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The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host.
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Doing Business With Zuckerberg and Bezos — With Donald Graham from 2022-02-23T14:55
Don Graham is the former owner of the Washington Post. He's spent countless hours working with Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, and he joins Big Technology Podcast to share inside stories about how ...
ListenDoing Business With Zuckerberg and Bezos — With Donald Graham from 2022-02-23T14:55
Don Graham is the former owner of the Washington Post. He's spent countless hours working with Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, and he joins Big Technology Podcast to share inside stories about how ...
ListenProgramming The Code of Life With CRISPR — With Trevor Martin, CEO of Mammoth from 2022-02-16T13:03:56
Trevor Martin is the CEO and co-founder of Mammoth Biosciences, a $1 billion company that develops CRISPR technology to edit genes. Martin joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how CR...
ListenProgramming The Code of Life With CRISPR — With Trevor Martin, CEO of Mammoth Biosciences from 2022-02-16T13:03:56
Trevor Martin is the CEO and co-founder of Mammoth Biosciences, a $1 billion company that develops CRISPR technology to edit genes. Martin joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how CRISPR is work...
ListenCrypto Scams, Big Tech Tumult, and Tech Optimism— With Kara Swisher from 2022-02-11T14:17:42
Kara Swisher is the co-founder of Recode, a New York Times columnist, the co-host of Pivot, and the host of Sway. She joins BigTechnology Podcast for a special edition tackling the biggest tech hea...
ListenMeta's Stock Plunge + Market Volatility — With Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth Management from 2022-02-09T12:45:10
Josh Brown is the CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management and a regular CNBC contributor. Brown joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss what's behind Meta's historic $251 billion stock plunge, and Amazon...
ListenDigital Publishing’s Next Evolution — With Brian Morrissey from 2022-02-02T14:26:06
Brian Morrissey writes The Rebooting on Substack and hosts The Rebooting Show, a podcast. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digiday and digital editor of Adweek. He joins Big Technology Podcast t...
ListenHow Tech Can Actually Help Mental Health — With Ex-National Institute of Mental Health director Dr. Tom Insel from 2022-01-26T13:30:12
Dr. Tom Insel led the National Institue of Mental Health for 13 years, departing toward the end of the Obama administration for a career in tech. Insel joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how t...
ListenThe Rise Of Conservative Social Media — With The New Yorker's Clare Malone and Stanford's David Thiel from 2022-01-19T15:19:56
Clare Malone is a staff writer at The New Yorker who recently wrote about Gettr, a rising conservative social network. David Thiel is the big data architect and chief technology officer of the Stan...
ListenTech Regulation's Crucial Year — With Sen. Mark Warner from 2022-01-12T13:39:18
Senator Mark Warner takes us inside the battle to regulate Big Tech. Elected in 2008 and serving his third term in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Warner joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether we sh...
ListenWeb3 And The Future Of The Internet — With Box CEO Aaron Levie from 2022-01-05T15:16:05
Aaron Levie is the CEO of Box, a $3.95 billion publicly-traded tech company. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the rise of Web3 — a crypto-based vision for the internet — and where it can ...
Listen2021 In Review, 2022 Predictions — With Casey Newton from 2021-12-29T14:56:15
Casey Newton is the editor of Platformer, a CNBC Contributor, and a friend of Big Technology Podcast. He joins us for our final show of the year, where we look back on the biggest stories of 2021 a...
ListenThe Theranos Trial Concludes — With NPR's Bobby Allyn from 2021-12-22T13:25:05
Bobby Allyn is an NPR tech reporter based in San Francisco. He's been waking up at 2 a.m. to watch the trial of ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from the courthouse. In this episode, Allyn breaks d...
ListenApple Nears $3 Trillion + The Truth About Web3 — With Benedict Evans from 2021-12-15T17:30:27
Benedict Evans is an independent analyst who covers big tech and the broader technology landscape. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Apple's move to $3 trillion, how the rest of the Big Te...
ListenGetting AI To Think And Learn Like Humans — With Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun from 2021-12-08T16:21:14
Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel prize-winning psychologist and economist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, a landmark book that decodes human decision-making. Yann LeCun is the chief AI scientist a...
ListenManaging Omicron With Data From Wastewater? — With Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus of Biobot Analytics from 2021-12-01T14:14:24
As companies head back to the office, and communities try to figure out the right Covid mitigation measures, data from sewage can help them get it right. Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus are the co-...
