from here? What are you going to do next? So we're going to keep the momentum going and we're going to keep our social media game up. Our next event will be March 24th, March for our lives. So tell me where will that be and what time and what's going to happen? So we're going to be at the Hawaii State Capitol from 10 to 12 p.m. And we're going to start off at the Capitol, yeah, 12 p.m. 12 noon, you mean? Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, so we're going to be going around the areas including the federal building, the Department of Education's main building, and the Capitol itself because we really want to bring attention to our policymakers that the community has had enough of gun violence that we're tired of seeing this happen. Well, now, that coincides with the March in Washington, does it? Yes, yeah. It's going to be going around the country just like today's event was. So it's like, yeah, the cool country coming together. Do you have anybody that's going to go to Washington, do you know? Well, yeah, I mean, that would be really, that would actually be pretty nice to see some solidarity through that. Well, it's quite an expense to go from here to Washington and airfare and hotels and meals. It's quite a chore, but I just wondered if anybody, if you had heard if anybody was going. Oh, no, yeah, I haven't heard from anybody. Well, so now, how do ordinary people, the rest of us, get involved with the March on the 20th? You said March the 24th, right? So if the rest of us want to get involved, do we go to the Capitol? How does that work? Tell me whether the steps from, do we have to contact you? Do we just show up? What do you want us to do? If you have any questions, yeah, I would recommend contacting either me or Sarah. So, June, tell us how to contact you. Okay, yeah, you can contact me. My phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Okay, and what about you're on Facebook or any social media? Okay, we would have to, our social media is March for Our Lives Hawaii, so HI. March for Our Lives, HI, okay? And June, June, what's your full name sweetheart? I'm sorry? Your full name? June Shen, yes, S-H-I-N. S-H-I-N, J-U-N-S-H-I-N. Yes. Yes. Okay. I have a couple of more students. Should I send them a long thank you, June? Let's stay here. Would you like to have something like Hawaii? Yeah, of course. Do we have a lot of students? Hello. Hi. Hi, and what's your name? Wonderful. Congratulations.  So, did you have a sign also? Yes, I did. What's your sign say? My sign says life over guns, enough is enough. Great. So, how many people came from Sacred Hearts? From Sacred Hearts, around six to ten people came. My English teacher came, which was amazing. Oh, great. Well, oh, good. We have a picture of some students. So, oh, that's good, good. Congress won't ask students will. Very good. Yes. Very good.  Now, what do your parents think of you and taking the stand for being an activist? What do your parents think? In the same case, my dad is definitely supportive of gun control. I just need to make all of this. And it's a great thing here that they need to be supportive of their children, taking a stand and making their future into their own hands is actually where it starts. Oh, listen, like I've told everybody, I was fifteen when I first walked a picket line in the Civil Rights Movement, which was 1954. Yeah, that's a long time ago. Wow, that's awesome. But I'm still out there. So, I am with you 100%. Totally, we have devoted this whole timeframe just to talk to you. Hawaii says never again. So, we are so proud of you. And the interest will tell you the link to the show as after we get off the air so that you can tell your parents. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you. Is we have one more student? That was in Sarah Casino. Sarah. Yes, sir. Hi. Hi. Hello. Hi. How are you? Good. And your name? Sarah Casino. Sarah. Yes, ma'am. Good. So, tell us about Sarah. So, tell you about Sarah. Yeah. So, Sarah is a, I'm a senior here at UH. And June and I pretty much, with the help of a lot of other people, obviously. But we kind of threw the whole thing together in the last few weeks. We just kind of stepped up and said, hey, this is what the Parkland students are looking for. And we are agreement with them. And what can we do to have their voices be heard all the way in the middle of the Pacific? So, we started organizing. And I'm pretty happy with how many people showed up. And a couple of weeks notice. I think that it worked really well. I am so proud of you and all the work you're doing and all of the students. Thank you. As I said earlier, as driving in, went past Catholic schools, private schools, public schools with students out with their signs. And it is just so thrilling to see Hawaii participate with the schools around the world. It is just wonderful. I am so proud of you. Well, thank you. And yeah, this morning I put on the news and I just saw thousands of students from around the country and it reminds me of, you know, the first, the women's march right after an operation two years ago. And I just thought, wow, you know, the women did it and the kids are doing it. And I think that the women and the kids have been changing this country and the world for a long time. It's kind of just cool to be on the right side of history. It is because it was students that started the Bolshevik Revolution. It was students in the civil rights movement. And so you are absolutely on the right side of history. Yeah. And yes. And again, I am very proud of you. And they tell me I have to take a break. So can I go back to Beatrice, please? You sure can. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Hi. We need to take, we need to take a break. Go away. Okay. Okay. They're showing that we have to take a break. And then we'll be back in just a minute. But don't go away. