Jason Friedberg

I was like it's incredible and now the movement and the charging that he's got down.

Yeah, there it is.

Can we maybe start with the WNBA and we can shift to business and we can shift to basketball, but I think Kaitlin Clark is out for the season and there's just been a lot of controversy and attention that the WNBA is getting.

What has it done right?

What has it done wrong?

Has the league been doing enough to protect her as a star in the face of the league?

It's been almost a microcosm for just a social discussion.

Do you want to just talk about that as what you see?

And what about the NBA?

Okay.

Let's transition to Alibaba for a second.

It's an incredible journey, you and Jack Ma, and the whole story has its... I mean, it's written in books and there's just tremendous lore.

But can you take us back to your mindset?

I mean, I think we've heard, it's well documented, Jack's mindset, but how you got involved, what you were thinking in that moment, the risk you were taking.

There was a phase, I guess, in the maybe the early 2010s where it was a lot of it felt like tremendous freewheeling capitalism in China, where there was just a just a Cambrian explosion of incredible entrepreneurs, yourself and Jack and all these others, Pony.

And then I think almost starting with the anti-PO, things changed a little bit.

Can you walk us through the dynamics of how that changed?

And then I think it all kind of leads to, you know, a lot of foreign direct investment into the Chinese ecosystem has changed pretty dramatically.

Just give us a sense of what has happened over that arc that you've been in it, working in it, observing it.

Just speaking about the welfare of its citizens, you mentioned ByteDance.