ListenInflation and The Great Resignation — With SoFi Head of Investment Strategy Liz Young and Margins’ Ranjan Roy from 2021-11-24T13:34:14
Inflation is skyrocketing and everyone’s quitting their jobs. What does it mean? Liz Young, the head of Investment Strategy at SoFi, and Ranjan Roy, the co-author of Margins, help us figure it out ...
ListenInside Spotify's War With Apple — With Spotify Chief Legal Officer Horacio Gutierrez from 2021-11-17T14:15:13
Horacio Gutierrez is Spotify's head of global affairs and chief legal officer. He's a relentless critic of the way Apple treats smaller companies, testifying before the Senate in April that the com...
ListenThe Venture Capitalist Who Can't Lose — With Zach Coelius from 2021-11-10T15:42:38
Zach Coelius is the managing partner of Coelius Capital. He's participating in an unprecedented moment where venture capitalists like him simply can't lose. There's so much money flooding the priva...
ListenThe Motivations of Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen — With Her Lawyer Lawrence Lessig from 2021-11-03T12:25:10
Lawrence Lessig is Frances Haguen's lawyer and a Harvard Law School professor. He joins Big Technology Podcast to address the various questions about Haugen's motivations, backers, and intent that ...
ListenAre We Having a Moral Panic About Instagram? — With NYT's Farhad Manjoo from 2021-10-27T12:35:45
Farhad Manjoo is an opinion columnist for the New York Times. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the criticism of Instagram's impact on kids is overblown, the subject of a recent co...
ListenAmazon Rigs Search, Social Media 'Ampliganda,' Netflix Protests — With Adrianne Jeffries, Renee DiResta, and Zoë Schiffer from 2021-10-20T14:05:04
Join us for a 'mega' episode with three guests! The Markup investigative reporter Adrianne Jeffries leads off with a discussion of Amazon's self-preferencing in search. Stanford Internet Observator...
ListenIs Social Media A Scapegoat For Bigger Problems? — With Charlie Warzel at Unfinished Live from 2021-10-13T16:51:50
Charlie Warzel writes the Galaxy Brain newsletter on Substack, a publication he started after a career at The New York Times and BuzzFeed. Warzel joins Big Technology Podcast in a live recording at...
ListenWhy Facebook Will Keep Building For Kids — With Michael Sayman from 2021-10-06T15:15:13
Michael Sayman was 16 years old when Facebook recruited him to join the company. The overture arrived as he was sitting in math class, and the teacher promptly took away his iPad. Sayman joins Big ...
ListenAmazon Builds a Robot and Threatens Apple — With Wired's Lauren Goode from 2021-09-30T14:27:54
Wired senior writer Lauren Goode was on hand this week as Amazon introduced Astro, a home robot, and a Ring home-monitoring drone. Goode joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss her reaction to the ...
ListenUnraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin from 2021-09-22T13:24:41
Max Chafkin is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, which debuts this week. The book is a fascinating, inside look into the life and rise of Silicon Vall...
ListenA Look Into Facebook's Soul — With WSJ's Jeff Horwitz and Ex-FB Exec. Brian Boland from 2021-09-18T13:47:32
Jeff Horwitz is the Wall Street Journal reporter who unearthed a trove of internal Facebook documents that reveal a damning disconnect between what the company says in public and its actions inside...
ListenInside The Theranos Trial — With Erin Griffith of The New York Times from 2021-09-15T14:47:54
Erin Griffith is the New York Times reporter at the trial for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. She joins Big Technology Podcast to bring us inside the courtroom, explaining why Holmes is on trial...
ListenHow The Music Industry Predicts The Future — With Zack O'Malley Greenburg from 2021-09-08T13:27:02
Zack O'Malley Greenburg is a music journalist who's spent time with everyone from Katy Perry to Kanye West. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how the music industry seems to go through eve...
ListenThe Platform Delusion — With Columbia Business Professor Jonathan Knee from 2021-09-02T16:50:36
Jonathan Knee is a professor at Columbia Business School and senior advisor at the investment bank Evercore. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss The Platform Delusion, his forthcoming book a...
ListenAre We Actually Addicted To Our Phones? — With Nir Eyal from 2021-08-26T15:29:34
Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a spirited debate over whether we're actually addicted to our phones, the ethics of app develope...