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Welcome to Hawaii. This is Prince Dykes, your host of The Prince of Investing. Coming to you guys each and every Tuesday at 11 a.m. Right here on Think Tech Hawaii. Don't forget to come by and check out some of the great information on stocks, investings, your money, all the other great stuff. And I'll be your host. See you Tuesday. Now Beatrice is at the University of Hawaii. Beatrice is one of our hosts, as you know. And she is sending us pictures of students. And we have a video, don't we? Do we have videos that she's sending? Okay. Is that the main street that goes through? Of the University? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so, just a minute. And they put so much love and attention. And they call it student unity for the science thing, which is dancing to the science and to learn in a place that is conducive to education and science. Well, when we passed Marino School, the kids with science are standing out by the fence. And there were some little ones that could hardly see over the fence. But they were out. And I have to say, I guess, give kudos to our superintendent of school who said that this was going to be fine. This was their first amendment right. And for the students, it was okay to take the 17 minutes. I really have to thank her for making it clear that this was the thing to do. Yeah. Yeah. And also, I think from the heart, and it comes from the reality of students that I have been very moved to see. And this is about, I just say, in office and all, but in Hawaii, where we have one of the best gun control laws in the nation, you know, which we might feel that this does not apply to us. But I think that, you know, it's really nice to see students from not just Oahu island, but other islands coming together in solidarity and say, we cannot be complacent. If anything, I think the students here who I have a lot to say to all the students and to all the states, you know, that this is the way it should be that we should not have, you know, lack of gun control. We are really one of the four states in the nation for what we want to this country to achieve. Well, you know, I am so proud of all of the students that showed up. Now, tell us before we lose you, what are the plans again? Repeat the plans for the 24th. What are we to do on the 24th? The plan for the 24th. All over the country and also here in Hawaii, I'm going to have one island, and then there's another, and that's the March for Life Honolulu, also organized by students, high school students primarily. And then the March for Life Hawaii around the capital is going to be 10 to 12. And two, that there are just happening throughout the island on the 24th. On the other neighbor, on the neighbor island, you mean? Yes, on the neighbor. No, no, actually here in Hawaii. Oh, here. The message to send across is the one of unity, no matter what you join, that you do something on the 24th. For sure. You know, today is also the lead organizer for the April 20th March in memory of the 20th anniversary of Columbine shooting. Oh, now what day is that? April 20th, okay. Yes. Continue to keep in its momentum. And you know, it's really amazing, and it's really amazing that the community can also be supported by showing up and by asking students, what is it that they can just support their, you know, revolution, this drive that is really happening across the nation and off to the north? Well, And I have no doubt that they will be able to overcome current legislation that we have on gun control. And I also have no doubt that their power of voting also, not just advocacy, is going to make a huge difference. Yes, absolutely. And one of the things we'll have to do, as you know, I'm a political junkie. So on the 24th, we have to show up with applications for them to register to vote. I'll be there. Absolutely. Yes. So listen, sweetheart. They're telling me that we have to go. But love you madly. Thank you for being there. And Jay, we love you for allowing us to do this live. Thank you so much, sweetheart. Thank you. Thank you. Give the students, Yeah, and give the students the link so they can show their parents that they were there. Allah. We'll do it. Allah.


Everyone, welcome to this special CUBE conversation. We are here in Palo Alto, California, the CUBE headquarters. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We are at Mohit Aaron, founder and CEO of Cohesity, serial entrepreneur, successful, distributed computing, PhD, computer science, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for having me here. So thanks for coming. You guys have been very successful. You found the company in 2013. Great traction, great success, great technology. What's the vision of Cohesity? Let me first start by describing the problem, and then I'll go on to describing the vision. The problem in a nutshell is what we call mass data fragmentation. It refers to the fact that everything sits in silos, whether it's a data center or whether it's the cloud. All our data sits in silos, in appliances, just spread all across the whole universe. And our vision is to basically consolidate that onto one platform. The easiest way to understand our vision is to look at what a smartphone did in the consumer space. Before the smartphone came, we all used to carry multiple devices, right phone, music player, camera, and so on and so forth. The smartphone came, it put all of those on one platform, gave us a single UI to manage it all, gave us the notion of marketplace from where we could download apps and run on this platform and give us machine learning. Our vision is