Pivot

With great power, comes great scrutiny. Every Tuesday and Friday, 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. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.


News Commentary
Tech News
Technology
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Kara’s back in action; a listener question on W...
37 min
652
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
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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
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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
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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
656
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
657
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
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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
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"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
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Impeachment… it happened, Peter Thiel’s influen...
Kara and Scott talk about what impeachment might mean for business.
42 min
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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
662
Netflix Golden Globe noms, bipartisan agreement...
Kara and Scott talk about Congress' hearing on regulating end-to-end encryption on messaging apps.
47 min
663
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
670
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
671
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
672
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
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LIVE at the Podcast Upfronts in NYC!
Kara and Scott meet up at the Podcast Upfronts in NYC. And we make a special announcement...wait for it... WE'RE GOING TO 2 DAYS A WEEK! BOOM!
36 min
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Going after venture capital culture and the uni...
Kara and Scott talk about feuds with VC's, billionaires paying fewer taxes than the working class and tech companies folding to Chinese state media pressure.
39 min
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Mark Zuckerberg’s leaky staff and the silver li...
Kara and Scott talk about the a leaked Facebook tape, why WeWork CEO Adam Neumann may have to go into the Unicorn Protection Program, and President Trump's dangerous "coup" tweets.
44 min