ListenCan We Still Be Optimistic About The Internet? — With Meetup Founder Scott Heiferman from 2021-08-18T09:06:31
Scott Heiferman is the founder of Meetup, a website that connects people online and gets them to meet each other offline. Heiferman joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the internet can ...
ListenThe Motivations Of Facebook Reporters, And Their Sources — With Ugly Truth Author Sheera Frenkel from 2021-08-11T19:17:51
Sheera Frenkel is a New York Times reporter and author of the best-selling book, An Ugly Truth. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss her hit book and her reporting process. We address critic...
ListenThe Risks of TikTok's Rise — With Bloomberg's Shelly Banjo from 2021-08-04T13:49:46
Shelly Banjo is Bloomberg's New York Bureau Chief. She's also the host of Foundering, a podcast mini-series that documents TikTok's rise. Banjo joins Big Technology Podcast for a conversation about...
ListenRegime Change In Cuba, Through Internet Access? — With FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr from 2021-07-28T16:36:21
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wants to provide internet access to the people in Cuba so they can document and share the abuses of their government without censorship. Commissioner Carr, who rose to...
ListenThe Definitive WeWork Story — With Eliot Brown And Maureen Farrell from 2021-07-21T16:58:11
Eliot Brown And Maureen Farrell are the authors of The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion. The new book digs into the rise and fall of Adam Neumann's WeWork. And though it's the sto...
ListenNewsletters and The Culture Wars — With Substack CEO Chris Best from 2021-07-14T16:19:16
Chris Best is the CEO of Substack, an email newsletter platform that lets writers send newsletters and charge subscribers a monthly fee. The platform — which I use for my Big Technology newsletter ...
ListenShe Advocated For Women, Then Microsoft Pushed Her Off Its Board — With Maria Klawe from 2021-07-07T15:04:19
“Are you trying to fucking destroy the company?” That’s what Bill Gates told Microsoft board member Maria Klawe when she asked why Microsoft wouldn’t consider a single women out of 50 candidates it...
ListenHow Gen Z Dates Online — With Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone from 2021-06-30T17:57:57
Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Tinder. He took over the world’s most popular dating app last summer, in the heart of the pandemic, and is starting to evolve its product to give people new ways to connec...
ListenHow Big Tech Influence Shops Shape The Antitrust Conversation In Washington — with Adam Kovacevich from 2021-06-24T16:22:20
Adam Kovacevich is the CEO of the Big Tech-funded Chamber of Progress. The former Google policy executive joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the origins of his organization and why Big Tech wo...
ListenCrossover With The Realignment: Can Tech Survive Washington’s Onslaught? from 2021-06-22T20:29:35
Marshall Kosloff and Saagar Enjeti host The Realignment, an excellent podcast about politics and tech in our fast-changing world.
I joined the show his week to talk about the new set of bi...
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Meme Stocks, Bitcoin, SPACs, and Elon Musk from 2021-06-16T15:25:08
Andrew Ross Sorkin is the co-anchor of Squawk Box on CNBC, founder and editor of Dealbook at the New York Times, and the author of Too Big To Fail. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the wi...
ListenAndrew Callaghan of All Gas No Breaks Goes Independent from 2021-06-09T16:49:38
Andrew Callaghan is the force behind All Gas No Breaks, a hit YouTube show that featured Callaghan putting a mic in front of people and just... letting them talk. Callaghan's recently gone independ...
ListenThe Rise and Fall of Juul, With The Devil's Playbook Author Lauren Etter from 2021-06-02T16:32:23
You've heard this story before: Two Stanford kids take on a big bad industry, one that harms people, and they disrupt it. Typically, these stories are portrayed as heroic in Silicon Valley. Yet the...
ListenNew York Times Reporter Jack Nicas On Apple Vs. Epic Games and Apple In China from 2021-05-26T16:44:28
Jack Nicas joins Big Technology Podcast fresh out of the Epic v. Apple trial, where the Fortnight maker is suing Apple over the 30% cut it takes out of every dollar we spend on apps downloaded from...
ListenProfessor Scott Galloway On Whether Our Economy Is Rigged (And What To Do About It) from 2021-05-19T16:29:22
Professor Scott Galloway swings by to discuss how our economy can at once feel rigged yet loaded with opportunity. Galloway describes a “tilted” system that makes life difficult for young people an...
ListenAmazon Unbound Author Brad Stone On How Nerdy Bezos Turned Into Ripped Bezos from 2021-05-12T13:37:58
Brad Stone is the author of Amazon Unbound, a new book about the inner workings of Amazon, which releases this week. Stone joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the book, Bezos's transformation, ...