something very similar for the world of data. In the world, the data is the most valuable resource today in the world, much more so than oil. And yet the infrastructure where we put that data is very fragmented. Let's look at the data center, right? Backups is one silo, probably bought from different vendors. Test and dev is another silo, analytics is another one. Filechairs and object storage is another one. Our vision is to put all of that on one platform, make it very simple, make that platform, span the data center and the cloud, manage it using one UI, bring machine learning concepts to it, and add a marketplace from where people could download apps. You know, the smartphone's a good analogy, I like that, because you had a market where they made devices to make phone calls, and then text messaging was the killer app at the time, but having the computer enabled a whole new class of services, functionality, usability, and capability, and obviously iPhone was a similar moment there. You see the same thing in tech right now with cloud. Cloud has changed again, seen cloud be successful. Scale is a huge thing. So functionality, new kinds of functionality and large scales with cloud computing has proven and apps have come around that. So I got to ask you, you know, backup has been a category that has been dominated, public offerings, data domain, the list is endless of great companies that have built great backup solutions, or AK phones, and I think that's what you're getting at. The phones is the backup. You guys are building new functionality. So I want you to explain the real capabilities that's going to come out of the data, because if you have data being backed up, you're touching the data. So if you built a platform for scale, which seems to you guys have, talk about that product. What is the unique thinking behind it? How did you come to it, and what are some of the examples? Yeah, so let's start one step at a time. So even though it's a platform that can do multiple things, just like the smartphone had to be a great phone to begin with, this is a great backup product to begin with. And once we've solved the backup problem for the customer, then we encourage them to do more on this, maybe do file shares, maybe do object storage, maybe start using the cloud, and so on and so forth. The next thing I want to say is that imagine you want to work on that data. So you've ingested some data using backups, and you want to get some insights from that data. Today what you're forced to do is you probably have to copy that data out into another silo, creating one more fragment, one more copy of the data. Why not move apps to the data, rather than data to the apps? So our whole concept is that take this platform and take whatever app you wanted to run outside of this, just run it on this platform. And thereby you're moving apps to the data, not the data to the apps, moving data is hard, data is big, moving apps is easy. So, and that's what Cohesity is about, and that's the platform, that's the capability of the platform, it's a distributed platform, it lets you run apps close to where the data is. That's the underlying. A lot of people say, I remember going back a couple years now, talking about cloud, everyone's, I want to be like Google, I want to be like Amazon, because they were operating at large scale using open source software, and you were lead engineer on Google file systems, so you know a lot about scale. But a lot of people wanted the scale and functionality of Google, but they wanted the ease of use of Apple. And I heard you mentioned that before we came on. So this is actually an interesting dynamic, but not everyone's like Google, right? But they have now data scaling, similar challenges that Google has once on or another's large scale. Talk about that dynamic, because you're changing the game on what backup did since you're touching the data, you're going to make that more valuable beyond just backing up. And this is the concept of moving apps to the data. Talk about this dynamic of scale functionality and ease of use, because if you're doing all the work with the data, why not extend that out? And this is essentially what you're doing. Can you explain that? Yeah, think about the problems that Google would have if they were dealing with lots and lots of fragments of data, if everything was sitting in a different appliance, with the volume of data that they deal with, they'll just be going nuts, pulling their hair all day long, right? So they built a web scale system that was sort of like a single platform. I was fortunate to be part of some of those technologies like the Google file system. So they built that web scale file system to make it look like, or make all of that look like one platform. And now that it was one platform, they could move the apps to it. And we are basically trying to do something similar to the realm of secondary data and apps. Because we have lots and lots of data here. Today it sits in silos, be they backups or tasks and dev or filers, object storage. We're trying to build one big platform that scales out in a Google-like fashion. Which can be managed very simply using one UI, kind of Apple-like manageability. And with this concept, we become very similar to those hyperscalers and we bring some of the same innovations to people out there. I want to share a comment we were talking about before we came on camera. We were just briefly talking, you said I like to solve one problem at a time and then move on. But what's interesting here, competitive strategy-wise, you're solving the backup problem, but while you got your hands on the data, you're actually going to reimagine the usability of that data. So you're essentially adding value to a basic function