The last business trip before Easter took me to Los Angeles for a few days. In La La Land we wanted to look around for new investments and the impact of Trump in California. So in terms of the mood, you could say that Trump, who is leading to almost apocalyptic doomsday scenarios among the media and opinion makers in Switzerland, Germany and the rest of Europe, is not an issue there at all. For the Californian, Trump is a presidential puppet who plays in Washington and does not affect cambodia rcs data the course of the "never raining" country. And if he does, then it is positive. Because the planned corporate tax reform, which is to bring a tax rate of fifteen percent on corporate profits, would mean that the giants in Silicon Valley could finally bring their hundreds of billions of dollars in parked foreign profits back to the USA. In order to then invest even more in growth, prosperity and innovation.
The mood there is good and the change to the digital mobile world can be experienced in real life in everyday life. From my hotel room in the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, I spent a (jet-lagged) night watching the hustle and bustle in front of the popular nightclub The Den on Sunset. Hundreds of guests came and went in an hour.
Yes, but how did they get there? In their own car? No. In a taxi? No. By public transport? In Los Angeles? No. Almost 100 percent of them came with Uber or its competitor Lyft. Never before have I seen how a ride-sharing software with an ingenious payment system and easy handling has plowed up a billion-dollar market in so few years. I saw maybe five regular taxis serving the guests of the nightclub on that sleepless night.