ListenWhy Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine from 2021-05-06T14:50:21
Sridhar Ramaswamy is CEO of Neeva, an ads-free search engine he helped found after running Google's ads and commerce business. Ramaswamy spent seventeen years inside Google, and eventually grew dis...
ListenFacebook Oversight Board Member Julie Owono Takes Us Inside The Trump Decision from 2021-05-05T20:10:24
Julie Owono is a member of the Facebook Oversight Board, which today announced it's leaving Donald Trump's indefinite suspension in place. Owono joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the decision...
ListenDoge, Bitcoin, NFTs, and Capital Gains: Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk of Margins Demystify Our Economy from 2021-04-28T17:06:44
Today's economy is a wild ride, and it's time to demystify it with Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk from Margins. Consider the following: Doge, a joke cryptocurrency, seems to be minting new millionaires d...
ListenFacebook vs. Clubhouse vs. Spotify vs. Apple: Casey Newton Returns from 2021-04-21T17:14:40
Platformer's Casey Newton returns to Big Technology Podcast to discuss the intensifying battle among Facebook, Clubhouse, Spotify, Apple, and Twitter in the new, social audio space. Fresh off a con...
ListenHow Amazon Automated My Job: A Conversation With Elaine Kwon from 2021-04-14T18:09:49
Elaine Kwon was a vendor manager in Amazon's retail organization when the company started to turn her tasks over to machine learning in a program called "Hands Off The Wheel." She joins Big Technol...
ListenThe Uneasy Amazon Coalition, With Fulfillment Author Alec MacGillis from 2021-04-07T14:58:25
ProPublica senior reporter Alec MacGillis highlights the growing economic divide in the U.S. — through the lens of Amazon — in his new book, Fulfillment. MacGillis joins Big Technology Podcast to d...
ListenCarole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat on The Criticism of Tech Criticism from 2021-03-31T15:47:19
Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat are two of the most prominent Facebook critics worldwide. Cadwalladr is the journalist who broke open the Cambridge Analytica story for the Guardian and The Obs...
ListenBuzzFeed News executive editor Mat Honan on the "Zoom Class," NFTs, and San Francisco from 2021-03-24T17:31:53
BuzzFeed News executive editor Mat Honan has long covered the way society interacts with technology. He joins Big Technology Podcast this week to discuss the “Zoom Class,” the rise of NFTs, and how...
ListenWhy Rest of World wants to change international tech news, with Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis from 2021-03-17T15:25:52
Rest Of World is a new publication that covers technology outside of North America and Europe. Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis join Big Technology Podcast to discuss why they believe it's settin...
ListenBonus: Senator Amy Klobuchar On How Congress Will Take On Big Tech from 2021-03-13T17:50:34
Senator Amy Klobuchar will be leading the charge in Congress as the legislature interrogates the power of big tech, and potentially takes action to restrain it. She's the new Chairwoman of the Sena...
ListenTwitter Product Head Kayvon Beykpour On The Story Behind Twitter’s Revival from 2021-03-10T15:53:55
Kayvon Beykpour is one of Silicon Valley’s busiest product executives. As Twitter’s head of product, he’s survived for years in a formerly-cursed role that seemed to turn over every few months. Now...
ListenWill Artificial Intelligence Take Our Jobs? A Conversation with Kevin Roose, NYT Columnist and Futureproof author from 2021-03-09T17:40:32
Artificial intelligence may take our jobs, or it may give us new freedom in the workplace. The debate is heating up as this technology is starting to enter the workplace in a real way. New York Tim...
ListenWhatsApp Head Will Cathcart on Privacy, Content Moderation, and Apple from 2021-03-03T16:44:14
Will Cathcart runs WhatsApp, the 2 billion user app that's the de facto tool for messaging and calling for many across the globe. Cathcart joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Facebook's feud wi...
ListenArab Spring Leader Wael Ghonim on Modern Social Media's Promise And Peril from 2021-02-24T18:13:04
In 2011, Wael Ghonim created a Facebook page that sparked the overthrow of the Egyptian regime. Since then, the former Google marketing director has kept a close eye on social media's evolution, an...
ListenThree Mayors On The Future Of Tech in the U.S. from 2021-02-16T12:01
Mayor Francis Suarez of Miami, Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway of Madison, and Mayor Steve Adler of Austin join Big Technology Podcast to discuss the future of tech in the U.S.
