Pivot

Every Tuesday and Friday, tech journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. They make bold predictions, pick winners and losers, and bicker and banter like no one else. After all, with great power comes great scrutiny. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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Tech meltdown in Iowa, Sheryl Sandberg’s engage...
Kara and Scott talk about technical difficulties at the Iowa caucuses. They disagree about whether Sheryl Sandberg's engagement announcement was a PR stunt or a personal moment.
45 min
552
IBM leadership shuffle, Amazon earnings, plus "...
Kara and Scott talk about IBM's new CEO as the company struggles to keep up with cloud computing. They also discuss Zuckerberg's "new approach to social media", and breakdown Amazon's major earnings.
39 min
553
US budget deficit will hit $1-trillion; AAPL, M...
Kara and Scott talk about the Congressional Budget Office projecting that the U.S. budget deficit will pass the $1 trillion threshold in 2020.
44 min
554
Kara’s back in action; a listener question on W...
37 min
555
Bezos vs. the world, retail in India and Scott’...
Scott co-hosts with Erica Anderson (Pivot's indomitable Executive Producer!) and they talk about the Saudi's hacking Jeff Bezos' phone.
43 min
556
Trillion dollar companies and tax season; how t...
Kara talk about Google becoming the world's fourth trillion-dollar company ... and who is actually paying taxes on all of it?
38 min
557
Gloves off over privacy, from Apple to Microsof...
Kara and Scott argue about whether the government should have the right to hack into phones of suspected criminals.
41 min
558
Will Casper go public? How will Softbank’s late...
Kara and Scott talk about Casper's S-1 and how it compares to other internet retail companies like Away and Warby Parker.
36 min
559
Social networks' minimum effort to be less toxi...
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook's decision not to change their political ad policies.
41 min
560
Trump vs. Iran on Twitter, more on HQ2 incentiv...
Kara and Scott talk about how Trump has been escalating US conflict with Iran on Twitter.
27 min
561
California is regulating consumer data privacy,...
Kara and Scott are back to talk about a suite of new regulations in California that will give consumers agency over their data and gig workers more protection.
47 min
562
"Friends of Pivot" breakdown the big stories of...
Kara and Scott look back at the 2010s and the biggest stories of the decade with the help of some friends.
48 min
563
Impeachment… it happened, Peter Thiel’s influen...
Kara and Scott talk about what impeachment might mean for business.
42 min
564
What’s up with the China/US trade deal, why hav...
Kara and Scott talk about the "Phase One" trade agreement between the US and China and what it means for big tech.
40 min
565
Netflix Golden Globe noms, bipartisan agreement...
Kara and Scott talk about Congress' hearing on regulating end-to-end encryption on messaging apps.
47 min
566
A letter to Twitter, Uber's data transparency, ...
Kara and Scott talk about a letter Scott wrote to the board about concerns at Twitter.
43 min
567
CEO’s are out (literally), France's "digital se...
Kara and Scott talk about leaderships shifts at Google -- Larry and Sergey are out and Sundar Pichai is in.
38 min
568
Dorsey moves to Africa and streaming platforms ...
Kara and Scott talk about the future of Twitter as Jack Dorsey announces he's off to live in Africa.
33 min
569
London gives Uber the boot, the billionaire's 2...
Kara and Scott talk about Uber getting kicked out of its biggest EU market, London.
40 min
570
Trump lies about Apple, HBOMax fumbles its bran...
Kara and Scott talk about how Apple CEO Tim Cook, let Trump get away with lying about being responsible for building a 2013 factory.
45 min
571
Big Tech wants to be your wallet and your healt...
Kara and Scott talk about all the Silicon Valley companies rolling out credit cards and checking accounts.
41 min
572
Twitter and the Saudis, Facebook’s 'Switcharoo'...
Kara and Scott talk about former Twitter employees who were spying on user data for Saudi Arabia.
42 min
573
Twitter will stop running political ads ... you...
Kara and Scott celebrate Jack Dorsey announcing that Twitter will not be running political ads anymore. That puts Facebook on the spot.
39 min
574
The screw-up-billionaire, quantum computers, an...
Kara and Scott take a victory lap as SoftBank buys out Adam Neumann, the founder of weWork for a cool $1.7 billion.
39 min
575
Mark Zuckerberg the free speech jester, and Mar...
Kara and Scott met up at Stanford University (where they were both rejected from) for a live Pivot!
56 min