backup, putting a platform around it and extending that out, perhaps to come to it. And it's kind of a land grab that's working. This is a unique, it's a different way to think about it, is that right? So I like to say that we like to be masters of one trade at a time, not jack of all trades. And that first trade for us that we want to be masters of is backups. Once we are happy there, then we can go on and focus on maybe filers or object storage and this is how we build the platform. Right, I always say that when you architect a system, you have to think about all this from day one. You can't incrementally add patches and expect the system to grow, right? I sometimes draw an analogy between why Google won the war against Yahoo. I think Google thought of it all as a platform. They thought about all the use cases that they'd be putting on the platform. Yahoo just built something that was good for search, didn't think beyond that. That's why they bought a bunch of NetApps and built their file system. And no one else, there's no system here. And Google built the Google file system and then put YouTube on top and Gmail on top and blah, blah, blah. So ours is the same approach. We've thought about the problem, the problem we want to address, master the fragmentation up front. And our system has been architected to solve that. Even if we start by being masters of backups first, the system has been architected to do way more than that. So it'd be safe to say that cohesity from a software core competency standpoint is distributed computing, core competence, or distributed systems large scale from a computer science standpoint, and then data. So expertise, are those two, is that accurate? Yeah, so distributed computing and distributed file systems, those would be the two core competencies. But then again, depending on like, whether it's backups or it's test and lab, there are competencies within those domains. So I want to get into the product tech. First of all, thanks for responding to that. The product tech is phenomenal. You have a platform that can do multiple things. I want you to talk about SPAN FS and SPAN OS. You have some news, you've got some things, share an overview of what that is and what the new news is. So when you're trying to control and manage lots and lots of data, you better have a distributed file system. So we've built one and we call it SPAN FS. The name comes from the fact that it's supposed to span nodes in the data center. It's supposed to span multiple kinds of storage in the data center. It's supposed to span the data center and your multi-cloud environment, that hence the name SPAN FS. But since we were building it like a platform that's not just there for your data, it also runs apps on top of this platform. The SPAN FS is not enough. It becomes a full-scale OS, if you may want to call it. What's a OS? It has a file system and it has the ability to run apps on the file system and the same ability was built here. Hence the name SPAN OS. So we can store data, but we can also run apps close to that data. And with multi-cloud on the horizon or actually present today, a lot of people use multiple clouds and certainly Salesforce is considered a cloud. You've got Amazon. So essentially there's multiple clouds existing today in the enterprise. The core data at all is what hybrid and these things are going on on premise. It's cloud operations. This becomes an important part of the distributed environments that need to be managed. Talk about the impact of multi-cloud in today's IT world because it's a systems thinking. You got to think about it from day one, which is kind of today. I got on premise, I got multiple clouds out there and some clouds are great depending on the workload. Pick the cloud for the workload. I'm a big believer in that. Your thoughts though on as people try to get their arms around this and make it one environment with a lot of decoupled elements that are highly cohesive. Talk about that dynamic. Yeah, so cloud is a very nice entrant into the infrastructure world. It provides a lot of functionality, but it doesn't quite solve that problem of mass data fragmentation. When you put your data in the cloud, it's still fragmented. And when you're dealing with, often our customers, our big customers are dealing with multiple clouds and the data centers and they have dedicated people trying to move data and applications between them. That's the problem that Cohesity can actually solve very well because we're building a platform that spans all this. All of that becomes underlying infrastructure that we use. And now through us, they can easily move apps, they can easily move data, they can access the data anywhere. That's the value we bring to them. We have a customer here in California that was spending $120,000 per month. It's a new company, sending $120,000 per month on their AWS bill. After they consolidated that stuff through us in the cloud, their bill reduced to $17,000 per month. That's the kind of value we can bring to customers. Well, the Amazon Dynamics, it's interesting because you got storage and you got EC2, the compute. You need compute to manage storage. So again, it's not just storage, that's the cost. It's data is driving the economics, that's what you're getting at. Yeah, so I think data and storage and compute go together. So I'm a big fan of hyperconvergence which me along with the rest of my team at Nutanix invented. It's kind of doing multiple things on the same platform and you can do that without storage and compute both working in tandem. So consolidating with Cohesity, not because of all of it, but using Cohesity allows the better management, lower costs on Amazon. That's right, that's right. Because we store the data