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Bonus: India vs. Twitter, with Pranav Dixit of BuzzFeed News from 2021-02-13T17:07:33
In India, the Narendra Modi government is threatening to put Twitter officials in jail unless they block approximately 250 accounts of people they don’t like. They include activists, political comm...
ListenWill Amazon Be Kinder After Jeff Bezos? A Conversation With Recode's Jason Del Rey from 2021-02-10T16:27:47
Jeff Bezos is headed for the door at Amazon, and because 2021 is the craziest news year on record, we mostly haven’t stopped to consider this seismic story and what it means for the business world....
ListenGlenn Greenwald on Substack, Content Moderation, and Joe Rogan from 2021-02-03T16:16:11
In January, I wrote a story for OneZero about the content moderation war in store for smaller social platforms like Clubhouse, Spotify, and Substack. As part of my reporting, I reached out to Glenn...
ListenEmergency Podcast: The Story Behind Gamestop, A Conversation With Ranjan Roy of Margins from 2021-01-29T21:55:43
Ranjan Roy has documented the fundamental issues driving today's market volatility, from Zero Interest Rate Policy to the rise of Robinhood. He joins Big Technology Podcast for an emergency episode...
ListenThe U.S. and Tech After Trump: A Conversation With the Realignment's Marshall Kosloff and Saagar Enjeti from 2021-01-27T17:09:23
Marshall Kosloff and Saagar Enjeti, hosts of the hit podcast The Realignment, speak about the shifting state of U.S. politics on their show each week. And while they focus on political change, they...
ListenUnder Biden, Bipartisan Vengeance On Social Media? A Conversation With Bradley Tusk from 2021-01-20T18:00:02
As Joe Biden takes office, big tech’s rough and tumble four years under Donald Trump will not come to an end. Democrats and Republicans, each for their own reasons, will now be looking to exact ven...
ListenShould Facebook and Twitter Have Banned Donald Trump? A Conversation With Ryan Mac of BuzzFeed News from 2021-01-13T16:06:43
Over the past week, both Facebook and Twitter suspended President Donald Trump’s account. These companies don’t take such aggressive action lightly, and it took Trump sending a mob toward the U.S. ...
ListenDoes YouTube Radicalize? A Debate Between NYT's Kevin Roose and Software Engineer Mark Ledwich from 2021-01-06T17:54:45
In June 2019, New York Times reporter Kevin Roose wrote The Making of a YouTube Radical, a story about how a 26-year-old man, Caleb Cain, was radicalized through YouTube. For the story, Roose exami...
ListenCult Deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross On NXIVM, QAnon, and What Makes Us Vulnerable from 2020-12-23T17:37:37
Community as we know it is in a state of decline. People today have fewer friendships than ever, they are lonelier than ever, and religious participation is at an all-time low, with 23% of people i...
ListenPeloton Instructor Emma Lovewell on At-Home Fitness and Stadium-Sized Rides from 2020-12-16T17:34:44
With the pandemic forcing people to stay home for nearly 10 months now, many have turned to interactive fitness companies, such as Peloton, to stay active and perhaps fill a social void. Peloton ha...
ListenGary Vaynerchuk and TikTok’s Blake Chandlee on the ‘Ban’ and TikTok’s Future from 2020-12-09T18:06:54
TikTok is in a state of limbo as the U.S. government decides whether to ban it. In August, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning the app from operating in its current form in the...
ListenEx-Uber Chief Business Officer Emil Michael on Autonomous Driving, Saudi Arabia, and Uber’s Culture from 2020-12-02T16:07:50
Uber is facing a difficult moment amid the coronavirus pandemic. The service, built on the belief that people would forsake car ownership in favor of its ride hailing service, is watching many of i...
ListenWill the Government Break Up Instagram and Facebook? A Conversation With ‘No Filter’ Author Sarah Frier from 2020-11-25T17:17:21
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, and Instagram is in its sights. The agency is poised to revisit Facebook’s 2012 acquisition of the popular mobile ap...
ListenInvestor, Activist Swati Mylavarapu: Tech World Must “Get Uncomfortable” With Its Impact On Society from 2020-11-18T16:51:32
Swati Mylavarapu is a tech investor and activist who spent $2 million in the 2020 election cycle on Democratic causes, in partnership with her husband, Nest co-founder Matt Rogers. Mylavarapu isn’t...
