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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Peter Thiel is Pennywise, Trump's racist tweets...
This week, Scott wants to scoop on all of Kara's interviews with presidential candidates.
30 min
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Epstein's Out, Rapinoe's In, Plus a Social Medi...
30 min
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Fish and Chips and Biden and Harris and Reddit ...
This week, Kara calls in from London!
39 min
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TikTok, Time's Up on Facebook's Content Moderat...
When Scott Galloway is away, Kara Swisher will play... with The Verge's Casey Newton! This week, Kara and Casey get down and dirty about Bodies in Seats, Casey's exposé on the terrible conditions inside Facebook's North American content moderation sites.
28 min
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Facebook's New Money and Slack's New Valuation
This week, Kara is in New York! And Scott's in... France? So close yet so far as usual.
32 min
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Pivot LIVE! From the 2019 Code Conference
This week's Pivot is live from the Code Conference in Arizona.
36 min
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The FTC and DOJ are Stayin' Alive, and YouTube ...
This week, Kara and Scott talk breaking down the big boys (Facebook, Google, etc) and YouTube kicking out the bad boys ("free speech" haters).
31 min
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Deepfake takedowns, white supremacy on Twitter,...
Pivot takes up the internet-age-old question of Facebook's responsibilities as a media company.
34 min
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Medium's "Shampoo Effect," and Tesla, coming un...
The hosts opine on Medium, L'Oreal, and Quora.
36 min
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Alabama's big fail, Uber's disastrous IPO, and ...
Recode's Kara Swisher and NYU's Scott Galloway discuss Chris Hughes' Facebook breakup proposal, Away Travel's big funding, how southern states are trying to ban abortion and more.
36 min
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Chris Hughes' Case Against Facebook, Strikes on...
"Union Scott" shows up to discuss the work stoppages at Uber and Lyft.
33 min
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Facebook's privacy fakeout, WeWork's reckless I...
Kara and Scott discuss Facebook's new focus on privacy; what comes after the Web 3.0 era; and what Oprah has to say about Scott's new book.
33 min
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The FTC & the "Algebra of Deterrence"
Kara and Scott talk about the FTC's fine on Facebook -- it's basically a "parking ticket".
30 min
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Uber's IPO and, more importantly, Game of Thrones
Kara and Scott talk about Disney breaking into the content streaming business, the Uber IPO and, yes, Game of Thrones.
39 min
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Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington ... again
Kara and Scott talk about Congressional hearings on tech platforms responsibility for spreading white nationalism and other hate speech.
35 min
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"It's not a meritocracy, it's a mirror-tocracy"
Kara and Scott talk about the avalanche of recent Facebook news -- including Zuckerberg's new professed want for regulations.
32 min
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Will the rising tide of ride sharing Lyft all b...
Scott and Kara are skeptical of Lyft's IPO. What exactly is the network effect of ride shares?
32 min
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Does social media cause terrorism?
Kara and Scott talk about terrorism against the Muslim community in New Zealand and how social media may be exacerbating this type of violence.
27 min
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LIVE! From SXSW it's Kara and Scott
Kara and Scott are live in Austin, Texas for SXSW. They talk antitrust, the breakdown of big tech and take audience questions and predictions.
47 min
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Facebook says it’s all about privacy now. OK, s...
Kara and Scott are back! They talk about Zuckerberg's supposed shift towards more privacy on Facebook and, well, we'll believe it when we see it.
32 min
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News flash: Facebook’s contractors are people
Kara brings on her former co-host, Wired senior staff writer and Gadget Lab co-host, Lauren Goode.
39 min
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DC is old news. “The universe revolves around S...
Kara brings on co-host, legendary NYTimes journalist, Maureen Dowd. They talk about how Silicon Valley has eclipsed Washington, DC as the country's true seat of power.
36 min
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Hot Take: Amazon HQ2 breaks up with NYC
Kara and Scott pop back into the studio to give their hot takes on Amazon pulling out of their HQ2 deal with New York City.
9 min
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Is this the year big tech gets regulated? (Prob...
Scott blusters in from his breakfast with Congress on how to regulate big tech — so Kara and Scott get into whether Congress will ever be regulating tech (seems not so likely).
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Hot Take: Scott Galloway on Bezos vs. AMI [BOOM!]
BONUS episode: Scott couldn't wait to tell Pivot listeners what he thinks about Bezos' post accusing the National Inquirer of extortion.
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