efficiently on Amazon, cutting the costs and then you can run your apps on top. You don't have to copy out the data to run your apps. You can actually run it on the platform and all that saves you costs. That's a great tidbit. Note to the audience out there, great to tip there, pro tip. Talk about the announcement. You now have apps coming out. You got three native Cohesity apps, that's my word. I don't know what you guys call it. I think apps, just Cohesity apps. And then four third-party application developers. So again, this kind of teases out the beyond backup story which is platform. What are the apps? Where does this come from? What are some of the reasons why they're being built? Can you share specifics on that news? Yeah, this goes back to our analogy to a smartphone and one of the innovations the smartphone brought to the world was the notion of a marketplace. You could go to the marketplace and download apps. Some of those apps are from the vendor who built the smartphone. Some of them are from third parties. So we are, and when the first iPhone came out, it actually had just basically five apps, right? And then now there are millions of them. So what we have seated the system with is we have a couple of third-party apps, four in particular. One is Splunk that runs on the platform within a container. One is from a company called I-Manus. One is actually two apps are anti-virus apps. One vendor is Central One. One is ClamAV. Those are third-party apps, but then we've built some apps from Cohesity itself. One is a app called Spotlight. It's a security app. One is a app called Insight. Searches through the data. One is a app called Easy Scripts. Allows our customers to upload scripts and then run them from Cohesity. So these are the apps that we have seated the system with. We're also announcing an SDK.  We would like people out there in the world, third parties, our partners to build apps and run on this platform. So Moe, what's the motivation behind the apps? Just more functionality as the demand grows, functionalities needed. So obviously platforms should be enabling. So I get why apps can build on platforms, but what was the motivation that around the apps now? Just evolution, capabilities, what's the thoughts? It goes back to our philosophy that if you need to do something, you shouldn't buy one more silo to do it. You should be able to extend your existing platform and then do stuff. That's what your smartphone does. Basically when you buy your smartphone, it can be a phone and a number of other things, but then you extend the functionality of that by downloading apps. It's the same motivation. You want to extend the abilities of this platform, just download apps and then extend it, right? Give the value proposition pitch for the developers out there. Why would they want to develop on Cohesity? Is it a certain kind of developer? What's the makeup of the target audience who would build on Cohesity? So all kinds of people we expect to build on this platform. So the value for our customers, for instance, now rather than copying the data out of this platform or do one more silo and that's very expensive, they can actually build an app that runs on this platform so that they don't have to move the data around and it's very, very simple. That's the value for our customers. For the developers out there, it's the same value that they get when they build an app on a smartphone. They build an app, some customer out there can download that app and that app and then pay that developer some money. So they don't have to build a whole company or a whole thing. Now they can build an app that runs on Cohesity. It's really simple for them. They get a cut of whatever the customer pays. So there's value all around. It's a win-win for everyone. Yeah, and it's good business model too. Get community going, you get an ecosystem developing. It's a classic growth opportunity for you guys, congratulations. So with our business, you guys have talked about a couple quarters ago publicly about $200 million run rate. Give us the update on the business in terms of growth, employee headcount, key milestones. Can you share as CEO, give us the update? So the momentum is phenomenal. We're very flattered by the fact that despite the fact that we're a young company, we've been selling for a little more than three years. 70% of our customers are enterprise customers, the big guys with lots and lots of data. Some of the biggest banks in the world now, use us. Some of the biggest credit card companies in the world use us. A lot of the secretive federal agencies use us. Some of the public customers I can mention, Hyatt uses us. A big financial northern trust uses us. The famous food chain, Wendy's uses us. So those are the names I can mention that are actually using and benefiting from Cohesity. So lots and lots of great stuff. We had 300% year over year growth in revenue. Our headcount actually this week crossed 1,000 people. So I spoke to our chief people officer. We should mention our 1,000th employee in a special way. So all that great stuff is happening.  Cause you guys were at 200 last year about this time. One year back we were about 200 people. So factor of five growth in about one year. It's a phenomenal headcount growth. Wow, that's massive growth. How big is this guys? Real estate growing, you got to buy more office space. So we had quoted in a building in San Jose downtown. We started, we got that building about one year back. We only had two floors. We've already expanded to like five floors now and looking to rent more. We've also expanded to other locations geographically. We now have an office in Raleigh. We have an office in Cork in Ireland. We already had an office in Bangalore. We're setting one up in Pune. We're setting one up in Toronto. So lots and lots of expansion worldwide. Profitability looking good as well.  