ListenHomebrew VC Hunter Walk Talks Twitter, TikTok, and Tech in the Time of Biden from 2020-11-11T17:10:13
During Donald Trump’s presidency, tech products became explicitly political. Operatives from both sides picked apart their algorithms and features, examining how they shaped society’s beliefs. And ...
ListenElection Results Breakdown With The Daily Beast Editor In Chief Noah Shachtman from 2020-11-04T22:25:05
As the election results come in, Noah Shachtman, the editor in chief of The Daily Beast, joins the Big Technology Podcast for an 'Emergency' show to dive into the results, the future of the Democra...
ListenLincoln Project Co-Founder Steve Schmidt: “The Pro-Democracy Side Of This Argument Cannot Be Gentle” from 2020-10-28T17:45:56
When Steve Schmidt was a senior advisor on John McCain’s campaign in 2008, Twitter was a curiosity. Now, he and a number of former Republican establishment members are using social media deftly to ...
ListenGoogle Protest Leader Meredith Whittaker on the Future of Tech Activism and the Deep Flaws of ‘The Social Dilemma’ from 2020-10-21T21:57:07
When I interviewed Tristan Harris about The Social Dilemma earlier this month, my mentions filled with people saying, "You should speak to the people who were critical of the social web long before...
ListenEmergency Podcast: Department of Justice vs. Google with Yelp's Luther Lowe from 2020-10-20T19:18:52
The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against Google on Tuesday, alleging the company unlawfully maintained a monopoly in search and search advertising. The antitrust action was the most signif...
ListenNew York Times’ Ben Smith Talks Slack, Newsroom Politics, And Tech Regulation from 2020-10-14T21:32:50
As the Media Equation columnist at The New York Times, Ben Smith is covering an industry going through transformation and turbulence. And as the former editor in chief of BuzzFeed News — a place I ...
ListenNetflix's 'Social Dilemma' Star Tristan Harris on the Film and Its Criticisms from 2020-10-07T13:19:57
You won’t find a more controversial film in Silicon Valley than The Social Dilemma. The film, now available on Netflix, features confessions from early consumer internet employees who rue the destr...
ListenReporter Roundtable: Discussing Media Narratives and Tech Industry Attacks On The Press from 2020-09-30T19:24:23
When the Big Technology Podcast debuted last month, The Verge’s Casey Newton joined to talk about why people can’t stand the tech press. Our wide-ranging discussion explored how tech reporters shou...
ListenWhy Venture Capitalists Are Mad, With Bloomberg Beta Venture Capitalist Roy Bahat from 2020-09-23T19:18:38
Venture capitalists, founders, and others in the tech industry are feeling pretty raw these days. Once admired as upstarts fighting the status quo, they now feel under siege, under attack for the n...
ListenAn Inside Look At China’s Internment of Muslims, with BuzzFeed News’ Megha Rajagopalan from 2020-09-16T19:35:10
China’s mass internment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region is one of the world's most under-covered stories The country has detained one million people there, putting them through a “re-education” p...
ListenApple At A Crossroads: An Interview With GV Partner M.G. Siegler from 2020-09-09T22:07:13
For years, Apple had a clear identity: It was the world’s best devices maker. Today, the company is trying to balance that identity with a new emphasis on software and services.
To discus...
Box CEO Aaron Levie on Trump, the Tech Giants, and the Stock Market from 2020-09-02T23:37:13
As the pandemic flattens much of the U.S. economy, many technology firms are doing just fine. Business is moving online, and they’re well positioned to benefit. For tech CEOs like Box’s Aaron Levie...
Listen“It Just Felt Wrong.” Ex-Amazon VP Tim Bray On Why He Left from 2020-08-26T22:51:34
In May, Amazon VP and distinguished engineer Tim Bray said he was leaving the company. Amazon had just fired employees who spoke out against its working conditions, and Bray couldn’t tolerate it. H...
ListenIs the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton from 2020-08-19T20:54:55
The Verge's Casey Newton writes The Interface, a daily newsletter about social media and democracy. He joins the podcast to talk about the tech press, Facebook, and the newsletter life.
Support...
From Gezi Park to Black Lives Matter, with Zeynep Tufekci from 2020-08-19T20:38:33
Social media-fueled protests are a force to be reckoned with in politics today. Movements like Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and Black Lives Matter have drawn millions into the streets in pr...
ListenIntroducing Big Technology Podcast with Alex Kantrowitz from 2020-07-09T21:32:08
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