So this is the time where we are invested in growth. That's looking phenomenal. And there's a path to profitability. It all depends on, you know, our economics and what the board decides on how and when we want to chat towards profitability we can get there. It looks easy, but I think our productivity of our sales reps looks phenomenal. Our average productivity is very high, which basically means that, you know, we can get to profitability fairly quickly if you want to. Well, I got to say, I'm very impressed with the growth and impressed that you go out on the road and talk to customers, closing business. That's a sign of a great CEO. Always make sure the customers are happy. Eventually that's what the company is about. A, happy employees and B, happy customers. And my job as a CEO is to make sure both happen. Before we get into some of the questions I have from the community I prepare because people knew you were coming on. I want to ask you about entrepreneurship and your journey. You've had quite the career. Google mentioned that. Nutanix and now here. Look at today's environment. I mean, there's a lot of talk about how entrepreneurship's changed. And starting a company, you know, you got a rocket ship so you got a lot of people coming on now for your journey you're on now. But there's a lot of other entrepreneurs out there right now kind of like looking at this transition. People say, tech is bad, not good for society. You've seen a bad negative press in there. Entrepreneurship is a great opportunity right now in tech. What's your thoughts on the current landscape and opportunities for folks out there building new things and going in and solving a problem from an old market and reimagining it for the new because there's a lot of new going on. You're seeing a new sea change with cloud and on premise. I would say this is probably the best time to do a company than ever in the past because technology is there to help people, young entrepreneurs. There's plenty of money to be raised from VCs. VCs are very happy to be helping entrepreneurs. A couple of pieces of caution that I want to give to would be entrepreneurs. Number one, don't be in a hurry. Learn their hopes of doing a company first before jumping and doing it because often I find that they burn their fingers and then they don't want to do a company again. First, go to a good company. Learn the ropes of doing a company and then do a company. That's number one. Number two, I would like to encourage all entrepreneurs to think about their ideas in the context of the following two thoughts. One is the company needs to have a great entry point. That's how the company takes off. But then it also needs to have a bigger vision to look up to. And I often find that companies lack one or the other of these and that's why they eventually fail or they never take off the ground. In our case, the entry point was backups and the big vision is the consolidation of secondary data and apps that I spoke about. One or the other, if they are missing, it's not great. And the extensibility is key there too. You get the beach heads in a real specific segment and then you sequence the broader beach head without trying to take it all too fast or not knowing where to land. That's kind of much the analogy. That's where I say be master of one trade at a time. Go ahead in the beach head and then expand on the bigger vision. And by the way, that's a classic proven tech way to do it. So just stay with what works. All right, let's get to the questions from the community. A lot of people wanted to ask. So here's the first question. Moe, you have a great perspective on the difference between hyperscale and enterprise worlds. Is the enterprise still 10 plus years behind the giants in tech and how have you helped bring hyperscale thinking to the enterprise architecture? The enterprise is actually surprisingly is getting closer and closer with all the great technologies available. Hyperconvergence has been one of those technologies that has made hyperconvergence combined with web scale is one of those technologies that has brought the enterprise world very close to the hyperscalers. Now they can buy products that are hyperconverged that scale out in a Google-like fashion and they can get some of the same benefits that the hyperscalers have enjoyed over the years. So I won't say they're that far behind anymore. They're catching up. They're catching up. It used to be a few years ago, you could look at it and say, old relic, modern cloud. Yeah, and the companies that I've founded have, I'm very flattered to say, that have kind of hastened that journey. Hyperconvergence and in Cohesity, we're solving this problem of mass data fragmentation. The hyperscalers have kind of already solved that problem. They have massive web scale systems that don't deal with data fragmentation. It's one platform and we're trying to bring that value to the world through Cohesity. Great, great success. Okay, second question. There's a ton of money pouring into the data protection space. Again, a category that's, there's a carton of magic quadrants for that. But again, you start companies that don't have magic quadrants because it's new. Why is this money pouring into the space? Why now? Number one, data is exploding. There's lots and lots of data. Bulk of the data sets in what we call a second storage. It comes to it through backups. Your production stuff has some production data, but eventually that data, nobody wants to delete the data. They want to keep the data for at least six, seven years, maybe forever. All the data comes to backups. The opportunity that people have seen is that they can actually now do more with that data. It's not just done data setting there. So it's not just data protection. It becomes more of data management. And you do data management through apps. That's what Cohesity is exploring. We get the data onto a platform through backups, but then we expand into our rest of the vision and can run apps to extract value from the data. That's why the money is coming in. Well, you just answered the next question, which is why Cohesity, why now the space is crowded? A lot of competition, so I'll just move on. Ransomware, what's going on there and what's unique about Cohesity and what do you bring to the table with respect to ransomware? So ransomware is something that we now live with. It's every enterprise is at risk at being affected by ransomware. So what we have announced recently, I think a month back, we announced our ransomware support. We can offer not just the detection, but also a number of other things. We can detect ransomware. We can allow our customers to apply fixes when that happens. So we really allow things to be recovered once ransomware happens. So it's built into our data protection environment. That's how customers like it. So it adds value to the data that they already have.  And with all the third-party and SDK stuff happening, potentially extensibility beyond that core. That's right. Now we can have apps that can detect more ransomware by virtue of the fact that we can support running apps close to data. Some of those apps could be anti-ransomware apps, help detect the data, do some custom stuff. Once ransomware is detected, all that becomes possible. Last question from the crowd here, community, multi-cloud, everyone's going after the space. What is multi-cloud data protection really about? And why Cohesity? Isn't this just really a multi-cloud vendor? Can do it all? I mean, a lot of people are saying they're multi-cloud vendors. Why you? What is multi-cloud data protection all about? So, you know, big enterprise customers probably have a foot in every cloud. And so they call it a multi-cloud infrastructure. And if they want to protect the data, unfortunately the data is very fragmented. So they need a backup solution for one for every cloud. That's roughly multi-cloud data protection, where Cohesity adds value. It's building one platform that spans your multi-cloud environment. So one platform can now take care of all those backups. So it really simplifies the job of doing backups or data protection in a multi-cloud environment. And that's where the Cohesity value comes in. Well, congratulations. Final question for this interview. How would you summarize the state of Cohesity right now, thousand employees, growth on the customer traction side and revenue, business fundamentals look good, economics with a platform certainly, software margins looking very good, growth. What's it all about right now? Culture, value proposition. It's kind of like a rocket ship and we're just hanging on. But yeah, I think our focus is when you grow this fast, the challenge becomes keeping your culture intact. And we try to put a lot of effort on our culture, our core values, our cultural guidelines. We are fanatics about that. So we want everyone to feel that they're coming in and this is home away from home. And they treat others to make them feel it's home away from home. We're trying to build a family here. So there's a lot of emphasis on that. But at the same time, you know, we all work hard and let the company keep coming. And the new ecosystem opportunity for you is looking really good because if these apps take off, certainly the cohesive apps and now you got third party with an SDK, this is potentially a game changer for you as a company too, as well. You're a product company, software company, obviously a lot of scale, but now you're going to be bringing developers in. Impact there. The impact, the thought leadership impact, you know, I'm personally very fond of, you know, I do these companies because I want to change the world. I want to change the way the world thinks. This is the way I think. And if I can help the world think in this fashion, I've contributed something to the world. And so that's the excitement. That's what our mission is. Our team is excited about that. It's just great. We got a great mind, PhD in computer science and distributed systems, entrepreneur that thinks up new things that disrupt the status quo and the old guard, certainly track record there. Congratulations. Moa, thanks for coming on theCUBE. This is theCUBE conversation here at Palo Alto. I'm John Furrier. Thanks for watching.


Hello, welcome to SSUnitex social decide and this is continuation of PySpark tutorial. So in this video we are going to see about the concat and concat with separator. So in this video we will see about these two functions. So the azenda is first we will see about the concat init function when we can use it. Then we will see concat with separator and then we will see what is the difference between concat and concatws. So basically concat is used for concat init for multiple columns into a single column. So let me quickly go inside the browser and we will try to see in practical. So here I am going to create one of the data frame and this data frame is containing total four columns. The first column is the first name then the middle name then the last name and last column could be your gender. Here we can see we are creating the data frame by using this create data frame function. It will ask two parameter. The first parameter will be actual data and the second parameter will be data frame and this data could be in array type data. Schema is also an array. So let me quickly try to execute and we will see this data frame output. So in the output we could see we have total four columns with the first name, middle name, last name and gender. Here I am going to import few of the important function. The first function is the concat. Second the call function then the lit function then concatws and regular expression replace. So I am going to use all these one by one so you will understand. So here we just want to do the concat on this data frame that is df. So here I am going to select the first. Here we can use the concat function. So simply we can call this concat function. Then inside this concat it is asking to supply the list of columns. So the first column is your first name. So we can simply supply the first name here. Then put comma then we can supply the second column. So we just want to concat first name then the middle name and then last we can supply the last name. So it will be going to concat these three columns together. And here we can also supply the alias name of this and this name could be full name. Let me try to put this in another data frame that is df1 and display with the df1. Let me try to execute and we will see the output. So here we are checking it is going to concat the first name, middle name and last name in full name. So simply we can directly use the concat and inside the concat we can supply all these columns. But what is our requirement? Our requirement is we just want to put the comma between first name, middle name and last name. Then how we can do that? Simply we can use the lid function for passing any literal values and here we can supply the comma. So first name then the comma. So let me try to copy this. The middle name again we are going to supply this comma and that's it. Let me try to execute and we will see again. So this time what we can see we have the suzil comma, middle name is not here then we can see comma two times then we can see sing. Similarly we can see in the comma then bahadur then sing. So if we don't have the middle name then this comma is coming twice. So I will show you later how we can replace these two comma by a single comma. Next we can see about the concat ws. So let me quickly use the df one and df dot similarly I am going to select and here instead of concat I am going to use the concat ws. So this ws with separator. So what it is saying first parameter should be your separator. What will be the separator between first name middle name and last name so that we have to supply here. So I am going to supply comma over here next parameter is asking about the first name. So I am going to use the first name. Next I just want to combine with the middle name. So we can use the middle name and at last we should be seeing this last name and here we can simply supply the alias of this as full name. Now let me try to execute and we will see the output of this. So we can see the same output because here we have not explicitly supplying the comma between first name middle name and last name. At the starting we can simply supply whatever will be your separator. It could be pipeline so you can supply the pipeline here and we will see the pipeline in the separator. So first name then pipeline middle name pipeline then the last name. So similarly we can supply like this. Now the next thing as I told you here we can see this multiple pipelines or multiple comma are coming then how we can replace all those. So we can simply use the regular expression underscore replace so this function will help us so how we can use that. So before going to use let me add another column which is remaining that is gender column from here. So we can execute and here okay. So this gender spell is wrong. Now we can see it has total two columns first is the full name and second is the gender and this is available in this data frame that is DF1. Now here I just want to replace this double pipelines with a single pipeline. So how we can do that we can simply use the DF1 dot again we have to use the select and inside that we can use the regular expression underscore replace function as we can see it is asking about the column or name. So we have to supply the column that is the DF1 dot full name. So this is the column name then it is asking the pattern that you just want to replace. So what we want to replace we want to replace multiple pipelines with a single pipeline. Now here again I am going to put alias on this and this alias could be full name new and the second parameter DF1 dot gender and let me put this in another data frame that is DF2. So instead of pipeline I am going to put this as comma and just try to replace this double comma with a single comma. Now let me try to execute and we will see the output. So here what we could see we can see earlier we were having multiple comma between Suseel and Singh. Now we can see only a single comma similarly for the Indra Bahadur Singh is okay but in case of the web hosting we were having multiple comma in between. Now we can see the multiple comma has been removed. So I hope guys you have understood when we can use the concat when we can go with the concat ws and the regular expression for the replace. Let me conclude this. So whenever we are going to use the concat here it is going to just combine the multiple columns together. If we have a such requirement by which we just want to keep the separator in between then we should go with the concat ws and if any column values are missing and we don't want to keep this separator multiple times then we can use the regular expression to replace those multiple values that we can see the multiple commas here. So thank you so much for watching this video. If you like this video please subscribe our channel to get many more videos. See you in the next video.